Experience

GeoSpatial Services SMUMN

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Geographic Information Systems Technician

  • Nov 2021 - Present

  ● I assist with multiple data creation projects, such as wetland and stream delineation and classification through the use of ArcGIS and ArcPro. ● I am proficient in the use of ArcGIS and ArcPro for mapping and classifying wetlands in diverse regions through a variety of technical skills, including aerial photography interpretation, the evaluation or manipulation of collateral datasets, the creation of feature class layers, manipulation of raster and vector data, and database management. ● I mapped wetlands and aquatic habitats in several counties in and adjacent to the Red River valley and Detroit Lakes area of northwest Minnesota as a part of the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wetland Inventory (NWI), funded by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. ● I assisted in another NWI project mapping diverse wetlands in central and western New Mexico for the state entities. ● I work for a partner, the Bureau of Land Management, creating a wetland and riparian inventory and to further update the NWI for BLM administered lands in California, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Alaska’s far north and highland interior regions to further update the NWI. ● I have contribute to BLM projects in California, Utah, and Wyoming in the creation of Landscape Position, Landform, Water Flow Path, and Waterbody Type descriptors to wetland mapping data, otherwise known as LLWW. ● I completed field work with the USFWS on the extremely remote Andreafsky River in Alaska within the Yukon National Wildlife Refuge, and more specifically the Andreafsky Wilderness. ● I conducted field work in Wyoming and western South Dakota for field verification of wetland and riparian mapping conventions and complexities. ● I am a Crew Leader for the Cascade Meadow Internship in the summers. I educate interns on prairie ecology, lead interns in daily invasive species maintenance, and maintain crew safety. Show less



U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Biological Science Technician (Invasive Species)

  • May 2021 - Oct 2021

  ● I was a member of the Invasive Species Strike Team, where I traveled across the the state of Montana coordinating many unique sites within the National Wildlife Refuge System for the purpose of treatment, inventory, and monitoring of existing and new weed infestations ● I mapped invasive plant populations daily using the application of ArcCollector to delineate weed populations, along with using Avenza maps to document a physical copy of sprayed areas. ● I was responsible for spraying, mixing, cleaning, and storing herbicides for the use of eradicating invasive plant species. ● I maintained and operated an ATV equipped with a herbicide tank and sprayer in the backcountry and front country of Montana in search of invasive plant species within USFWS sites. ● I transected remote sites accurately in search of weeds with the assistance of Avenza Maps, a Bad Elf, and an iPad using ArcCollector. ● I was responsible for the use, maintenance, safety, and hauling of a ¾ ton truck and a 20 foot trailer containing four ATV’s, a three hundred gallon water tank, gasoline, chemicals, tools, backpack sprayers, and other necessary equipment for traveling. ● I worked effectively and coordinated with many different refuge biologists, refuge managers, biological science technicians, and other employees of the National Wildlife Refuge System. ● I worked in close range with many wild animals, including grizzly bears, cattle, and bison. ● I wrote Daily Pesticide Records daily to summarize the weather, what target species I sprayed, the concentration of chemical, the chemical I used, the surfactant, and a summary of the overall site. ● I kept Daily Field Records of my work to keep track of what we did daily in the field for a later summary or report. ● I became self-sufficient to fix things in the field like ATV’s, sprayers, trucks, backpack sprayers, and other field equipment when needed. Show less

• Geographic Information System Student Intern

  • May 2018 - Apr 2021


Prairie Moon Nursery Inc

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Intern

  • May 2020 - Aug 2020

  ● I weeded and maintained native prairie plantings using sickles, shovels, chemicals, and my hands. ● I harvested and planted native prairie plant seeds. I also transplanted seedlings, older plants, and bare root plants. ● I operated the following equipment: a hydraulic lift tractor to perform maintenance for the facilities; bundle thrashers to separate seeds from their respective plant material; and a billy goat mower and weed whacker for routine mowing. ● I drove a company truck on and off road to carry seeds, equipment, and people to different areas of plantings. ● I was responsible for setting up electric fences in various plots to prevent deer herbivory. ● I mixed, loaded, cleaned, and applied herbicides with a backpack sprayer or spray bottle to control or eradicate undesirable plants within prairie plantings. ● I was responsible for knowing common and Latin names of the plants that are harvested, planted or weeded. ● I worked effectively communicating, collaborating, and solving problems on a daily basis with a diverse crew of people representing multiple ages, genders, and ethnicities. ● On rainy days, I worked on the Prairie Moon Nursery website to create plant descriptions and characteristics for the plants and seeds being sold. Show less



Saint Mary's University of Minnesota

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Cascade Meadow Internship

  • May 2019 - Aug 2019

  ● I monitored and managed a prairie restoration at Cascade Meadow Wetlands and Environmental Center in Rochester, MN. ● I completed certification as a student driver, was given a company car to drive myself and others from Saint Mary’s University to Cascade Meadows and back (50 miles one way), and was responsible for using a company credit card for gas. ● I controlled and removed numerous invasive species through equipment like loppers. ● I analyzed the water quality of Cascade Meadow Lake weekly by operating a boat and necessary equipment to record Cascade Lake’s depth profile of temperature and dissolved oxygen. ● I transported samples to the lab for and conducted tests on turbidity, phosphates, nitrates, conductivity, and chlorophyll without the need of supervision. ● I trapped, sedated, and tagged small mammals and recorded physical measurements of weight, sex, appendage lengths, and estimated age. ● I surveyed the Cascade Meadow property along transects for the collection of ants in the Genus Formica, the collected ants were stored for undergraduate research. ● I collected data on the introduction of flea beetles to leafy spurge populations in three goat prairies of Winona County using quadrats and GPS locations. ● I surveyed ash trees along transects in the Cascade Meadow swamp to generate baseline data that will subsequently be used to determine growth of ash as well as potential competitive interactions with buckthorn and Japanese barberry. ● I acquired and made extensive use of plant taxonomy and plant identification skills. ● I created a daily log on plant species within the property, recorded new species to the site, and created a statistical timeframe of when species are flowering (recorded first and last visualization of flowering). ● I carried a GPS daily to get location data points of invasive plant species introduction, growth, and the size of invasive populations. Show less