COMPLETE WORK HISTORY

Building geospatial solutions across science, infrastructure, and delivery.

GIS Developer and remote sensing professional with 8+ years of experience delivering reliable workflows, applications, datasets, and decision-ready products for utility, environmental, infrastructure, and federal programs.

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8+years in GIS and remote sensing
90–95%workflow efficiency gains
10+ / 5+USGS datasets / publications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Roles, responsibilities, and impact.

A complete professional chronology spanning geospatial consulting, GIS education, federal remote sensing, and large-scale infrastructure delivery.

MAR 2023 — PRESENT

GIS Lead

Eocene Environmental Group, Inc.

  • Developed reusable ArcGIS Pro and Python/ArcPy tools for utility and infrastructure workflows, including editing, feature updates, projection, archiving, Excel integration, QA/QC, and deliverable preparation.
  • Automated a repetitive GIS editing process from approximately 7–10 minutes per feature to about 20 seconds by translating business rules into a standardized geoprocessing workflow.
  • Automated Plan of Development map-series production for a roughly 300-mile high-voltage transmission project, generating 700–1,200-page mapbooks and reducing production time by approximately 90%—from 5–7 hours to about 30 minutes.
  • Managed and reviewed access roads, rights-of-way, crossings, parcels, survey coverage, disturbance features, structures, attributes, geometry, projections, and deliverable completeness for utility and transmission projects.
  • Built repeatable GIS workflows for vegetation management, wildfire mitigation, environmental review, transmission mapping, field-data integration, ArcGIS Online/Enterprise content, and Power BI reporting.
  • Evaluated raster classification and agricultural-mask refinement for tree-canopy and land-cover analysis, including resampling, masking, edge effects, accuracy assessment, and spatial statistics.
  • Troubleshot ArcGIS Pro, Python environments, geoprocessing tools, schemas, and data sources while coordinating requirements and deliverables with agencies, clients, and multidisciplinary teams.
JUL 2019 — MAR 2023

Remote Sensing Scientist II / GIS Analyst II

KBR Wyle Inc. · USGS EROS Center

  • Applied machine-learning methods, including XGBoost, with HLS imagery, vegetation indices, and environmental predictors to estimate fractional cover of multiple exotic annual grass species.
  • Designed remote-sensing workflows for classification, resampling, masking, accuracy assessment, spatial statistics, and multi-sensor analysis across Landsat, Sentinel, HLS, MODIS, and VIIRS products.
  • Configured and supported ArcGIS Enterprise/Portal, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Online, hosted layers, web maps, services, user access, and enterprise geodatabases for federal geospatial programs.
  • Developed GIS applications, dashboards, map layouts, and user-facing spatial products using Experience Builder, Arcade, Python, SQL, and Esri web technologies.
  • Managed enterprise geodatabases/SDE, project repositories, schemas, metadata, and service-publishing workflows to improve data organization, traceability, retrieval, and usability.
  • Built Python/ArcPy and SQL workflows for data ingestion, transformation, schema standardization, QA/QC, spatial analysis, reporting, and web/desktop GIS applications.
  • Produced publication-ready datasets, maps, metadata, dashboards, technical documentation, and federal releases through USGS ScienceBase and related workflows.
JUL 2017 — JUL 2019

Remote Sensing Scientist I / GIS Analyst I

KBR Wyle Inc. · USGS EROS Center

  • Performed image preprocessing, classification, change detection, raster/vector analysis, accuracy assessment, and large-volume batch processing using Python, R, ENVI/IDL, GDAL, Google Earth Engine, and ArcGIS.
  • Developed CONUS-scale vegetation phenology and irrigated-agriculture products using MODIS/eMODIS and other time-series satellite data, including MIrAD-US and seasonal phenology metrics.
  • Developed and supported web, desktop, and mobile GIS applications using ArcGIS Pro/Desktop, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Server, ModelBuilder, Python/ArcPy, SQL, JavaScript, JSON, HTML/CSS, and shell scripting.
  • Created, maintained, and quality-controlled enterprise geospatial datasets and services using Oracle Spatial, enterprise geodatabases, ArcGIS Server, and federal data-management workflows.
  • Managed metadata, Data Management Plans, IPDS, QA/QC, data lineage, ScienceBase/USGS publication, and service integration.
  • Collaborated with GIS specialists, scientists, developers, analysts, and federal partners to define requirements, solve spatial-data problems, and deliver reusable applications and datasets.
MAY 2017 — JUL 2017

GIS Technician

Mid Dakota Vegetation Management

  • Produced GIS maps, vegetation-management work plans, reports, and Power BI visualizations using ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ModelBuilder, and field/tabular data.
  • Maintained spatial datasets and GIS databases with Python/ArcPy and SQL, including cleanup, validation, automation, and repeatable data-management workflows.
  • Integrated invasive-species field survey data into Power BI and developed dashboards and maps that helped field crews prioritize treatment areas and plan targeted spraying schedules.
AUG 2015 — MAY 2017

GIS Teaching Assistant

Department of Geography · South Dakota State University

  • Facilitated GIS and geography labs for 500+ students covering spatial databases, raster/vector modeling, data integration, physical geography, and weather systems.
  • Delivered ArcGIS demonstrations, software troubleshooting, office hours, and one-on-one technical support to help students apply GIS methods to practical problems.
  • Collaborated with faculty, researchers, and students across disciplines to improve geospatial teaching methods and communicate analytical workflows clearly.
  • Supported course delivery through organized lab preparation, student assistance, and clear technical communication across multiple GIS-focused classes.
JAN 2012 — JUL 2015

GIS Officer

Soyan T Pvt. Ltd. · Kathmandu, Nepal

  • Supported advanced editing, versioning, and publication of maps, including data-driven pages and map books that reduced repetitive production work.
  • Used ArcMap, ArcCatalog, Workflow Manager, Data Reviewer, and ModelBuilder to design, maintain, validate, and integrate geospatial databases.
  • Prepared program-specific work plans, applications, databases, tools, and critical-path activities, then carried projects through delivery deadlines.
  • Administered ArcGIS and SDE workflows, processed GPS data, and used CAD tools to support engineering, construction planning, public works, and local-government projects.
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