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Courtney A. Butler
Kirkland, WA 98034
Mobile: (425) 283-6711
catcab1@yahoo.com
OBJECTIVE
Utilize my professional wildlife ecology, GIS graduate certificate, and related skills in an environmental development, service, and/or management position within a progressive organization.
EDUCATION AND RELATED SKILLS
Graduate Certificate in GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
University of Washington, June 2008
B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies Emphasis in Ecosystem Populations (ecology & wildlife biology)
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, May 2005
GIS skills / classes:
1 year of hands experience in ArcGIS 9.2, Spatial Analyst Modeling, Arc INFO, geo-database creation and maintenance, 3D model builder, manipulation / creation of shapefiles, GIS animation, attribute conversions, GIS data analysis, creation of raster and vector data.
Experience maintaining vegetation survey maps.
Completion of a GIS project involving: mapping of riparian & upland historic vegetation data for the future restoration of salmon in Bridge Creek. OR which involved: data base creation, project management, interpretation of historic survey notes, plotting of field notes within the geo-database, map creation & analysis.
GEOG CP200A: Geospatial Information and Technologies.
GEOG CP250A: GIS Data and Database Design.
GEOG CP300: GIS Project and Analysis.
GEOG CP350A: GIS Modeling and Analysis (Spatial Analysis).
GEOG CP400: GIS in Practice and Analysis.
GEOG CP450: Advanced GIS Analysis and Applications.
Summary of Qualifications:
4+ years of laboratory / field experience from Utah State University environmental laboratories.
3 years of experience working with animal taxonomy and the use of dichotomous keys.
Over 5 years of data entry experience from NOAA, Emerald Recycling, and the Intermountain Herbarium.
Familiar with fisheries biology and management from NOAA (National Oceanic Atmosphere Administration).
4 years of collecting and analyzing biological data from NOAA, GIS graduate cert program, & Utah State.
2 volunteer internships at NOAAs NW Fisheries Science Center in Seattle, WA.
Hands on experience working with salmon water temperature data.
Experience analyzing, summarizing, and collecting biological data.
1.5 years of experience in land transect surveys from the Utah States Soil Biochemistry Lab.
General experience in population dynamics & management studies.
20 years of camping & hiking experience.
4 years working professionally with MS Access & Microsoft Excel from the NOAA, Emerald Recycling, and the Intermountain Herbarium.
Familiar with habitat / zoological surveys and management / collection of applicable data.
Experience with Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 applications including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to multi-task, detailed-oriented, independent, organized, creative, flexible, willing to work extended hours, excellent work ethic, and able to contribute new ideas.
Will work any given schedule.
R (statistical analysis program) skills:
General knowledge and experience of the variable and command functions.
Fundamental experience of the graphical interfaces and functions of R.
General / experience in Experimental Design from NOAA.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA
Contractor / Internship, January 2008 September 2008
Supported whale identification image library located on the NOAA database and server.
Responsible for organizing and backlogging several researchers original negatives.
Fundamental experience from NOAA in R (statistical analysis program) and experimental design.
Emerald Recycling, Seattle, WA
File Clerk, August 2007 July 2009
Managed and maintained Orca database records.
Responsible for entering manifest paper work into the Orca database.
Created and maintained Microsoft Excel reports for internal clients.
Managed daily administration of file waste acceptance forms.
Responsible for restructuring and scanning all 2006 waste acceptance forms to make the data easier to access on Emerald Recyclings server.
Court's Cleaning, Kirkland, WA
Small Business Entrepreneur, April 2007 - Present
Served as sole proprietor and manager of Courts Cleaning.
Administered all the advertising and billing for this business.
Handled cleaning and organizing clients homes.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA
Contractor/Volunteer, March 2007 - May 2007
Responsible for updating water quality data from salmon stream data.
Chosen to do database management via Microsoft Access on salmon research files.
Personally, selected to format salmon data to make files compatible with Microsoft Access...
Working knowledge of data collection and data analysis of inland fish from NOAA
Utah State University Labs (USU), Logan, UT
Intermountain Herbarium
Lab Technician, December 2003 June 2006
Administered daily updates to the Plant Identification Network database via Microsoft Access for the Bureau of Land Management.
Handled data collection for latitude and longitude (GIS) of Nevada and Utah botany specimens.
Responsible for sorting, organizing, and filing various plant specimens.
Personally selected by the curator to reclassify the Globe Mallow (Sphaeralcea) genus.
Responsible for incorporating reclassified Globe Mallow data into an interactive computer key.
Lab Technician, September - November 2002
Conducted plant surveys for invasive weeds.
Evaluated and analyzed arthropods under the microscope.
Uploaded arthropod data to Microsoft Excel.
AFFLIATIONS / ADDITIONAL INTERESTS
Member of the Washington Urban & Regional Information Systems Association (WAURISA).
Professional interests include: GIS modeling, land cover studies, remote sensing, population modeling & analysis, and ecology.
References available upon request.
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Seattle |
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Seattle, Eastern Washington |
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