Ali McKenzie

Resume

Experience:

June 4, 2007 - present Fugro Chance, Inc. Houston, TX

Survey Technician - Marine Construction Survey

Position vessels, remotely operated vehicles, rigs, and equipment.

Attend daily Job Safety and Pre-Tower meetings.

Created Job Safety and Environmental Analysis reports and procedures for projects.

March 10, 2006 - May 11, 2007 Conrad Blucher Institute Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, TX

Texas Spatial Reference Center & Texas Height Modernization

Undergraduate Research Assistant (part-time / summer full-time)

Created Benchmarks and FEMA Reference Mark maps and created and instructed GIS 2 lab on Benchmark maps

Recovered benchmarks and surveyed heights with a Global Positioning System in the Austin and Corpus Christi area for the National Geodetic Survey.

March 12-17, 2006 NGS GPS Recovery of Benchmarks

March 12-17, 2006 Austin, Texas GPS Height Survey

Assisted in the creation of an Internet Mapping Server, Map Adapt^?™, a user developed GIS server used to maintain geospatial data. Created a Map Adapt^? for the National Ocean and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA), NGS, and the Texas Spatial Reference Center.

Created and edited web pages for Texas Spatial Reference Center, Texas Height Modernization, Conrad Blucher Institute, and the GIS Program.

Created hurricane evacuation route maps and elevation graphs for Corpus Christi.

May 16, 2006 Corpus Christi, Texas Height Survey

Supervised and mentored eight high school students and incoming college freshmen in GIS research projects and surveying projects at the Conrad Blucher Institute.

February 1, 2005 - August 30, 2006 Division of Nearshore Research Corpus Christi, Texas

Undergraduate Research Assistant (part-time / summer full-time)

Developed a hydrographic application on a Jet ski with real-time coastal monitoring system for multiple Packery Channel survey’s, performed hydrographic surveys, data processing, contouring, 3-D mapping, and cartography for US Army Corps of Engineers.

Created a Real-time Online Geographic Information System in and assisted with the core algorithm for geospatial authentication security system (based on the user’s location using latitude and longitude) for Mobile Online Intelligent Decision Support System (MOIDSS) (a NASA Small Business Innovation Research grant) and a local company, Geospatial Research Innovation Design. GIS work included research, data collection, entry, and management, georeferncing raster images, geocoding points, digitizing vectors, cartography, use of ESR Is^? Arc Pad^? on tablet and handheld computers, and assisting with satellite based wireless technology.

Developed geospatial systems and datasets for managing infrastructure for NASA Stennis Space Center.

GIS computer lab management included installation and registration of hardware and GIS software, tested and repaired program problems, assisted students with general and software questions, and assisted with inventory of computers and survey equipment.

Assisted with GPS and sediment collection of sea grass in the Laguna Madre for the Texas Department of Transportation and set up and participated in real time robotic total station surveys of University Beach (Corpus Christi Bay) for multiple profile surveys over three years.

Assisted with the development of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and processing of its hydrographic survey data.

February 24 - March 4, 2006 Geospatial Research Innovation Design (GIRD) Dr. Stacey Lyle, RPLS

Researcher(part-time)

Developed exam questions for Registered Professional Land Surveying Practice Seminar

Assisted with creation of audio CD's from text, registration, directions, campus map, and seminar.

September 28 - November 19, 2005 Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, TX

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Arts and Humanities ~ History

Created and published maps for ‘World of Toil and Strife’ by Dr. Peter Moore.

Worked with designer from University of South Carolina Press to edit maps.

April 17, 2003- July 9, 2003 Sea & Ocean Treasures Corpus Christi, Texas

Customer Service Associate

Assisted customers, stocked, maintained, and organized merchandise.

EDUCATION:

Masters of Science Geospaital Surveying Engineering

August 2007 – present Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi

Mary Catherine Lowe GIS Scholarship 2007-2008

Bachelor of Science Geographic Information Science – Systems emphasis

August 2003-May 2007 Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi

College of Science and Technology, Computing and Mathematical Sciences

GPA 3.304

Fall 2003 - Fall 2004 Dean's List Corpus Christi, TX

Transfer Credit 3.0 Applied to Fall 2003 - Art-2D Design Portfolio Advanced Placement exam May 2003

Mary Catherine Lowe GIS Scholarship 2006-2007

The Hydrographic Society of America Top Student 2007

Texas Surveyors Foundation, Inc. Scholarship 2006 & 2007

South Texas Rising Stars Scholarship 2006 & 2007

TAMU-CC Student Affairs Leadership Scholarship 2006 & 2007

Hydrographic Society – Houston Chapter Scholarship 2006

Lego Mindstorms Robotics Club – 2nd Place Robot 2005

1999-2003 Flour Bluff High School Corpus Christi, TX

Girl Scouts Silver Award 2003

Flour Bluff High School Academic Distinction 5-20-2003

Who’s Who Among American High School Students 2003

National Honor Society 2002-2003

First GIS Class

Aquatic Science Club

Advanced Placement Art-2D Design

Visual Arts Scholastic Events,

Training:

6/27/2007 BP Gulf of Mexico Health Safety Security Environment License to go Offshore

6/16/2007 Basic Safety Awareness Orientation Offshore/Safe Gulf^?/Safe Land^? #0028207 by PEC Premier

6/13/2007 Fall Protection USER(OSHA 29 CFR 1926.500) by Occupational Safety Training, Inc. Water Survival Training Center Stafford, Texas

6/12/2007 Offshore Water Survival, SWET Helicopter Underwater Egress Training, Personnel Transfer Basket, and Swing Rope (API RP T4) by OST

6/11/2007 Safe Gulf Offshore Safety Orientation T1 #SFG 173410365^? by PEC Premier

Contact Information:

email: Ali McKenzie