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St Louis, Missouri, United States

Managed talent development programs for over 300 Human Geography Analysts, Linguists, Cartographers, and Foundation GEOINT Officers. Worked with multiple offices to forecast needs for external hiring, promotions, and training programs. Mentored employees on opportunities for promotion, new assignments, continuing education, leadership classes, and coaching programs.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Supervised a geographically-split branch of 23 Human Geography Analysts, Linguists, and Data Stewards tosupport the Asia-Pacific mission. Collaborated across NGA offices to refine Human Geography product requirements. Built partnerships with Intelligence Community agencies, combatant commands, andinternational partners to improve the Human Geography tradecraft. Conducted annual career developmentsessions with each branch member to discuss assignment, education/training, and career development goals.Mentored analysts across multiple pay bands and work roles on their applications for promotions, continuing education, and coaching and leadership programs. Participated in hiring panels to fill vacancies in the Office of Geography.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Supervised a geographically dispersed branch of 20 Human Geographers, Linguists, Data Stewards, andProgram Managers. Coordinated with internal and external customers to validate requirements, createproduction plans, and produce data to support Human Geography combatant command requirements and Requests For Information over the Asia-Pacific and Latin America regions. Managed existing international co-production relationships in the Asia-Pacific region to facilitate Human Geography data sharing. Collaborated with data science division and technology integration branch to leverage automation tools to streamline the Human Geography workflow and data schemas. Established job shadowing opportunities between Human Geography analysts and data scientists to create improved communication between the two groups. Participate in user testing for Foundation GEOINT's new enterprise system to incorporate Human Geographyand topographic data. Ensure that all Human Geography data is service enabled to make it readily available to a variety of customers.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Trained and mentored 13 junior analysts in Human Geography research, GIS, and metadata standards. Implemented the new Human Geography data schema to standardize dataset attribution and provide feedback to leadership. Utilized schema feedback to support standardization across 7 regional branches. Advised the International Program for Human Geography through documenting procedures to be shared with international partners. Worked to improve the Human Geography requirement process used by the National System for Geospatial-Intelligence community. Completed geospatial-intelligence datasets to support security efforts for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, counterterrorism efforts across South America, and humanitarian assistance and disaster recovery following several major hurricanes.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Compiled locations and names of religious features throughout Egypt to meet Human Geography and GeoNames requirements in support of unrest throughout the region. Delineated neighborhood boundaries for major cities in Iraq and Jordan, which enhanced existing urban data. Had to determine neighborhood boundaries based on open source maps and using imagery to delineate the boundaries. As part of the Iraq Focus Cell, I produced datasets depicting ethnicity and religious sects as part of NGA's support in the fight against ISIS. Provided translations of foreign language open source research and transliteration of geographic names to help identify locations mentioned in open source reporting. Followed Arabic news outlets and social media accounts of terrorist networks to provide translations of emerging information. Tracked protests and demonstrations in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen following the Arab Spring. Monitored conflicts in Syria and Jordan throughout the development of the Syrian Civil War.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Applied Arabic and Spanish language skills to research and analyze sources containing foreign language andgeographic names information to better identify locations of geographic and urban features. Collected foreigngeographic names to populate the Geographic Names Database (GNDB) from various sources includingapproximately 400 Egyptian-produced 1:50K maps. Conducted quality assurance checks on 53 contract projects covering the Middle East and Latin America. Researched foreign sources to make policy recommendations for the standardization of foreign geographic names in the Middle East. Conducted foreign language research to discover administrative and political changes in Middle Eastern countries. Represented NGA at the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the UK Permanent Committee on Geographical names (PCGN) meeting in St. Louis to discuss policy recommendations for standardizing geographic names and Romanization guides.

St Louis, Missouri, United States

Applied foreign language skills to analyze native source maps containing geographic names information fromMiddle Eastern countries. Developed GIS skills required to georeference maps and collect geographic names topopulate the Geographic Names Database (GNDB). Researched open source material to seek additional mapsand monitor foreign government websites for updates to place names. Reviewed foreign sources to makerecommendations for the standardization of foreign geographic names in the Middle East. Attended the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN) and the UK Permanent Committee on Geographical names (PCGN) meetings to learn about policy recommendations for standardizing geographic names and Romanization guides.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Utilized satellite imagery to monitor developments important to environmental and economic securityinterests. Developed basic skills to create new tasking requirements and used alternative collection strategies.Acquired open source research techniques for compiling background information relevant to projects. Gainedan understanding of the process for creating and publishing GEOINT products.

Master Of Science - Ms, Strategic Intelligence

Studied the role played by the entire Intelligence Community to support the processes, development, and execution of the U.S. national.

Post-Bachelor'S Certificate, Geospatial Analysis

Completed the Program of Study for Advanced Geospatial Analysis (offered through NGA). Utilized courses in human-environmental interaction.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Diplomacy & International Relations

Studied an interdisciplinary global studies curriculum with strong components of cultural understanding, international economics.