Senior Systems Engineer

• Feb 2021 - Present

- GIS SME handling all aspects of the GIS stack including ArcGIS Enterprise upgrades, server maintenance, data management, web applications, custom widgets, software, and troubleshooting. - Maintain custom web applications used on client gateway, consisting of JavaScript, JSON, .NET, and Python, ensuring products are functional and operational. - Managing operation & maintenance issue tickets in a timely manner for customer support. - Conducting sprint cycles for enhancements requests and break fixes for mapping applications on the platform. Show less

Senior Platform Configuration Engineer

• May 2019 - Feb 2021

- Supported the Defense and Intelligence Community to promote and implement the increased benefits of the Esri ArcGIS Enterprise suite of technological capabilities.- Communicated and presented GIS technologies, capabilities, configurations, and training solutions to users and key stakeholders, providing technical guidance and best practices to customers: using/publishing data, creating web applications, proper workflows, managing, and administering the Portal.- Created custom scripts using the Python API to query and export Portal user profile data, as well as Server content and item count metrics.- Served as the facilitator in coordination between front-end and back-end developer/system administrator teams on cross project related issues including: operations, troubleshooting, testing, known issues, and bug fixes. Show less

Senior Geospatial Web Developer

• Apr 2018 - Feb 2021

- Responsible for developing and maintaining geospatial content and GIS solutions in the form of high quality static maps, interactive maps, and custom web mapping applications tailored to ensure user requirements are fulfilled.- Manage and configure ArcGIS Enterprise base deployment, administering servers, as needed, while troubleshooting issues relating to ArcGIS Server (reviewing error logs, adjusting system settings).- Employing the ArcGIS API for JavaScript in developing, designing and enhancing custom web applications and capabilities, including API integrations, to enable increased functionality of interactive mapping products.- Troubleshoot and debug issues relating to custom web applications.- Trained colleagues in procedures for developing, editing, and managing of custom web applications.- Assisting with the expansion of geospatial capabilities to meet growing user demand.- Leveraging new tools and software to expand geospatial capabilities to answer complex and difficult requests.- Utilize models and scripting skills that automate existing production of tasks.- Introduced new operational processes for team collaboration and task management. Show less

Geospatial Analyst

• Apr 2017 - Apr 2018

Program Assistant

• Jun 2012 - Apr 2017

- Produce feature map images for news items using research-based climate and weather data, generated from NetCDF files and external data sources. - Create Esri Story Maps using climate data to tell the story of drought in the United States. - Provide all administrative and logistical support for program implementation for the Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program. - Manage and develop content for the MAPP website (HTML/CSS, web CMS, Javascript). - Coordinate a variety of projects, functions, program activities, grant competitions, organizing MAPP Task Forces, and funded principal investigators. - Assist during the program’s full cycle of annual competitive research proposal review processes. - Maintain a wide variety of manual and electronic documents, files, and records in accordance with established administrative and programmatic guidelines for regulatory requirements for funding projects (e.g. conduct negotiations, funding processing forms, proposal recommendations). - Participate in a variety of meetings, workshops, and trainings for the purpose of providing or receiving information, recording meetings, and supporting the needs of attendees. Show less

Student Research Assistant

• Sep 2011 - May 2012

- Worked in collaboration with University and National Weather Service personnel on a GOES-R Partners project for the development and evaluation of WES cases to investigate the use of pseudo-GLM (Global Lightning Mapper) products during warning operations at NWS Sterling.- Gathered and processed archived radar, model-derived, satellite, and lightning data.- Compiled data in ArcGIS to create maps of all storm data points.- Developed Warning Event Simulator (WES) cases using an AWIPS Virtual Machine.- Gathered feedback from NWS forecasters to evaluate the utility of total lightning products, specifically with pseudo-GLM data, and determine ways in which these products can be improved. Show less

Assistant to the State Climatologist

• Aug 2011 - May 2012

-Redesigned the out-of-date website using Adobe Dreamweaver.-Fulfilled data requests from various government agencies (i.e. EPA, city or county officials), attorney offices, media outlets, local businesses, the public, etc., received via email or phone.-Acquired data from the National Climate Data Center (NCDC), and other NOAA sources to be compiled in Excel, PDF, or other formats, specified by the user.

Volunteer

• Jan 2010 - May 2011

-Became familiar with day-to-day activities of operational meteorologist at NWS forecast offices. -Helped on projects collecting archived data and GR2Analyst radar scans from past events -Answered phones and collected storm reports during active storm events. -Created an information brochure for the uses of the NWS Blacksburg internet page, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC), and the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) that was distributed throughout the County Warning Area for uses by Department of Transportation officials from VA, WV, and NC, as well as Emergency Managers in western VA, WV, and Virginia Park Services. -Created a flyer for the Coast Guard Auxiliary for southwest VA and WV regarding lightning and boating safety in local state parks and lakes. -Collected archived severe storm data for a “low CAPE, high shear” research project in collaboration with the Virginia’s, Carolina’s, and Appalachian WFO’s from 2006 - 2011. Show less

UUSA Assistant Building Supervisor

• Oct 2009 - May 2011

Manage volunteer staff, manage office, visitor assistance, open and close building, cleanliness of the building. Manage volunteer staff, manage office, visitor assistance, open and close building, cleanliness of the building.

Game Advisor

• Nov 2006 - Aug 2010