Taylor Keegan Email & Phone Number

Anchorage, Alaska, United States

Serve as Superintendent for Anchorage Parks and Recreation.

Anchorage, Alaska Area

• Develop general guidelines, design elements, definition of necessary facilities and improvements, and analyses of all relevant factors in developing and constructing building and landscape improvements.
• Serve on the GISCOE team for Parks and Recreation Department within the greater municipality; this included providing maps for the department, proofing data, and working with multiple departments on data analysis and.
• Organize and run public outreach meetings with diverse stakeholder including schools, recreation centers, local non-profit organizations, community advisory groups, and community councils.
• Conduct site inspections, including determining if projects are in compliance with laws, regulations and ordinances, make recommendations on changes.
• Manage construction projects to ensure conformance to project requirements
• Provide analysis and estimates cost implications of construction, bidding, staff time costs and change orders.

Ambler, Pennsylvania

• Serve as a technology software consultant for Temple’s School of Environmental Design as an expert in MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Access, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Sketchup.
• Manage 300 + computers, four plotters, and eight printers within the Learning Center and Dixon Halls on campus and provide technical support for faculty, staff, and students
• Serve as a liaison between Landscape Architecture department and Information Technology through monitoring and troubleshooting hardware and software issues around the clock
• Use computer software programs to summarize data in tabular and graphic form and maintain and troubleshoot technological equipment
• Provide individual and group technical support for computer software programs relating to GPS, MS Word, MS Excel, and Arcmap to inventory, research, monitor, and analyze scientific dataKey accomplishments:
• Rebrand department signage through the use of Adobe programs, and train staff with extensive hardware knowledge on design and spatial analysis software programs

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Collect and record data on community experience such as documenting socio-economic factors, crime, education, neighborhood character and visitor perception
• Use ArcGIS (ArcMap, and ArcScene) software to organize, analyze, and present natural resource data, perform data entry backup and quality control using computer relational database practices
• Use a variety of computer programs, including Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, to compile, reduce, store, retrieve, analyze, and report on quantitative and qualitative scientific research and.
• Interact with members of the public through formal and informal speaking situations, at community meetings and individual meetings which were recorded for the overall presentation and inventory analysis of the New.
• Use of GPS data loggers in field to map natural resource features as points, lines and polygons; manipulation and analysis using spatial join procedures, spatial analyst tools, and generating new GIS coverages using.
• Design vacant lot management strategies, and green space plan to help alleviate underutilized land within the New Kensington Neighborhood

Denali Park, Alaska

• Survey for non-native, invasive plants using a Trimble GPS unit to collect, download, and process natural resource data through Pathfinder and ArcMap
• Plan and implement the manual treatment of invasive species and monitor chemical treatment; Measured weight and recorded non-native invasive vegetation after removal (required to lift over 50lbs)
• Use word processing software to prepare written documents to complete the full report on Exotic Plant Management for 2014 summer season for Denali National Park where it was required to provide accurate and thorough.
• Design maps to be legible utilizing ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator for invasive non native plant removal treatment methods and native seed locations for vegetation department and National Park Service Report
• Participated in long term vegetation structure study in Yukon Charley National Preservethrough the Central Alaskan Network National Parks Botany Department; this includedextensive field work, aviation training.
• Makes quantitative measurements of plant cover in the field using point transects and quadrat methods; uses transect tapes, quadrats, tree digital measuring devices, clinometer, compass, and vegetation classification.

Master Of Architecture (March), Landscape Architecture, 3.6

Activities and Societies: Student Guild for The Society for Ecological Restoration

Ba, Political Science And International Relations, 3.3

Activities and Societies: Captain W. Varsity Basketball, (Webmaster, Rush Chair, Co-Alumni Chair) Alpha Gamma Phi, (Secretary) Global.

Study Abroad, Leadership, India, Bengali,

Activities and Societies: All Bengal Women's Union, Mother Teresa Center for the Destitute and Dying.Studied at the Tagore-Ghandi.

High School Diploma