Janet L. Camarca GISP
702 W. Church St. 217-621-1999
Champaign, IL. 61820
Objective
To attain a position where I will have the opportunity to process, develop and maintain data to improve the quality of elevation data using modern remote sensing for the Illinois State Geological Survey.
Professional Experience
Remote Sensing Data Manager
Illinois State Geological Survey | February 2013 – present
· Serve at the data manager for the Illinois Height Modernization Program by managing and maintain remote sensing and related geospatial data, principally Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data and to assist in project / data presentations of the programs progress at conferences.
· Review reports from analysts on quality assurance and control (QAQC) tests performed on LiDAR data deliveries to communicate with data vendors of any errors and ensure corrections are made within the allotted time frame of the contract.
· Perform data stewardship by designing and developing a Lidar downloads web page served thru the ISGS clearinghouse to establish a web based delivery method to ensure public access to all LiDAR data formats.
· Assist in developing project scopes of work for proposals of new LiDAR acquisitions and reviewing those proposals to ensure the data collected is current with base standards and that pricing and products are reviewed.
· Supervise hourly and student assistants in fulfilling data requests, creating derivative products and construction of project and product level metadata
GIS Technician II
Champaign County GIS Consortium. | November 2006 – February 2013
· Conduct GIS work for Champaign County and the Regional Planning Commission;
o Processing of new aerial photos acquisitions; compression and mosaicking
o Collection of historic aerial photography and thus cropping, georeferencing, color blending and mosaicking
o Maintain and update several spatial databases administered through the Champaign County server.
o Election District Mapping
o Political boundary updates due to the new census boundary data.
o Drainage District Geo-Auditing
o Awarded NSDI FGDC Grant for Metadata Training in 2010
o Provided a zoning review map for County Planning and Zoning to review the updated zoning layer.
· Conduct GIS contractual work assisting in clients mapping needs
o Create and maintain custom ArcReader subscriptions with quarterly updates
o Organize the Village of Mahomet’s GIS database and establish a logical map production structure
o Create and Maintain GIS data for County and municipalities within.
o Created, Printed and Delivered wall size maps for the Village of Mahomet’s Board Room
o Work closely with Piatt County offices, City of Monticello office, Monticello Township Highway department and the Piatt County highway department with GIS needs including ArcGIS installation and training, custom ArcReader applications which can be updated from the clients end, maintaining an updated ArcReader and database updates
· Create and maintain taxing district GIS layers from current tax codes for each parcel (over 70,000)
· Make data updates and changes to CCGISC SDE
· Create, maintain and train ArcReader applications for Consortium members
· Provide GIS support to Consortium members, RPC employees and other County Departments
· Contribute to maintaining licenses, databases and version updates to GIS staff computers and servers.
· Complete Data Requests/Sales
· Attend GIS Technical, ILGISA, ILGIC, AUGI meetings and ESRI conferences
GIS Instructor
Parkland College, Champaign, Illinois. | Fall 2004 – June 2012
· Participated in the advisory committee to create a new Mapping Technician Certificate which combines GIS core classes with surveying class to create stackable certificates at Parkland College.
· Committee on the Certification program for Parkland College contributing to maintaining a current level of technology to the GIS courses to ensure that we are teaching students the most current technology in the field.
· Creation of syllabi using the NCGIA Core curriculum guidelines in GIScience to ensure that Parkland is teaching the standards of GIS as developed by NSF Advanced Technological Education Program.
· Teach three classes in the GIS Certification program
o GIS 110-298 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
o GIS 111-298 Applied Geographic Information Systems
· Developed current GIS 115 Remote Sensing and Aerial Photo Interpretation class
GIS Specialist/Research Assistant
Illinois Natural History Survey, Champaign, IL. | July 2005 – November 2006
· Conducted research on wildlife habitat over the landscape focusing on forest coverage, foraging potential and range distances
· Performed spatial analysis on wildlife habitats and disease landscape patterns
· Provided GIS support to update monthly maps and reports on deer harvest inventory numbers and disease surveillance
· Developed a deer habitat model for Illinois and Wisconsin using landcover imagery for deer coverage and foraging variables
· Analyzed landcover imagery to determine the most current and cost effective imagery option for habitat modeling
· Designed, developed and maintained a relational database for Illinois Chronic Wasting Disease housing over 20,000 tuples of compiled deer data with spatial information from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources and the Illinois Department of Agriculture
GIS Specialist/Project Coordinator/Systems Administrator
University of Illinois, College of Veterinary Medicine, Pathobiology Department, Urbana, Illinois| 2002- 2004
· Provided GIS and Remote Sensing support to three projects (Chagas disease, Lyme disease and West Nile Virus)
· Coordinated research groups from Argentina and Illinois
· Purchased and processed IKONOS imagery
· Interlinked spatial data with an epidemiological database housing thousands of rows of data
· Performed spatial modeling analysis for Lyme Disease Risk Atlas
· Created and administered the Chagas Disease and Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory websites
· Systems administrator for a four person Spatial Epidemiology research team
Spatial Analyst
NOAA Coastal Services Center, Charleston, South Carolina | 2000- 2002
· Effectively designed and implemented long and short-term projects that involve environmental and natural hazard concerns
· Provided GIS and Remote Sensing support including creation of data layers and metadata, image processing, enhancement and georeferencing, and developing on-line mapping services
· Utilized Q3 Flood Data derived from FIRMS to develop risk and vulnerability assessments for port and harbor communities in effort to devise mitigation plans for natural hazard events
· Performed hydrologic operations such as computing flow direction, accumulation, and stream length, as well as, defined basins and watersheds
· Conducted topographic analysis for instance, contouring, deriving slope and aspect, curvature, hillshade and visibility analysis
· Performed raster manipulation with Map Algebra operators and functions
· Developed ArcIMS mapping applications that use ArcSDE to process user-define requests:
(http://www.csc.noaa.gov/products/tsunamis/)
(http://maps.csc.noaa.gov/hurricanes/)
· Produced tutorials using ArcIMS showing communities how utilizing GIS can assist in Contributed in the development of Performance Indicator Visualization and Outreach Tool (PIVOT), used by National Estuary Programs to develop custom HTML code
· Wrote FGDC standard Metadata for data inside of downloadable packages
GIS Technician
Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program, Urbana, Illinois | 1997 –1998
· Developed twelve final report maps for the Proposed 310 Highway project
· Digitized and cleaned hundreds of features from paper base maps
· Registered and rectified five old historic map images to real world coordinates
· Developed a site database and naming convention creating
· Standardized symbols for survey areas
Education
· Bachelors of Science, Anthropology | University of Illinois – Urbana, 1998
· Associates of Arts, Liberal Arts and Science | Parkland College – Champaign, 1995
Relevant Training
· FAST3 – Adobe Illustrator CC/CS6 Level 1 and 2 – Urbana, 2015
· FAST3 – Adobe Photoshop CC/CS6 Level 1 and 2 – Urbana, 2015
· ERDAS – Working with Point Clouds – MAGIC conference – Kansas City, MO 2014
· ESRI – Data Management in the Multiuser Geodatabase – Chicago, 2009
· FAST3 – Adobe Illustrator CS4 workshop – Urbana, 2009
· FEMA – E172: Advanced HAZUS-MH Flood – Maryland, 2008
· GEOG 478 Techniques of Remote Sensing | University of Illinois – Urbana, 2006
· VP 460 Spatial Epidemiology | University of Illinois – Urbana, 2003
· Microsoft Access Training | Illinois Department of Natural Resources – Springfield, 2005
· Facilitator Training | Ingrid Bens, NOAA, Coastal Services Center – Charleston, 2002
· Spatial Analyst Training | ESRI – Charleston, 2002
· Fundamentals of Effective Project Management and Team Leadership Seminar | Rockhurst University Continuing Education Center – Charleston, 2002
· Effective Technical Writing Training | Lauchman group - Coastal Services Center – Charleston, 2001
· Remote Sensing for Spatial Analysts | NOAA, Coastal Services Center – Charleston, 2001
· SQL/SDE Introduction | NOAA, Coastal Services Center – Charleston, 2001
· ERDAS IMAGINE Training | ERDAS – Charleston, 2001
· GPS Training | NOAA, Coastal Services Center – Charleston, 2001
Professional References
Dr. Donald E. Luman, Ph.D.
Principal Geologist
Illinois State Geological Survey
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
615 East Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820-6964
217-244-2179
Bruce Henrikson
Department Chair
Parkland College
2400 W. Bradley Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820
217-351-2435
Dr. Nohra E. Mateus-Pinilla
Professional Scientist / Epidemiologist
Illinois Natural History Survey
Center for Wildlife and Plant Ecology
1816 South Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
217-333-6856
Dr. Marilyn Ruiz
Clinical Assistant Professor
GIS and Spatial Analysis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
College of Veterinary Medicine
2001 South Lincoln
Urbana, IL 61802
217-265-5115
Dr. Mary Culver
Coastal Remote Sensing Scientist
NOAA Coastal Services Center
2234 S. Hobson Ave.
Charleston, South Carolina 29406
843-740-1250