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Herndon, Virginia, United States

As a non-profit foundation, USGIF is dedicated to promoting geospatial intelligence tradecraft and rapidly advancing technological innovation across the GEOINT community to address national security challenges. Main tasks include:• Perform and assist with administrative duties to manage and facilitate upcoming USGIF events• Support USGIF members requests and needs to join USGIF working groups, participate in USGIF events, and connect member referrals to working group meetings• Coordinate collaboration and preparation using Microsoft Outlook with the main staff and invited speakers who join USGIF’s upcoming events• Document complete meeting notes using Microsoft Word and share important slides using Microsoft PowerPoint for USGIF working groups• Identify and confirm whether account holders have active USGIF membership• Verify and update employment of USGIF members who are with any USGIF partner organizations for continuation of active participation in USGIF members-only working group meetings• Generate USGIF event's data analytics for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022-2023 annual report• Contribute open source research to the Gold Rush: The 2024 Commercial Remote Sensing Global Rankings report• Network with GEOINT professionals during USGIF events and the GEOINT Symposiums

The University of Southern California is a California private research university that educates and guides students towards academic excellence for the future. It is well-known for honoring academic values and developing their students into successful and excellent practitioners with a distinguished cast of faculty members in all manner of disciplines.Main tasks include:• Performed thorough reviews on submissions and attached assignment documents for scoring purposes• Coordinated with fellow assistants and professors to continuously evaluate with a balanced review, feedback, and encouragement for the students• Kept an unbiased perspective on submission reviews and provide informative insights without jeopardizing academic integrity and work ethic• Efficiently accessed, utilized, and navigated documents, feedback and results with a shared academic platform• Thoroughly evaluated student submissions with the required knowledge of the class materials, mainly focused on cartographic design principles like map projections, thematic mapping, color symbologies, data types, basic query functions, geographic coordinate systems, data formatting, and topographic and reference maps and other geopolitical-related topics like global sustainability, gentrification, food security, climate change, and carbon footprints• Followed instructional guides, if necessary, to understand the goals and methodologies of course projects and assignments

Ontario, California, United States

WestLand Group, Inc. is a civil engineering, geospatial, and land planning firm that provides timely deliverables and exceptional service to clients using engineering surveying and GIS applications.Main tasks include:• Edited dimensions of data features using the ArcGIS and AutoCAD software and stored visually-aesthetic completion drawings into the client's management database with required security permissions• Performed jurisdictional research and organize an inventory of gas pipeline and asset drawings by navigating through the Southern California Gas Company’s (SoCalGas) web maps and archives in accordance with client policies and applicable project guidelines• Learned visualized important cartographic design principles of the data layers, dimensions, and symbologies of gas pipelines and assets, both with the ArcGIS Online web application and the AutoCAD Civil 3D software• Conducted field surveys of main and service gas assets using current GPS and field measurement techniques• Facilitated and reported all proper documentation with supplemental data using Microsoft Excel for management tracking and completion review

San Diego, California, United States

Evari GIS Consulting is a geographic information system consulting firm that offers real-time project progress using high quality implementation of GIS and other related technologies like ArcCollector, ArcMap, ArcGIS Online, and ArcCatalog. The projects often require staff to be present at cities located within the United States and to be efficient in the workload conducted at those locations.Main tasks include:• Audited utilities with lighting infrastructure in several cities/towns from California, Arizona, Texas, and Pennsylvania in support for new LED conversions• Efficiently acquired and updated vector geospatial data using Esri's ArcGIS applications such as ArcCollector, ArcMap 10.6, and ArcGIS Online for our clients in support for upgrading existing infrastructures• Batched vector geospatial data of a city's critical infrastructure features like street lights, parking allotments, and underground stormwater drainage pipelines using the ArcToolbox and basic SQL filter queries for desktop quality checks/quality assurance• Digitized stormwater drainages from older engineering drawings and measured accurate GPS parking locations in overlays with Esri and Maxar imagery for the City of San Diego• Learned and trained much with the ArcGIS Pro beta software and hands-on lab training at the Esri User Conference 2018 with sample geospatial data content and its applications in the real world, not only in building smarter cities but also in emergency management, forest mitigation practices, three-dimensional visualization and modeling, and remote sensing capabilities

San Luis Obispo, California

An organization that handles employment for facilities affiliated with the California Polytechnic State University campus.Main tasks include:• Packaged textbooks with the corresponding classes listed on each student's textbook order• Prioritized requested textbook orders based on mailing method (UPS Ground, Textbook Express Pick-up)

Davenport, California, United States

Swanton Pacific Ranch is a coastal ranch that focuses heavily on ranch operations in rich agricultural and forest resources while supporting educational opportunities and collaborative research with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. With its connection to both the lumber industry and environmental conservation, the ranch provides a real-world insight into striking a balance between resource conservation like water and animal habitats and timber harvesting for industrial production.Main tasks include:• Identified areas of interests that are qualified for timber harvesting production• Ensured that all sustainable forestry management practices and watershed and lake protection measures adhered to the protection standards documented in the 2016 California Forest Practice Rules, which highlights restrictions and guidelines pertaining to common animal habitats, water conservation, natural hazards, and timber harvesting• Drafted a team proposal that indicated the potential locations of harvestable timber with recommended and alternative timber harvest operations for avoiding future and permanent environmental impacts• Created and edited topographic maps using ArcMap and ArcToolbox that modeled our potential timber harvest operations and followed the guidelines documented in our proposal

Master Of Science - Ms, Human Security And Geospatial Intelligence, 4.0

Activities and Societies: 2024 Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) Honors SocietyUSGIF-Accredited GEOINT Program

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.) In Environmental Earth Science, Geographic Information Systems (Gis) Minor And Anthropology-Geography Minor