Experience

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  Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit

  • United States
  • Legislative Offices
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Senior Performance Auditor

    • Dec 2023 - Present

    Assists the audit team with audit planning; interviews agency officials and other audit witnesses and stakeholders; reviews agency records and samples, analyzes, and tests data using various software and analytical techniques; researches agencies or programs to develop a holistic understanding of their operations; assembles, synthesizes, and summarizes qualitative and quantitative information to answer defined audit research objectives, and co-authors final audit reports. Also serves the Division as a member of the data visualization and the geographic information systems integration teams. Conducts periodic quality control reviews of audits before agency review. Has represented the Division at the 2020 and 2023 Economic Development Tax Incentives Roundtables hosted by the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Pew Trust, including presentation of the Division's work on Rural Opportunity Zones as part of a panel at the 2023 conference.

  • Performance Auditor

    • Jan 2023 - Dec 2023

    Assists the audit team with audit planning; interviews agency officials and other audit witnesses and stakeholders; reviews agency records and samples, analyzes, and tests data using various software and analytical techniques; researches agencies or programs to develop a holistic understanding of their operations; assembles, synthesizes, and summarizes qualitative and quantitative information to answer defined audit research objectives, and co-authors final audit reports.

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  Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor (OLA)

  • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

  • Intermediate Program Evaluator

    • Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
    • Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

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  Kansas Legislative Division of Post Audit

  • United States
  • Legislative Offices
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Performance Auditor

    • Feb 2021 - Jun 2022

    Assists the audit team with audit planning; interviews agency officials and other audit witnesses and stakeholders; reviews agency records and samples, analyzes, and tests data using various software and analytical techniques; researches agencies or programs to develop a holistic understanding of their operations; assembles, synthesizes, and summarizes qualitative and quantitative information to answer defined audit research objectives, and co-authors final audit reports.

  • Associate Performance Auditor

    • Jun 2020 - Feb 2021

    Probationary position that assists with audit planning; interview agency officials and others; review agency records and sample, analyze, and test data using various software and analytical techniques; assemble, synthesize, and summarize qualitative and quantitative information to answer defined objectives, and assist with writing audit reports.

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  The University of Kansas

  • Lawrence, Kansas Area

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Aug 2018 - May 2020
    • Lawrence, Kansas Area

    In spring 2020, I led a project with the University of Kansas Center for Online and Distance Learning (CODL) to audit 7 online courses for the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science to determine if they meet university and CODL guidelines. In 2019, I lectured 1 section/semester of freshman-level world regional geography (~60 students) for the Spring, Summer , and Fall semesters. In Fall 2018, I led 3 discussion sections (~20 students each) of freshman-level world regional geography that were attached to the larger lecture section. I achieved an overall performance rating (student evaluations) in my lecture of 4.65 out of 5; 0.28 points higher than the department average over the same time.

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  Cultural Affairs Bureau Of

  • Northern Autonomous Region, Nicaragua

  • Fulbright Student Scholar

    • Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
    • Northern Autonomous Region, Nicaragua

    With the support of a Fulbright Grant, I lived in Nicaragua for eight months where I worked with indigenous collaborators to study the development and subsequent failure of Chinese promoted jellyfish fisheries. Using an framework of governance, globalization, physical geography, and ecology, I conclude that the ‘boom-and-bust’ of the fishery was related to unpredictable jellyfish blooms, development-focused natural resource policies in Nicaragua, and economic development and over exploitation of fisheries in China—some of these findings have been published in journals in the U.S. and Costa Rica, including the Journal of Latin American Geography and Revista Geográfica. I was also invited back in June 2017 by Fulbright to participate in their new student scholar orientation in Austin Texas.

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  The University of Kansas

  • Lawrence, Kansas Area

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    • Jan 2014 - May 2017
    • Lawrence, Kansas Area

    From 2014-2017, I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Peter Herlihy on a large project that brought together academic, governmental, NGO, and indigenous collaborators from the U.S. and Central America to study the impact of land rights on the stability of indigenous societies. I worked in our offices at KU and in our collaborating university in Honduras. The team conducted a series of participatory research mapping (PRM) workshops with local investigators from eight newly-titled indigenous territories. I worked together with indigenous investigators that we trained to create, review, revise, and transform the PRM field data into a large-scale GIS database with digital maps of the territories and natural resources use patterns. This work required mastering under-standings of little-known cultures, tropical ecosystems, as well as the construction of geopolitical and environmental analyses of cadastral maps and census data for the entire region.

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  CACI International Inc

  • Ft. Collins, CO

  • Geospatial Technician

    • Sep 2013 - Jan 2014
    • Ft. Collins, CO

    Worked as part of an interdisciplinary team to interpret and digitize remote sensing imagery in ESRI Arc Map Software to create high resolution human-terrain enhanced topographic maps for governmental and non-governmental clients using ESRI ArcMap software and public and proprietary remote sensing data.

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  US Forest Service

  • Steamboat Springs, CO

  • Seasonal Recreation Technician

    • Jun 2013 - Sep 2013
    • Steamboat Springs, CO

    I collaborated with campground hosts and other Forest Service employees and volunteers to ensure the proper operation of fourteen campgrounds and day use areas including, managing reservations; cleaning restrooms, picnic and camp sites; and performing routine maintenance on buildings, signs, and water systems. This included performing the duties of a Collection Officer—collecting and accounting for up to $1,000 in recreation fees per day from campgrounds and day use areas—and a Forest Protection Officer—compliance checks and basic law enforcement duties. I also worked with the Recreation Specialist to develop a GPS-based survey of all managed areas in the Ranger District to document maintenance needs and to develop a ESRI ArcMap geodatabase to assist in future management planning.Certifications: Forest Protection Officer, ATV Operator, and Sawyer 1.

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  University of Southern Mississippi

  • Department of Geography and Geology

  • Head Graduate Teaching Assistant

    • Aug 2011 - Jun 2013
    • Department of Geography and Geology

    In fall 2011, I worked as Lab Instructor for three Weather and Climate Lab sections (~25-30each). I prepared and presented 10 weekly lectures on complex natural science processes using MS Power Point. Beginning in spring 2012, I was promoted to Lead Lab Instructor. In addition to leading my own labs, as Lead, I supervised, coached, and mentored four other teaching assistants. I worked with them to coordinate their schedules each semester, resolve class conflicts, and to complete student performance reports for athletes, band members, scholarship recipients, and students with special needs.

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  McNair Scholar, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program/ University of North Dakota

  • Grand Forks, North Dakota Area

  • McNair Scholar

    • Aug 2009 - May 2011
    • Grand Forks, North Dakota Area

    I collaborated with tenured faculty on three different research projects as an undergraduate student researcher. I investigated the feasibility of mapping invasive Common Tansy using aerial imagery, and field measurements in a U.S. Fish and Wildlife prairie restoration site in Minnesota. Investigated how oil development around Theodore Roosevelt National Park has affected the Park Service's ability to conserve the scenery of the park and it wilderness area. Last, conducted 4 weeks preliminary research in Nicaragua that would become part of my Master's Thesis at the University of Southern Mississippi.

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  Bureau of Land Management

  • Moab, Utah

  • Fuels/Vegetation Monitoring Intern

    • May 2010 - Aug 2010
    • Moab, Utah

    I work with the Resource Specialist to monitor vegetation recovery on twelve prescribed burn plots to aid in the generation of NEPA and project reports using various sampling methods including line-point intercept, belt density, frequency quadrats, repeat photography, and remote sensing. I used ESRI ArcMap and ArcPad, Trimble Terrasynce, and ERDAS Imagine software and a Trimble GPS unit to prepare data dictionaries, collect and process field data, and prepare metadata and maps for project and NEPA reports. I worked with the Resource Specialist to plan and develop 2 new overgrazing monitoring projects utilizing USGS aerial imagery, field observations, and Hawth Tools in ESRI ArcMap.