Stephanie Zhang

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS                                                                                           Urbana-Champaign, IL

M.S. in Geographic Information Science                                                                                            December 2017

Illinois Professional Science Master’s Concentration

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO                                                                                                      Toronto, Canada

B.A. in Urban Studies                                                                                                                               June 2014

Minors in Geographic Information Science and German Studies

EXPERIENCE

DOW AGROSCIENCE                                                                                                                Urbana-Champaign, IL, US

GIS Intern                                                                                                                                 March 2017-December 2017

·         Created high quality cartography, collected and managed GIS data, and developed scripts with Python and R to automate GIS map production

·         Assisted with normalizing enterprise server database, applying database constraints, and developing python scripts to implement quality assurance/control for enterprise GIS

·         Provided continuous improvement and support for web application through debugging, error checking, and reporting

·         Evaluated quality and managed UAV data

ABUNDANT SOLAR ENERGY                                                                                                                  Toronto, Canada

GIS Analyst                                                                                                                                June 2016-November 2016

·         Collected soil, zoning, and property information in Ontario, Canada, and Maryland, US

·         Built models to automate site selection for solar farms, and decision making on project areas with ArcGIS and python script

·         Built interactive web maps for project development tracking through ArcGIS Online

 

GUANGDONG ELECTRIC POWER DESIGN INSTITUTE                                                               Guangzhou, China

GIS Intern                                                                                                                     September 2015-December 2015

·         Participated in electric network mapping for five provinces in south China

·         Led the Point of Interests section, including raw data processing, model building with tools of Spatial Analysis and Generalization in ArcGIS, and subset selection through VB Script and FME techniques

·         Finalized map products, created a mapping style, and produced tiles in different scales

 

PROJECT

 

US State Web Map                                                                                                  University of Illinois Independent Study

·         Created a geodatabase with US state boundary, population, and area data in PostgresSQL

·         Shared the data from the PostgresSQL database using Geoserver in WFS format

·         Created a US State Web Map using html, CSS, and javascript with connection to the data in Geoserver

·         Applied OpenLayers function to add interaction abilities for the web map

 

ADDITIONAL

 

·         ESRI ArcGIS Desktop Entry Certificate; ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online

·         Working knowledge of Python, VB Script, SQL, R Script, and Javascript

·         Experience with Microsoft Access, Power BI, SQL Server, PostgresSQL, PostGIS, Geoserver, Oracle, and Unix

·         Online Portfolio: https://stephaniemappingjourney.wordpress.com/

Github: https://github.com/stephanieieie