Manager Planning, Monitoring and Management in Environment & Society

• Sep 2020 - Present

Manage a team of vegetation and wildlife ecologists, clean soil scientists, and regulatory specialists. Responsibilities include forecasting work loads and budgets, managing staffing needs, conducting performance reviews, and development and train staff. Other responsibilities include managing projects and client work portfolios (budget management, schedule tracking, deliverables, etc) . Proven to be effective in managing broad multidisciplinary projects that bring together many skill sets, timelines, and a wide range of challenges.

Lead of Environmental Management and Approvals

• Sep 2011 - Jun 2015

Ecologist/Project Manager

• Apr 2005 - Sep 2011

Conducted a variety of wildlife and vegetation surveys (winter tracking surveys, nocturnal owl surveys, nocturnal calling amphibian surveys, tadpole surveys, leopard frog surveys, pellet surveys, yellow rail surveys, breeding bird surveys, bat surveys, eastern short-horned lizard surveys, pre-disturbance field surveys with emphasis on species at risk, prairie rattlesnake survey techniques including processing and handling snakes, and telemetry surveys of rattlesnakes, hibernacula searches, pipeline crossing location assessments, installation of remote wildlife cameras, rare plant surveys, and ecological land classification surveys). Project management of small- to medium-sized projects, multidisciplinary projects, portfolio work, and environmental impact assessments. Developed and executed monitoring projects. Reporting and analytical work including data analysis and interpretation, baseline reporting, impact assessment and mitigation reporting.