Design consultation, landscape installation & Maintenance, licensed contractor and nursery stock retailer in Nebraska.

I coordinate a team focused on Clean Water Act (CWA) activities including: water quality standards (title 117), integrated report (CWA Sections 303(d), 305(b), and 314), impaired waters, total maximum daily loads, nonpoint source management, nonpoint source water quality grants, and data management. This includes administering several million dollars of federal and local funds to support internal programs and external grants including: budgeting, work plans, applications, amendments, and reports. I enjoy thinking outside of the box to protect water quality through innovative collaborative funding approaches.I have also supervised programs including: public beach monitoring, basin rotation monitoring, ambient stream monitoring, stream biological monitoring, ambient lake monitoring, fish tissue monitoring, fish kill and citizen complaint investigations, water quality certifications, hydrogeologic studies and reviews, groundwater management areas (title 196), ground water quality standards and use classifications (title 118), underground injection control (title 122), mineral exploration (title 135), wellhead protection, and source water protection. This collaborative effort involves a variety of funding sources, subgrant awards, contacts, agreements, and associated state and federal reporting and audits to further the mission of NDEE.

As the Wellhead Protection (WHP) Program Coordinator I have the unique opportunity to work with citizens and public water systems across the State to prevent contaminants from reaching drinking water sources. This includes modeling groundwater and surface water movement, inventorying potential contaminants, developing voluntary and regulatory controls, and developing emergency, contingency, and long term plans. And finally and most importantly, educating and involving the public throughout the entire process.

I worked on an urban stream restoration project through a part time appointment at Iowa State University. This project includes stream and groundwater sampling, biological assessments, development of discharge rating curves for the stream channel, soil loss estimation, and social assessments

ISU Extension (2006-2007 school year assistantship) - Community and park design, digital representation.ISU Dept. of Landscape Architecture (2005-2006 & 2007-2008 school year assistantship and summer 2008 research assistant) - Stream and groundwater sampling, developing discharge rating curves for the stream channel, soil loss estimation, residential stomwater garden design and installation, social assessments, riparian buffer strip installation and assessment.ISU Dept. of Landscape Architecture (summer 2006) - Rome program teaching assistant and exhibition coordinator.

Conceptual planning, design & cost estimates / Digital Media / Town & Committee design charretts & presentations / Display Boards & Feasibility Study.

Proper pruning, planting, troubleshooting, and chemical application.

Public design, site inventory and mapping, grand administration, organizational promotion and sales, promoting environmentally friendly landscapes and under utilized plants, publications.

Residential and commercial installation, native seeding, site inventory, nursery sales and maintenance, plant culture, green house construction, plant propagation, hearty hibiscus production.

Residential and commercial landscape installation summer job.