Analyst

Ebitari Isoun Larsen

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Irvine, CA *****

Phone: 703-***-****

E-mail: dn7idc@r.postjobfree.com

Objective:

Ms. Larsen’s objective is for a business analyst position including using project management skills in a corporation. Ms. Larsen has extensive experience working as a business analyst and project manager for IT projects including a web-enabled SQL database and a web tool in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and .ASP. As a business analyst she gathered requirements, implemented change management and test plans, wrote project work plans, strategic plans, and schedules in MS Project, communicated with clients regularly, maintained a Help Desk, and provided training (online and face-to-face) to the clients.

Education:

M.S., Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Honolulu, HI, 8/1/1997 - 08/31/2001

B.A., French, minor Biology, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 8/1/1990 - 05/31/1994

Four graduate teaching credits, Klingenstein Summer Teacher’s Program, Columbia Teachers College, 06/01/1995 - 08/31/1995

Employment:

02/2004 - 05/2008, Project Performance Corporation (PPC), McLean, VA,

Senior Analyst

• Performed as project manager for a web-enabled, SQL database to manage costs and metrics for the Office of International Material Protection and Cooperation (IMPC) in NNSA in DOE. Task included gathering requirements, change management and test plans, writing project work plans and schedules in MS Project, communicating with the client, maintaining a Help Desk, and training.

• Carried out web development and project coordination for the EPA Interactive Activity Map (IAM) project. The IAM is a web-based Geographic Information System (GIS) and web (.ASP) tool that enables users to visualize the location of projects for specific fuel consumption and pollution reduction projects at SmartWay and National Clean Diesel Campaign (NCDC). http://epamap10.epa.gov/website/basicinformation.asp

• Evaluated and developed procedures and an on-line training program using Dreamweaver to improve meeting minutes required for drug and vaccine approvals at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER). Designed MS Access quality-monitoring system for meeting minutes.

• Completed quality assurance (QA) for the Department of Energy (DOE) Environmental Management (EM) 2004 Closure Planning Guidance.

• Improved management of financials on the Seversk Plutonium Production Elimination Program (SPPEP) in the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting project management including project planning and scheduling in MS Project, document management in Documentum and building an MS Access database with forms and reports.

• Developed and published strategic plans for IMPC using Adobe Photoshop and Quark.

• Compiled, reviewed, formatted, and edited Certification and Accreditation (C&A) documents for one of EM’s cost and metrics management systems.

08/2002 - 08/2003, TC Williams High School, Alexandria, VA, Science Teacher

• Taught 10th –12th grade earth science at TC Williams high school, a public school in Northern Virginia including earth science for English as a Second Language.

• Utilized laboratory-based teaching methodology to instruct students on earth science topics.

• Prepared students for Standard of Learning (SOL) tests.

Niger Delta Wetlands Center, Port Harcourt, Nigeria, Summer Instructor

• Developed and taught a three-week introductory summer GIS course using IDRISI Kilimanjaro software.

• Course was computer laboratory-based using GIS and remote sensing data and included field work using Global Position Systems (GPS) units.

• Course participants were government officials in Nigeria’s Ministries of Environment, Planning and Space Technologies.

08/2001 - 01/2002, NASA Space Grant Consortium, Honolulu, HI, Research Associate

• Designed on-line version of an instructor’s Geological Remote Sensing course using WebCT.

• Created and implemented a survey of local businesses to inform NASA Space Grant Consortium on the community’s need for GIS education.

08/1997 -08/2001, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, Research Assistant

• Developed a physical model to solve for depth and percent living coral in a carbonate marine environment using remote sensing data and radiative transfer theory.

• Applied the radiative transfer theory to GIS data using PCI Geomatics GIS software.

• Used GIS (PCI Geomatircs) and image analysis (Adobe Photoshop and Ilustrator) software to manipulate and program models to remote sensing data.

• Modeling included animated 3-D modeling of ocean depth and the historic and future effects of sea-level rise.

08/1994 - 08/1997, Punahou School, Honolulu, HI, Science Teacher

• Taught 9th and 10th grade Biology at Punahou School, an independent, college preparatory school.

• Instructed students with hands-on fieldwork assignments, extensive use of email for communicating with students, integrating science with other disciplines, and computer and wet labs using state-of-the-art technology for high school education.

Skills:

Adobe Acrobat Distiller, Adobe Acrobat Writer, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PhotoShop, CorelDraw, ENVI, ESRI ArcGIS, ESRI Arcview, GIS, HTML, IDRISI Kilimanjaro, Macintosh, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Word, PCI Geomatics, Quark, Semagix, Sun Solaris, SQL, Telnet, UNIX, Visio, VPN, WebCT, Windows, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP, Word Perfect

Professional Associations and Memberships:

• 2008 – Present, Women’s Environmental Council (WEC)

• 2006 – Present, Women’s Council on Energy and the Environment (WCEE)

• 1999, NASA Earth Systems Science Fellow

• 1999, American Geological Institute Minority Fellow

• 1995, Kingenstein Teaching Fellow

Publications:

• Tanger K, Isoun E (2005) A Common-Sense Approach to Information Management for Corporate Greenhouse Gas Inventory. EPA 14th International Emission Inventory Conference. http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/conference/ei14/session3/tanger.pdf

• Isoun EE, Fletcher CH, Frazer LN, and Gradie JC (2003) Multi-spectral mapping of reef bathymetry and coral cover; Kailua Bay, Hawaii. Coral Reefs 22:68-82

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