Steven Cherek Email & Phone Number

Marathon City, Wisconsin, United States

Wausau, Wisconsin

Provide support for the County Treasurer. Performs professional accounting work including, coordinating the safekeeping of portfolio investments of the County, formulating and implementing County cash handling policy, preparing, maintaining, analyzing, verifying and reconciling complex financial transactions that maintain high accuracy of the County financial records and general ledger accounts. Manage daily deposits reaching millions in new revenue and reconciliation of County bank accounts. Coordinates, trains, and monitors customer service activity as it pertains to revenue collection procedures, software and cash handling procedures. Monitor data from the County point-of-sale system to subsidiary receivable systems and general ledger and performs related reconciliations. Maintains point of sale software system and property tax software system including but not limited to adding users, payment types and point of sale types. Provide assistance to taxpayers, other county department employees, and 61 municipal Treasurers regarding tax collection and settlement of delinquent taxes. Draft/obtain and review County real estate payment agreements with existing delinquent property owners. Review and prepare applications for tax deeds and takes property if taxes remain unpaid. Coordinate with the County Property Lister and 61 municipal land Assessors to created starting assessment rolls, load new assessment data, balance assessment data between software systems and submit final assessment and tax rolls data to the WI Department of Revenue (DOR). Performs all duties of the County Treasurer if the elected County Treasurer is unavailable for any reason. Programs such as Can/AM Technologies - Teller, Workday Financial software package, Cayenta Financial software, ArcGIS 10.2 software package, ArcInfo - coordinate geometry procedures (COGO), and Marathon County Land Records – Transcendent/Ascent database management system were used to perform job duties.

Wausau, Wisconsin Area

Maintained and updated Marathon County Land Information GIS system including preparing and updating the county's parcel layer, Road Right-of-way layer, Certified Survey Map layer and plats layer. Researched information relating to recorded documents, property dimensions, property locations, location and type of existing surveying monuments. Analyzed and evaluated researched data for unknown land owner parcels based on documents received and recorded in the Register of Deeds Office. Worked and communicated with other departments and public regarding property descriptions and tax information. Programs such as ArcGIS 10.2 software package, ArcInfo - coordinate geometry procedures (COGO), and Marathon County Land Records database management system were used to perform job duties.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Assisted the data management section in the maintenance and use of WISLR GIS Database for over 100,000 miles of local roads in the State of Wisconsin. Provided GIS support for WISLR’s Location Control Manager (LCM) application and the state’s annual mileage certification process. Communicated directly and indirectly with Wisconsin’s 1,900 + local unites of government to insure all new construction and maintenance treatments of local roads are reported and entered into WISLR statewide web base GIS data management system correctly. Worked along with a team of WISLR Editors to ensure work assignments were completed timely and annual certification deadlines met. Communicated and coordinated certification related activities with regional field data collectors. Serve as a technical export on the WI Traffic Operations and safety laboratory (TOPS) project team for the WISLR crash mapping and analysis phase 3 project (work order 7.2, tasks associated with the business process development and roll-out of the WISLR statewide crash map). Trained WIDOT positions and selected University of Alabama Staff and students with WISLR software applications and WISLR mapping process. Helped other areas of the division on special task/projects when needed. Worked with ArcGIS 10.1 using Maplex extension to generate yearly local road mileage certification maps for every town, village and city in Wisconsin. Programs such as Oracle, SQL, ArcGIS 9.3 & ArcGIS 10.1 software package, ArcServer, LCM application, and Visual Basic programming, Microsoft Office package were used to perform job duties.

Assisted in enforcing Tippecanoe County Stormwater ordinance and standards. Maintained department GIS system, including constructing features and attributes associated with the Surveyor’s drainage layer. Developed and maintained MS4 Phase II IDDE outfall inspections database. Conducted field inspections of outfalls within the Tippecanoe County MS4 Phase II Boundary. Developed ArcPad custom templates to work with Trimble GeoXH handheld GPS receiver. Trained and communicated with department supervisors and field staff with the GPS data collection process. Trained and managed department interns on drain reconstruction projects, Georeferencing Tippecanoe County historic photos, and the creation of drainage cross sections using Carlson Civil Suite for Auto Cad software. Successfully developed and maintained a GIS management system for 100 plus county regulated drains. Worked with other county departments to develop good GIS applications through creating and being voted head of Tippecanoe County GIS technical committee. Showed ability to read and interpret detailed constructions plans, legal descriptions, aerials and plat maps by drafting/maintaining GIS drainage layer. Created Metadata for all drainage layers files worked on directly and indirectly. Programs such as ArcGIS 9.3 software package, ArcPad 7.0.1, GPScorrect 2.20, Trimble GPS Analysis 2.10, MicroStationV8, MicroStation Descartes, Auto Cad 2006 & 2010, Carlson Civil Suite, MapSource, CorpsconV6.1, Schenider Corporation Draincalc, XML & Visual Basic programming, were all used to perform job duties

Gathered GPS points to accurately update the city’s GIS water utilities systems map. Used ArcIMS to update City Water utility web server. Worked with city officials and sewer treatment plant employees throughout this internship. Improved maps depicting city wide sewer system flow, and new project area utilities. Created maps of water pipe leaks over past five years, updated city lift station map (for emergency responders), and city wide water utility map. Used AutoCAD to document water valve locations.

Worked and communicated with the GIS department to build coverages and shapefiles, with good topology, to fit ECWRCP digital map data standards. Created a county-wide floodplain boundary coverage by manually digitizing arcs in ArcEdit for the planning staff to use. Software used during this internship was ArcView 3.3, ArcGIS (ESRI Package) versions 8.8 & 9.0.

Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Geographic Information Systems

Bachelors Of Science Degree, Geography, Gis, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: UWSP Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) secretary in 2004-2005Major: GEOGRAPHY (Regional Analysis and Community.