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Carson City, Nevada, United States

Empowers as many staff as possible within the agency to implement the mission. The mission of the Nevada Division of Forestry is to protect and enhance Nevada’s ecosystems and communities through natural resource stewardship and wildfire management.

Carson City, Nevada

Ensures agency compliance and completion of legislated responsibilities in areas of vegetation management, plant materials production, as well as forest, rangeland, and watershed protection. Management, leadership, supervision and administration of natural resource management staff (19 total) and agency operational areas including critically endangered plant protection and regulation, forest health, fuel and vegetation management, natural resource stewardship, urban and community forestry, wildfire rehabilitation, environmental education, climate change mitigation and conservation plant materials production. Serves on Shared Stewardship, Operations, Red Card, Equipment and Plant Materials Steering Committees. Assists with developing Bill Draft Requests for editing statutes and regulations, writing testimony for the Legislative Council Bureau, and developing agency policy and procedural manuals. Serves as State Duty Officer for emergency response and coordinates mutual aid among local fire protection districts. Engages field resource and other program area staff to provide technical, policy and strategic oversight and guidance. Develops and deploys initiative tracking mechanisms to measure performance. Performs program administration including annual budgeting, reporting, subgranting, purchasing, regulatory compliance, cooperator agreements, contract management, grant management, and performance reporting. Administers personnel issues, hiring, evaluations, writing job descriptions, writing work performance standards, recruiting, documenting health and safety incidents. Assists agency leadership with organizational development, including vision, mission, core principles and values, strategic plans, new initiatives, workflow and workload management, statutory compliance, state budget request building, policy development, equipment tracking, as well as personnel training and coordination. Maintains multiple wildland fire and prescribed fire qualifications.

Carson City, Nevada

Duties include supervision of program coordinators and oversight of statewide programs including urban and community forestry, fuel reduction, state and volunteer fire assistance, fire adapted communities, environmental education, natural resource stewardship, biomass, seedbank, and forest health. Regularly engages staff to provide technical, policy and strategic oversight and guidance. Manages the community protection program including, annual budgeting (~$3M), grant application processes, reporting, contracting, subgranting, expenditures, regulatory compliance, and cooperator agreements. Maintains working relationships with cooperating agencies, organizations and citizens to create a cohesive and collaborative working environment that fosters accomplishment of agency and cooperator missions. Assists the Program managers and others with duties including strategic planning, new initiative development, statutory compliance, state budget request building, equipment tracking, as well as personnel training and coordination. Functions in wildland fire and prescribed fire operations as a Resource Advisor (READ), Professional Firefighter (FFT1), Incident Commander (ICT5), Firing Boss (FIRB) and performs as a trainee for Fire Effects Monitor (FEMO), Incident Commander (ICT4), and Type 3 Incident Management Team-Plans Section Chief (PSC3). Contributes a positive attitude and strives to maintain a productive work environment, reduce workplace stress, and assemble a cohesive team of diversified, self-disciplined employees. Studies and employs organizational management and leadership to enable team organization, outcome planning, mission focus, process development, issue resolution, change management, disciplined task implementation, accountability, and goal attainment at all levels in the agency. Seeks to always maintain personal and professional integrity, respect leadership, staff and the public, and be competent in all duties.

Washoe Valley, Nevada

Elko, Nv

Regional coordination and implementation of programs including urban and community forestry, environmental education, natural resource advisement to emergency incident management teams, wildfire fuels management planning, post-fire natural resource rehabilitation, forest stewardship planning, protected flora management, wildland seed collection, watershed protection, nursery tree sales, forest health improvement, and professional assistance for natural resource planning and management. Engages private clients, agencies, companies and non-governmental organizations to plan, implement, and monitor collaborative landscape and smaller scale projects by providing technical input and oversight, tools and equipment, and labor forces. Performs cultural resource, noxious species, insect and disease, vegetation community as well as sensitive species surveys. Plans, implements, and monitors stream bioengineering projects, prescribed fires, fuels reduction treatments, noxious weed treatments, and restoration seedings. Manages a regional seedbank equipment leasing program including ATVs, rangeland seed drills, broadcast seeders, drags and seed. Utilizes GIS frequently to derive spatial datasets, figures and maps used to inform planners of ecological conditions, land management alternatives, and technical staff of treatment specifications. Used, maintained, and licensed ESRI ArcGIS products. Collects, imports, manipulates, and interprets GIS and GPS data for small and large-scale projects. Acquires and manages data from private, government and non-governmental organizations. Produces maps, figures and posters with high cartographic standards in a time efficient manner.

Elko, Nv

Taught a fire ecology and fire effects course.

Reno, Nv

Monitored fire-affected streams to understand the role of fire, level of functioning condition, fire intensity and severity, fuel types and loading, woody debris, and vegetation types and measured changes in geomorphic, ecologic, biologic, and hydrologic characteristics. Studied the reliability and effectiveness of monitoring stream systems through repeat photo-pair analysis, where natural resource professionals were tested for correlation between visually assessed and measured changes in specific stream attributes. Planned, designed and implemented the study, collected the field data, analyzed data and published a thesis reviewing the entire study.

Reno, Nv

Logistical support for studies related to sage grouse populations, tree insects and disease, reforestation of mine lands, pinyon-juniper woodland management, as well as rangeland restoration projects. Supported fuel load quantification, stand cruising, prescribed burning, felling, chipping, seeding, and implementing experimental restoration treatments.

Elko, Nv

Natural Resource Specialist: field data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, report writing, technical supervision, technical training, client consultation, and agency coordination. Collaborative and sustainable solutions to challenges involving all natural resources.GIS Specialist: Use, maintenance, and licensing of GIS products. Collection, importation, manipulation, and interpretion of GIS and GPS data for small and large-scale projects. Intersoftware workability, surface analysis, and 3D renderings. Plans, organize, implement, and maintain a company-wide GIS system and associated operating databases. Provided valuable geospatial solutions for many types of applications.

Carson City, Nv

Provided technical support for field data collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, report composition, agency and public coordination, and client consultation for projects similar to those experienced at SRK Consulting, Inc, as well as multiple species habitat conservation plans, community wildfire risk assessments, BAER treatment coordination and plans, BAER implementation monitoring and success evaluations, wildland and WUI fuels management and reduction plans, fuel loading evaluations, fire suppression and pre-suppression plans, forest health assessments, stand characterizations, rangeland and forestland restoration and revegetation plans, watershed management plans and coordination strategies, erosion potential assessments, recreation use, wellhead protection plans, environmental analysis of utility corridors, wetland enhancement and restoration plans, sage grouse conservation plans, rangeland and grazing management plans, rangeland improvement plans, vegetation trend analyses, evaluations of right-of-way impacts, BMP implementation and effectiveness evaluations, stream flow and water quality monitoring, wetland delineation, and riparian PFC assessment. Teamed with engineers, hydrologists, geologists, biologists, and water rights specialist on a variety of projects. Assisted in planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining a company-wide GIS system and associated operating database, as well as provided valuable geospatial solutions for all types of applications. GIS experiences, responsibilities, and achievements were similar to those experienced at SRK Consulting, Inc.

Carson City, Nv

Provided technical aerial photographic services to both Federal and County level agencies.

Carson City, Nv

Quantified and monitored all material and production costs, including labor, materials, and equipment. Coordinated delivery and shipment of materials at the facility, as well as managed warehousing space for materials, research and development, and machinery. Responsibilities included quality control, department and employee coordination, employee training, maintaining efficient production quantities and capacities, hazardous and manufacturing materials management, as well as scheduling and coordinating all production. In other positions, performed such duties as payroll coordination and processing, personnel scheduling, pricing and profit margin establishment and analysis, quantitative income and sales analysis, overhead quantification and analysis, customer/vendor management and consulting, as well as material ordering and scheduling. Was qualified to operate machinery within the facility, and performed maintenance and repairs to machinery. Fabricated custom parts for machinery.

Master'S Of Science (Ms), Natural Resource And Environmental Science

Bachelor'S Degree W/ Distinction, Forestry And Rangeland Management

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Environmental Science