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• Improved operational efficiency, QA/QC process and weekly metric tracking for Environmentals' Review process in Maximo by collaborating with Enterprise Work and Asset Management and Business and Analytics Reporting teams.• Liaison between Environmental and GIS team for improving web maps and GIS layers.• Site coordinator for three-line centers (Beaverton, Newberg and Oregon City) to ensure Environmental compliance by holding quarterly coordination meetings with onsite staff and performing twice annual compliance walkdowns. • Performed QA/QC and assisted with transition from Enablon to DevonWay software for environmental compliance and permit tracking.• Coordinated with field operations and line coordinators for new vacuum truck drop sites for non-hazardous waste by researching and contacting new sites, performing site inspections, and making sure POs get set up for new vendors.

•Pioneered a new position by acting as a liaison between project manager, contractors, construction manager, and county and city jurisdictions to oversee construction permits for large capital projects from permit submital to project closeout. •Developed a process to track construction permit submittals in Maximo to establish first historical database of construction permits to enable reporting on durations from submittal to issuance. •Created five internal training pages based on research tailored to each jurisdiction to share best practices and educate when specific permits are required, as well as their submittal requirements, durations, and fees.Career Highlights:•Developed Maximo process for tracking construction permitting one year into position, allowing permit duration information to feed into existing Permit Lead Times Tableau dashboard.•Launched a new version of the PMO GIS Project Application from previous project lead within six months of inheritance and completed eight open house and department specific trainings for using the application.•Co-led two cross-department improvement initiatives for the PMO: Permitting Improvements and PMO GIS Projects Application.

Portland, Oregon, United States

•Developed and managed field condition assessment protocols, data management and intra-bureau coordination for a newly formed team with the goal of creating an asset risk registry for the City’s stormwater system.•Created scopes of work for six project areas for closed circuit television (CCTV) and survey requests for stormwater assets, and served as the project lead for progress updates, data management and mapping updates.•Produced a workflow for developing new condition assessment protocols for all stormwater assets, and tracked progress, timelines, and stakeholder engagement for development.Career Highlights:•Collected and compiled report of private stormwater connections data in the Council Crest neighborhood for City Council Commissioner to come up with solutions for reducing inflow and infiltration to the storm system. •Developed a standardized survey request for stormwater asset data collection by coordinating with Portland Bureau of Transportation and intra-bureau groups to understand different functional needs and reduce survey inaccuracies.

Portland, Oregon Area

•Researched and updated information from as-builts, construction drawings, alternative analyses and permits to rectify and maintain sewer and stormwater modeling data to support the planning and design of capital projects.•Registered new Underground Injection Control (UIC) permits in internal database by confirming UICs adhered to Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) requirements and regulations and performed queries and prepared tables for annual reporting to DEQ.Career Highlights •Wrote a proposal for adding stormwater facility volumes to as-builts to increase efficiency and reduce inaccuracies for updating modeling data, which was approved by the BES Data Governance Committee•Created a functional spatial database to track internal requests for modeling for capital projects, which consolidated over 100 requests into a single system.

Portland, Oregon Area

•Improved and managed two terms of an online Maps and Geographic Information course of video lectures, readings, labs, quizzes, discussion boards and midterms using Desire2Learn (D2L) platform for 60 students•Responded to student concerns and technical difficulties through email and in person meetings

Portland, Oregon Area

•Administered two weekly lab sessions for 15-20 students, and helped with spatial software/online platforms such as ArcMap, QGIS, Social Explorer, Google Earth, Adobe•Independently led in-class climate analysis assignment for 60 undergraduate students in an introductory climatology course while professor was absent•Revised, maintained and graded course assignments, and held weekly office hours to assist students with course material

Portland, Oregon, United States

•Identified and categorized citizen-observed nuisance flooding reports from City database, and associated reports with 3-day storm sizes and socio-demographic characteristics to understand spatial differences and equity of nuisance flooding by storm size across Portland using Generalized Linear Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression models •Presented findings from internship and master’s thesis collaboration in written thesis document and oral presentation for 40 colleagues across the bureau and at multiple Institute of Sustainable Solutions (ISS) internship events for various organizations across Portland.

San Francisco Bay Area

•Led San Francisco youth, grades 4-5, from diverse neighborhoods 8-10 hours a week in an outdoor education community garden. •Planned and coordinated activities with team that engaged students in various sustainable food practices such as: making compost, harvesting rainwater, edible plant identification, planting seedlings, weeding, and mulching.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Evaluated and updated web content for a wind turbine study posted on park’s website•Collected and analyzed greenhouse gas emissions data to update the park’s, Climate Friendly Parks program, and presented results to park stakeholders•Planned the inaugural Sustainability Summit for various stakeholders and organizations across the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to share research to an audience of 100 attendees

San Francisco Bay Area

•Researched municipal codes in relation to animal slaughter within 89 U.S. city ordinances•Compiled and organized cities into individual files for professor to compose her publication on different animal slaughter ordinances across U.S. cities.

San Francisco Bay Area

•Promoted and explained the Energy Upgrade CA program to SF homeowners•Tracked and processed over 100 inbound leads of SF homeowners using Zoho CRM

Master’S Degree, Geography

Activities and Societies: •Institute for Sustainable Solutions Student Fellow •American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

Bachelor’S Degree, Geography

Activities and Societies: Holistic Health Network