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Iron Mountain, Michigan

•Manages all aspects of logging operations including harvest setup, harvest inspections, SFI compliance, wood flow, and merchandising trees into various forest products (multiple harvest crews across Iron, Dickinson, and Menominee counties).•Assists in planning, negotiation, administration, and inspection of other forestry related activities such as road construction and maintenance, timber marking, boundary establishment, and other land management projects. •Supervises contracted services including certifying completion of work for payment.•Uses Geographic Information System (GIS) to assist in managing TIMO lands.•Generates new business (meet with potential clients, explain our business, etc.)•Assists in development and administering budgets.•Negotiates and prepares contracts with independent contractors for clients’ management services.

Newberry, Michigan

• Self-driven position with emphasis on field work• Consulting Forestry for both NIPF and TIMO clients• Timber sale preparation and administration• Forest inventory• Forest management planning• Prepare timber sale bid notices and timber sale contract• Utilize various types of maps for navigation and interpretation uses• Use of Geographic Information Systems for forestry planning purposes• Form and maintain relationships and networks with private loggers, foresters, and representatives• Extensive use of ATV’s and snowmobiles• Implement Best Management Practices (BMP)

Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan

• Served as the initial professional point of contact for non-industrial private landowners, natural resource professionals, and local governments concerning natural resource management • Generated new business with landowners• Assisted NRCS in administering cost-share programs• Developed, analyzed, and produced land use maps and summaries for landowners using GIS • Conducted training, outreach, and education for NIPF landowners and natural resource professionals i.e. workshops, professional training, tours, and field days• Facilitated meeting between NIPF landowners and private forest management consultants• Prepared public relations activities for FAP and the conservation district i.e. newsletter, presentations, etc. • Provided in-office and on-site technical assistance regarding forest and wildlife habitat management• Assisted with conservation district tree and shrub sale • Developed and maintain a FAP webpage within the conservation district website• Facilitated meeting of a local FAP advisory committee

Gaylord, Michigan, United States Of America

• Hardwood/Softwood Cruising • Timber Sale Prep/Administration• Timber Sale Boundary Installation• Artificial/Natural Regeneration Surveys• Utilized various types of maps for navigation and interpretation uses• Formed and maintained relationships and networks with private loggers, foresters, and representatives• Worked individually and on a team• Wrote land use prescriptions with varying forest management, wildlife habitat, reforestation, and pest control management options• Queried, edited, and manipulated spatial information in a statewide forest management database• Implemented Best Management Practices on state-owned land• Public interaction regarding land use concerns

Gaylord, Michigan, United States Of America

Worked with a team of foresters to meet public land management objectives for timber, wildlife, aesthetics, etc. Performed a variety of forest management duties in a range of northern forest systems on public land such as hardwood/softwood marking and cruising, comprehensive inventory, and property/timber sale boundary installation. Assisted foresters in timber sale contracting, inspections, and administration. Collected various forms of field data using handheld data recorders and GPS technology. Created various maps and reference tools using GIS technologies. Operated ATVs and manual transmission vehicles.

Manistique, Michigan, United States Of America

Worked with a team of technicians to locate and sample a variety of permanent forest inventory and analysis (FIA) field sample locations distributed across Michigan and Wisconsin. Forested sample locations were located using historical maps, GPS and GIS technology, and compass and pacing. At each site a variety of forest ecosystem data was collected. Non forest locations were also visited and quanitified. This position helped to harden my field skills and orienteering knowledge while also expose me to many different forest types of the Lake States Ecoregion.

Houghton, Michigan, United States Of America

Worked under faculty foresters and professors to improve Michigan Technological University lands. Performed a variety of forest management duties including hardwood/softwood marking and cruising, locating and designating property and timber sale boundaries, reforestation efforts, and implementation of Best Management Practices.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Forest Resource Management

Activities and Societies: SAF, ACF, Apartments' Residence Council, Inter-Residece Housing Council, Intramural Sports, Michigan Tech.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Varsity Swimming and Diving, Varsity Baseball, Varsity Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble