Data Project
Resume:
Shannon L. Allen
Centreville, VA 20120
***********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE: To seek a position as a GIS Technician.
QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS
• One year plus experience integrating geospatial data with various forms of intelligence databases to
create products critical to national intelligence and security.
• Seven years professional experience producing digital maps utilizing principles of geography and
cartography.
• Expert experience in various GIS commercial and government softwares such as ArcGIS 9.x, AcSDE,
ArcInfo, ArcMap, AutoCAD, ERDAS Imagine 9.x, RemoteView and OrthoMosiac.
• Adept at inputting, updating, modifying, and manipulation of spatial data to perform QA/QC analysis.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
8/2012 – 11/2012 Geospatial Analyst, Zekiah Technologies, Inc., Arlington, VA
• Performed geospatial analysis and visualization using infrastructure vectors. Worked extensively with
the Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) database, which consists of energy, water,
transportation, communications, social, and fuel information to extract infrastructure information to
create maps.
• Derived data from HSIP to manage map legend symbols following the Department of Homeland
Security protocol and standards.
• Designed, edited and managed databases to reflect infrastructure changes through analysis of new
images.
• Produced cartographic and analytical products, using map books through the use of ArcGIS.
• Provided emergency preparedness and response and created a basemap to analyze threat and
support critical infrastructure protection in the event of a man-made or natural disaster, using ArcGIS.
11/2010 – 1/2012 GEOINT Analyst, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Springfield, VA
• Extracted specific feature data in accordance with the NGA Feature Data Specifications, project specific
guidance, and other NGA data and product specifications.
• Evaluated, researched and interpreted geospatial data from intelligence databases for analysis and
visualization.
• Applied imagery extraction and visual scene creation, aerial photographs and precise measurement to
produce highly-detailed intelligence products of underground facilities in North Korea, using RemoteView,
IEC and NES.
• Utilized ArcMap and NES to produce GEOINT in support of locating, characterizing, and monitoring
underground facilities in North Korea.
• Managed geodatabases, using structured data and feature digitization, to analyze logistics and security
associated with a search program for underground facilities in Syria.
7/2008 – 10/2010 Geospatial Analyst, MDA Information Systems, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD
• Provided GIS support utilizing remote sensing and GIS for clients including a diverse array of products
and analyses to help with understanding of environmental problems.
• Selected Correlated Land Change (CLC) image with an area of interest in the contiguous United States
with access to the United States (U.S.) Government Global Visualization Viewer (GloVis). Tracked
downloaded selected image numbers into Microsoft Excel.
• Tasked to produce a gap-free shoreline product and to search for potential underwater hazards to
navigation by NGA/NOAA using multiple Landsat TM image dates and SRTM imagery.
• Worked to improve the geodetic accuracy and currency of global shoreline and shallow water
representation in the U.S. Government Digital Naviagtion Chart vector databases using ERDAS.
Identified shallow water (hazard) areas that were obstacles to navigation. Classified submerged
vegetation, i.e. mangroves as hazard.
• Utilizing Landsat TM image dates and SRTM imagery; classified shallow water and sediment features
by manually digitizing the extent of those features and then recoded them to the appropriate class.
• Crime and Narcotics Center (CNC) project that entailed classifying and recoding clouds/shadows by
assigning pixels to the specific clolor in the raster attribute table using ERDAS.
• Digitized clouds and extracted the U.S. Government crop of interest (COI) using ERDAS. Followed
Aerial Investigation instructions by seeking targets.
7/2005 – 10/2006 GIS Technician, Michael Baker Corp., Alexandria, VA
• Worked on a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) contract dealing with flood plain
mapping. This project involved converting Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) to a digital format
(DFIRMs). The DFIRMs show the spatial extent of Special Flood Hazard Areas in relation to the other
thematic features for flood-risk assessment. The anticipated benefits to this digital mapping program
were to shorten production time and decrease costs associated with the necessary revision of Flood
Insurance Maps in the future.
• Applied knowledge of GIS to the Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFRIM) flood plain mapping,
using FEMA’s Map Modernization DFIRM specifications using ArcGIS 9.x and AutoCAD.
• Inputted, updated, modified, manipulated and provided basic analysis of GIS data collection and
compilation of data for the preparation of maps using ArcGIS 9.x and AutoCAD.
• Updated flood hazard delineations for recovery processes and mitigation.
• QA/QC services included reviews of contractor engineering work to ensure that the analyses and maps
met FEMA guidelines.
8/2003 – 4/2005 GIS Technician, Peak Technologies, Inc., Washington, DC
• Worked as part of a team on a geospatial project involving the District of Columbia. This contract
involved the use of location information on tax and record lots from all D.C. buildings. This objective of
the project was to store the geospatial components and attribute tables into a secure Oracle
geodatabase, which was served through an ArcSDE interface.
• Performed QA/QC of ArcSDE data layers prior to loading them into an Oracle geodatabase to ensure
data integrity. All data edits were conducted using ArcGIS 8.x spatial extensions.
• Acitivities included using various GIS techniques in areas such as data manipulation, data storage, data
retrieval, and display involving vector and raster data.
• Knowledge of multiple geospatial data layers was required to perform QA/QC analysis, including
satellite imagery and aerial photography.
• Many input maps were in hardcopy format and dated back to the early 1700’s. This required extensive
skill set set in cartographic principles and map information.
EDUCATION
GEOINT Courses: Basic Analytical Training (BAT), NES Target Reporting, NES Research and Softcopy
Workflow, Google Earth and Related Applications, Metadata Training, Fundamentals of Synthetic
Aperture Radar (SAR) Exploitation, Underground Facilities Seminar, Coursework toward Geospatial
Intelligence Training Program (GITP)
National Geospatial-Intelligence College, Springfield, VA
B.A. Geography
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Coursework toward Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Certification
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
A.A.S. Electronic Publishing & Printing Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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