• Twelve years GIS experience utilizing ESRI products. Applications in flood mapping,
municipal government, transportation, Native American conservation, waste remediation, land-use planning.
• Experience with ArcGIS, ArcInfo, ArcView.
• Comfortable in UNIX and Windows environments.
• Field work using GPS and some traditional surveying.
• Experience teaching ESRI products in English as well as Spanish.
• Website and brochure development in HTML and Macromedia Dreamweaver.
• Grant writing, fund raising, community organizing and public presentations.
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Experience
Consultant SIG Patagon, Punta Arenas, Chile 1/07 - Present
Tourist, environment and trekking maps
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany, New York 11/04 - 1/07.
New York State flood mapping and applying FEMA GIS data formatting standards. Utilize ESRI products as well as specialized programs to develop flood maps.
Vietnam Veterans
of America Foundation, Liberia, Africa 9/03 - 1/04.
Active outside consultant. Served with the United Nations in Liberia creating
and updating geographical and logistical data for the ongoing humanitarian effort.
Also developed GPS and GIS training for government ministries and NGOs. Municipalidad de Punta Arenas, Punta Arenas,
Chile 4/01 - 6/03.
Consultant developing a tax parcel and building permit GIS database for the
City of Punta Arenas, Department of Planning. Gondwana Forest Protection, Punta Arenas, Chile 12/99 - 6/03.
Provide GIS analysis identifying
new road problems, forest types, areas for conservation. Collection of field
data in remote locations. Gathering public data and developing new projects
and cooperative efforts with private and public agencies. Additionally,
developed brochures, web pages and funding proposals.
Provided GIS analysis identifying
roads for closure, ponderosa pine restoration as well as sacred and archeological
site protection. Gathering data and developing new projects and cooperative
efforts with tribal and federal agencies. Additionally, developed brochures,
web pages and funding proposals.
Provided GIS support on Navy and
comercial waste remediation projects. Utilized MS Access, EVS, ArcView and AVENUE
to model and display remediation status. Linkage large chemical results databases
to locations for contamination analysis, progress and client reporting.
ESRI GIS products used for efficient
transportation/landuse planning. UNIX setup and system administration. GIS modeling
utilized parcel based landuse, zoning and impacts of growth on traffic patterns.
Additionally, I pushed for and initiated the county Bicycle/Pedestrian program.
Digitized, edited and checked for
accuracy paper and digital landclass maps of Adirondack Park. ArcInfo, Park
geography and attention to details key to job.
Sales and technical support. Aerial
photo expertise critical to successfully help clients, plan flights, writeup
proposals and custom plan projects. All performed on a busy production
schedule.
M.S. Environmental Resource Engineering.
Concentration on GIS, remote sensing and photogrammetry.Completed a thesis:
"Using GIS to Target land for Acquisition or
Easement Protection." The project utilized ESRI products, Idrisi
and Aldus Freehand to combine archeological, tax, soils, hydrography and Natural
Heritage data for identifying land for protection.
