Aubrey Drescher

Current

• Sr. Geospatial Engineer at General Dynamics AIS

Past

• GIS Specialist at Parsons
• GIS Analyst at Michael Baker Corporation
• Office Assistant at McDonald Morrissey Associates

• GIS Analyst at GMU Environmental Science Department
• Resource Assistant at Minute Man National Historical Park

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Education

• George Mason University
• Northern Virginia Community College

Connections

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Industry

Civil Engineering

Aubrey Drescher’s Summary

I am a map maker and spatial data wrangler who is working to become a full-fledged developer. I am experienced with the ESRI ArcGIS suite as well as in other geo-related technologies such as remote sensing, aerial photography, global positioning systems and web mapping applications. I also have experience in strategic planning, training, curriculum development, and management of GIS interns.

Aubrey Drescher’s Specialties:

Geographic Information Systems, Cartography, Mapping, ESRI, ArcGIS 9.2, 9.1 and 8.3, ArcView 3.1, 3D Analyst, ArcIMS, ArcPad, SDSFIE standards, Personal Geodatabases, Adobe Acrobat / Distiller, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visual Studio, Visual Basic.NET, HTML

Aubrey Drescher’s Experience

• Sr. Geospatial Engineer

  General Dynamics AIS

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GD; Defense & Space industry)

  February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)

  Acting as a librarian for a central repository of geospatial records. Search and obtain new GIS datasets, research and compose detailed metadata entries, convert to standard formats, streamline attribute tables, merge and split layers as needed to maintain directory structure and naming conventions. Use model builder and python scripting to automate large data processing tasks.

• GIS Specialist

  Parsons

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  July 2005 — February 2008 (2 years 8 months)

  Field map and report figure creation for various engineering projects. Development and maintenance of SDSFIE standard personal geodatabases. Presentation of GIS data in client meetings. Preparation of spatial data to be delivered to the public on web mapping servers. Management of GIS interns. Planning and conducting a 2-day GIS Fundamentals training course. Researching and writing a GIS Strategic Plan

• GIS Analyst

  Michael Baker Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Civil Engineering industry)

  June 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 2 months)

  Created national flood rate insurance maps (FIRMs) according to FEMA specifications using ArcGIS 8.3 geodatabases and 8.2 coverages. Projects involved digitizing, data conversion, spatial editing and attribution to create a digital data repository, as well as annotation and symbology to produce hard copy maps. Also supported the FEMA headquarters as a disaster reservist creating maps to assist relief efforts during hurricanes.

• Office Assistant

  McDonald Morrissey Associates

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Legal Services industry)

  September 2003 — July 2004 (11 months)

  General office support, USGS library research, document preparation, and Excel spreadsheet creation for use in groundwater hydrology research. Created GIS maps of monitoring well locations and groundwater elevation contours.

• GIS Analyst

  GMU Environmental Science Department

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)

  Determined land cover change adjacent to streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by examining digital orthophotos from different time periods. Created shapefiles in ArcView 3.1 showing land cover classes and calculated the change in area between these polygons. Compared the land cover changes to changes in vegetation indices derived from remote sensing data, and authored a report detailing the findings.

• Resource Assistant

  Minute Man National Historical Park

  (Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

  June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)

  Examined old parcel maps in order to create a GIS shape file in ArcView that displayed the locations of all the buildings removed by this national park. Presented an oral report on findings and methodology. Created a paper map to be posted in the visitors center and an on-screen display with hot links to photographs.

Aubrey Drescher’s Education

• George Mason University

  M.S. , Earth Systems Science , 1999 — 2005

  The Earth Systems Science program at GMU is a hybrid of Environmental Science, Computational Science, and Geography.

  Activities and Societies:

  GEO Club (webmaster)
  Association of Engineering Geologists (webmaster)
  Sigma Gamma Epsilon honor society

• Northern Virginia Community College

  Completed courses:
  
  Program Design
  Visual Basic.NET I
  Visual Basic.NET II
  ASP.NET Server-Side Programming

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