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Angela Cunningham

• Experience Level: 5 Years
• Location: Denver, Colorado
• Last Updated: January 17, 2012

Experience

Education:

*PhD student, 10/10- 10/11                                                      

Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, England

Thesis topic: dynamic, multi-scale modeling of the effect of microterrain on troop movements and early WWI battle tactics to determine adequacy of period maps.

Pilot study: Terrestrial lidar as a data collection method for historic landscape reconstruction.

(Left for financial and family reasons though satisfactory progress confirmed)

*MSc-R Geographical Information Sciences & Society, awarded ‘with distinction’,11/24/10

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

Research: analysis of historic public transportation network catchments and geodemographic patterns based on archival data, stored in bespoke spatial database and interpreted through GIS.

Coursework: cartography, database management, ethical use of GIS, field work, geovisualisation, Java programming, project planning, spatial analysis, spatial modeling using cellular automata and agent based systems.

*BA History (magna cum laude), BA Geography, both awarded ‘with distinction’, 05/14/05                        

University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado

Employment in Geography and Geospatial Sciences:

*Demonstrator/ part time lecturer, 01/11- 05/11                                               

Kingston University London, Kingston upon Thames, England

Led practical sessions for undergraduate introductory GIS course; updated course materials from ArcGIS 9.x to ArcGIS 10; ran weekly drop-in session for masters’ students; assisted on mobile GIS field course in Malta including providing introductory lecture.

*Geographic Information Systems Technician, Quality Controller, 04/07-08/09

Technigraphics, Inc., Fort Collins, Colorado

Interpreted stereo and mono imagery; collected feature data from imagery and scanned hard copy sources; maintained databases; edited digital elevation models; performed quality control procedures on others’ work and implemented updated guidance; georeferenced paper maps; conferenced with clients.

*Global Positioning Technician (intern), 07/05-08/05                              

Colorado Natural Gas, Littleton, Colorado

Located natural gas pipelines, logged positions using a global positioning system (Terrasync)-enabled pocket PC to be used in production of pipeline network map.

*Intern,08/04-06/05, Research Assistant, 09/03-12/03                                 

University of Colorado, Denver, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences

Co-developed project to examine symbiosis of history and geography in Colorado land use: conducted archival research, compiled field notes and authored article sections; analyzed and managed data from digital and hard-copy sources; and created a series of maps from US Agricultural Census data.

Skills:

•   academic writing

•   archival research

•   cartography

•   database management

•   data capture/ digitizing

•   ethical use of GIS

•   field work

•   geovisualization

•   lecturing

•   mobile GIS

•   mono- and stereo imagery interpretation

•   object-oriented programming

•   PowerPoint presentation

•   project planning

•   self-organized mapping

•   spatial analysis

•   spatial modeling using cellular automata and agent based systems

•   terrestrial lidar collection and cleaning

•   quality control

Software & systems:

•   ASU GeoDa

•   BAE SocetSet

•   ERDAS Imagine

•   ESRI ArcGIS 10, 9.x & 8.x

•   GPS

•   Java (Eclipse and Repast Simphony IDEs)

•   Leica Cyclone 7.2 (for ScanStation 2)

•   Leica Stereo Analyst

•   Microsoft Office Suite

•   Open Office Suite

•   Oracle RDMS

•   Self Organizing Map toolbox for MatLab

•   SPLUS & R

•   SPSS

•   SQL

Other previous employment as:

•   cashier and retail customer service employee

•   charity fundraiser

•   data entry clerk

•   office administrative staff and receptionist

•   telephone surveyor

...in Colorado, Scotland and Ireland, 10/02 – present

General Information

My objective is to find meaningful, stimulating employment with a company or organization that is forward facing and progressive without being nihilistic, that encourages expertise without being myopic.  My own career and educational path has in its own small way been eclectic, integrative and open-minded.  Over the past decade, I have worked and studied in three different countries, been employed in a number of industries, and pursued research at the intersection of disparate disciplines. I hope to find an employer who will nurture my aptitudes and a position that will demand initiative, creativity, struggle, personal accountability and the expansion of my abilities.

A position in applied geospatial sciences and analysis would be ideal.

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