Experience

Owner/ Consultant
May 2023 - Present
TAP GIS Services
3411 Coleen Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45251

Consult clients to ascertain project purpose, needs and information required for software integration with emergency services dispatching programs.
Assist clients with ESRI Enterprise software systems upgrades.
Assist clients with field mapping of GIS assets.

GIS Director
January 2017 - May 2023
RA Consultants, LLC
10856 Kenwood Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242

Direct responsibility to clients for all project management
Find work for the GIS Department
Supervise GIS technicians, analysts, and field survey crews.
Responsible for maintenance of corporate computers..

GIS Specialist
June 2013 - Current
RA Consultants, LLC
10856 Kenwood Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242

GIS analyst for storm, waste and municipal water lines.
Responsible for maintenance of corporate computers.

Vice President of Operations
April 2006 - June 2013
GIS Dynamics
131 Commerce Blvd.
Loveland, OH 45140

Onsite coordinator for The United Nations, MONUC in the Democratic Republic of Congo for development, implementation and training of TLM50 mapping procedures using ESRI PLTS for Defense Solutions software.
Project manager for municipal separate storm water sewer system (MS4) update of Dayton, Ohio.
Project manager for GIS sewer network implementation for Central Falls, Rhode  Island.
Primary onsite consultant for GPS data acquisition project, Lagos, Nigeria.
Performed GIS database management/quality assurance projects.
Performed mapping requests using historical and environmental information.
Acquired, integrated, and manipulated raw imagery, raster data, and various types of vector data.
Developed processes for standard data generation, as well as building and maintaining databases.

Lecturer in Geography
August 2005 - November 2005
Indiana University Southeast
4201 Grant Line Road
New Albany, IN 47150

Taught classes in World Regional Geography, as well as Geographic Information Systems. Assisted students with projects by helping them to implement GIS strategies and standards through the use of modeling.

Administrative Assistant
February 2005 - June 2005
Court Street Management
8 North Court St.
Athens, OH 45701

Installed and maintained computer equipment, assisted with daily operations of restaurant and music venues. Created graphic designs to be used for venue menus. Responsible for general accounting, as well as customer service interactions within a small office setting.

Director of Technical Services
March 1998 - February 2005
The Post Newspaper
20 East Union St.
Athens, OH 45701

Responsibilities included maintaining newspaper computer systems (PC and MAC, photo equipment, supervising 10+ student employees, dealing with customers for accounting and/or, advertising issues or problems, ordering equipment and supplies.

Research Assistant
September 2002 June 2004
Ohio University
Clippinger Labs 122
Athens, OH 45701

Compiled geographic, political, and cultural information, while preparing maps of large areas. Responsible for the setup and maintenance of computer systems, and teaching laboratories, for Ohio University Department of Geography. Assisted professors by helping to teach classes in:
          Cartography
          Physical Geography
          Remote Sensing
          Statistical Geography
          Advanced GIS Applications


Cartographic Internship
January 2002 - June 2002
Ohio University Cartographic Center
Clippinger Labs 122
Athens, OH 45701

Projects included the GPS mapping of the Serpent Mound effigy for the Ohio Historical Society, and mapping the Athens County, Ohio bicycle trail system. Assisted with the scanning and preservation  of architectural plat maps, drawings, and other paper documents into a searchable database to be used by the Athens, Ohio, County Engineers Office.


Resident Advisor
September 1999 -June 2000
Bromley Hall
35 So. Congress St.
Athens, OH 45701

Advisor to students at an off-campus dorm, responsible for keeping order, working the front desk.