After nearly 15 years in GIS creating powerful maps and stunning visual media built for today's media-rich platforms, I want to share my expertise with you and your audience through writing, photography, and video. As a blogger and professional writer since 2009, my technical experience in GIS and data science compliments my creative background in writing, photography, and video in a way that will fully immerse your viewers in vibrant content that doesn't just tell your story. It lets your audience experience it.
Professional Skills
2009 - Present
- Published over 250 blog posts on GIS, travel, photography, and more
- Wrote website copy and implemented search engine optimization for several clients that increased website traffic by up to 700%
- Clients include the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Geological Survey
2009 - Present
- Wrote over 30 Python scripts that facilitated connections between databases, Python models, and GIS that improved process efficiencies by 8,000%
- Compiled an analyzed a database of 223 cases of speed, wind, and pressure data of hurricanes and intense squall lines that impacted the US East Coast for a research project on meteotsunamis
- Wrote a short Python script to consolidate over 50 two-dimensional maps into 4 three-dimensional animations, saving a client over $7,000
- Routinely worked with databases containing over 500,000 records and several million data points of complex data
- Clients include the State of California, the U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Government of Canada
- I specialize in QGIS, ESRI ArcGIS Online, TerriaJS, Mapbox, and Google Maps
2006 - Present
- My weather photography has been recognized by Weather Underground and the Weather Channel
- YouTube travel and tutorial videos have received more than 50,000 views each
- FAA Part 107 Commercially Licensed Drone Pilot
Experience
Jan, 2016 – Present
- Over $1 million in client savings since January, 2016
- 100% On-Time Delivery Rate
Jun, 2013 – Jan, 2016
Oct, 2009 – Jul, 2011
Publications
The Open Water Mercury Technical and Modeling Workgroup. "Mercury Open Water Final Report for Compliance with the Delta Mercury Control Program." California Department of Water Resources (2020). Web. View Publication
Geist, Eric, ten Brink, Uri, and Gove, Matthew. "A Framework for the Probabilistic Analysis of Meteotsunamis." Natural Hazards Online First Articles (2014). SpringerLink.com. Web. View Publication
Robbins, L.L., Yates, K.K., Gove, M.D., Knorr, P.O., Wynn, Jonathan, Byrne, R.H., and Liu, Xuewu, 2013, USGS Arctic Ocean carbon cruise 2010: Field activity H-03-10-AR to collect carbon data in the Arctic Ocean, August - September 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 741, 1 CD. View Publication
Education
2005 - 2009
2011 - 2013
2016 - 2018