- FL125 Union - I am on the newsletter committee, I'm a trustee and I help organize the bulletin board in our Regional Office.
- The Forest Service
Worker's Association - I love being the FSWA more than anything
because of the fundraisers we would arrange and organize for the
families in the Forest Service. I love helping people who needs it.
- Work Related Experience -
- They've broaden my horizons and put my skills to good use. I first
worked on their new national database/application for Forest Monitoring Plans. I helped
populate and improve the monitoring database.
- They later had me do
various Excel spreadsheets, where I learned that I loved organizing and creating
spreadsheets and entering functions.
- I later on was given the task of
plotting various vegetation and terrains on ArcGIS. It was really simple
ArcGIS work where I just made points and populated their attributes. So
far, I've done it for three forests.
- I also helped schedule and arrange a
PC Deployment Replacement for our whole Regional Office.
- In addition to plotting for different forests,
I am working with ArcGIS in NRIS to migrate data from ArcGIS
shapefiles, and their tabular data, into a Threatened and Endangered Species
database. I've learned so much more than just plotting points in
ArcGIS. I've learned about transformations (datums), Unions, dissolving
polygons, editing polygon attributes, and a few more things. I'm still
learning at the moment.
- I'm was kept pretty busy with Printer Replacements
for the whole Region 4, which isn't just our Regional Office but all of
the ranger districts in our Region in Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. Me and my coworker had to create a spreadsheet, figure out who should have which printer under a certain budget and made sure that people who really needed printers got them.
- I've
participated in a week long ArcGIS meeting and monitoring database
conferences. Very long, it lasted all day for the whole week, slightly boring but I've learned so much more about GIS.
- Occasionally, I will help other people in our office with
computer, printer, or copying troubleshooting.
- Oh and if I'm lucky, I'd be in stuck in the building on lockdown because some idiot decides to stick an envelope with white substances inside the IRS mailroom. That taught me how scary being a government worker can be...even if it's a small role. :]
