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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program (GRASP)

Manager/GIS Lead – DRT Strategies (Contractor)
October, 2022 – Present

• Lead a team of DRT Strategies GIS Analysts supporting the GRASP contract. Provide routine support and direction for staff improvement and innovation, conduct performance evaluations, and mentor staff on skill development.
• Support DRT business development activities by leading proposal writing, seeking out new business opportunities, and presenting opportunities to senior leadership. Wrote a significant portion of the proposal that won DRT a multi-million dollar contract with the CDC.
• Serve as deputy Geospatial Services, Training, Analysis, and Resources (GeoSTAR) GRASP unit lead providing leadership, guidance, and project development to GeoSTAR staff. Act as the DRT Strategies manager for the DRT Strategies GIS Analysts supporting GRASP.
• Develop and administer the workflow for cleaning, processing, and geocoding addresses of all birth and death records for the Division of Vital Statistics (DVS) in the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). This process runs for all new records and the additional location information is being used to develop new data visualizations and further research by providing the ability to join additional social/environmental determinants of health.
• Provide critical support to the Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) in the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in the development of a data dashboard that provides the first ever neighborhood level view of certain causes of homicide and suicide. This support includes processing all data for incorporation into the dashboard, advising on appropriate data classification methods for the choropleth maps, and developing a new approach for aggregating neighborhood data to protect personally identifiable information (PII).
• Lead the development of an innovative analytical and geospatial process for interpreting acute gastrointestinal (AGE) outbreak data on board cruise ships using three-dimensional (3D) geospatial technology. Engage and coordinate extensively with both the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program (VSP) in the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the cruise industry for research development, result translation, and decision making regarding data quality. Support AGE outbreak investigations by assisting with field investigations on board cruise ships, work with cruise ship staff to integrate new data, and present findings to captains and other cruise line public health officials.
• Serve as the on-scene data and GIS subject matter expert (SME) for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) during the Assessment of Chemical Exposure (ACE) response to the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio train derailment. Support the response by facilitating the sharing of data between local, state, and federal health agencies, developing methods for incorporating RedCAP survey response data into geospatial visualizations, identifying priority areas for additional ACE door-to-door survey administration, incorporating new technology to track survey teams in real time, participating in door-to-door ACE survey administration, and assisting with the development of final reports and publications.
• Develop and maintain custom Python data processing code on short notice to support the CDC’s Heat Risk Dashboard which is a partnership between the CDC and the National Weather Service (NWS). The code processes NWS heat risk data multiple times per day and creates estimates of populations at risk at the census tract level.
• Support the Geospatial Research, Analysis, and Services Program’s (GRASP) Environmental Justice Index (EJI) by developing and automating the production of over 3,000 county maps in PDF format, creating a new process for publishing over 60 custom EJI data layers for consumption in a custom web application, and advising on the design of geospatial data visualizations and analytical techniques in order to assist the general public with interpreting data from the
• Contribute to research exploring the relationship to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and Social Vulnerability across the United States. This research could help identify which vulnerable communities are at an elevated risk of PFAS exposure.
• Assist with the administration and management of an enterprise level implementation of Esri ArcGIS Enterprise called OneMap. This involves serving as an SME on all things Esri and ArcGIS, publishing dynamic and vector tile map services to ArcGIS Enterprise, conducting research on improving the speed and performance of OneMap Services, providing consultation and advice on how other CDC Divisions and Centers can leverage OneMap, and facilitating the use of other ArcGIS Enterprise applications such as Survey123, Experience Builder, Dashboards, Field Maps, and Story Maps.
• Provide support to the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, the Immunization Services Division, Office of Readiness and Response, and the Division of Vector-Borne Diseases among other groups by creating static and interactive maps, automating data processing with Python, and developing new methods and techniques for exploratory data analysis.