kristin walker's resume

Kristin B. Walker 1018 Continental Drive, Madison, AL 35758

KBWalker85@gmail.com http://be.net/kfrisbie Cell: 256-874-2983

GIS Analyst Award-winning, energetic, innovative, and highly productive GIS professional with 7 years of experience in the public sector. Extremely motivated and knowledgeable with exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, remarkable analytical skills, and proficiency for managing projects. Skilled in:

• ArcGIS for Desktop • ArcSDE • ArcGIS for Server • Microsoft Office Suite • Python • Data Analysis • AutoCAD • ArcGIS Online for Organizations • Pictometry • HTML

• Silverlight • App Design • ERDAS Imagine • GPS (Trimble & TopCon) • HAZUS-MH • Data & Database Management • Public Outreach • Event Coordination • Property & Deed Research • Plat, Aerial Photo, & Map Interpretation

Professional Experience

March 2013 – Present: GIS Analyst, Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority (Only GIS Staff Member)

• Plan, coordinate, and implement each department’s goals and objectives pertaining to GIS

• Administrate all GIS software, hardware, and professional service contracts

• Collect and convert all historical and current field-collected, tabular, and spatial data to build and maintain the Airport Authority’s GIS data and databases; create new data as needed/requested

• Train Airport Authority personnel in new GIS technologies

• Create maps and apps to assist Airport Authority personnel in visualizing plans for airport growth

• Supervise field collection by Airport Authority and contracted survey crews

• Ensure consultants and contractors’ surveying practices meet the latest FAA standards

• Train and test project managers and inspectors annually in the use of surveying equipment

• Administrate Airport Authority’s ArcGIS Online for Organizations account

• Train personnel on accessing, using, and sharing ArcGIS Online maps, apps, and data

• Perform all tasks required to complete project-specific requests for electronic and/or paper maps, apps, and data

• Maintain structural and architectural plans for bidding and construction projects

• Ensure Airport Authority personnel and contractors are provided with the most recent structural and architectural drawings and documents when such files are requested

• Coordinate annual imagery collection and assures quality meets all departments’ expectations

(Professional Experience Continued) Kristin B. Walker

• Ensure peripheral equipment such as printers and plotters are operating properly and receiving regular maintenance

• Conduct property research of airport owned property through plats, deeds, probate records, and GIS data

• Create and maintain all geodatabase domains and GPS data dictionaries

• Develop GIS Master Plan and update annually with new ways to incorporate GIS into the organization and present to executive staff

• Work closely with executive staff on classified projects using GIS analysis to assist in decision making

• Ensure all computers of personnel using GIS applications have the required specifications needed to run such applications

• Develop and sustain relationships with other local GIS departments to facilitate in data sharing and improved uses of technology

March 2008 – March 2013: GIS Analyst, City of Montgomery, Alabama (Team of 6 GIS Staff Members)

• Converted field-collected, tabular, and spatial data of all formats to create, build, and maintain the GIS database for the Department of Engineering, including sub-drainage basins, storm water management, easements, annexations, city properties city right-of-ways, corporate boundaries and flood zones

• Developed and maintained demographic, spatial, and tabular databases used in GIS, Microsoft, Oracle, ERing, QScend, and NewWorld applications

• Assembled and transferred data through the LAN to appropriate locations for accessibility by development staff

• Programmed and customized computerized geographical applications for GIS web viewer(s)

• Evaluated and recommended network and computer solutions to best accommodate functions of the GIS

• Provided support, training, and technical assistance to end-users of GIS and GPS software and equipment

• Assisted other GIS staff in the supervision and maintenance of spatial and tabular database development

• Performed annual Ad Valorem Taxation Analysis on all parcels within city limits to validate city tax levies

• Reviewed and rewrote legal descriptions of properties and corporate boundaries, created maps and prepared documents to be presented to council and recorded with the probate office

• Worked with FEMA and the state OWR on data collection/ updates for Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) and FEMA’s Risk MAP program for the Montgomery, AL regional area

• Scanned and georectified flat maps and plats to a geodatabase

• Conducted property research through plats, deeds, probate records, and GIS data

• Assisted petitioners applying for license agreements and city right-of-way vacations and abandonments, retained files of all legal documents for applications, and recorded approved applications with the probate office

• Operated GPS receiver and collected features to import into GIS databases

• Created customized maps by request for city employees, council members, and residents

• On Call Emergency Mapping Consultant for Montgomery City/County E.M.A.

Kristin B. Walker

Professional Associations

• GIS Local Government Working Group, Subgroup of GEOHuntsville (Co-Chairman 2014-2015)

• Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (Board Member in 2013)

• Education and Outreach Subcommittee of the Alabama GIS Executive Council

• River Region GIS Day Team, Team Lead/Event Coordinator (2010-2012)

• Alabama Water Watch Association

Professional Development

• Esri International User Conference (2011, 2012, 2015)

• Esri’s Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award Winner (2014)

• Presenter—GIS Local Government Working Group Meeting—ArcGIS Online at HMCAA (August 2013)

• River Region GIS Day Planner/Coordinator (2011 & 2012)

• Presenter—Esri Southeastern User Conference—City of Montgomery’s Public Map Viewer (2012)

• ADECA-OWR Advanced Digital Tools Training (April 2012)

• ISD-GIS Workshop: Using Census Data in Your GIS (February 2012)

• Volunteer—worked at Alabama National Guard HQ creating damage paths and data for FEMA and NGA to help get assistance to victims of the tornado outbreaks in April 2011 (April-May 2011)

• Increasing Productivity with ArcGIS 10 (September 2010)

• Advanced HAZUS-MH for Floods (E-172) (July 2009)

• ArcGIS Server 9.3 Training: ArcGIS API for JavaScript (November 2008)

• Learning ArcGIS 9.0 (June 2006)

• Spatial Analysis of Geohazards Using ArcGIS 9.0 (April 2006)

• Solving Disaster Management Problems Using ArcGIS 9.0 (April 2006)

Educational Experience

Auburn University, December 2007 Bachelor of Arts Degree, Geography

• Member of Gamma Theta Upsilon International Honor Society

• AlabamaView scholarship recipient

• Assisted GIS professor in quantitative analysis on soil moisture data collected from Alabama Mesonet stations for use in drought prediction.