SUMMARY

• Self - motivated Senior GIS Specialist with over 17 years experience using ESRI suite (ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server ArcIMS, ArcMap, ArcCatalog, ArcToolbox, and Extensions).
• Proven project management experience, adopting GIS technology to new fields quickly. Certified Oracle Database Administrator (Cert. 2001).
• Professional training with Oracle database, thorough database noledge with SQL Server and MS Access.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Juno Beach FL

Senior GIS Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Created and accomplished NextEra Energy Turbine Geodatabase (80+ wind farms, 9,000+ turbines) and digitized eight wind farms where geographic coordinates never existed.
• Organized high level Turbine Naming Convention meeting in coordinating and communicating cross-functional teams, including VPs, Directors, and Managers of three departments. Invented unique turbine name with consensus from all parties and standardized process.
• Designed, developed, and maintained GIS datasets which supported Wind Farm Design process and reduced cycle time by 50%, datasets include Nation Land Cover; National Microwave Beam Path for US and Canada, FAA Wind Turbine, North America Airport, Existing Turbine Dataset, and Setbacks.
• Designed six wind farm turbine layouts using Wind Farmer, Open Wind, WAsP, and GIS software. Worked closely with Wind Developer solving land parcel and environmental issues. Calculated turbine noise level to each land owner. Created 3D movies on real terrain map to simulate “As-built” wind farm.
• Designed Site Assessment Geodatabase, created logical and physical model. Included all wind farm design receptors and environmental setbacks and constrains for ArcPad application. Evaluated functionality of ArcPad, Mobile GIS, and Arc Engine for site assessment.
• Visited and collected five prospecting wind farms on site with detailed ground true information, such as transmission / distribution lines, substations, towers, houses, trees, culverts, streams, and wetland.
• Designed and created logical and physical turbine power curve database model, and populated turbine power curve, and specification information which met requirements of five functional teams.
• Installed and upgraded ArcGIS software for team members, and supported GIS requests for different functional teams. Facilitated training and coached GIS users with new tools and technologies.
• Completed John Deere Wind Energy (34 wind farms) and Infigen Energy (18 wind farms) for each turbine geographic location information search for merging and acquisition process.

Confidential, Chicago IL

Senior GIS Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installed Enterprise ArcSDE on SQL Server. Created and managed geodatabases for ArcGIS application. Created, edited, and managed Personal Geodatabases and File Geodatabases for GIS application.
• Installed ArcGIS Server / ArcIMS. Designed and administered web mapping services for country, state, county, zip code, and city level demographic intranet map.
• Provided GIS mapping and data support to multiple projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines. Worked with Engineers, Hydrologists, Seismologists, Geologists, Meteorologists, Insurance Brokers, and Programmers which produced outstanding results. Proven expertise in GIS project management.
• Established digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) database using Q3 flood data (30 CDs) from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for flood analysis, and risk assessment. It reduced over 80% processing time.
• Compiled, processed, and converted various data formats including AutoCAD files, KML / KMZ, shapefiles, MapInfo files, XMap files, raster files, satellite images, aerial photos, and flat files for GIS application.
• Performed georeferencing for aerial photos and satellite images. Digitized and traced rectified image, extract raster value to points. Created surfaces from existing data sets for raster analysis.
• Performed data geospatial analysis including spatial joining and selection, buffer creation, area and distance calculation, geoprocessing, and map production. Defined projection and changed projections.
• Provided GIS training sessions and technical support in use of geospatial data and new technical skills to staff members.
• Created logical data models and translated into physical database structures. Provided integrity and availability of databases and optimized database performance.
• Designed and maintained Relational Data Base Systems (RDBMS) by using Oracle, SQL Server, and MS Access including data import, export, and all query activities.

GIS/Database Management Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and maintained physical databases with extensive noledge of Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). Proficient in SQL*Plus. Installed and maintained database software. Performed database restore and recovery using cold and hot backups.
• Mapped data from all kinds of variant forms to current database format and loaded into Oracle databases, visualized with geographically referenced data.
• Produced aggregated exposure maps by location, census track, zip code, county, and state level. Created thematic map of client assets overlaid with historical earthquakes, wildfires, hurricane tracks, flood zones, tornadoes, and hail for risk analysis.
• Created raster file for global seismic hazard assessment (Peak Ground Acceleration), raster file for hurricane wind speed assessment for US, and calculated slope for California wildfire and landslide model using 30 meter DEM.
• Calculated Surface Roughness for hurricane wind speed estimation by using Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) data files. Calculated LULC ratio for each zip code.
• Expertise in geocoding using ESRI StreetMap database, and Tele Atlas street database to perform batch and interactive geocoding. GPS data collection and conversion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• GH WindFarmer, OpenWind, WAsP, WAsP Climate Analyst, XMap, GlobalMapper
• ArcGIS10, ArcSDE, ArcIMS, ArcGIS Server, ArcPad, ArcView3.x
• Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, ModelBuilder ArcGlobe, Google Earth Pro, Trimble GPS, AutoCAD, SLOSH
• Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access, SQL, SQL*PLUS, PL/SQL, Python, Visual Basic