SUMMARY:

• Skilled Human Geography/ Confidential Analyst, capable of working on projects alone or on a team doing Open Source information research {Data Mining}, analyzing, evaluating, and creation of the feature classes, adding appropriate metadata, and searching for appropriate commercial/classified imagery as needed.
• Over 16 years working for the Confidential or one of its predecessor Agency’s.
• Data creation, manipulation of Geographic Information Systems Databases ( Confidential ) containing Economic, Ethnicity, Geopolitical, Political, Religious, Terrain, International, First, Second, and Third Administrative Borders,
• Knowledgeable of countries within the Middle East, and Southwest Asia

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point 2010, and 2013; ESRI ArcMap 10.x, ArcCatalog 10.x, Remote View, Google Maps, Data Mining, Open Source Research, Digital Globe Open Source website, MapInfo.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential, Springfield, Virginia

Human Geography Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched and analyzed open source maps and documents; Agency Confidential data to determine the appropriate transportation data specific to the project’s three proposed Highway/Road and Railroad routes
• Researched and analyzed agency’s commercial imagery for both the interpretation and evaluation process of the data and creation of an area of missing CPEC Highway/Road data.
• Added appropriate record attribution and metadata to assist others in understanding the data, and sources used within the projects.
• Generated Confidential graphics in both hard and soft copy formats for both projects and with Geodatabases containing the feature class files were then posted to the agency’s website.
• Researched and analyzed both previously collected open source information (ground photo, data harvested from google maps and wikimapia), and agency’s digitized topographic maps of area of interest.
• Researched and analyzed the appropriate commercial imagery and geo - referenced needed maps.
• Analyzed the source information and records of discovered important points of interest the project.
• Added appropriate attribution and metadata; Confidential Graphics generated and posted to the agency’s website.
• Researched and analyzed Agency produced city maps, native produced city, and tourist maps having identifiable neighborhood names; those with native names were translated by the appropriate Geo-Names expert when need.
• A feature class file for each map and each neighborhood was generated.
• Analyzed the overlay of each and a final feature class was generated to represent the approximate neighborhood boundary limits with the needed attribution and metadata added.
• Quality check done with the final geodatabase and feature classes were added to the agency’s internal website.
• Researched and analyzed Agency Confidential data in conjunction with an Excel spreadsheet to confirm correct names and locations of villages and towns by using an Agency program Gazelle Scope.
• The geographic coordinates from the analyzed data were added back to the excel spreadsheet.
• Researched and analyzed open source to acquire the required religious and ethnic information and Agency Confidential data.
• Modification of the Agency data in order add the ethnic and religious data to the attribution as well as metadata.
• Each ethnic group was then displayed graphically using a thematic map.
• The map graphics and Confidential data were then linked to the Agency’s internal website.

Confidential, Bethesda, Maryland

Confidential Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched to obtain current appropriate commercial imagery.
• Analyzed and evaluated a moderate to small sample from each database against said imagery in order to make an evaluation against Agency specifications on accuracy, currency of the data’s attribution and metadata.
• Completed the Agency’s Regional Analyst Commodity Evaluation form with our determination of the quality of database and the form was check for quality and then linked to the agency internal website.
• Researched and analyzed available commercial or classified imagery over area of interest.
• Interpreted the differences discovered between the imagery and the maps to make a determination if the product was still current and accurate.
• A report was written for each determination and delivered to customer to make an evaluation of which map to update.
• Researched and analyzed the availability, accuracy, and currency feasibility of each record(map) for those Agency, Native Topography and Hydrographic, and Imagery products.
• Created a corresponding map graphics and an Excel spreadsheet for each product in a classified and unclassified format. This product was produced as a hard copy and digital copy with the digital copy posted to the internal website.
• Researched and analyzed the availability, accuracy, and currency feasibility of each record(map) for those Agency, Native Topography and Hydrographic, and Imagery products.
• Created a corresponding map graphics each product in a classified and unclassified format. This product was produced as a hard copy and digital copy with the digital copy posted to the internal website

Confidential, Bethesda, Maryland

Regional / Geospatial / Information Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Researched and analyzed Agency, and open source information to determine the number of maps to in corporate the city proper, the map’s orientation, and the map’s scale.
• Researched and analyzed available commercial imagery for each city’s base map that meet product specification.
• Analyzed and interpreted the open and closed sources to create the feature class/shape files for the points of interest for the Guide to Number Feature (GNF) and added attribution to each record.
• The Guide to Number feature ( Confidential ) was then forwarded for final quality check and then product creation.
• Researched and analyzed Agency topographic, hydrographic, and digital maps for accuracy and currency .
• Map Graphics were created then posted to agency’s internal website.