More than eight years experience using GIS and five years in the Oil and Gas industry solving spatial and non-spatial problems. Able to implement and manage an entire organization's GIS needs, including web mapping and web services. Self-motivated and always determined to see each job complete with excellent customer service.
Education
Expected in 2011
Master of Science: Geospatial Intelligence (by Research) University of Nottingham - Nottingham, England GPA:
Expected in 2009
Bachelor of Science: Physical Geography University of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA GPA:
Expected in 2006
Associate of Arts: General Studies Cuesta College - San Luis Obispo, CA GPA:
Expected in 2001
Diploma: Imagery Analyst Course (96D) US Army Intelligence School - Fort Huachuca, AZ GPA:
Expected in 2000
High School Diploma: Morro Bay High School - Morro Bay, CA GPA:
Experience
01/2017 to Current
Director of GISSnc Lavalin – Baytown, TX, Created and set up a GIS department from scratch. Acquired all cadastral, oil and gas well data for all producing states. Mapped client assets in Texas, PLSS states, and New England land grant states. Developed and programmed a workflow to integrate ESRI format data into Google Maps API. Created base layers for production web mapping using vector data and raster tile caching. Worked with clients, account managers, developers, and management to identify client assets and bridge communication gaps. Mapped and integrated ~100,000 mineral and royalty interest into MineralWare software.
2016 to Current
Senior GIS Analyst22Nd Century Technologies – Norfolk, VA,
Took over the GIS department and IT help desk. Upgraded all GIS systems and servers. Streamlined data management and automated many tasks. Installed Server and Portal for ArcGIS and created an internal company web map and web mapping services for integration into Spotfire, Petra, and Kingdom. Assisted in moving the company to a new building and setting up network infrastructure, servers, and user workstations. Performed geographic analyses to model water flow during flood events, track production and leasing trends over time, discover fracture networks, and model bottom hole pressures across the Fort Trinidad field.
03/2012 to 2016
GIS AnalystS&P Global – Denver, CO, Mapped leasehold, wells, competitor activity and units, and new venture exploration information. Created presentation maps for third parties, investors, and conventions. Built custom, on demand, maps for every department in the company. Georeferenced and digitized intelligence and geologic information from many different sources. Acquired data products from vendors and government providers.
08/2010 to 08/2011
Master's Degree Dissertation ResearchBluehawk – Bethesda, MD, Researched methods into fusing hyperspectral aerial imagery and full waveform LiDAR for the detection, monitoring, and Classification of a peat bog and the surrounding vegetation in Northern England, Using PYTHON, MATLAB, MS and UNIX Scripting, EXCEL, ARCGIS, MODEL BUILDER, ERDAS IMAGINE, and ENVI+IDL
09/2009 to 07/2010
Junior ResearcherUC Santa Barbara – City, STATE, Participated in a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to study urban vegetation health in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota area using combined remote sensing (SPOT imagery) and personal survey information.
11/2008 to 05/2009
Research AssistantUC Santa Barbara – City, STATE, Assisted in researching new methods of integrating hyper spectral and LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) imagery data for a more accurate Spectral Mixing Model using custom tools for ENVI+IDL
06/2000 to 06/2004
Imagery AnalystUS Army – City, STATE,
U.S. Army, 204th Military Intelligence Battalion (Aerial Reconnaissance) 513th Military Intelligence Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas (July 2000 – July 2004)
Deployed to Colombia, South America twice as part of PLAN COLOMBIA counter-narcotics actions using Aerial Reconnaissance Full Motion Video and Photo Interpretation (March - April 2002, May - June 2003)
Deployed to Camp Doha, Kuwait as an Imagery Specialist during the invasion of Iraq as part of a long-term intelligence fusion cell on the Baghdad team, using a real time GIS to make weekly geospatial reports of enemy activity (August 2002 - April 2003)
Relevant Skills
ArcGIS Pro
ArcMap Desktop 10.x
Server for ArcGIS
Portal for ArcGIS
Web Mapping (Desktop/Mobile)
Scripting (VBA, Arcade, Python)
ENVI
TractBuilder Plugin for ArcMap
Enterprise GeoDatabase Management
MS Office Suite and Office365 Management
MS Visual Studio
MS SQL Server
IT Held Desk and Active Directory
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
Accomplishments
Created, integrated, and managed a GIS department and integrated GIS data into a software management system for MineralWare
Mapped tens of thousands of mineral interest properties over hundreds of thousands of acres across the United States and Canada
Mapped flooding events by classifying Landsat imagery over time
Modeled water flow to predict future floods and help mitigate damage
Modeled production and leasing trends over time
Mapped entire leasehold for Pardus Oil & Gas to a high degree of accuracy (more than 167,000 acres)
Experience working in multiple oil and gas basins in almost all producing states
Helped plan and develop oil & gas wells
Converted and migrated all lease information from an Excel spreadsheet into a SQL Server database (OGSys)
Took over the Pardus GIS department, streamlined, and automated many processes
Developed an automated web based activity update map
Assisted in multi-million dollar leasehold purchases and sales
Awards
Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America (July 2007)
Army Achievement Medal (May 2004)
Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (April 2003)
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