Vincent Zafra Email & Phone Number

Calgary, AB, CA

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• National GIS specialist managing, maintaining, creating, and improving on existing emergency management systems supporting incidents involving dangerous goods, such as flammable gases and liquids.
• Created a holistic data collection, management, analysis, and visualization platform supporting the training and assessment emergency response teams nationwide.
• Automated numerous processes resulting in increased efficiencies, reduced administrative burden, data integrity, consistency, and overall support of quality management goals.
• Supported creation of environmental emergency (E2) plans for our plan participant members where multiple worst-case scenarios are modeled and assessed based on the dangerous good used.
• Utilized numerous software, platforms, and scripting languages in tandem to create critical solutions including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Survey123, Experience Builder, Dashboards, PowerAutomate, Make.com (formerly.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Responsible for providing leadership, coaching, and mentoring to a GIS team comprised of 12 talented professionals across Alberta.
• Involved in the recruitment process to review resumes, participate in interviews, and identify and select successful candidates.
• Supported, encouraged, and delivered technical, and safety training within the team.
• Provided operational support for active projects, maintaining 50% utilization between team lead duties and project/revenue generating duties
• Collaborated within the team and between disciplines to drive new technical initiatives or service lines

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• GIS lead for a multi-year, multiple section pipeline project across Alberta and British Columbia, and another complex wellsite project involving upwards of 120 individual project areas spanning across Alberta and.
• Duties involved client meetings, data organization and management on network drives and in ArcGIS Online (AGO), spatial analysis for multiple disciplines, cartographic production, and AGO development and support.
• GIS co-lead for a project supporting indigenous communities throughout Alberta. Through more than 100 interviews with members of the indigenous community, data was numerically analyzed, cartographically displayed, and.
• Key GIS contact for ArcGIS Online (AGO). Supported in the development of various AGO field programs, created numerous custom AGO maps for field crews, helped troubleshoot various AGO issues for both field and office.
• Provided GIS support (cartography and spatial analyses) for various projects across the country ranging from mining sites to marine biology research programs from Ontario, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories.
• Helped pioneer a training program across Alberta and British Columbia offices to help key GIS staff transition from ArcMap to ArcPro ahead of ESRI’s eventual deprecation of ArcMap.

Calgary, Alberta

• Responsible for planning and accuracy of global data acquisition flights.
• Ensured metadata was accurate, robust, and up-to-date.
• Performed quality assurance and quality control of stereo and ortho-rectified digital imagery to create DEMs adherent to client standards.
• Preparation of data for aerial triangulation.

Calgary, Alberta

• Learned and applied intermediate to advanced GIS principles, methods, and theories.
• Evaluated the viability of renewable energy sources on a province-wide scale

Calgary, Alberta

• Evaluated Environmental Impact Assessments and Statements, and the logistics of Environmental Law in Canada.

Calgary, Alberta

Coordinated a year long senior (capstone) research project evaluating the Elbow Watershed through the use of benthic macroinvertebrates as bioindicators for water quality in conjunction with abiotic chemical factors. The project consisted of industry standard field gathering methods, extensive statistical analyses through both Excel and R, and technical.

Calgary

• Designed and implemented an intensive field protocol.
• Gathered aerial photography via commercial drones.
• Performed geospatial surveys using RTK/RTN GNSS survey methods.