Objective

GIS Analyst/Management position allowing professional demonstration, organization, communication, and project management skills proven by responsibility and accountability in a team setting.

Professional goals include expanding experience, knowledge, and leadership, excelling in data acquisition, manipulation and forecasting, positively interacting with coworkers and management, and developing sufficient solutions to challenges.

Education

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY – Tallahassee, FL

Master of Science in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), 2009

Dean’s List (Fall 2008, Spring 2009)

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY – Tallahassee, FL

Bachelor of Science in Meteorology, 2008

Dean’s List (Summer 2008)

WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY – Institute, WV

Associate’s Degree of Applied Science in Applied Meteorology, 2006

Member of the Dean’s List (Fall 2004- Spring 2006)

All-USA Academic Team Nominee (Spring 2006)

All-West Virginia Academic Team Honoree (Spring 2006)

Technical Skills

Proficient with ArcGIS Tools- ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcScene, ArcGlobe. Familiar with Autodesk AutoCAD and Erdas Imagine. Sound knowledge base with Windows applications such as Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, as well as Adobe Photoshop and the LINUX and UNIX Operating Systems. Familiar with programming languages such as Java, R-package, GEMPAK, GARP and FORTRAN-90.

Professional Experience

GIS ANALYST II (TEAM LEAD) – NORTHROP GRUMMAN – JACKSONVILLE, FL (2009- 2010)

• As member of a 2-person GIS team operating on-site at a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) District HQ with the Navigation & Coastal Databank (NCDB) Program, performs basic geographic information systems (GIS) analyses on coastal and navigational data.

• Assists in planning, designing, developing documents and assists in analyzing basic spatial and relational databases, as well as geodatabases.

• Applies basic software to manage spatial and related tabular data.

• Assists in building routine databases by capturing map information with a coordinate digitizer and other means.

• Produces computer map products depicting contents of databases.

• Locates sources of GIS data from Government, state agencies, and private companies.

• Operates computer workstations, digitizers, printers, and plotters.

• Assists in analyzing image data using basic image processing software.

STUDENT GIS ANALYST TALLAHASSEE, FL (2008)

• As an employee of the Northwest Florida Water Management District, used bare Earth DEM dataset, arranged ESRI gridded tiles into unique folders separating the appropriate tiles with the county at which each is located.

• Digitized the boundary of Walton and Bay Counties to remove areas that contained no bare Earth data points.

• Use LiDAR to perform three-dimensional and spatial analysis and modeling of District Surface Water counties.

• Edit wetland zones to investigate areas within District Surface Water counties that were active floodplains.

• Acquired GPS readings of irrigation and stormwater wells in the District counties.

STUDENT INTERN-WEST VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, WV (2006)

• As an assistant for Dr. Tina J. Cartwright at the climate center, I performed research on hurricane-driven rainfall data in the southeastern United States from 1950-2000. This data was insured to create an accurate analysis of biomass formation in the mountains and valleys of West Virginia.

• After data acquisition, I was introduced to ArcGIS- this software program was used to map rainfall amounts in the state of West Virginia by county.

• After road and terrain data was overlayed into the map document, we concluded areas nearest valleys in West Virginia were likely flood candidates.

STUDENT INTERN- NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, WV (2005)

• This unpaid position worth two semester credit hours, I used analytical skills to explore wind data from land-falling hurricanes in the mid-Atlantic from 1980-2000.

• Ran a regression model to derive a correlation between the wind data and biomass loss in the state of West Virginia by weather stations.

• Wrote a final report on possible sources of error in wind data.

• Mapped the wind data and emphasize regions in West Virginia that are susceptible to damaging winds from a land-falling hurricane.

References

Joseph F. Paschall, PgMP, PMP

Senior Program Manager

InfoReliance Corporation

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Dr. Tina J. Cartwright

Former Program Director

Department of Meteorology

West Virginia State University

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Mr. David J. Robar

Site Supervisor

Geomatics Section, Chief

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District

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