An independent project to demonstrate the practical applications of LeafletJS, as well as RegEx PDF extraction for displaying public data. Using police blotters from the Holyoke Police Department, as well as Geocod.io's API, new datapoints are generated and added to the map displaying monthly arrests as clusters or individual points.

During an internship with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, I worked with professionals in the Ecological Support Division to create and document a procedure for importing several decades of hatchery data, in the form of transect points (starting and ending miles from beginning of a river/stream), and coordinate points (UTM coordinates). Challenges included reconciling points within a certain distance of the official transect routes and assigning them to a standard, as well as working with the hatchery in question and Maine's Dept of Conversation to reconcile differences in data. This work made use of ESRI ArcGIS products exclusively and will ultimately result in an internal ArcGIS online web application that will allow employees from different offices to view and add new data to these release records.

Genetic Discrimination Law in the United States

Completed for a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A 24 page analysis of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), and the combination of ethical and legal precedents which informed its framing.

A Wise Conservator: The Life of Henry Hill Goodell

1st Place, 2013 Friends of the Library Undergraduate Research Award,
W.E.B. DuBois Library, UMass Amherst

A 67 page historical treatise on UMass founder and first professor of English, Henry Hill Goodell (1839-1905). As the longest serving chancellor or president of the college, and chairman of the national research colleges of the day, Goodell arguably made more reforms to secularize the fledgling institution and transform its research priorities than any other single figure involved in the college's founding.

A History of Apiculture and Beekeeping at UMass

A persuasive piece written to convince the University of Massachusetts' Master Planning Committee to prevent the demolition of the campus apiary, which holds a rich history in the art of beekeeping in the Commonwealth. Developed 15 page report intended to fill a 100 year gap of history in the building and its beekeeping programs and show the importance of continued pollinator research at this institution in the 21st century. This report resulted in the postponement of a planned demolition of this facility and has also been used by the university to showcase its pivotal role in the development of this industry.

Braggville, Portrait of a Community's Past

Independently researched and documented a two-part history on a former postal-village of my hometown. Worked with local news outlet (HollistonReporter.com) to develop this article for an audience of about 2,000 daily readers.

Remineralize the Earth Press Release

A local agro-ecological non-profit wanted a press release that summarized the history of Cuba's organic agriculture and drew on the common goals their organization held with the CUSAN initiative and the Cuban National Association of Small Farmers.

OriginLab Blog Writing

During my time with OriginLab I wrote regular blog posts demonstrating their software's graphing, analysis and programming capabilities for an audience of both students and professionals, beginner and advanced users. In total I wrote 20 blogs for them, including several covering programming in Labtalk (Origin's proprietary language) for graph animation, mathematical pattern generation, and digitizing legacy graphs. This blog reaches an audience of about 65,000 individuals daily.

Holyoke Community Preservation Act Campaign

Voluntary work for a local Community Preservation Act (CPA) initiative for the City of Holyoke; upon passage in Nov. 2016, the City began participation in the statewide CPA program. Developed promotional materials, including signage and mailed flyers in English and Español.

Generians.com Minimalist Portraits

My client, webmaster and owner of a hall-of-fame of living nonagenarians and centenarians, made use of a portrait I had drawn of notable architect Paolo Soleri for Wikipedia, and requested that I draw two other portraits for his website as he could not find copyright-free photos of their subjects. In the end I produced 3 minimalist portraits using Inkscape for line-work and Corel Painter for the shading.

Origin 2017 Icon Redesign

My employer, an established statistics software publisher, wanted to upgrade their original 16x16 BMP icons to 64x48 PNGs for a new graphics-based GUI. They wanted these graphics to also be scaled up further for related documentation.
I designed and rendered more than 60 new icons in Inkscape, exported the PNGs at the proper resolution and also taught others in the company to use this free software to render these icons at larger resolutions in the future.