Ny 1 Engineering Consultant

Dennis M. Pokrzywka

**** ***** ***, ********, ** 12019

C 518-***-**** *********@*****.***

EXPERIENCE:.

Geospatial Research and Engineering Consultant, High Country Geospatial, Inc. 01/2018 – Current Planning and engineering consultant for water resource management, agriculture, forestry, land use and emergency management. Cloud-based interface and dashboard development for emergency management planning, flood risk analysis, hazard mitigation, engineering and GIS/GPS mapping. Geospatial Technology Officer for In Sky Aerial, LLC; small unmanned aerial vehicle (sUAV) data acquisition planning, operations, image exploitation (Pix 4D, ESRI Drone2Map). Geospatial intelligence delivery system design and deployment using ESRI ArcGIS suite of cloud-based interface application development tools. Specific knowledge of geography, environment, natural resources, critical infrastructure and assets throughout NY State.

NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, NY 02/05-03/2019 Assistant Environmental Engineer – Division of Environmental Remediation (DER), Emergency Response Coordination Section, Spill Response, and Petroleum / Chemical Bulk Storage (PBS, CBS) Registration and Permits Section. DEC liaison for HSEEP compliant training, drills, full scale exercise planning and evaluation with US Coast Guard and EPA counterparts. Expert knowledge of State (DEC) environmental assessment procedures and regulatory programs in petroleum and chemical storage, hazardous material spills, emergency response protocols, water resources and floodplain management policy. DEC’s lead GIS expert, contingency planner, analyst and architect of NY State’s first Geographic Response Plans (GRP’s) for spill and hazmat response statewide. Operational deployments in support of numerous federally declared disasters throughout NYS (2005-2012). NY State Emergency Management Office, and NYS Department of Health – Albany, NY 02/03 – 03/05 Disaster Assistance Representative (DAR) - Mitigation Planning Contractor – in residence at the NYS Emergency Management Office conducting multi-hazard assessment and risk analysis (Hazus / CATS) and mitigation planning for the first Statewide Mitigation Plan (2005) following the federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000. Program management and spatial data warehouse development support for the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) for emergency response drills and exercises using DOH’s Hospital Emergency Response Data System (HERDS). Autometric / Boeing Space and Communications Group - Springfield, VA 05/94 – 09/00 Program Manager / Senior Geoscientist - Emergency Management Support, in residence at the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Remote Sensing/GIS Center, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab (CRREL), Hanover, NH. Provided technical expertise and support to emergency managers in the use of remote sensing/GIS technologies for the full range of natural and technological disasters to which the Corps responds (ESF’s 3 and 5). Lead software designer and developer of the geospatial components of ENGlink Interactive - a web-based system for command, control, and communications for USACE Emergency Management. Provided direct GIS / digital image product generation, modeling and analysis for emergency planning, exercises and natural disaster response efforts, on-site at the RSGISC, and in the field (disaster field offices, EOC’s, & USACE Emergency Operations Center, HQ’s Washington, DC). Conducted requirements analysis, demonstrations and development to meet needs of Army Corps activities using commercial off-the-shelf software and unique Corps bridging software. Developed course materials, and instructed annual training for US Army Corps of Engineers PROSPECT courses in GIS and GPS. Program management responsibilities including developing work plans, work task schedules, coordinating activities with other organizations, ensuring contract compliance and authoring monthly budget and progress reports. Remote Sensing / Image Processing Intelligence Analyst. 05/93 - 08/95 In residence at Autometric, Inc. Headquarters7700 Boston Blvd, Springfield, VA 22153 Member of the Multispectral Technology Applications Center (MTAC) under the Defense Landsat Program Office. Developed innovative digital mapping products from various geospatial data and imagery for terrain interpretation, analysis and modeling in support of tactical military exercises and operations. Contributing author and product developer for the Multispectral Users Guide. Program lead for field testing and evaluation of emerging sensors and digital imagery on the U2 reconnaissance platform. Pacific Meridian Resources 5200 SW Macadam, Portland, OR 8/91 – 07/93 Remote Sensing Analyst / Image Processor under a mapping contract with Region 6 (Pacific Northwest) of the U.S. Forest Service. Processing and interpretation Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) satellite imagery for production of forest and rangeland vegetation maps. GIS Coordinator / database developer in support of three Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for the purpose of timber harvest planning in the Tongass National Forest, Southeast, Alaska. Dennis M. Pokrzywka

2077 Maple Ave, Ballston Lake, NY 12019

C 518-***-**** *********@*****.***

EXPERIENCE:

TASC (The Analytic Sciences Corporation) – Reading, MA 5/90 - 3/91 Member of the Technical Staff involving production of a large imagery-derived cartographic database of East Germany. Duties included production and analysis of a forest canopy cover from Landsat TM imagery and national assets. Responsible for algorithm testing, documentation and the design of a quantitative accuracy evaluation approach. Lead field data collection efforts for mapping and verification of vegetation maps in Northeastern US forests. Designed statistical sampling and evaluation techniques to estimate map classification accuracy. Lead author of final report on the performance of satellite image vegetation maps.

SUNY Research Foundation – SUNY-CESF, Syracuse, NY 1/87 - 10/89 Graduate Research Assistant for a McIntyre Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program. Project focused on evaluation and comparison of Landsat Thematic Mapper and Multispectral Scanner data for forest cover mapping. Duties included photo-interpretation, image processing of multispectral digital satellite data (TM and MSS), and developing software for statistical and graphical analyses (SAS). SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

● Strong interpersonal and communications skills with ability to interact with diverse internal and external constituents. Comfortable interfacing with senior and executive level management.

● Effective leadership and program management skills, problem-solving and critical analysis skills. Experience preparing proposals, project management plans, scopes of work, time lines, briefings, reports and other written documentation in a highly professional and technically accurate manner to diverse audiences.

● Microsoft Office Suite and Office 365 skills inclusive of Outlook, Word, Basic Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams and (Sharepoint, OneNote, OneDrive, Calendar), Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Final Cut, Pix4D photogrammetric software suite, Drone Deploy, ESRI’s ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, and ArcGIS Online, Collector and associated ESRI extensions. Trimble GPS and SX Blue GPS systems.

● Subject matter expertise in environmental program compliance, permitting, mitigation planning & design, regulatory analysis for SEQR, NEPA, CERCLA, SPDES, NPDES, Clean Water Act, state (DEC) and federal

(USACE) wetlands regulations, NFIP, SPCC, SWPP & other local, state and federal regulatory programs.

● Knowledge of federal, state and local laws and regulations Executive Law Article 2-B, the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Response Framework (NRF), SARA Title III (CERCLA, EPCRA Tier II Reporting), National Contingency Plan (NCP), NY State’s authorities in the Superfund & Navigation Law (Article 12).

● Familiarity with various forms of interoperable communication technology with mobile computing devices

(tablets / smart boards / virtual meeting software). Knowledge of risk and crisis communications, dispatching and messaging protocols and use of Mobile Land Radio communications (MLR’s), through Fire Service and NY State.

● Knowledge and use of proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and familiarity with various groundwater soil and air sampling equipment phase I and II environmental site assessments, compliance review, project monitoring, reporting, and feasibility studies.

● ICS training thru I-400/401: Advance Incident Command/Multi Agency. FEMA, NY SEMO, and NH Office of Emergency Management coursework: G230, IS 700, IS 800, IS 195 (EMI), G240, G 242 (SEMO).

● Certifications: 40 Hour Health and Safety Training for Hazardous Waste Site Activity - 29 CFR 1910.120

(HazWoper), and annual 8 hour refresher. NYS DEC Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC) 40 hour course

(2006) and 16 hour semi-annual refresher (2009). 16 Hour DEC Boater operations and water safety course, including 8-Hour basic water safety training class (2007). NYS Fire Incident Safety Officer course (2016).

● Direct support of emergency operations response and recovery in deployment missions with the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1994-2000 and numerous significant spill/hazmat incidents and federally declared disasters including NYS southern tier floods of 2006, tropical storms Irene and Lee (2011) and Superstorm Sandy (2012).

● First Responder with the Saratoga County Fire Service, Charlton Fire Department (Qualified Interior Fireman).

● Registered Engineer in Training (EIT) - New York State ABET, 1987.

● DoD Security Clearance (Top Secret, SCI) held from 1987-2001 EDUCATION:

SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY B.S. Forest Engineering -1987 SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, Graduate Studies in Environmental and Resource Engineering, 1988-1990. Concentration in geospatial sciences with focused studies in image processing, photogrammetry, GIS, GPS, spatial modeling and statistical analysis.

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