SUMMARY GIS Specialist with expertise in the creation and analysis of spatial data.

EDUCATION Virginia Tech Bachelors Geography (GIS)

University of Alabama in Huntsville Python Programming Course

ESRI Spatial Analysis Certificate (Sep ‘20)

WORK EXPERIENCE

Nov 2018 – Nov 2019 GIS Technical Assistant City of Huntsville

Identify and map features using ArcGIS Pro and ArcSDE (Spatial database engine).

Perform basemap updates from building permits and aerial imagery.

Digitize buildings, impervious surfaces, and other city infrastructure.

Georeference building permits to subdivision plats.

Conduct topology checks to merge overlapping features.

Apply COGO to incorporate parcels into a dataset.

Nov 2017 – Nov 2018 Geospatial Analyst Geographic Information Services Inc.

Standardized Bureau of Land Management (BLM) national datasets.

Public Trust clearance with SF-85 background investigation.

Leveraged ArcMap and ArcGIS Enterprise on the BLM enterprise GIS (EGIS).

Database administration, query, creation, replication, versioning, reconciliation.

Performed edits in a versioned ArcSDE enterprise geodatabase environment.

Enterprise database modification, database schema implementation, metadata generation, georeferencing, domain creation, spatial joins, attribute mods, photogrammetry.

Created story map components to ingest into ESRI Story Map platform for data visualization.

Researched/developed cadNSDI parcel fabric features.

Cadastral parcel fabric data editing, troubleshooting, analysis, and update.

Updated metadata on PLSS national datasets according to FGDC standards.

Oct 2017 – Nov 2017 GIS Consultant Crumpton Group

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria response critical infrastructure mapping.

On-the-fly emergency center geocoding and routing from ground data collection team.

Generated ArcGIS Online (AGOL) web map of emergency aid stations, power plants, roads, public safety and medical facilities.

SKILLS

Software: ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise (Server) and Pro (Desktop), ArcGIS Online (AGOL), ArcSDE,

ArcGIS ModelBuilder, Python, JavaScript, ERDAS Imagine, Google Earth Engine, AutoCAD, GeoMedia, MS Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs

Data: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, RDBMS, Enterprise GIS, LiDAR, NASA DAAC, FGDC

WORK EXPERIENCE cont.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016 Geospatial Researcher NASA DEVELOP National Program

Cooperated with geospatial research team and National Park Service (NPS) scientists to quantify riparian land cover change of the Colorado River basin in Grand Canyon NP.

Developed software tools on web GIS analysis platform employing web-based datasets.

Automated data collection, input, analysis, and visualization using geoprocessing scripts.

Analyzed NASA satellite imagery to perform classification and change detection of water and selected riparian classes from 1998 to 2016.

Processed LANDSAT imagery and ASTER DEM data to calculate input derivatives.

Classified images using the Random forest classifier and feature class AOIs.

Performed change detection of classified images to quantify primary land cover changes.

Visualized water and riparian land cover changes using maps, graphs, and tables.

Calculated overall, user’s, and producer’s accuracy assessment for classified features.

July 2016 – Sep 2016 Associate Geospatial Analyst Intergraph Government Solutions

Validated data attribution and geometry on an enterprise GIS platform.

Mapped highways on a South Carolina Department of Transportation project.

Performed address and direction assignment and correction on state highways.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2015 GIS Consultant Center for Natural Resources Assessment and Decision Support

Created forest harvest type maps at parcel scale of selected sites in Virginia.

Exploited visible color imagery, harvest records, and parcel data to delineate forest stands.

Data used to test the effectiveness of the Vegetation Change Tracker (VCT) algorithm and machine learning tools (SVM) at classifying forest disturbances and detecting forest age.

Final data anticipated as input to agent based model forecasting future wood volume.

Assisted researchers in quantifying wood supply by creating model verification data.

Oct 2013 – Oct 2015 GIS Technician Conservation Management Institute

Created new wetland datasets to update US Fish and Wildlife Service

National Wetlands Inventory spatial database.

Mapped classified wetlands using cartographic techniques in ESRI ArcGIS.

Performed geoprocessing tasks to synthesize and analyze geospatial datasets.

Analyzed aerial imagery, topographic and hydrographic datasets for feature extraction.

Developed GIS databases to manage raster and vector data according to schema.

Measured remotely sensed imagery, LiDAR and DEM data using photogrammetry.

Executed QA/QC models to validate adherence to FGDC geospatial data standards.

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