River Design Group Inc.

Senior Engineer & Geomorphologist

GeoEngineers Inc.

- Lead all project management tasks on multiple projects 
- Serve as a technical resource to clients and project staff, providing guidance and expertise to solve complex challenges. 
-  Develop complete and accurate technical reports
- Review deliverables from staff-level and mid-level employees
- Provide mentorship to junior staff 
- Lead business development activities
- Complete engineering analyses and calculations
- Develop complete bid packages and support construction

Senior Water Resources Engineer / Project Manager

- Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
- Development of natural channel restoration designs and preparation of design drawings
- Development of bid plans, specifications, and engineers' cost estimates
- Construction oversight
- Technical review and mentorship of junior staff
- Business development and writing proposals

Water Resources Project Engineer / Project Manager

Otak

- Developed and managed scopes, schedules, budgets and tasks for water resources projects: fish passage, habitat restoration, and stormwater
- Prepared project proposals and developed strategic partnerships
- Led multidisciplinary project teams including subcontractors
- Provided construction oversight and engineering
- Directed preparation and performed quality control reviews of: design calculations, design drawings, bid plans, specifications, cost estimates, and technical reports

- Assisted in the development of construction drawings on storm drainage, fish passage, stream restoration and other water resource projects
- Performed storm water drainage analysis and design for transportation projects
- Assisted in the development of bridge scour countermeasures and other hydraulic structures
- Used GIS and CAD software to assist with modeling and design
- Manipulated and evaluated data using spreadsheets and engineering software
- Prepared figures, maps and graphics
- Assisted in the preparation of technical reports and memoranda

Water Resources Engineering Designer

Pacific Habitat Services, Inc.

- Collected data from monitoring well network to calculate water budgets and develop hydrographs
- Conducted aquifer tests (slug and pumping) to estimate hydraulic properties of shallow unconfined aquifer
- Measured surface water velocities and performed discharge calculations
- Managed subcontractors for installation of groundwater monitoring well network

On-Call Hydrologist with City of Gresham's Natural Resources Program

City of Gresham

- Created relational databases to integrate biodiversity survey data within a geographic information system
- Developed geospatial model and interactive mapping tool for analysis of natural resource projects
- Developed hydrological monitoring standards for floodplain restoration projects
- Trained other AmeriCorps members on GIS and GPS use 
- Managed AmeriCorps GIS projects for continuity and quality

Watershed Data Specialist (AmeriCorps)

- Created and implemented a restoration plan for an urban creek to improve water quality and temperature
- Researched and implemented backyard habitat certification program for the City
- Updated spatial environmental and natural resource data for use in GIS server application

Community Habitat Steward (AmeriCorps)

The Ohio State University

• Developed research database to assess hydrological impacts on disease transmission in southern China
• Took courses to enhance background for research analysis—especially GIS and hydrogeology
• Prepared and taught three introductory and environmental geology lab sessions per week

Graduate Assistant

Tufts University

• Supported administration of ECO-REP program
• Educated staff & faculty on reducing environmental impacts while at work
• Established partnerships with other university departments for TCI projects
• Collected and analyzed energy use data for various facilities
• Inventoried and set up recycling system of Boston campus and small houses on Medford campus
• Maintained recycling support services during coordinator’s two-month absence during summers
• Planned and coordinated annual campus-wide yard sale and recycling of cardboard during move-in

Tufts Climate Initiative Intern

Idaho National Laboratory

• Assembled and tested an eddy correlation station
• Formatted thermal profile data from monitoring wells for use in a 3D thermal numerical model
• Tested various soil moisture content probes for accuracy in a novel design for use in a geocentrifuge
• Modified a numerical model of glacial mass balance using data from Mount St. Helens

Intern through the Department of Science’s Student Undergraduate Lab. Internship (SULI) program

I use my interdisciplinary background in environmental science, geology, hydrogeology and engineering to lead and design stream and floodplain restoration projects throughout the Pacific Northwest. I appreciate that stream restoration design is best done by teams of professionals with diverse interests and skills. As an engineer with a science background I enjoy 'translating' between the disciplines. My particular interest is in restoring the hydraulic connections of streams to their alluvial aquifers and increasing hyporheic exchange to manage stream temperatures. 

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