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Greater Denver Area

Highly attentive toward client requirements to effectively meet project needs and deliver best possible product in a timely manner.Manage workloads of GIS projects and team members, effectively collaborating remotely with other offices when necessary.Development of advanced technology workflows to secure robust data collection for quick turnaround to clients.Resolution of technology issues by offering hardware/software support at any time; day, night, or weekend.Utilization of open-source Android apps, integration with spatial and non-spatial systems, including but not limited to kmz's, shapefiles, ArcSDE (PostgreSQL), file, and personal geodatabase feature classes, and MS Access.Lead initiatives for constant improvement of ever-evolving GIS technologies so as to remain highly competitive and to ensure work for fellow team members.Create models for automation of data import and analysis. Administer ArcSDE versions/roles, connections, archiving, and editor tracking.Serve as GIS lead on multi-million dollar projects that require extensive data collection in remote areas.Served as on-site office data manager during successful field season on expansive wind farm project in southern Wyoming. Led effort to download/process data collected from 20 Android tablets, six GeoXH's, and six Juno's on a nightly basis. Worked long, irregular hours to see thru its completion.

Sheridan, Wy

Data management of surface ownership, pipeline permitting, seismic survey permitting, mineral leasing, warranty and title deeds, and reclamation progress.Analyzed geographic and cultural places using remote sensing techniques.Reduced user work time two hours per week by streamlining frequently run analysis thru ModelBuilder.Responsible for company-wide GIS software and application configuration management.Conducted GIS analysis; performed coordinate system transformations; processed and geo-referenced raster imagery; digitized features.Reduced client lease take-offs $5000 per project by joining tables to minimize tedious data entry.Saved company more than $2000 by creating centralized geodatabase of state PLSS, transportation, hydrography, land use, aerial photography, and soils data, which was previously being downloaded repeatedly by GIS users into different file locations.Provided GIS estimates for project proposals.Personally designed new, modern company and service line brochures for distribution to prospective clients, and updated conference displays by incorporating appealing GIS/Cartographic themes.Reduced office landfill dumping 15 percent by establishing office recycling program Fall of 2011.

Gillette, Wy

Built and managed multi-user natural resource geodatabase for Luca Technologies using lessons learned from ESRI’s “Building Geodatabases” course attended in Broomfield, Colorado.Designed hundreds of highly functional and visually appealing maps and map templates.Involved in constant improvement of GIS workflows.Responsible for 50 percent reduction of as-built survey field time by implementing innovative data collection protocols.Processed data into ArcSDE geodatabase and produced maps for Anadarko Petroleum.

Moscow, Id

Overhauled outdated University of Idaho two-dimensional campus map by using ArcGIS in conjunction with Adobe Illustrator to create new three-dimensional map, which is now distributed campus-wide to 12,000+ students.Former University of Idaho President Timothy P. White gave personal feedback and compliments following completion.

Independence, Mo

Geo-referenced plats into three-dimensional models within ArcGIS.Digitized Jackson County roads in reference to satellite images.

Buffalo, Wy

Worked independently to collect coordinate data and conditions of city utilities (e.g. manholes, water valves, fire hydrants, and storm drains).

Bachelor Of Science, Geography; Cartography/Gis

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