
WeoGeo Evangelist
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

WeoGeo Evangelist
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Solid background in technical, professional, and academic writing. Strong knowledge of remote sensing, scientific programming, geographic information systems, spatial data visualization and analysis. Led or assisted several successful research and programming projects. Experienced in collection, processing, storage, and distribution of large datasets. Skilled in multiple programming languages and computational environments.
Remote Sensing, Scientific Programming, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Geoinformatics, Spatial Statistics, Web-Development.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
WeoGeo is an online community for geospatial professionals. Through our efforts, we aim to bring cohesion and prominence to the field of geospatial informatics and create a universal culture of geographic awareness. WeoGeo believes in the power of maps to change the world.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2006 — April 2007 (9 months)
HYRESSA project researcher:
HYperspectral REmote Sensing in Europe specific Support Actions (HYRESSA) - Investigating the user needs of the European hyperspectral remote sensing research community with respect to access to and accuracy, quality and conformity of hyperspectral images, especially with the advent of next-generation European hyperspectral sensors like ARES and APEX in 2006-2007.
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
August 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 5 months)
My thesis and research project involved water quality monitoring and modeling for a new Florida reservoir, the C.W. Young Regional Reservoir. This project included a novel design for an information system to store, analyze, visualize, and report water quality parameters.
The 15-billion gallon reservoir, completed in early 2005, was designed to fill during high surface flow periods and supplies the region in times of low-flow. Accurate monitoring and modeling of water quality and environmental assessment data is imperative to the long-term sustainability of the structure. One of the goals of the information system was to enable stakeholders to quantify relationships between nutrient loading and eutrophication using water quality parameters such as algal growth and turbidity.
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Research industry)
April 2001 — June 2005 (4 years 3 months)
Designed analysis programs for the characterization and calibration of a hyperspectral ocean-color remote sensing instrument, the PHILLS2.
Co-designed and programmed a Genetic Algorithm to solve for stray-light within the instrument.
Deployed the instrument onboard NOAAs Cessna Citation.
Prototyped direct parametric orthocorrection of pushbroom scanner imagery using Trimbles POSPac software and ReSes PARGE
Performed Scientific Visualization and statistical analysis for an ecological model (EcoSim2).
Designed and programmed validation for EcoSim2 using satellite data (SeaWiFS) as ground truth.
Processed raw satellite data into georectified products using Naval Research Laboratorys Automated Processing System (APS) and the SeaWiFS Data Analysis System (SeaDAS).
Designed and programmed a web-based data selection, processing, and distribution application for hyperspectral data (HyDRO).
Guest Student, GIMP, 2006 — 2007
Guest Student, Cartography and Geoinformatics, 2006 — 2007
MA, Geography, 2005 — 2006
Gr. Cert, Geographic Information Systems, August 2003 — June 2005
BS, Management Information Systems, January 2000 — May 2003
Geospatial Technology, Geography/NeoGeography, Semantic Web, Programming (IDL, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Javascript), Sailing, Snowboarding & Skiing, Kiteboarding, Climbing
• Fulbright Association
• ASLA-Fulbright Alumni Association
• Member Geological Society of America, GSA, 2005
• Member American Geophysical Union, AGU, 2005
• Member American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing ASPRS, 2005
• Member Association of American Geographers, AAG, 2005
• Member International Society for Optical Engineering, SPIE, 2005
• Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE, 2005
• Member Optical Society of America, OSA, 2005
• Member Alliance for Marine Remote Sensing, AMRS, 2004
• Member Management Information Systems Society at University of South Florida, MIS, 2000
• Fulbright Fellow, Helsinki University of Technology’s
school of Cartography and Geoinformatics, 2006
• Member Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), International Honor Society in Geography, 2006
• Winner of ESRI ArcInfo software for student poster presented at Applied Geography Conference, Washington D.C., 2005