Mark Neal

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Ventura, CA **01

Cell Phone 805-***-****

abpch2@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES: To be employed in the fields of cultural resource management, land use

planning, or environmental management using my skill and experience in geographic

information systems, archaeology, historic resources, and geography. To have a significant

positive impact on my employer s effectiveness and to work in a cooperative environment

where I can contribute, learn, and grow.

QUALIFICATIONS

Fully trained in geographic information systems creation, maintenance, and use at

the University of California at Santa Barbara, one of the most respected university

GIS departs in the world.

Expert in the application of geographic information systems in cultural resource

management, including records processing, database design, digitizing, and advanced

analysis and modeling techniques.

Extensive experience combining data sources from multiple disciplines (such as publicly available

environmental, census, and cadastral data, and georeferenced historic maps) into a cohesive and

accurate GIS.

Highly skilled at organizing data and writing clear, accurate, and comprehensive technical

documents and publications.

Thorough and patient teacher of basic to advanced GIS techniques and concepts to users of

various backgrounds and skill levels.

B.A. and M.A. in anthropology with an emphasis on the archaeology of central and

southern California.

Extensive experience working with local indigenous groups on matters concerning

protection of cultural resources and traditional cultural properties.

Successful completion of coursework in cultural resource management law under Dr.

Michael Glassow.

Successful completion of field methods and advanced field methods classes under Dr.

Michael Glassow, plus additional field experience in excavation and systematic

survey working under Dr. Glassow on Santa Cruz Island.

Over six months cumulative lab experience processing materials from central

California excavations.

One year of experience as the Assistant Coordinator of the Central Coastal

Information Center accessioning and reviewing archaeological site records and field

reports and performing record searches for most of the archaeologists is Santa

Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

EDUCATION

2004 B.A. Anthropology with focus in Archaeology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

2007 M.A Anthropology with focus in Archaeology, University of California at Santa Barbara.

EMPLOYMENT

3/2007 current Consulting Archaeologist, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Indians.

Duties: Research the potential of regional development projects to

negatively impact cultural resources and traditional cultural

properties. Work as a member of a team of four Tribal employees and

members under the direction of the Council of Elders to interact with

government representatives, planners, and landowners to negotiate

adequate protection of cultural resources and TCPs. Provide

archaeological and geographic information systems support for

various other projects as directed.

1/2008 6/2008 Staff Research Associate, Central Coast Information Center

(CCIC), University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Training and teaching of graduate student staff in advanced

GIS techniques. Design and create a GIS dataset of all archaeological

sites and reports for Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel

Islands.

10/2007 12/2007 Digitizing Supervisor, Central Coast Information Center

(CCIC), University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Supervise a team of four student digitizers to facilitate the

production of a GIS for all sites and surveys under the jurisdiction of

the CCIC. Perform quality check all digital information produced and

provide technical support as needed.

6/2006 6/2007 Assistant Coordinator, Central Coast Information Center

(CCIC), University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Conduct record searches for locations of cultural resources

and reports of previous survey work using a GIS and archive maps.

Receive, catalog, and map incoming reports of cultural resources.

Perform billing and accounts receivable functions.

3/2006 6/2006 Digitizing Supervisor, Central Coast Information Center

(CCIC), University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Supervise a team of four student digitizers to facilitate the production of

a GIS for all sites and surveys under the jurisdiction of the CCIC. Perform

quality check all digital information produced and provide technical support as

needed.

10/2005 current Engineering Aide GIS, City of Ventura, CA.

Duties: Maintain various GIS layers as directed. Develop custom ARCIMS web

based mapping applications.

6/2005 10/2005 Archaeologist Technician GS5, USDA Forest Service,

Region 5, Los Padres National Forest

Duties: Research, purchase, implement, and train district

archaeologists in the use of field data recorders (PDRs) using Arcpad.

Use ARCGIS and Arcview to manipulate data and generate survey

maps. Perform pre-field research as directed. Assist district

archaeologists in field survey.

8/2004 3/2005 Digitizer, Central Coast Information Center,

University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Use archaeological survey records to map survey areas using

Arcview 3.3.

6/2004 9/2004 Intern, Geographic Information Systems, City of Ventura, CA

Duties: Georeference historic Sanborn Insurance maps to existing

GIS layers in Arcview 8 using property boundaries and aerial

photographs.

6/2004 9/2004 Archaeologist Technician GS5, USDA Forest Service,

Region 5, Los Padres National Forest

Duties: Assisted Forest Archaeologists in performing field survey and

site recording. Performed other duties as directed such as database

programming and maintenance, records searches, and mapping.

3/2004 6/2004 Intern, United States Forest Service

Duties: Performed miscellaneous duties at the Heritage Resource

Center of the Los Padres National Forest including recordkeeping,

mapping, database design, data entry, and research under the

direction of the Forest Archaeologist.

8/2003 5/2004 Student Participant, Laboratory Procedures Practicum.

University of California at Santa Barbara

Duties: Laboratory processing of materials from several central

California coastal prehistoric archaeological sites. Included wet

screening, flotation, sorting, shellfish species identification, plus

other miscellaneous laboratory procedures.

3/2004 5/2004 Student Participant, Archaeological Field Methods Class.

University of California at Santa Barbara

Training included research design, excavation, feature recording, dry

and wet screening, recordkeeping, field cataloging and archiving.

REFERENCES

Dr. Michael Glssow, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Univeristy of California

Santa Barbara, 805-***-****, abpch2@r.postjobfree.com

Kathy Conti Director of Museum Programs, Research, and Resources, Santa Ynez

Band of Chumash Indians. 805-***-****.

abpch2@r.postjobfree.com

Terry Joslin, M.A. Archaeologist, Cal Trans, 805-***-****.

Examples of the Diversity of Projects to Which I Have Contributed:

2008 Ongoing Member of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indian s Cultural

Resource Protection Team. When the Tribe is notified of development projects within

their geographic are of interest, I perform background research regarding known cultural

resources and traditional cultural properties. To support their conservation efforts, I create

maps and graphics demonstrating the distribution of known resources relative to the projects

and support the other team members in formulating appropriate responses. I have also

participated in negotiations between the Tribe, developers, land owners, and planning

agencies.

2008 Creation of a Predictive Model for Late Period Village Sites in the Santa

Ynez Valley. For this model, I used advanced spatial analysis techniques to create datasets

that model various environmental factors that have been theorized to affect village site

distribution. For the final product, I used weights of evidence to generate a sensitivity map

of the Santa Ynez River watershed classified into five categories of greater and lesser

probability of the presence of undiscovered late period village sites. The County of Santa

Barbara Planning and Development Department is currently considering the model as a

possible tool for land use planning.

2008 Creation of a GIS of archaeological sites and reports for Santa Cruz, Santa

Rosa, and San Miguel Islands, California. Working for the Central Coastal Information

Center (CCIC), which is part of the California Historic Resource Information System

(CHRIS), I created polygon shapefiles of all archaeological sites and reports for the Channel

Islands that are within Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties in California. I

georeferenced hand-annotated USGS quad maps, scholarly works, and early aerial

photography. I also analyzed individual site records and reports. The final product is the

most comprehensive dataset known for those islands and included 1934 sites and 36 reports.

2007 City of San Buenaventura Downtown Specific Plan Historic Resources

Survey. This survey was conducted as part of the updating process for their downtown core

specific plan. I was brought in as a consultant to analyze the survey data for accuracy and

completeness prior to its presentation to city council. I documented numerous errors and

omissions in the data and worked with the city and their vendor to address those issues. I

produced a detailed report of my findings including graphics for the client to use in their

powerpoint presentations to the city council. I worked with the city s GIS department to

define data requirements and corrected, reformatted, and converted the vendor s Excel tables

into GIS layers ready to be integrated into the city s GIS. I made final recommendations of

ways to prevent similar errors from happening in future surveys by improving contract

specifications and survey planning and methods.

2006 Re-designation of Highway 154 in the Santa Ynez Valley as the Chumash

Highway. The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians sought to draw attention to the

contributions of the ancestral Chumash to the history of the Santa Ynez Valley. One idea

they had to support that goal was designate Highway 154, which runs through the valley and

next to their reservation, as Chumash Highway. I supplied analyses of cultural resource

distribution and created appropriately redacted graphics that were used in presentations to

support the importance of the highway as an early native trail. I also georeferenced

historical maps and maps from various scholarly works to further support their position.

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians successfully petitioned legislators and in 2007

signs went up along Highway 154 declaring it as the Chumash Highway.

2004 2008 Conversion of Central Coastal Information Center to the use of GIS

and digital records. Worked as a team member supervising the digitizing process,

training student digitizers, teaching advanced GIS techniques, troubleshooting data,

performing quality control of final data, and ongoing project planning and support.

2004 Georeferencing historic maps for use in the City of San Buenaventura s GIS.

Working at the city s site, I georeferenced various historic maps (such as Sanborn fire

insurance maps) using the cadastral data and historic and contemporary aerial photography.

Those maps are now linked to the city s parcel layer.

2004 Create building footprint GIS shapefile for the City of San Buenaventura.

Georeferenced plans from construction permit application database to expand and correct the

city s building footprint layer.

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