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Gypsum, Colorado, United States

Gypsum, Colorado, United States

Conservation Priority Analysis 2021• Designed, built and delivered complex, multi-faceted analysis as a part of the revised strategic plan for a prolific land trust in northern New Mexico• Performed many individual analyses to show areas of multiple benefit. Focused on areas of high conservation value based on sensitive environments, water conservation, important species and public access to recreation• Worked heavily with data provided by The Nature Conservancy New Mexico officeSafe Routes to Schools Project• Worked as a part of a large team implementing many aspects of safe routes to schools• Detailed mapping used for decision making by Santa Fe Public Schools

Soil Carbon studies – Mid Atlantic, Pacific Northwest, Great Lakes and South Atlantic regions•Lead GIS analyst contributing to four peer-reviewed published scientific papers on forest management practices to conserve and increase carbon stored in soils in forests• Credited co-author on peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management, 2022: Soil carbon in the South Atlantic United States: Land use change, forest management, and physiographic context•Led large scale landscape analysis of raster and vector data. Study areas covering multiple states. Acquiring, analyzing and displaying very big data in a manageable way.

Lead analyst on many Climate Smart Cities projects – Dallas, Nashville, New Orleans, Cleveland, Chattanooga, Denver, New York City, Central Arizona Conservation Alliance• Performed advanced data manipulation and modeling to inform local and regional policy makers on best strategic locations for green infrastructure. • Used ESRI Spatial Analyst, Network Analyst and Business Analyst extensively• Analyzed countless types of environmental and urban planning dataCreated standardized workflows used on all projects in the Climate Smart Cities program• Worked with technical advisory teams in each city comprised of local policy makers, science and urban planning experts to guide place-specific customization of each analysis• Contributed to projects featured in the famous yearly ESRI Mapbook multiple times• Example project: Smart Growth for Dallas https://web.tplgis.org/smart_growth_dallas/ (create a free account for the mapping portal)Community Schoolyards Analyses– New England region and national schoolyards tool• Collected detailed public data from state education and demographic agencies• Developed advanced models to help inform best locations for school yard greening work. Including environmental justice, demographic and urban heat island data modeling• Example: https://web.tplgis.org/communityschoolyardsmap/Regional trails projects – Washington Area Bicyclist Association (D.C.), Florida Gulf Coast Trail, Oahu Southshore Trail• Built complex Network Analyst modeling to identify bike-sheds• Analyzed amenities, destinations, and demographics served by new trailsUrban heat island analyses• Acquired and processed complex satellite remote sensing data• Performed advanced raster analysis to identify urban heat islands in cities across America

Denver, Colorado, United States

GIS and data management contractor working with a number of high-level organizations. See details below.• Advanced GIS analysis• Database design• Data management• Data acquisition• Training development and instruction• Project management

Project manager and technical lead - Vegetation photo interpretation - San Juan NF and Medicine Bow Routt NF. 2020-present• Led a team of 10-20 photo interpreters working to update the USFS corporate vegetation database in areas of landscape change, performing species level identification of vegetation and ground cover with strict accuracy standards• Developed numerous training materials to educate photo interpreters on principles of forestry, image interpretation and forest ecology of the Rocky Mountains• Led workflow and throughput for very large datasets. Handling and organizing data delivered from client, assigning work to project team, quality control and deliveryHistorical Aerial Photography Archive Project – USFS Region 3 Regional Office• Designed and implemented large corporate database used by USFS to track thousands of historical aerial photographs from hundreds of projects taken over 60+ years, • Database and process has been adopted by multiple regional offices of the USFS. It is currently the de-facto national standard photography database for the entire USFS.• Designed and built Python-based tools to populate the databaseNebraska National Forests and Grasslands LiDAR Products• Produced high resolution lidar products (DEM, DSM, Canopy Height Model) for large portions of the Pine Ridge Ranger District and Oglala National Grassland• Acquired and processed thousands of tiles of lidar data from USGS 3DEP program

Throughout The Us

Designed, built and delivered training for 100+ training classes over 8 years.• USFS - Nebraska National Forest, San Juan NF, Pike San-Isabel NF, White River NF, Black Hills NF, USFS Region 2 & Region 3 - Intro to ArcGIS, Field data collection, Online GIS, Lidar & Image Analysis• Bureau of Indian Affairs – Parcel mapping for Land Buy Back program. Designed and delivered training to hundreds of Tribal members and employees• US Fish & Wildlife Service - Field data collection, Intro to GIS• Conferences and professional meetings – GIS in the Rockies, AGIC education symposium (Arizona), GIS Colorado meetings, NMGIC (New Mexico), Rocky Mtn Petroleum User Group

Designed and performed priority analysis for property purchases. Used SQL server database.

New Mexico, United States

Used lidar data to compute and map 3D volumetrics for sand and gravel pit and perform watershed mapping for flood mitigation

Arvada, Colorado, United States

• Extensive experience in multispectral image classification. Used object-based image classification on high resolution 4-band imagery and Lidar to classify landcover in urban environments at >95% accuracy• Frequent automation of GIS processes and data management using Python scripting• Wrote scientific reports, including serving as the company’s primary cartographer• Project management including team task management, client communiqué, and product delivery

Fort Collins, Colorado, United States

U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service – Natural Resource Stewardship and Science ProgramGIS based data modeling, including spatial pattern analysis of landscape-scale ecosystems in ArcGIS and Python environmentsWorked with and managed large, complex databases and data sets with rigorous governmental quality and standardization specifications.