GIS Election Specialist - Senior, May 2017 - Present
Maintain and update geo-spatial election district data for the state's voter registration system.
Work with local election officials, county land record offices and state legislature to ensure that voters get the correct ballot type when they go to the polls.
Collaborate with state and national organizations such as WLIA, SAGIC and NSGIC.
City of Janesville - Janesville, WI
GIS Analyst, Sept 2012 - Apr 2017
Updated all GIS layers for the city, including utilities, parcels, boundaries and transportation.
Create customized maps for all departments in the city to assist in project completeness.
Co-designed the City’s current interactive mapping website and added new functionality.
Wisconsin Transportation Center - Madison, WI
MAFC Regional Freight Study, Jan 2012 - Aug 2012
Prepared GIS transportation data and create maps for the Mid-America Freight Coalition.
Designed online mapping API, utilizing Tilemill, Leaflet, Google Maps and Javascript Programming.
U.S. Geological Survey - Madison, WI
Office Automation Clerk - Historic Mapping, Jun 2011 - Aug 2012
Documented Metadata for over 5000 USGS Historical Quad maps for use on national online database.
Provided insight into website design and formatting to improve user functionality.
UW Dept. of Forest and Wildlife Ecology - Madison, WI
GIS Analyst, Jan 2011 - Jun 2011
Generated and compiled GIS data for graduate conservation seminar course taking place at six nationwide universities.
Utilized ArcGIS data management tools to compile and display conservation easements in six states.
Designed maps showing protected lands in study states, as well as maps displaying land cover classifications.
HNTB Federal - Madison, WI
GIS Analyst I, Mar 2009 - Jun 2010
Contracted at Fort Bliss Military Reservation in El Paso, TX for Integrated Training Areas Management.
Employed specially designed range planning tools to create firing range maps and safety zones. Completed week-long course to gain safety certification.
Structured data management system for data entry and coordinated with other Army departments to ensure completeness.
Volunteer Experience
Applied Population Lab - Madison, WI
GIS Assistant, Oct 2010 - May 2011
Planned a series of density maps of Wisconsin using Census data from 1940 to 2010 to determine housing growth rates in the state.
Used ArcGIS 10 Data Driven Pages to create map catalogs of each county in Wisconsin over a period of 70 years.
Petersburg National Battlefield - Petersburg, VA
GIS Intern, Aug 2008 - Jan 2009
Assisted GIS specialist in designing and updating many map projects, such as invasive vegetation, trail updates, and utilities both in the field and office.
Coordinated and led the Historic Mapping Project at City Point, using historic pictures and maps to portray the landscape during the Civil War in 1864-65.
Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI
MS GIS and Web Map Programming, Received Aug 2022
GIS Graduate Capstone Certificate, Received May 2012
BA Geography and Political Science, Received May 2008