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Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive agency professional development program• Implement strategies and initiatives to improve employee engagement, performance and overall organizational excellence and assess their effectiveness• Facilitate internal and external training delivery on natural resource management, incident response, and other associated topics• Provide oversight to the agency’s incident response qualifications program• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders• Provide guidance, support and leadership to program staff

Austin, Texas

• Provide program guidance and leadership to regional staff• Oversee development and promotion of technical assistance in Central and West Texas• Promote public education and information on regional/local forest/land stewardship programs and issues• Provide staff with technical/administrative training and/or assistance with oak wilt disease identification/verification/management, landowner technical/cost-share assistance, public education/awareness and program supervision/assists.• Supervise and oversee West Texas Nursery strategic operations, including technical reforestation/afforestation/conservation planting assistance.

Idalou, Texas

• Manage fiscal, budgeting, reporting and administrative responsibilities associated with operations of West Texas Nursery• Direct resources and personnel to achieve program and agency objectives, both regionally and statewide• Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external partners• Provide direct supervision of nursery and regional staff• Fulfill all duties of the Staff Forester – Stewardship position

Idalou, Texas

• Serve as agency contact for regional technical assistance program as well as for the agency seedling nursery operations• Provide onsite technical assistance to private landowners, producing management plans and offering recommendations to help them achieve resource conservation goals• Respond daily to private landowner inquiries ranging from seedling sales and nursery products to technical assistance and land management to tree health issues• Provide direct oversight of all agency seedling nursery contract obligations and logistics• Promote agency programs, services, and products via demonstrations & tours, technical workshops, media interviews, informational booths, and advertising • Manage content of seedling store website for sale of nursery seedlings• Develop effective promotional materials for regional technical assistance programs and seedling nursery products

Corpus Christi, Texas

• Operated as the leader of a two-person forest inventory crew• Visited and sampled more than 800 forest inventory plots• Gathered data involving tree diameter, tree height, crown position, and crown ratio• Utilized available resources to determine property ownership information• Contacted, obtained permission from, and met with landowners regularly• Maintained a quality assurance accuracy score of greater than 98 percent• Collected, compiled, and submitted the required data accurately and expeditiously• Succeeded in meeting outlined production goals and deadlines • Supervised the work of one resource specialist• Safely covered an area of over 28,000 square miles in 25 south Texas counties

Master Of Science (Ms), Forestry

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Forestry

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Fisheries And Wildlife Sciences