Experience

Herndon Solutions Group

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Plant Ecologist

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Communicates with customer and stakeholders to identify informational needs, facilitate information exchange, and support data-driven decision making. Oversees 3 data management subcontractors to control costs while facilitating succession planning. Manages database change requests for the NASA Environmental and Medical Contract and assists in continual improvement of the change request process. Designs and builds statistical models to analyze large environmental datasets using R. Develops visualization of greater than 30 years of vegetation data using Tableau. Presents results through technical summaries, reports, presentations, and publications. Collaborates with multi-disciplinary teams on the design, implementation, analysis and presentation of environmental projects. Assists in scheduling and reporting for 20 interdisciplinary projects, 24 quarterly reports, 8 annual reports, and 3 contract deliverables. Serves as investigator on ecological monitoring studies related to scrub restoration, fire return intervals, coastal erosion, and carbon dynamics. Show less



Southern New Hampshire University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Professor

  • Mar 2015 - Feb 2021

  Taught 38 online courses in Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Ecology to undergraduates majoring in Environmental Science or Geoscience. Used web tools to create video lecture segments on course content. Taught 38 online courses in Environmental Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Ecology to undergraduates majoring in Environmental Science or Geoscience. Used web tools to create video lecture segments on course content.



Integrated Mission Support Serices (IMSS)

• Kennedy Space Center

• Plant Ecologist

  • Nov 2015 - Sep 2020

  Maintained monthly project budgeting, scheduling and labor oversight and reporting. Chaired the project review and advisory board resulting in the approval and implementation of 20 projects that supported customer informational needs. Assisted in development of the program operational plan, budget, scheduling, and deliverables to the KSC customer to include 20 staff members and 20 interdisciplinary projects. Communicated with customer and stakeholders to identify informational needs, facilitate information exchange, and support data-driven decision making. Designed and built statistical models to analyze large environmental datasets using R. Collaborated with multi-disciplinary teams on the design, implementation, analysis and presentation of environmental projects. Served as investigator on vegetation monitoring studies focused on species recovery following restoration of Florida scrub and carbon flux of a Spartina marsh. Show less



InoMedic Health Applications

• Kennedy Space Center

• Plant Ecologist

  • 2009 - Nov 2015

  Designed and built statistical models to analyze large environmental datasets using R and SPSS. Collaborated on design, data analysis, and writing of multi-disciplinary environmental projects. Presented results through technical summaries, reports, presentations, and publications. Served as investigator on vegetation monitoring studies focused on species recovery following restoration of Florida scrub. Designed and built statistical models to analyze large environmental datasets using R and SPSS. Collaborated on design, data analysis, and writing of multi-disciplinary environmental projects. Presented results through technical summaries, reports, presentations, and publications. Served as investigator on vegetation monitoring studies focused on species recovery following restoration of Florida scrub.



Dynamac Corporation

• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Plant Physiological Ecologist

  • Sep 2000 - Oct 2009

  Designed and built statistical models to analyze large environmental datasets using SPSS. Collaborated on design, data analysis, and writing of multi-disciplinary environmental projects. Presented results through technical summaries, reports, presentations, and publications. Served as investigator on vegetation monitoring studies focused on species recovery following restoration of Florida scrub. Conducted surveys for threatened and endangered plants and prepared uniform mitigation assessments of wetlands and surface waters on land to be used for the Indian River Lagoon-South C-23/24 Stormwater Treatment Area in St. Lucie County, Florida. Conducted surveys for threatened and endangered plants in Brevard County, Florida. Compiled floristic inventory and survey for threatened and endangered plants on Canaveral National Seashore, Florida. Show less