kristin walker's resume
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Kristin B. Walker 1018 Continental Drive, Madison, AL 35758
[email protected] 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.