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Vanessa Koether

Ms. Vanessa Koether is a GIS and CAD Specialist with 11 years of experience in GIS project management, mapping, and database development. Ms. Koether routinely performs and directs spatial analysis, database design, elevation modeling, imagery registration, coordinate conversions, custom datum creations, and data collection. Ms. Koether also provides GIS technical support and training to clients. Her mapping experience includes tax jurisdictions, voting districts, zoning, land use, crime assessment, flood, drainage, marine navigation, utility, geology, topography, vegetation, wetland determination, threatened and endangered species, mining expansion and reclamation, and other thematic map generation. Ms. Koether is skilled in using the most current software and hardware tools and geographic database resources to bring GIS solutions to real-world projects.

Education

• B.A. Geology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
• M.S. Geology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio
• ESRI-sponsored training in ARC/INFO

Summary of Experience

Areas of Expertise

• GIS Analysis and Project Management
• GIS Database Development and Maintenance
• Thematic mapping
• Modeling
• CAD Drawings

Technical Credentials - Software

• ESRI suite: ArcGIS, ArcInfo, ArcView, ArcExplorer, ArcReader, ArcCAD.
• Autodesk suite: Autodesk MAP, AutoCAD, AutoCAD View, Volo View Express.
• Microsoft suite: Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word.
• Other: Adobe Acrobat, CorelDraw, Corel Photo-Paint, ERMapper, Khoros, Magellan DataSave, Total Data Station, Quicksurf.

Publications

Feature Article: "Mining with GIS: Developing a Baseline GIS", Texas Mining, April 2000.

Conference Presentation and Publication: "Comparison of a gold prospect, Corral Canyon, Churchill County, Nevada with a known gold deposit, Rawhide, Mineral County, Nevada from laboratory measurements and LANDSAT TM spectra", Environmental Research Institute of Michigan Eleventh Thematic Conference on Applied Geologic Remote Sensing, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 1996.