Academic Advisor Resume
East Lansing, MI
SKILLS:
GIS - 26 years experience using the ESRI suite of software including: Arc/Info workstation, ArcMap, ImageServer, ArcSDE. Applications development using python
Remote Sensing- two plus decades of processing optical satellite imagery: Landsat, Digital Globe, Geoeye
Programming Languages- C++, AML, Python,SQL:
Operating Systems: Windows (all), Solaris, IRIX, Linux (SUSE, Red Hat/Fedora,Ubuntu)
Field data collection: Use GPS to collect ground truth for calibration and validation of satellite remote sensing data, Ability to cooperate and collaborate well with faculty and staff
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Academic Advisor
Confidential, East Lansing, MI
Responsibilities:
- Academic Advising of undergraduate students (curriculum and schedule planning, monitoring progress towards graduation, attendance
Director of GIS
Confidential, East Lansing, MI
Responsibilities:
- Lead team of three full time technical staff to build continental scale high resolution, multi - temporal geospatial data sets for Confidential client
- Design, implement, troubleshoot and maintain a computer hardware architecture to support real time access to large volumes of geospatial data
- Use ESRI GIS toolset to analyze geospatial data to produce results to publish in scientific journals
- Build and maintain spatial RDBMS for use in an online GIS application
- Train part time research assistants on GIS and database fundamentals
GIS manager/Research Scientist
Confidential, Durham, NH
Responsibilities:
- Used Geographic Information Systems and satellite remote sensing to produce land cover data sets for the global tropics to use in global Net Primary Productivity models
- Produced global base maps of potential vegetation using Confidential for modeling global net primary production.
- Developed methodologies and procedures for processing geographic data layers for scientific use