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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