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Penfield, New York, United States

-Provide technical assistance to staff at the Town of Penfield as well as residents and the general public.-Intake and review of planning board, zoning, and building plans, including digitizing and organizing the planning department database and ensuring all application files are organized and current.-Assist with the development of planning studies and reports.-Maintain and update our ArcGIS databases, maps, and data.-Facilitate both the Conservation and Planning Boards and their meetings.-Prepare public notices for both electronic and paper media and manage some in house communications including logging and managing resident, applicant and staff correspondences in regards to specific developments.-Perform office tasks such as data entry, maintaining databases, copying, scanning and digitizing, and answering the telephone.

Fairport, New York, United States

Supporting instructional equipment and software across K-12 school district; performing quality control checks of New York State Education Department (NYSED) reported data from SchoolTool into Level 0; communicating with district Registrar, Administrators, and Counselors to ensure accuracy of Level 0 data uploads

Rochester, New York, United States

Organizing photography and printing equipment for school portrait sets; setting up and operating Canon 70D with manfrotto tripods; operating soft box lights with remote transmitter; troubleshooting and anticipating camera and printer errors under strict shooting schedules; editing photos for consistent head sizing with ImageMatch software; organizing student data in MS Access and exporting for school databases (SchoolTool, Infinite Campus, Eschooldata, etc.)

Henrietta, New York, United States

Lesson planning for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade French classes; creating engaging content based on state curriculum; tracking student behavioral and academic standing in order to create strategies for progressive improvement

Dixon, California

Rocket netting Snow, Ross’s, and White-Fronted geese; applying tarsus bands, taking morphometric measurements and fitting ornitela GPS-GSM neck collars on geese; monitoring water quality with conductivity/temperature probes; navigating wildlife area with GPS and maps; operating 4-wheel drive ATV

Sacramento, California Area

Rocket netting Northern Pintail and Aleutian Cackling geese; aging waterfowl by wing molt and primary feather shape; applying tarsus bands on ducks and geese; taking bill measurements on hunter harvested Greater White-fronted geese to differentiate between Pacific and Tule subspecies; tracking radio collared Tule geese with Yagi antenna and VHF receiver; triangulation and recovery of dead radio collars

Torrington, Wyoming

Scouting waterfowl trapping locations, constructing and deploying Benning style swim in traps; determining species, sex, and age of various dabbler and diving ducks; capturing, sexing, and determining molting stage of Mourning Doves; applying tarsus bands on waterfowl and doves; using conibear traps to manage predation near swim in traps; use of power tools and submersible pump for hunting blind repair; data entry in MS Excel and report writing

Dixon, California

Capturing nesting Mallard, Gadwall, and Cinnamon Teal hens via dip net and funnel traps; applying tarsus bands, taking morphometric measurements, and fitting hens with GPS-GSM backpack transmitters; candling and measuring duck eggs; examining and mapping depredated nests; measuring cover and density of vegetation around duck nests; monitoring water quality with conductivity/temperature probes; navigating wildlife area with GPS and maps; operating 4-wheel drive ATV

Stoutsville, Mo

Rocket netting Eastern Wild Turkeys on private lands; banding, aging, and sexing wild turkeys; setting out capture materials hours before dawn and sitting in hunting blind up to 10 hours; scouting agricultural fields and pastures for turkey sign specific to hens and jakes; setting game cameras to monitor turkey activity at bait stations; tracking wild turkeys with a Yagi antenna and VHF receiver; driving 4+ hours per day on backcountry roads and using 4WD vehicles in often wet and icy conditions; data entry in MS Excel through Dropbox

Cordova, Ak

Assisting with field research at Chugach National Forest through the Student Conservation Association and Americorps. Projects include Dusky Canada goose nest searching and nest island maintenance, Black Oystercatcher nest searches, Marbled Murrelet surveys, shorebird point count surveys, acoustic monitoring for bats, and Dusky Canada goose banding. Duties require great attention to established protocol, efficient and creative solutions to problems in the field, and report writing skills.

East Texas

Leading crew of technicians on point count surveys, collecting water column and benthic samples, and identifying wetland vegetation to determine duck-energy day estimates for stock ponds throughout the Oaks and Prairies ecoregions of Texas. Also responsible for maintaining sampling equipment including Phantom 3 drones, Trimble gps, Ysi meter, game cameras, deep water benthic and water column samplers, Kawasaki Mule, etc.

Burns, Or

Conducting vegetation ecology research in sagebrush steppe and riparian plant communities located in the northern Great Basin. Projects include determining interactions between livestock grazing and fire risk, investigating the effects of prescribed burning and mechanical sagebrush thinning on wildlife habitat, evaluating the impacts of invasive plant infestations on sage-grouse habitat, determining landscape scale vegetation patterns, investigating management and climate influence on vegetation characteristics and sage-grouse habitat, evaluating methods to contain and prevent invasive plant infestations, and investigating methods to shift succession to desired plant communities.

Havasu National Wildlife Refuge

Organizing hunt lottery draw for the 2014-2015 hunting season, ensuring all hunters are aware of and adhere to federal hunting regulations, and other work around the refuge ranging from invasive species management to trail and road maintenance.

Camp Debruce

Teaching 11-13 year old children the fundamentals of forest, field, and stream ecology and introducing them to safe hiking, camping, and hunting practices.

High pace work in various environments dealing with numerous customers. Responsible for maintaining a professional and courteous manner amongst customers at all times. Experience using cash register regularly.

The Crags, South Africa

Filming and editing promotional videos and educational documentaries for primate and bird sanctuaries

Working register and assisting customers at salvaged home materials store; additional field experience requiring knowledge of hand and power tools in order to salvage reusable materials from homes

Buffalo, Ny

Video and audio editing with Final Cut Pro, Adobe Story; helping with onset production including handling and operating audio and lighting equipment

Master'S Degree, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmental Geosciences

President of co-ed environmental professional fraternity, Alpha Kappa Chi.

Education record