610 Summit ave · Apt. 207 · St. Paul, mn 55102
(651) 214-0928 ·
Ashley Nepp
objective
I hope to use my education and cartographic work experience to mold a career in the GIS field. I have a great passion for map layout and design as well as creating useful products to facilitate planning, research or policy initiatives. I feel that with my variety of GIS projects, education and experience in conjunction with my cartographic knowledge and experience, I can be a valuable asset to any GIS department or cartography firm.
education
Sept 2004-May 2008 Macalester College St. Paul, MN
B.A. in Geography; Minor in Anthropology
Member of Gamma Theta Upsilon Geography Honors Society
Cumulative GPA: 3.26.
Sept 2001-June 2004 Stillwater Area High School Stillwater, MN
National Honor Society Student
Work experience
December 2008-Present Nepp & Hackert, LLC Minneapolis, MN
Legal Assistant
As legal assistant I draft: answers to interrogatories, no-fault arbitration petitions and discovery, summons, complaints, marital termination agreements, minor settlement agreements, and various other correspondence as needed.
January 2008-December 2008 Hedberg Maps, Inc. Minneapolis, MN
Production Assistant
Hedberg Maps, Inc. is a small cartography firm that specializes in custom cartography products and has a small line retail maps.
While at Hedberg Maps, I was responsible for data research for upcoming projects, proofing and verifying data on existing maps, and creating various maps. I helped set up and initiate the use of a GIS station and was primarily responsible for the GIS work at the firm.
I was involved in many projects over the year; I researched, created databases, and produced college and high school locator maps for the Twin Cities Youth Sports Atlas. I updated and formatted several Dex phonebook maps and retail city street reference maps.
January 2007-January 2008 Macalester Geography Dept St. Paul, MN
GIS Computer Lab Assistant
While working in the GIS computer lab I assisted GIS students with homework and map production. Troubleshooting technical problems with ArcGIS and assisting students with map layout and design were frequent aspects of my days in the lab.
January 2007-December 2008 Macalester Geography Dept St. Paul, MN
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to GIS and Cartography
I assist students with homework, help create and discuss lecture plans with the professors, and lead discussions about current GIS issues. During the professors’ absence, I instructed the students in their GIS lab assignments, while also troubleshooting and assisting them with their final projects. This included collecting census data, converting Excel files and dbf files to Microsoft Access files. I also assisted with grading student lab assignments and maps.
Other Relavent Experience
January 2007-May 2007 “Access and Availability” St. Paul, MN
GIS project for St. Paul Department of Education
During my junior year at Macalester, I was enrolled in an advanced GIS course, GIS: Concepts and Applications. This course was a collaboration project with St. Paul’s Second Shift Initiative and St. Paul Public School district. My responsibilities included collecting information on after-school programs in St. Paul then compiling and managing a database of these programs. I also was responsible for organizing and creating the formal presentation for the Mayor of St. Paul, Chris Coleman.
January 2008-May 2008 “Make It Happen” St. Paul, MN
Senior Capstone Article
For my senior capstone, I wrote an article entitled Make It Happen: Fundamentals of Cooperative Community Development Projects that was part of a collaborative geography department project, The Crow River Watershed: An Annotated Atlas. The article was about the community’s process of replacing an old traditional dam with a fish ladder in Hutchinson, MN.
April 2008 Introductory Elementary-level GIS Tutorial St. Paul, MN
Personal Project
I created a two-part GIS tutorial for a fourth grade student; the first part was to familiarize the student with maps types and spatial representation and the second was hands-on GIS. During the tutorial the student learned how to add shapefiles and data tables to an Arc document, how to geocode and introduced the basics of visual hierarchy.
SKILLS
Computer Applications: ArcGIS, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Creative Suite, and familiar with Microsoft Access, and File Maker.
REFERENCES
Tom Hedberg, President, Hedberg Maps, Inc.
1500 Jackson Street NE Suite 314, Minneapolis, MN 55413
(612) 706-9686
Nat Case, Cartographer, Hedberg Maps, Inc.
1500 Jackson Street NE Suite 314, Minneapolis, MN 55413
(612) 706-9686
Holly Barcus, Professor of Geography, Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105
(651) 696-6906
Birgit Muehlenhaus, GIS Instructor and Lab Manager, Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave, St. Paul, MN 55105
(651) 696-6906