PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Dedicated professional with over five years of experience in environmental research and policy, sustainability, geographic information systems, human security, and spatial sciences. Trained in data analysis, management, visualization, and project and disaster management.

I am an intern at the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation focusing on managing events and working group meetings for the geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) community. I graduated USC Spatial Sciences Institute with a Masters in Human Security and Geospatial Intelligence. I graduated Queen’s University in 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and a certificate in GI Science. I hope to use the background knowledge gleaned from the GIS based curriculum provided by USC’s Spatial Sciences Institute, coupled with the background knowledge in GIS gained from my undergraduate career to scrutinize the functionality of current spatial and algorithmic models and understand how to ask appropriate human and physical questions of geography.

My interest in spatial data science and GIS grew out of an introductory remote sensing course. Dr. Paul Treitz delivered on the principles of satellite characteristics and the behavior of light. In the Fall of 2021, I took on a project in my final semester at Queen’s with Dr. Dongmei Chen, my spatial analysis professor. I knew I wanted to pursue and independent study under her leadership. She pushed me to execute a project to identify the spatiotemporal trends of COVID-19 incidence among the neighborhoods of Toronto. I titled it “On the Characterization of Socioeconomic Attributes as Contextual Evidence of COVID-19 Incidence and Monitoring the Spatial-Temporal Developments for the City of Toronto”. Dr. Chen tasked me with collection, preprocessing, and analysis of Toronto’s public health data through Esri’s ArcGIS Pro. We found clusters of hot and cold spots among the neighborhoods of the Greater Toronto Area. The Space Time Pattern Mining toolset exceeded my expectations. In the 4 years since Dr. Chen and Dr. Treitz exposed me to the theory and practice of geography, I have worked to apply the technology to both my career and the local relationships I forge on a daily basis.