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Develop adhoc reports and analysis reports as needed under the University of Mary Institutional Research Office. Provide customers with information necessary for informed and data driven decisions. Use tools such as Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio, Microsoft Power BI, Report Builder, Visual Studio, MS Excel.

WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: Oversee multiple water resource programs with the North Dakota State Water Commission. Responsible for monitoring and ensuring proper reporting for all industrial, irrigation, and municipal water use within North Dakota. Enter annual use data for water permits and temporary water permits. Provide technical support to customers accessing web-based services. Provide recommendations to hydrologists and division chiefs for rectifying improper reporting and unauthorized water uses. Review water permit applications and provide recommendations based upon historical data. Inspect water permits, water depots, and water transfer points to ensure compliance with North Dakota Century Code. Provide recommended alternatives to permit holders while remaining within the allowances provided by state law. Work with various types of telemetry equipment to provide near real-time water use data and water level data to the State Engineer’s database. Provide support to permit holders to rectify telemetry issues and ensure proper compliance with water permits and state laws. Interact with databases using structured query language (SQL) commands and scripts. Provide water use data to multiple agencies for evaluation and inclusion in national reports. Analyze geospatial information system data to extract available surface water using U.S. Geological Survey LANDSAT imagery. Employ remote sensing techniques to analyze available satellite imagery data to provide recommendations as needed.MANAGEMENT: Supervise a robust team of full time and seasonal employees. Assign and prioritize work. Manage employee on-the-job-training and ensure employees are prepared to handle customer and public needs. Evaluate employee performance and provide constructive feedback as necessary to improve employee performance. Complete appraisals and performance reports on employees annually. Review employment applications, resumes, and conduct interviews of prospective employees.

Served as the Operating Location Supervisor for Cannon Air Force Base Mission Information Managers. Served as hiring authority for new personnel. Supervised and trained team members to ensure personnel are qualified to perform duties and exercised supervisory personnel management responsibilities. Initiated actions to correct performance or conduct problems of employees. Appraised performance of subordinate personnel. Managed equipment accounts, ensuring accurate accounting for assets in excess of $1 million. Key member of team to formulate plans, policies, and objectives for assigned resources. Provided administrative and technical supervision and direction to accomplish the work of the unit. Managed resources, goods, and services assigned. Responsible for the development, production, conservation, and utilization of assigned. Oversaw projects to develop guidelines, standards, and procedures. Established and maintained relations with local units, higher headquarters, and outside agencies. Represented unit for purposes of discussing policies and regulations with other local entities, higher headquarters, and outside agencies. Provided advice, technical support, and evaluation of proposed, current, and on-going resource programs to senior leadership. Routinely communicated with internal and external agencies through written memorandums and electronic mail correspondence. Performed Alternate Contracting Officer Representative (A-COR) duties, Site Performance Monitor, and Quality Assurance duties over contractor personnel performing base network, distributed computing, and other information technology related services. Routinely prepared written documentation for end-user support, requirements, policies, and technical manuals for supported systems.

Overall military career. Culminated as the 27 SOAOS Operations Superintendent. Duties included management of enlisted positions, enlisted leadership, and oversight of command and control operations within the unit. Previous duties during career ranged from security management, standardization and evaluations, training management, avionics maintenance, flight engineer, aviation operations, and unit scheduling.