2005 - 2009
Physical Scientist Level 2Federal Government of Canada - Victoria, CanadaResponsible for the establishment, development, management, and monitoring of Canada’s national deforestation database as well as municipal, provincial and national geographic layers.
Management of Canada’s national deforestation project.
Coordinated and supervised colleagues, subcontractors (contractors), and regional agencies that were working on the deforestation project.
2003 - 2005
Physical Scientist Level 1Federal Government of Canada - Victoria, CanadaIntegrated information from various data sources (regional and national) into a GIS for analysis and used this data to validate the land cover mapping that was produced from remote sensing image sensors (Landsat MSS, TM and ETM +)
Performed analysis with GIS spatial databases within the national project EOSD (Earth Observation for Sustainable Development of forest cover)
Planned and executed field work that was necessary to validate the land cover classification that was produced.
2003 - 2004
Field OperatorD.I. Sparkes and Associates Inc. - CanadaOperated a 46-m radio telescope at ARO (Algonquin Radio Observatory)
Technically operated the radio telescope
Developed an economic analysis of the field operations of the radio telescope
2002 - 2002
Remote Sensing Data TechnicianGovernment of Canada - Ottawa, CanadaMaintained the Science Division image data archives
Collected, compiled and generated CDs, documentation and database of environmental data in support of C-ICE 2002 Field Program
Carried out data collection, analysis and evaluation of QuikSCAT data for automated ice tracking potential
2000 - 2001
Research AssistantCanadian Federal Government - Ottawa, CanadaExtracted relevant information (metadata) from seismic reflection, seismic refraction and electromagnetic files using PERL programming language
Imported the seismic and electromagnetic data (metadata) into a Microsoft Access database so it can be viewed and modified by other researchers
Created and helped design the DSI web site using HTML and Netscape Composer
2000 - 2000
Geographic Information Systems AnalystGovernment of Canada - Downsview, CanadaDetermined lake (Great Bear and Great Slave lakes) ice break up and freeze up dates from various forms of visual data (maps and graphs)
Compared the 85.5 GHz Channel and 37.0 GHz channel of the SSM/I satellite for ice analysis