Welcome to my CV

Below are the opportunities, experiences, and projects that I’ve been involved with during my academic and professional career. While I’ve only been working in the field for the past ~5 years, I’ve had the great pleasure to expand my leadership and technical involvement to create a diverse concoction of both wildlife and vegetation field skills.

 Work Experience

  • Estes Park, CO | 3 seasons

    Biological Science Technician (GS-7) | April 21, 2026 - Current

    Biological Science Technician (GS-7) | April 20, 2025 - October 25, 2025

    Biological Science Technician (GS-6) | April 21, 2024 - November 2, 2024

    Following my internship as a Landscape Ecology Member at Rocky Mountain National Park, I knew I wanted to pursue future employment within the National Park Service. I was hired in 2024 as a GS6 co-lead, and from there have grown to my current position as a GS7 crew lead for the Large Mammal Ecology program.

    Within the Large Mammal Ecology program, I have had the pleasure of being involved with a wide-variety of projects from vegetation monitoring, to fence maintenance, to game camera deployments for moose abundance estimates, to radio telemetry, to moose field anesthesia and necropsy, and more. As mentioned, I’ve received more leadership experience over the years, as I’ve been promoted upwards in federal service. Much of my current position revolves around coordinating daily field crews, managing and analyzing data, training staff and volunteers, and doing public outreach for the program.

  • Estes Park, CO | April 2023 - October 2023

    For the summer season of 2023, I served as a Stewards Individual Placement intern through Conservation Legacy. My placement was within Rocky Mountain National Park and the workgroup I was involved with was the Elk & Vegetation Management Program. Through this internship I had the opportunity to explore both wildlife and vegetation assignments, from detailed plant surveys to large mammal captures.

  • Fort Collins, CO | May 2022 - December 2022

    Throughout the summer of 2022, I worked as a fisheries field technician located on a private ranch near Kremmling, Colorado. During this internship I was heavily involved with electrofishing techniques with both backpacking and tote barge forms, PIT tag population estimates, food web sampling using Surber samplers and rock scrubbing, and general fish processing (measuring length and weight, taking fin clips and scales, and completing gastric lavage for diet collection).

  • Fort Collins, CO | January 2022 - May 2022

    In this position I worked extensively with incoming and current undergraduate students in the Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation biology Department at Colorado State University. Often this entailed giving students advice, solving scheduling problems, and completing administrative paperwork for the college. I also graded coursework for the New-to-the-Major seminar class for first semester students at CSU.

Education

Colorado State University

Bachelor’s of Science - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology

Fort Collins, CO | August 2020 - December 2022

Pikes Peak State College

General Biology

Colorado Springs, CO | August 2018 - August 2020

Volunteer Experience

  • Estes Park, CO | February 2023 - April 2023

    Recently I’ve been involved with an ongoing project located in Rocky Mountain National Park to support their Elk & Vegetation Management Program. This role is centered around monthly counts alongside prescribed routes to support population, abundance, and density estimates of elk herds located in and around the park.

  • Fort Collins, CO | March 2022 - Current

    Starting in March 2022, I have been involved in a volunteer position with the Biology department at CSU organizing and digitally cataloging their specimen collection. This collection, while not actively being used as research, has been used to teach mammalogy, ornithology, herpetology, and invertebrate biology at this university. At the time of entering this position, the collection had been vastly disorganized and no formal catalog, paper or digital, existed. This required a team of students and faculty to create and manage a working spreadsheet of the current inventory of skins, pelts, skulls, mounts, and more.

  • Fort Collins, CO | August 2022 - Current

    This opportunity matches upperclassmen with first-generation or under-represented students to promote community and engagement in the Warner College of Natural Resources at CSU. I’ve served as a non-traditional role working to support both mentors and mentees during weekly meetings.

  • Fort Collins, CO | January 2022 - May 2022

    In this position I worked extensively with incoming and current undergraduate students in the Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation biology Department at Colorado State University. Often this entailed giving students advice, solving scheduling problems, and completing administrative paperwork for the college. I also graded coursework for the New-to-the-Major seminar class for first semester students at CSU.

  • Fort Collins, CO | August 2022 - December 2022

    In the Fall of 2022, I was asked to become an undergraduate teaching assistant for the mammalogy lab. This entailed preparing myself for each lab's activities and material, as well as aiding students with questions, especially distinct identification techniques.

  • Colorado Springs, CO | August 2020 - November 2020

    At Rocky Mountain Field Institute, I volunteered over 26 hours to help sustain nature trails for the greater Southern Colorado Region. I lifted heavy materials (rocks, boulders, tools, etc.), broke ground for new trail systems, and learned ecosystem restoration techniques primarily to improve rock climbing belay platforms along the famous climbing area Shelf Road.

Honors

Outstanding Senior

Warner College of Natural Resources

Fort Collins, CO | Fall Semester 2022

Dean’s List

Pikes Peak State College

Colorado Springs, CO | Spring Semester 2020

Xi Sigma Pi

Warner College of Natural Resources

Fort Collins, CO | Member since September 2021

Gearshifter Award

Garden of the Gods Visitor & Nature Center

Fort Collins, CO | September 2018

Legacy Projects

*Documents available, on request.

  • Large Mammal Ecology Program - RScript for summarizing and cleaning game camera data

  • Elk & Vegetation Management Program - Moose Capture/Tracking Tips & Tricks

  • Elk & Vegetation Management Program - 12 Common Willows in Rocky Mountain National Park, Summary Key

Academic Projects

  • CSU All64 Project - Highlighting students and alumni from CSU from each county in the state of Colorado

  • NR300 - Biological Diversity Poster, “Whaling in the Faroe Islands”

  • FRS310 - Forest and Rangeland Ecogeography Poster, “Ny-Alesund Ecosystem”

  • FW370 - Design of Fish and Wildlife Projects Group Proposal, “Body Condition in Sea Otters (Enhyrdra lutris due to Sea Urchin Rich Diets”

  • NR319 - Geospatial Applications in Natural Resources Individual ArcGIS Project, “Potential Habitat Sites for American Pika (Ochotona princeps) - Not-So-Big-Fun-Assignment”

Fisheries Internship Video

CSU Online reached out to our crew to film one of our field days at the spectacular Blue Valley Ranch in Kremmling, CO. Below is the promotional video they complied from both our project and many professors and labs that I was able to interact with during my time at CSU. You can see my cameo at around the 1 minute mark!