Experience

Balzer & Associates, Inc.

• United States
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Environmental Technician

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  • Visit areas affected by erosion problems to identify causes or determine solutions.• Develop or maintain working relationships with local government staff or board members.• Gather information from geographic information systems (GIS) databases or applications to formulate land use recommendations.• Implement soil or water management techniques, such as nutrient management, erosion control, buffers, or filter strips, in accordance with conservation plans.• Assist in regulatory coordination and submittal of permit applications, as well as wetland/stream field investigations and wetland delineations. • Assist in development of nutrient credit banks for sale of nutrient credits for stormwater and other TMDL requirements for development, localities, and industry.• Utilize computer-aided design and drafting equipment such as Autodesk Civil 3D and Carlson Civil Suite.



Virginia Military Institute

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Career Ambassador

  • Aug 2018 - May 2019

  • Greeted cadets and visitors to the Office of Career Services• Encouraged cadets to review handouts and other career oriented information • Contacted more than 40 alumni to complete a post-graduation survey; resulting in a 97% knowledge rate of the most recent graduating class• Demonstrated flexibility in responding to change in assignment and job responsibility.• Reviewed data and other information to assist with report preparation

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Sep 2018 - Dec 2018

  •Developed top-level skills in collaboration, interpersonal communication and problem solving as a result of hands-on work and training.•Researched current studies on the treatment of Parkinson's disease, in order to develop a hypothesis for our own experiment. •Designed and conducted laboratory experiments to test the effects of Raloxifene, and Tamoxifen, on the dopaminergic system of zebrafish, in an attempt to find a possible treatment for Parkinson's disease.•Utilized excel and the ANOVA Tukey test to determine data-set correlations, and significance, while initiating qualitative functions. •Analyzed data, and recommended future studies to broaden our findings.