PURSUING A GIS ANALYST POSITION

ELLEN D. FURNESS

ESRI ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Desktop, Learning Python for ArcGIS Pro Story Map (ArcGIS):

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/32404e9d37564136bb64c1cfc354d9a2 Experience Builder (ArcGIS) (WebGIS, Pinde Fu exercises): https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/94d871b4838548d9a8bc44f44addd801 Biologist -- Researcher, Project Management/Monitoring of ecological resources. University of Denver, Full-Stack Web Development

Projects: Bike station App using JavaScript Web API, https://github.com/bward3/spokes-people REACT APP: https://efurness.github.io/ellen-s-react-portfolio/

--Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

Biologist, Web Developer, GIS, 2010

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, AIR RESOURCES DIVISION, LAKEWOOD, CO Assisted Webmaster in the design, maintenance, and conversion of the Air Resources Division websites to XHTML using Adobe Dreamweaver/ColdFusion.

Created GIS maps, reports and documents.

Assisted Chief Biologist in analysis of air pollution in National Parks Website Builder, 2009

COLORADO COLLEGE

Website design and maintenance of Geology Department websites and the Integrated Solid Earth Sciences (ISeS) Antarctica website

Provided front-end website development using Dreamweaver and other editing software. GIS Technician, 2001

US FOREST SERVICE, PIKES PEAK NATIONAL FOREST

Combined the use of aerial photographs, Digital Ortho Quads, Orthoimagery to interpret major vegetation/forest types for the Turkey Creek watershed

Use of GIS ArcInfo and ArcEdit Tools to digitize heterogeneous vegetation polygons onto DOQ’s. Set up ArcInfo watershed/riparian/vegetation coverages Verified final vegetation maps, conducting Region 2 CSE's BAER Team Technical Specialist/Project Leader, 2000 US FOREST SERVICE

Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) projects in watershed assessment of burned areas, aerial reconnaissance by helicopter, topographic mapping of treatment sites and hydrophobicity soil testing. As Project Leader and BAER Team Trainee, led technicians in conducting rehabilitation treatment plans that contributed to Final Burned Area Rehabilitation Reports.

Full-stack Web Development, Bootcamp, 2022

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

2022-02

ArcGIS modeling, spatial analyst, Graduate level

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, CONTINUING EDUCATION, BOULDER https://www.colorado.edu/geography/

SKILLS

HOBBY/INTEREST

Snowshoeing and cycling

Hiking with my dog

Advanced learning for GIS, Web and Python/JavaScript VOLUNTEERING

AWARDS

CERTIFICATES

Geographic Information Systems, M.S. Masters of Science, 2006 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER

Graduate Teaching Assistantship. GIS graduate projects. Population Biology, M.S Masters of Science, 1995

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER

Graduate teaching assistantship.

Master’s Thesis Paper

Conservation of Psittacine Species in a Park System. Independent research of Northern Red-shafted Flickers (Colaptes auratus). monitoring of nesting pairs for daily activity levels, foraging behavior and use of feeding sites. Research Assistant, La Selva Research Station, Costa Rica Group project of individual versus group foraging for the Paraponia ant. Biology, B.A., 1989

COLORADO COLLEGE

Behavioral Ecology of Mammals. Wilderness Field Station in Ely, Minnesota (BWCA). Worked at the National Institutes of Health on genetic research project. Training -- Associate Geospatial Analyst, Janus geography ArcGIS suite

Full-Stack Web Development, VS Code, GitHub

Biologist training

Boulder Flood Relief

OFFICE WORK

Kamchatka Wildlife Documentary

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT

Conservation Treaty Support Fund

DOCUMENTS

Defenders of Wildlife, World Wildlife Fund, TRAFFIC RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Above and Beyond, US Forest Service

Full-stack Web Development, University of Denver

Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation, US Forest Service