Matthew Banick
**** * ******** *** *** ** • Athens, GA 30605
770-***-**** • *************@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
Seeking employment with a company where lifelong education, commitment to excellence, and willingness to learn new skills is valued.
EDUCATION
University of North Georgia, Oakwood, GA
B.Sc., Environmental Spatial Analysis (2013)
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Certificate (2013)
RELATED EXPERIENCE
GIS Intern July 2011 - September 2011
Atlantic Engineering Group Braselton, GA
Drafted railroad, DOT and Interstate permits for fiber construction projects
Prepared construction and traffic control typical drawings
Created and printed grid maps for field engineering
Project Member on ARRA USGS Orthoimagery Project June 2010 - June 2011
University of North Georgia (formerly Gainesville State College) Oakwood, GA
Conducted seamline correction, image tile mosaicing, and QA/QC analysis of high-resolution multispectral imagery of
the Chattahoochee National Forest and Great Smoky Mountain National Forest for purposes of environmental impact
research.
SKILLS
Proficient with:
ESRI ArcGIS products (3 + years) - including various geoprocessing tasks from basic (converting and reprojecting files, querying
feature and raster data, creating geodatabases, etc) to complex (involving Python/Visual Basic/ArcObjects scripting, model building,
and spatial analysis)
ERDAS Imagine (1 + year) - including digital image processing tasks such as object based image analysis (OBIA), land cover
classification and change detection, 3D rendering, rectification, radiometric correction, band ratioing/layer stacking, image filtering,
pan sharpening, segmentation, analyzing LIDAR data, etc
Familiar with:
Various software applications and programming languages, including Trimble eCognition (4 months), Quick Terrain Modeler
LIDAR software (4 months), Adobe Photoshop (1 year), Java (4 months), Python (2 months), Visual Basic (4 months), ArcObjects
(4 months), HTML (4 months)
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Laborer October 2012 - Present
TruGreen Landcare, LLC Athens, GA
January 2004 – September 2012
Sales Associate
Walmart Athens, GA
Independent Contractor December 2005 - December 2008
Self Employed North Georgia Area
AWARDS AND ACTIVITIES
3.8 GPA in all GIS course work
8 years as a Southern Off Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) member, during which I received awards for volunteer service, in
addition to being a top ranking regional amateur off road cyclist
Club President - SORBA - Gainesville State College Chapter (2 years)