Work Experience 

GIS Specialist at Salt Lake City Engineering

My current position deals with managing and tracking Salt Lake City’s physical infrastructure, primarily roadways and sidewalks. I manage data in standardized forms using multiple databases and produced new data sets. Data is then used to track asset condition, model asset deterioration, and determine future maintenance work. Recently, I created the sidewalk deterioration model, which is now being used to quantitatively track sidewalk condition. I am currently working on updating our pavement assets to remove unnecessary legacy information and streamline our asset data. I also work on 3D data and drone imagery.

Technical Writing for SWCA Environment Consultants

I authored the Water Resources section of the Comprehensive Management Plans for the Green and Colorado Rivers created by the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands. I produced the Hydrology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Sediment Transport, and Water Quality subsections, along with supporting graphics. I was an independent contractor who coordinated with technical staff at SWCA to provide all the relevant information and references.

GIS Analysis for Stantec, Inc.

As an independent contractor, I conducted a detailed spatial analysis to estimate sediment budgets and channel changes in a tropical river system in order to evaluate potential effects of a future river diversion. As part of mine remediation work, a larger river is being diverted into the channel of a smaller river. I assessed historical channel change, as well as changes in slope, to better estimate possible future conditions. I extracted information from multiple imagery and elevation datasets to track channel activity in multiple dimensions. I regularly communicated my findings with my project supervisor with both written reports and verbal presentations.

Post-Graduate Researcher at Utah State University

I conducted a detailed analysis of channel bathymetry in the lower Green River, researching potential changes to in-channel morphodynamics. I processed bathymetric survey data, correcting the raw data and incorporated topographic surveys and aerial lidar to create multiple digital elevation models (DEMs). The DEMs, from different times of the year and varying discharges, show that for the Green River in our study reach, sediment evacuates during snowmelt flooding in the spring, and deposits during the summer. This work was preformed in close collaboration with the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.