The document is a resume for Jennifer Alexis-Brooke Bloom summarizing her education and skills. She received a BA in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a concentration in remote sensing and GIS. Her skills include GIS software such as ArcGIS, programming languages like R and Python, and remote sensing software. For experience, she completed workshops on remote sensing analysis and worked on projects involving image analysis, mapping food access, and teaching cartography labs.
1. Jennifer Alexis-Brooke Bloom
jbloom@colorado.edu 719.964.8519 www.jennybloomgis.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferabloom
EDUCATION:
Bachelor of Arts University of Colorado at Boulder, December, 2015
Geography: concentration in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science
Major GPA: 3.94, Cumulative GPA: 3.487, magna cum laude
Minors: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Scandinavian Studies
SKILLS:
• GIS Software: ArcGIS 10.0 – ArcGIS Pro (ArcMap,
ArcCatalog), Google Earth
• Programming Languages: R (Beginner), Python
(Beginner), C++ (Beginner), IDL(Beginner),HTML5/
CSS3/Javascript (Beginner), SQLite (Beginner)
• Remote Sensing Software: Harris ENVI Classic,
ENVI 5.2, ENVI 5.3, PRISM Software for
Spectroscopic Analysis (Beginner), IDL (Beginner)
• Office Software: MS Office, Apple Platform, Adobe
Photoshop, Mathematica, LINUX Ubuntu
RELEVANT COURSEWORK:
• Quantitative Methods Statistics
• Cartography: Visualization and
Information Design
• Introduction to Geographic
Information Science
• Geographic Information Science
2: Modeling Applications
• Special Topics: Advanced
Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing of the
Environment
• Statistics and Research Methods
• Computer Science 1:
Introduction to Programming -
Experienced
• Calculus 1 & 2
• Organic Chemistry 1 & 2
• General Chemistry 1 & 2
• General Biology 1 & 2
• Principles of Ecology
• Arctic & Alpine Ecology
• Plant Biodiversity
• Plant Systematics
• Writing on Science and Society
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
Harris (Exelisvis) 2015 ENVI Analytics Symposium and Workshops (Summer 2015), Boulder, CO
• Completed Workshop: Using ENVI 10.3 and PRISM
Software for Spectroscopic Analysis
• Completed Workshop: Introduction to Shortwave
Infrared (SWIR) Analysis Tools
• Completed Workshop: A Day with ENVI Analytics
using ENVI 10.3 and IDL
• Used sophisticated analytics tools, batch
processing, developed ENVI analytics workflows,
deployment to the cloud via a webservice, and
created a simple web client interface.
Senior Thesis (Fall 2014 - Fall 2015)
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado
Boulder, CO.
• Organized imagery into a geodatabase for analysis
• Mosaicked DEMs, and orthorectification of satellite
imagery
• Image analysis of ASTER imagery in thermal, visible
to shortwave infrared bands
• Emissivity normalization algorithms used to
determine surface temperature and emissivity to
locate and mask thermal anomalies
• Image classification
GIS Intern (Spring 2015, Summer 2015) at Emergency Family Assistance Association (EFAA), Boulder, CO.
• Data analysis of EFAA clients in Boulder and
Broomfield counties
• Produced client maps: client households, client
households per census tract,
• 2014 Active client household density heat maps.
• Updated EFAA Service Maps: Areas serving food,
housing and basic need programs
GIS Volunteer Consulting (Summer 2015) at Boulder Community Food Share, Boulder, CO.
• Client Address Location alongside Census
demographic and TIGER data
• Initial analysis and geodatabase created, continued
by additional CU interns
2. Jennifer Alexis-Brooke Bloom
Cartography Lab Undergraduate TA (Spring 2014, Fall 2014), Department of Geography, University of
Colorado Boulder, CO
• Teaching assistant for cartography labs of over 20
persons for 2 semesters
• Taught peers geodatabase organization and
mapping using ArcGIS software
• Provided help to students in cartographic and
analytic design for thematic and reference maps,
including dasymetric, choropleth, isopleth,
topographic and natural disaster mapping.
ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS:
Computer Science Python Project (Fall 2015)
• Image analysis of 365 Passive Microwave imagery of Greenland for 2007
• Pixel classification of melted pixels, counted to determine total area melt
Computer Science C++ Project (Fall 2015)
• Parsing Twitter data for sentiment analysis
• Used IFTTT recipe to gather twitter data, parsed to search for keywords indicating approval or disapproval
of specific hashtags
• Statistical means determined for tweets showing approval or disapproval
Continuing Education (Fall 2015 - Present)
• Web Development: Currently learning CSS3, Javascript, and HTML5 to develop and design websites and
webmaps
• Database Management: Codecademy tutorials in SQL.
HONORS:
• Geography Departmental Honors (magna cum laude) for completing undergraduate thesis
• Von Dreden Stacey Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• CU Complete Scholarship
• Dean's List 6 semesters (3.75 or higher)
• Published in The Honors Journal for Creative Nonfiction