Mekuria Assefa

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Tampa, FL *3613

Phone: 813-***-****

Email: ps770k@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION:

Aug 2005 – May 2008 University of Colorado at Denver

Master of Engineering, Major: GIS

Aug 2003 – May 2005 Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO

BS degree, Major: Land Use, Environment, GIS

Aug 1998 – May 2002 Hope College, Holland, Michigan

BS degree, Major: Geology, Minor: French

RELEVANT EXPERIENCES:

GIS Analyst, T2 Software Services Inc, Tampa, FL (May 2010 – Present)

• Ensure the electric distribution systems data is clean and ready to be used in Outage Management Systems (OMS) to help in restoration of power.

• Data clean-up and map maintenance.

• Perform quality control processes to ensure data quality.

GIS Technician at Volt for TECO Energy, Tampa, FL (July 2008 – July 2009)

• Perform map maintenance and data clean up on data migrated from older system into a new GIS.

• Edit and develop the electricity system GIS features and update database.

• Perform quality control processes to clean up erroneous data.

• Ensure data is clean and ready to be used in OMS.

• Review detailed construction prints and update lighting maps in the company’s GIS.

• Review detailed inventory and billing, customer information system data to ensure all updated information is consistent in related databases.

FAST Lab Assistant/Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado at Denver (August 2007 – May 2008)

• Assist in teaching graduate level GIS and Remote Sensing courses by monitoring discussion boards, grading student tests and laboratory assignments, answering student questions.

• Help faculty and students in the Advanced Spatial Technologies laboratories.

• Assist in software usage, printing and plotting.

GIS Data Analyst, Contact One Inc., Boulder, CO (Dec 2006 – July 2007)

• GIS data development, data edit, data maintenance and management; data to be used by emergency response services, e-911.

• Update and maintain MSAG database.

• Collect data using the Trimble GPS unit.

• Perform spatial analysis using different types of digital data including aerial photography and satellite imagery.

Assistant Curator, National Ice Core Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO (April 2005 – Nov 2006)

• Assist with all aspects of care of the large national collection of ice cores, which are used for the study of climate change, the history of the atmosphere, and other aspects of the earth and environmental sciences.

• Imaging of Ice Cores for identification of seasonal and annual layers as well as volcanic ash layers and other characteristics.

• Conduct ECM (Electrical Conductivity Measurement) on ice cores for identifying characteristics such as acidity of the ice.

• Cut scientific samples from larger cores, all under the strict environmental conditions required by the unique collection including inventory and shipment of samples of ice.

• Assist in the design and fabrication of custom laboratory equipment used in the processing of existing samples, and in the collection of future ice core samples from Antarctica.

• Doing inventory of the large national ice core collection, logging and description of cores and entering information into a computer database.

GIS Teaching Assistant, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO (Aug 2004 – May 2005)

• Help answering student questions in labs, assist GIS professors with the GIS lab management, search and download data for educational use, install GIS software, help with grading student test papers.

GIS Technician, City of Westminster, Westminster, CO (May 2004 – Nov 2004)

• Update and edit the City’s parcels GIS database, create and edit spatial datasets, help make different types of presentation maps.

Tutor, Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO (Aug 2002 – May 2003)

• Help/tutor college students with mathematics and French courses.

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Hope College, Holland, MI (Aug 2001 – May 2002)

• Worked on a compiled data of Devonian fossils from the state of Indiana, incorporating information into maps in ArcView for paleoenvironmental and fossil diversity analysis.

• Worked on secondary sulfate minerals from the Groveland Iron Mine area near Felch, Michigan. Collected mineral samples, analyzed data in laboratories using the Atomic Absorption and X-ray Diffraction. Presented results at the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Access, Works, PowerPoint, Visio; ESRI, ArcGIS (ArcINFO, ArcView, ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolBox), ArcPad, ArcIMS, ArcScene, ArcGlobe, Model Builder, Geodatabase, RDBMS, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst; Remote Sensing, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI, Scan Tool; GPS (Trimble, Garmin); Visual Basic, VBA, ArcObjects, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, CSS; Mashups, GoogleMaps, GoogleEarth; G-Technology, Framme, Quantum GIS, MapWindow GIS.

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