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Michelle Lee Buitenwerf


Experience

Nov. 1996-present: GIS Coordinator, MN Department of Natural Resources June 1993-Nov. 1996L: Refuge Ranger, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Prairie City, IA. 50% Environmental education/biology, 50% GIS. June 1992-Sept. 1992: Refuge Ranger intern, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MN Valley National Wildlife Refuge, Bloomington, MN.

Education

May 1990-Graduate of St. Anthony Village H.S., St. Anthony, Mn 55418 May 1993-Bachelor of Science with Highest Honors, Geography-GIS in Environmental Sciences, University of Iowa. May 1993-Honors thesis: Tallgrass Prairie Restoration and Management utilizing GIS analyses.

Special Training

Advanced Workstation Arc-Info and Arcview 3.0a GIS Advanced Eppl-7 Raster Analysis Trimble and Corvallis GPS Software JAVA Programming for Web Map Applications Environmental Education and Presentation Training

Applicable Skills

Fluent in workstation Arc-Info, PC Arc-Info, Arcview, MapInfo, Eppl-7 Imagine, several graphics, database, spreadsheet, and word processing packages. Avenue, AML programming, Arcview custom applications, GIS project management, GIS project development and implementation, data access, data projection and transformation, data distribution, and metadata creation. Adept in hardware and peripheral repair and maintenance, workstation and heads-up digitizing, GPS project management, remote sensing, data recording, editing, and conversion. Extensive experience in Internet skills such as database maintenance, data searches, data retrieval and distribution, web page construction, custom application building, and server management.

 

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