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RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

My Qualifications

GIS Analyst,
Stantec Consulting

2022 - Current

Working on a team of experienced data wranglers, I support a team focused on permits and contracts for large scale construction projects including power generation, fiber optic lines, and resource extraction in various states in the US. Figures include NEPA permits, biologic and environment surveys, pre and post construction wildlife monitoring.

GIS Database Admin,
Joel Gott Wines

2019 - 2022

Manage an enterprise ArcGIS deployment serving maps to mobile devices, and producing a variety of content for management. Working with Python in Esri Enterpise system and ArcGISPro, Microsoft Azure, jupyter notebooks, and more.

GIS Analyst,
Apple Maps, Inc

2017 - 2019

Worked in various roles as a GIS Analyst on the version of Apple Maps that was published in 2020. Most notably: assisted machine learning experts in validating proof-of-concept work for automated map improvement, team lead approving geospatial tool development workflow for Apple developers in an Agile environment.

Engineering Intern - City of Morro Bay

Assisted city engineers planning capital projects, creating maps, providing data, and monitoring city infrastructure through GIS tools.  

2013 -2014

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Google/Berry Creek township

2021

Assisted the community at Berry Creek, Butte County in adding an accurate road network to Google Maps.  After the 2020 fires in the area, the residents there found that emergency services were unable to route effectively to these remote homes. I worked with locals to develop a digital map that met Googles' ingest standards.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

My Studies

M.S. Geographic Information Sciences,
CSU Long Beach

Graduate degree in GIS focusing on Remote Sensing, Cartography, GIS database management, computer programming (Python, SQL), and more. Applied research project focused on image classification in Python for the County of Los Angeles.

August 2021 - August 2022

B.S. Engineering
Cal Polytechnic San Luis Obispo

Undergraduate degree in General Engineering with a focus in Civil Engineering and Water Resources.

September 2008- June 2013

Minor: Geography and Anthropology,
Cal Polytechnic San Luis Obispo

Minor in geography and anthropology. This was my first introduction the principles and practices of geospatial technology. I found it complemented my AutoCAD skills very well, and eventually I found myself enjoying the larger scale of the GIS maps than the AutoCAD drawings.

Sept 2010 - June 2013

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