Résumé/CV

Founder & Lead Developer

Desert Data Labs LLC | Tucson, AZ

2025–Present / Owner

  • Founded an Arizona LLC delivering custom dashboards, databases, and data pipelines for small businesses, nonprofits, and research teams without in-house software support

  • Design and build production R Shiny applications, SQL databases (Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQLite), and ETL/integration pipelines with embedded QA/QC

  • Developing EcoPlot Mobile, an offline-capable field-data collection web app (PWA) on Azure (Static Web Apps + managed SQL), as a modern successor to legacy desktop field tools

  • Build and maintain the company marketing site in Quarto with automated CI/CD deployment via GitHub Actions

  • Established the service catalog, fixed-scope SOW process, hosting/maintenance tiers, and a sliding-scale “Mission Pricing” program providing reduced-rate and pro bono data infrastructure to under-resourced ecology and conservation labs

IT Computing Analyst I-III

University of Arizona – VGS Project | Tucson, AZ

March 2022–Present / Promoted to Analyst III in Nov of 2022 / Full-Time

  • Developed and deployed R Shiny applications for research data workflows, including data ingestion, management, manipulation, quality assurance, and interactive visualizations

  • Designed ETL pipelines for historical ecological datasets, parsing Excel files into structured SQL tables with QA/QC protocols built in

  • Maintained local and server-side databases (Microsoft SQL Server, SQLite), automated SQL scripts for data quality and reporting

  • Collaborated with federal agencies, universities and other non-profits on environmental data collection and technical support including maintenance of field data collection devices

  • Led and mentored a student data entry team, standardizing QA protocols for high-volume historical data transcription

  • Supported cross-platform software testing (Windows, iOS, Android) in a C# environment using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code; tracked bugs and fixes via Jira

  • Supported agile development workflows and sprint tasks across technical and field teams; led daily scrum meetings

  • Assisted in preparing quarterly reports for federal funding sources, documenting project progress, deliverables, and achievements

Other Experience

  • Rangeland Specialist

  • Lead Aquatics Field Ecologist

  • Fuels Monitoring Technician

  • Floor Manager/Server/Busser/Dish Washer

(See Résumé/CV below for complete work history)

Programming Projects

PROJECTS

Education

  • University of Arizona
    B.S. Natural Resources: Wildlife Conservation & Management (May 2017)

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