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Education School: Southern Illinois University
College: Liberal Arts
Major: Geography
Specialization: Environmental Planning
Minor: Outdoor Recreation
Graduation: Spring 1997
Experience
Naturalist:Phillips Cruises and Tours, Whittier
Alaska:Provided guests with information on the surrounding
area during a six hour cruise. Jack of all trades. Duties
branched from entertaining hundreds of guests with a
microphone in my hand to tending bar. Spring/Summer 1998
City Planner: Intern: City of Carbondale, Illinois;
Assist in day to day activities that include drawing
of maps and working on cases with planners and staff.
Authored the annual report for presentation to the
Planning Commission. Spring 1997
Regional Planner: Office of Economic and Regional
Development(OERD), Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale, Illinois: Assist in researching and
identifying bikeway/greenway trail corridors, mapping
corridors, viability and costs associated with corridors
and drafting sections of corridors. Also assist in
research on other related studies conducted at the
OERD. Spring 1997
Camp counselor: Camp Mah-Kee-Nac, Lenox
Massachusetts: Lead operations for all counselors and
the assistant to the group leader for all children ages
five to eleven. This age group included over two
hundred children. It was my duty to keep the children
occupied all day. Baseball Instructor Summer of 1993.
Instructor of High Ropes and Climbing Wall in 1994.
Objective To obtain a position with a dynamic organization to
further my career development in the field of
environmental planning. Also to extend my education
and acquire hands on experience.
References Available upon request.
