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Laurie Zaleski

• Experience Level: 10 Years or More
• Location: New York
• Last Updated: November 1, 2010

Experience

LAURIE ZALESKI
Telephone 631 284 3396
E-Mail LaurieZaleski@gmail.com

Over eight years project and operations management experience.  Expertise in all aspects of both marine and airborne survey operations.  Knowledgeable in Operations Management including HSE, international import and export logistics, client and vendor relationships, scheduling, employee reviews, and budgets. 

Experience

  ARKeX Ltd.

  Project Manager (July 2009 – present)

Project manage field acquisition projects including international mobilization / demobilization, survey planning, client liaison, and liaison with the aircraft/vessel operator.  Source and assess vessels for projects.  Responsible for producing accurate acquisition reports to the client.  Responsible for implementation of safety management system for the field crews including on site safety audits and preparing and maintaining HSE documentation.  Undertake on site visits to scout logistics for prospective surveys.  Produce for sales team operational considerations for prospective surveys.  Initiate and implement risk reduction and risk management processes.  Maintain communications with customers, vendors and suppliers.

Operations Project Geophysicist (June 2007 – July 2009)

Specialized services in airborne gravity gradiometry.  Geophysical data acquisition, data processing and interpretation.  Technical and field support in airborne operations; duties which include:  equipment operations, calibrations and repair, quality-control processing of gravity gradient, GPS, and laser ranging data.  Lead field acquisition projects such as mobilization/remobilization and geophysical survey planning.  Maintained marine and Airborne HSE safety management systems. 

    Fugro Pelagos

  Project Hydrographer (May 2006 – June 2007)

  Airborne topographic and bathymetric LIDAR and Hyperspectral surveys
for the JALBTCX (Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise).
Survey operations including data collection, processing, GIS, geospatial analysis, resource management, and product delivery. 

RPM Nautical Foundation, Key West, Florida

  Survey Operations Manager (Nov 2002 – Apr 2006)
Manage survey operations for a nautical archeological foundation with two research vessels.  Data acquisition, processing, GIS, and geospatial analysis.  Hire, train and supervise survey staff.  Coordinate surveys with director of archeology.  Equipment purchase, maintenance, upgrades, repairs and installs for navigation, multibeam, and ROV systems.  Data quality assessment and image preparation for publication.       
                                 
State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York

Research Specialist (June - Nov 2002), Research Assistant (Jan 1999 to June 2002)

Multibeam and side scan sonar surveys included data collection, processing, GIS, geospatial analysis and resource management.  Generation of maps for publications.  Sediment sampling and classification.  Data analysis.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Grumman Aerospace Corporation

Systems Analyst (1988 - 1996)

Design, test, and install payroll applications.  On site analysis of end user hardware and software requirements.  Train end users, support, and develop payroll systems.  Write technical manuals.  Budget analysis for system optimization and efficiency.

Education

      State University of New York, Stony Brook, 
Marine Sciences Research Center,
        M.S., Marine Environmental Sciences
 
  New York University
        New York University College of Arts and Science
        B.S. Computer Science/Mathematics

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