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Contracting with the U.S. Census Bureau to maintain MAF/TIGER databases and evaluate the annual Boundary and Annexation (BAS) and Navajo Nation projects.• Evaluating and editing street centerline, hydrography, and other data layers; additions,deletions, and edits of boundaries and annexations using ArcPro and JAGUAR.• Researching primary sources for updates to county, city, and state geographies.• Collaborating with local governments• Maintaining daily production schedule and work with customized data automation tools andprocedures.

I worked in a fast-paced food service environment, producing anywhere from 50 to 400 loaves of bread per day, excelling in all roles including dough prep, kneading, baking, cleaning, customer service, and cashier. • Certified Food Safety Manager (FSM), responsible for maintaining compliance to industry and US Department of Agriculture standards. • Market manager, coordinating and directing inventory to markets as needed. • Performed equipment mending and repair, as well as vehicle fleet maintenance and tracking; trained and coached new staff.Kneading folds and baking rolls, making some dough just to get by.

Fairfax County, Virginia, United States

Certified parkour coach working to promote the transformative power of parkour toward sustainable movement, falls prevention, and disciplined play. Taught senior citizens, after-school programs, and underserved youth at Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS).As media production specialist, I worked independently and in conjunction with other coaches to produce several video exercise projects including an in-house movement toolkit of 5 short videos, a 10-video series of weekly shorts with Alexandria’s department of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Activities (RPCA), and an 8-video series 15-20 minutes each for Zibrio Balance. I fulfilled tasks of managing, directing, lighting, videography, staging, audio, editing; mostly at the same time. I developed and wrote Standards and Procedures guide for in-house media production.I designed promotional fliers for the PK Silver program, aimed at fitness and falls prevention in older adults, and collaborated to design, produce, and install an exhibit at the Oswald Center for the Arts in Alexandria, celebrating movement of our older adult students.

Multiple Locations, Usa

I drew from experience and skills to help manage and map out a project with Montana-Dakota Utilities (MDU) covering ~112k square miles, coordinating and training a team of just 4 other GIS field specialists with minimal oversight.I performed initial and final quality assurance and control (QA/QC) on completed and in-progress maps; used QA/QC scripts to randomly flag a percentage of features for review, as well as manually sorting and reviewing attribute tables and line feature segment IDs for rooting out discrepancies and patterns of negligence; performed vehicle fleet maintenance, equipment inventory, and documentation.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked in emergency fire fuel reduction, involving inspection of Fire Defense Zones (FDZ) and utility line clearance in Napa and Central Valley, California as part of a temporary contract with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E). I served as team leader for my group, which was called in from a different project, and integrated into an existing work groups will different skillsets. I was responsible for making sure my team was trained and prepared, fulfilling their duties, on-schedule, and physically and psychologically fit to continue.I worked with field teams to flag FDZ, survey tree species and vegetation hazard potential, identify riparian zones and protected species; in the office, digitizing species records and standardizing field procedures; engaged with PG&E customers to explain the work being done, the risks posed, and acquiring consent to proceed.

Austin, Texas Area

Field technician mapping and verification of electric utility assets in Central-West Texas under contract with Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC). Later contracted with Bear Valley Electric Service (BVES) in California, and Xcel Energy in Denver, CO.I used Trimble GPS equipment alongside tablets with ESRI-based proprietary GIS field software; calibrated and used overhead power line phasing equipment as well as tools for underground locating and marking; correctly identified all electrical equipment and joint use in the field and modeled them correctly on the map; maintained records of equipment supply inventory; and coordinated a small team of 3-4 junior field technicians.

Hong Kong

'Hong Kong Stair Archive: Documenting the Walkable City'I assisted in designing the project variables and scope, and conducted physical and cultural surveys of a selection of Hong Kong stair paths as part of a project to shed light on their ever-present contribution to Hong Kong life. I performed field surveys and analysis on 51 sets of stairs, including physical characteristics, vegetation, and human activity, supplementing with pictures and qualitative observations; creating a spreadsheet framework for recording, sharing, and managing all attribute data using mobile phones and Google Drive; sent it in to be integrated into the project. Lead design students in field methodology.

Reston, Virginia

Based out of the USGS Reston headquarters for the Virginia Water Science Center in Richmond. I worked in-office under limited supervision, processing data for Virginia’s StreamStats web application. Using ESRI’s ArcGIS 10 software suite, I combined data from the National Hydrography, Elevation, and Watershed Boundary Datasets (NHD Plus) alongside ArcHydro tools to trace, isolate, and edit line segments, locate and remove loops and braids; generate digital elevation models (DEMs) and hill shading; and process water basin and land cover characteristics over 8-digit hydrologic units (HUC8, sub-basin level). I ran data processing scripts to ensure consistent and reliable calculation of line tracing, point-source of pollution, streamflow data, etc. I used Python (ArcPy) and model builder to streamline batch processing tasks so they could run without significant interference. I tracked and communicated project progress and timelines using Google Drive, Sheets, and Docs, and coordinated with the North Carolina StreamStats team to ensure consistency between regions.

I assisted class preparations and tutored first-through third-year students in Chinese (Mandarin) language learning.

I volunteered to help connect HRT with residents, introducing the new light rail (The Tide) to the area, and making relevant recommendations to HRT regarding changes to the light rail.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Geography

Majored in geography with a concentration in environmental geography and urban planning, including geospatial information science (GIS).

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), East Asian Studies

I majored in Asian studies (East and Southeast Asia), with a focus in Chinese geopolitics and Mandarin Chinese language.

East Asian Studies

Chinese Studies