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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Austin, Texas, United States

Led campaigns to research, report, document, and present policy recommendations for various environmental programs. Averaging twice a month developed, coordinated, and attended events for community outreach and education including press conferences, tabling, professional conferences, webinars, and meetings with elected officials.Created population-specific.

Hutto, Texas

Fundraising and management of volunteers from foundations, organizations, and individualsCoordinated weekly meetings, community outreach, and annual events such as The Great Hutto Cleanup, an annual household solid and chemical waste drive.Nurtured existing relationships and created new relationships and collaboration with land owners, volunteers, schools.

Austin, Texas Area

• Performing advanced natural resources work as a member of the Department's Natural Resources Damage Assessment Team.
• In cooperation with other state and federal natural resource trustee agencies, works as a principal scientist in natural resource damage investigations to evaluate potential injuries caused by oil spills and releases.
• Development and implementation of injury assessment studies for natural resources.
• Development of damage assessment and restoration plans to quantify injuries and propose restoration alternatives to the public.
• Reviews ecological risk assessments, evaluating the analysis of the impacts of chemicals and other contaminants to natural resources and assembling recommendations to minimize impacts to natural resources.
• Assists in the development and oversight of remediation plans.

Corpus Christi, Texas Area

• Expanded and field-tested a coastal dune Rapid Assessment Method (RAM) and monitoring program
• Coordinated and conducted mitigation area assessments and structure inspections
• Conducted field surevys along the Texas Gulf to assess wetland habitat to establish baseline ecosystem health and to assess post storm damage
• Created and updated ArcGIS maps of past and ongoing mitigation projects

Austin, Texas Area

• Program manager for two Texas state agencies. Responsible for process analysis and statistical trending of deliverables. Collected, analyzed, and reported for simple stats, multiple regressions, predictability.
• Received an award for process improvement and implementation while leading a tiger team. The project resulted in reduced project cycle time and error rate by approximately 15%.

Austin, Texas Area

Awarded team MVP of the quarter twice due largely to my efforts to create, standardize, and document processes in the organization. Compliance advisor between third party technical labs and product and programming development teams. Standardized communication chains, product submission standards, stakeholder identification and notification schedules for.

Kyrgyzstan

Conducted personnel interviews in support of Force Protection programs. Managed scheduling and other administrative actions in conjunction with U.S., foreign, and civilian agencies for companies performing site remediation and waste management on both the U.S. airbase and on Kyrgyz projects.

El Paso, Texas Area

Coordinated development and execution of related analysts’ projects including the use of new biometric tool sets. Developed knowledge bases that integrated multiple federal and state law enforcement agencies to allow sharing of intelligence.Led the team that designed the training plan and how to guide for end users of new biometric readers and other.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Project manager for C-IED program for Taji, Iraq. Coordinated with multiple U.S. and foreign agencies who performed site remediation of former chemical facilities. Developed and executed training of the military on field use of the new forensic products.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Provided network intrusion detection analysis of security threat events, developed cases, and performed immediate response actions for suspicious computer network activity Air Force wide. Trained coworkers on new network security tools and techniques including the ArcSight tools suite. Met with vendors and briefed Air Force leadership on hardware and.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Created centralized database of intelligence sources and standardization guidelines, which reduced average project execution time by 25% and nearly doubled the first time report QA/QC pass rate.Oversaw forensic field training to multiple deploying units representing all branches of the armed forces. Provided initial Environmental Site Assessments to.

Iraq

Led eight person team which conducted Threat Vulnerability Assessments on six Coalition bases to include internal security, perimeter security, and human element screenings. Coordinated with multiple agencies to clear public areas of environmental hazards, perform site remediation, and waste management services.

Counterintelligence Agent, 97B - Intelligence Analyst, 96B - Defense Artillery Command Computer Intelligence, 14J

Master'S Degree, Environmental Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Science

Bba, Business Administration And Management

Activities and Societies: National Leadership Society