Experience

Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority

• Geographic Information Systems Manager



Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority

• United States
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Geographic Information System Supervisor

  • May 2015 - Present

  Bringing location intelligence to all areas of management. Responsible for the creation, update, and maintenance of geographic data in Esri ArcGIS Enterprise environment. Develops and manages web map services and applications for ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Portal, Geocortex, and Lucity. Identifies data gaps, data enrichment opportunities, designs Esri ArcGIS web applications and field collection processes. Manages GIS team members and departmental budget. Prepares training plans for GIS employees and GIS training materials for interdepartmental use.



Chatham County, GA Government

• Government Administration
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Public Works & Park Services GIS Analyst

  • Nov 2013 - May 2015

  GIS Analyst providing custom maps, calculations, database maintenance, and special projects for 5 departments: Director’s Office, Road Maintenance, Drainage Maintenance, Water & Sewer Services, and Parks & Recreation Department. Launched the first web based mapping program through ArcGIS Online for the Drainage Maintenance Department allowing crew supervisors access to the Stormwater GIS network while in the field at no additional impact to the Public Works budget. Created the first comprehensive Parks and Recreation Map Book for Chatham County. Updating all park and recreation facility boundaries, assessing current maintenance acreages, calculating soccer, football, and baseball fields for accurate costing of clay, pesticide, and fertilizer. Responsible for updating the Stormwater GIS from GPS survey and asbuilt plans, linking Cartegraph CMMS to GIS features, and querying for information on structures inspected and cleaned during the reporting period as required to comply with annual GA Environmental Protection Division MS4 permitting. Responsible for plat research as directed by Road Maintenance and Drainage Maintenance Departments for right-of-way width and drainage easement inquiries. Began constructing Chatham County’s first comprehensive Water & Sewer GIS. Gathering printed asbuilts and digital drawings, incorporating GPS survey, hyperlinking manhole photos and pipe video inspections to GIS features. Responsible for ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software installation and updates, installation of various add-ins and development of custom geocoders.



EcoSouth GIS, LLC

• Savannah, Georgia Area

• Owner, Geographic Information Systems Analyst

  • Jul 2012 - May 2015

  Working closely with clients to identify needs, provide data updates, and create new data layers from hardcopy documents as well as instruction manuals for the goal of in-house, turnkey operation of Geographic Information Systems and custom tools. CITY OF STATESBORO, GA CUSTOM ADDRESS LOCATOR AND FEATURE CLASS QA/QC Created an accurate address locator for emergency response vehicles and city maintenance workers. Defined a step by step update process for StaGIS staff to keep address points, road centerline ranges, and Locator tool current post contract. CITY OF STATESBORO, GA RIGHT OF WAY & EASEMENT GIS Creation of right of way and easement feature classes using various data sources (i.e. deeds, CAD files, ESRI shapefiles & geodatabases, and georeferencing hard copy maps and plats), redrawing the existing road layer to better fit current imagery and to include new construction. Hyperlinked all right of way and easement documents to the GIS for click and consume access by City Engineer and GIS personnel. Prepared technical procedure manual to be utilized by the City’s GIS personnel for continuation of GIS data updates post contract.



Spatial Engineering, Inc.

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Geospatial Analyst III, Team Lead

  • Oct 2008 - May 2012

  Represented firm and worked closely with clients. Managed a staff of 13 analysts, technicians, & interns having varying professional backgrounds and software proficiencies on multiple concurrent projects, reported directly to Executive Management. Awarded Certificate of Leadership for Outstanding Vision, Dedication, & Commitment to Excellence Managed Chatham County, GA's Stormwater GIS Inventory. Worked closely with the County Drainage Engineer, increasing the inventory to meet reporting requirements under the Georgia EPD NPDES regulations. Employed various data sources including AutoCAD, pdf, tiff, Geodatabase, and GPS survey files. Standardized attributes to NPDES MS4 format and corrected topology by removing duplicate features and correcting line to point geometry. Prepared GIS for future modeling by analyzing pipe invert measurements and correcting flow direction accordingly. Provided hyperlink capability within the GIS to display photographs of structures. Created a county wide index of scanned, georeferenced record drawings with hyperlink display. Managed the City of Richmond Hill, GA's GIS. Updated subdivision areas, lot lines, roadways, drainage basins, water, sanitary & storm sewer systems, planning & zoning, and police patrol zones. Gathered and included additional data from CAD files and hard copy maps. Provided maps to the Planning & Zoning Director and staff, Fire Department, and Public Works staff. Performed analysis identifying areas where additional data were needed. Participated in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 certification process, leading the ISO committee responsible for constructing Design / Development Standard Operating Procedures, Quality Assurance / Quality Control Procedures. Defined data and schema crosswalks to update and standardize GIS structures to the most current version of the Spatial Data Standard for Facilities, Infrastructure, and the Environment (SDSFIE) across multiple US Army departments.



EMC Engineering Services, Inc.

• United States
• Civil Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Natural Resources Department Manager

  • Feb 2002 - Apr 2008

  Managed a profitable department of Environmental Scientists and GIS Analysts. Conducted field analysis and directed field crews on various projects including delineating wetland and critical habitat areas, conducting endangered species surveys, watershed assessments and stream habitat sampling, groundwater monitoring and water quality sampling. Composed environmental narratives for project review and approval by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Agency, & U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as required by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (aka Clean Water Act), Section 401 & 404 and the State of Georgia's Coastal Marshlands Protection Act. Produced GIS exhibits of project areas with proposed environmental impacts, avoidance, and mitigation measures for state and federal permitting purposes. Performed GIS site fingerprint analysis on tracts up to 1,000 acres in size utilizing multiple datasets and development scenarios. Performed GPS surveys with Trimble Pro XR and GeoXT units. Imported survey data to produce GIS maps of wetland, marshland, critical habitat areas, monitoring well locations, and plume data using ESRI ArcGIS software. Maintained all project GIS databases for the Natural Resources Department as well as EMC Engineering’s entire GIS data library utilized by engineering staff in eight locations throughout the southeast. Launched EMC's Natural Resources Department community outreach program which included creating a wetlands and watersheds interactive exhibit and volunteering with the RecycleRama during Earth Day Savannah 2006 & 2007, sponsorship of GIS Day 2007, and volunteering with the GADNR for an invasive species control exercise on Skidaway Island State Park 2007 GIS Analyst, Cartographer, and Co-author of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Low Impact Development Manual for the Coast "Green Growth Guidelines" 2004