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Resume

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

National Board
Leadership 

2024-PRESENT

Association of Accredited Public Health Programs (AAPHP)

Executive Board, Immediate Past President

Professor,
Department of Public Health
- University of West Florida

1996-

PRESENT

Design and delivery of new online courses in GIS applications in public health and healthcare and informatics/data science, incorporating responsible use of AI-facilitated learning and AI-augmented workflows for visualizing epidemiological data.

Co-Director and Academic Advisor,
Medical Informatics Certificate Program
- University of West Florida

2002-

2011

Managed donations/budgets, recruitment and exhibition conference presence, admissions, retention-progression-graduation planning and implementation, programmatic quality/evaluation, articulation with 7 partnership programs, off-campus location, & web presence.

Software Engineer,
Harris Corporation, Space Systems Division – Rockledge, FL

1993

Space Systems Division, Programmer for CORE project, a redesign of the Launch Processing System for the Space Shuttle. Received Reach for the Stars Employee Recognition Award for enthusiasm, professionalism, and outstanding technical capabilities.

Education

2023                Graduate Emergency Management & Infection Control Certificate, University of West Florida

2022                Graduate Business Foundations Certificate, University of West Florida

2022                M.S., Geographic Information Science (GIS) Administration, University of West Florida

2022                Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science, University of West Florida

1997                Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Florida

1993                M.S., Computer Science, University of South Florida

1992                B.S., Computer Engineering, University of South Florida

Skill Highlights

SOFTWARE

AI tools: ChatGPT 3.5, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Co-Pilot

Advanced: Esri ArcGIS Pro Desktop 2.4/ArcMap, Excel 3D-Maps 2019, Google Suite (Docs, Drive, Forms, Sheets, Sites), PowerPoint, Word
Intermediate: Esri ArcGlobe/ArcScene, QGIS Desktop 3, Epi Info 7, ERDAS Imagine 2020, Google Earth Pro 7.3, Adobe Illustrator, Access, SPSS

Programming Languages: Ada, BASIC, C/UNIX, Fortran, Pascal, Python, SQL

SKILLS

Data cleaning/editing/modeling/visualization, Geodatabase design/creation/processing, Cartographic/infographic production, Machine learning/GeoAI, AI-facilitated learning, AI-augmented data visualization workflows

DATA SETS

FDOT APLUS (Aerial Photo Look Up System), FGDL (Florida Geographic Data Library), LABINS (Land Boundary Information System), Esri (Living Atlas), NASA Landsat Thematic Mapper/Landsat 5 (multispectral scanning), NPS (National Park Service), U.S. Census, USGS (U.S. Geological Survey)

Publications

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0647-4181  |  ResearcherID: I-1592-2018

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