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Asheville, Nc, Us

Weaverville, North Carolina, United States

Asheville, North Carolina

Ecological Stream and Wetland Restoration – Work with a project team to develop and design successful mitigation plans to be reviewed and approved by state regulators. AutoCAD Civil 3D – Utilize AutoCAD to design stream and wetland restoration projects. In addition, produce plan sets and exhibits for construction, permitting, scopes, and proposals. Construction Administration – Conduct site visits and work with construction crews to ensure proper implementation of construction plans, soil erosion plans, specifications, and details. Wetland Delineation and Permitting – Leading staff to perform on site delineation of jurisdictional features using the 1987 manual and regional supplements. Prepare Preliminary Jurisdiction Determination packages for verification by the Army Corps of Engineers. Prepare Pre-construction notifications documentations to Army Corps of Engineers and North Carolina Division of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) for 404/401 permits. Stream and Wetland Monitoring - Using survey grade equipment to collect stream morphology data (cross section and longitudinal profile). Performing pebble counts, vegetation surveys, stream assessments, fish and benthic macroinvertebrate surveys, photo points, and installation of ground water wells and stream gages. Analyzing collected data in spread sheets, GIS, and AutoCAD. Writing annual monitoring report for the North Carolina Department of Mitigation Services.

Asheville, North Carolina

Wetland Delineation – Conducted on site delineation of jurisdictional features using the 1987 manual and regional supplements. Prepare Approved Jurisdiction Determination packages for verification by the Army Corps of Engineers. Construction Administration - Conduct site visits and work with construction crews to ensure proper implementation of construction plans, specifications, and details. Environmental Consulting – Threatened and endangered species surveys, Phase I environmental site assessments, and biosafety cabinet certifications.

Asheville, North Carolina

Civil Site Development – Utilizing AutoCAD Civil 3D to Assist senior project engineer with plan production, landscape design, preparing and submitting permit applications, and calculating zoning criteria. Preparing project narratives and researching permit and code requirements. Types of Projects include large scale solar farms. commercial developments, electrical substations and switchyards, schools, and hospitals located in Michigan, Florida, and North Carolina.

Arden, North Carolina

Garden Center Merchandiser (3 years) - Position including setting up seasonal garden center, managing inventory, securing inventory from approved vendors, preparing inventory for display, maintenance of product, assisting customers with variety selection and recommended maintenance after planting, as well as customer sales. Meat Cutter (5 years) - Provided customer service such as select meat cuts in accordance with their requirements, processed stock deliveries to display for sale, maintained cleanliness of equipment and work area, and helped control expense within the department.

Highlands, Nc

Performed senior thesis study on rock slides, specifically the succession and adaptability of plant species. Study included identification of potential rock slide areas via GIS data, field verification, data collection and analysis. Thesis work was completed with university professor mentorship.During the semester I also spent time learning ArcGIS, Plant Identification, Plant Communities, using a dichotomous key to key out Macro invertebrates found in streams.

Coding Boot Camp, Full Stack Web Development

At the end of the program I will have developed skills in HTML/CCS, JavaScript/JQuery, React.js/Express.js/Node.js, MySQL, MonogoDB, PWAs.

Bachelor'S Degree, Ecology And Evolutionary Biology, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Rock climbing team During my final three semesters at WCU, I started and completed a senior thesis project..

Associate'S Degree, Horticultural Science, Graduated

Activities and Societies: Horticulture club