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Largo, Florida, United States

Technical Project Coordinator supporting the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation Resources Department. Special focus is on the County’s implementation of a comprehensive GIS-based enterprise asset management system designed to provide improved and sustainable services to citizens by increasing consistency, organization, accountability, transparency, and the ability to analyze data/costs. Trimble Cityworks Asset Management System software is currently being implemented in conjunction with the design of a new enterprise geodatabase schema. The new GDB schema design is driven by a major, county-wide data inventory and gap analysis and has resulted in carefully constructed best practices for data migration, data creation, data maintenance, and data sharing. The life-cycle management of ALL physical assets owned and operated by Pinellas County via Cityworks is planned to go live in 2021.

St. Petersburg, Fl

DoD GEOINTNOAA ESI West FL; Technical lead in shoreline creationBOEM MMPGIS; versatile GIS team member that assisted with all project tasks from researching/gathering/reformatting numerous spatial and tabular data products, building a data model as a base for an enterprise SDE GDB, daily engagement with client, and creating FGDC-compliant metadata.Core GIS team member for compiling studies for BOEM’s Envl Studies Program Information System (ESPIS) update. Also completed Task 2 gathering finished GIS data products for select studies in each BOEM region, reformatting the data as needed to import into a file GDB, and loading into an online web service for the public to easily view the spatial data.Core team member for the Florida Forest Service project entitled Comprehensive Statewide Forest Inventory Analysis and Study (CSFIAS), a state-wide inventory of non-urban timber biomass, stand age, and stand origin in Florida using existing moderate and high res data and imagery with processes performed in Erdas and ArcGIS. Specific duties include collecting/formatting vector and raster data (ex. C-CCAP, FLUCCS, FRACIP, FNAI, LANDSAT) and developing various models for (1) integrating multiple data layers into a single, usable raster layer classified into 19 classes and (2) analyzing time series data from a vector change analysis to assign age ranges to tree stands. Other duties include manual photo interpretation, stand age, and stand origin (i.e. plantations); quantifying vector and raster data; and technical writing assistance and map generation. Production team member for 2011 NOAA C-CAP update (MI, WI, WA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, MS, OR, CA) and for 1985 historic layer; assist with data prep for MIICA change detection using multi-date Landsat; manual change detection using various Landsat scenes; utilize statistical software See5 (CART) for automated classification; write ERDAS models for automated clean-up; manual classification; responsible for in-house training

Gainesville, Florida Area

1. Evaluate usefulness of SolVES ArcGIS extension for use in mapping ecosystem social values 2. Determine if tomato plant volume and health can be quantified from high resolution photographs captured by handheld multispectral camera; perform atmospheric scattering correction and normalize reflectance; perform NDVI in ENVI; calculate surface volume in ArcGIS3. Download multi-spectral Hyperion satellite imagery; perform atmospheric correction using ENVI FLAASH; perform analysis to determine percent canopy cover and compare to field data3. Independently conduct research use GIS and statistical techniques to determine if local tree cover is related to the occurrence of home damage during a hurricane event (Hurricane Ike specifically); collect, create, and edit spatial and tabular data for the following variables: storm meteorology; urban forest cover; building characteristics within subdivisions of homogeneous canopy cover; building damage (yes/no); Conduct aerial photo interpretation of roof damage and percent canopy cover within subdivisions; Perform statistics: multiple regression, spearman correlations

Orlando, Florida Area

Helped collect tree data during the 2009-2010 inventory of numerous UFORE sampling plots in NE Orlando. UFORE, or Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model, is now called i-Tree Eco. The tree data is used to construct a model of a community's urban forest. The structure and functions of the urban forest can be analyzed and the results used to develop urban forest management programs and hopefully improve environmental quality.

Port St. Lucie, Fl

Responsible for the assignment of addresses, including commercial and residential, within the city limits; Responsible for maintenance of the City’s MS Access address database and enforce proper addressing guidelines; Verify existing City addresses using various databases and including field excursions using a City vehicle; Work closely with other governmental agencies such as St. Lucie County, 911 and the U.S. Postal Service, in addition to citizens, private contractors, and engineering firms; Produce and maintain a “Street Map Book” made available to other governmental agencies and the public using ArcGIS; Develop spatial layers of commercial buildings with addresses and other descriptive data; Assist with preparations for the 2010 Census Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA)

Tallahassee, Florida Area

Develop, maintain, and manage geographic databases and datasets; Generate maps and reports to support projects within all WilsonMiller business units such as planning and ecological services; Interpret spatial data and perform analyses; Research data sources and generate new data for project maps; Enforce strict standards for digital set-up of data and project folders within office; GIS liaison between Tallahassee office and other offices within the company; Provide training and technical support for WM business units and clientsProject examples: 1. Digital Parcel Conversion Projects for Franklin and Suwannee Counties, Florida – Digitize property lines from aerial photography, legal descriptions, subdivision plats, CCRs, and additional sources of data. Also included is client training and technical support.2. Utility Map Conversion Projects in Manatee and Charlotte County, Florida – Tasks include geodatabase development, geometric network creation, and AutoCAD-to-GIS data conversion of water, wastewater, irrigation, and drainage utilities.3. Duval County, Florida – Researched and retrieved historic aerial photographs used to compare wetland extents from 1940’s to today. Successfully converted and rectified historic aerials for GIS use.4. Rural Lands Stewardship Agreement Projects, Private Property, St. Lucie County, Florida – GIS team member assisting ecologists with the preparation of all maps used in field surveys. Other duties include data generation, such as digitizing animal habitats, flow-ways, and wetland retention areas using aerial photographs as a backdrop, to assess the potential for listed species occurrences. Researched and rectified historic aerial photographs usable for GIS analyses.

Master’S Degree, Geomatics, Urban Forestry

Activities and Societies: Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society1. Teaching Assistant, FOR3434C Forest Res. Info. Sys., Summer 2009 & 2008.

B.S., Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Minors: Geography, Math, Chemistry, and Criminology; Habitat for Humanity volunteer 2002-20041. Permitting.