Environmental Scientist/Manager Resume

Desired Industry: Environmental	SpiderID: 23980
Desired Job Location: Sacramento, California	Date Posted: 12/31/2008
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: 5/1/09
Desired Wage:
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: New Grad/Entry Level	Willing to Travel: Yes, 25-50%
Highest Degree Attained: Bachelors	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Seeking natural resource engineering or sustainable development position in the public or private sector. I possess long-term interests and goals in geo-hydrology, impact assessments, Remote Sensing and GIS.

Experience:
Relevant Work Experience:

*Environmental technician. Oxley Creek Catchment Association,
2008 – Current.
Biodiversity Services Unit conservation and land management, project management, site remediation, identification of indigenous and introduced flora, operating GPS and interpreting ARCMap software and imagery.

*Sustainable Development Marketing Retailer. Oxfam fair-trade,
2008 – Current.
Retailing and marketing household and specialty items in addition to cashier, stockroom assistant, sales clerk.

*Policy officer. Department of Natural Resources & Water,
Aug 2005- Jan 2006.
Water Planning Division conducting regional water balance, collating information on water infrastructure in addition to water infrastructure assessments. Included database procedures in Word, Excel and GIS to produce a data rich illustrative schematic communicating conditions included in a regional water management plan.

*Horticulture Technician & Landscape Foreman. Ted Collins Tree and Landscaping
1998 – 2003.
Supervising a small crew of landscapers, strenuous physical labor, coordinating daily work rosters and maintaining staff time-cards as well as overseeing and reporting health and safety issues and leadership.

Projects and major areas of work:
* State government water management plans and resource operation plans
* Remote sensing applications to delineate good quality aquaculture sites
* Modeling of lake and pond engineering for residential stormwater run-off
* Regional planning in coastal mitigation and restoration ecology
* Coastal management and engineering reports on barrier islands and reuse of dredging material for barrier islands and port extensions
* Strategic planning for catchment management and determining environmental flow indicators for various objectives
* Environmental impact assessment report on major coastal power-lines proposal

Education:
2008 Bachelors degree in Environmental Management (Sustainable Development)
University of Queensland, Australia 33rd top World University
(Times Higher-QS World University Rankings, 2007)

2003 Associates degree in science, concentrations in zoology, botany and geology
Monroe Community College, Brighton, New York

Affiliations:
The Institution of Engineers Australia
American Water Resources Association
Scientists and Engineers for America
CleanPower.Org

Skills:
* Climatology & Hydrology
* Environmental geology & palaeoclimatology
* Water quality management
* Land systems & human impacts
* Fisheries management
* Watershed management
* Restoration ecology
* Coastal management & engineering
* Environmental architecture

Core Strengths:
* Water infrastructure, planning, assessment and management methods
* Reporting, diagramming and environmental system schematics
* Natural resource modeling such as water balances
* Remote Sensing
* Descriptive and inferential statistics
* Database and computing experience skills including: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, ESRI, ERDAS IMAGINE & ENVI.
* Environmental impact assessments / statements
* Adaptive management principles,
* Environmental auditing

Additional Information:
Education is being evaluated for federal qualification requirements by the International Education Research Foundation, information available upon request

Reference:
Available upon request.

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