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My name is Nikko Siegfried, I am currently working as a GIS Specialist at Westwood Professional Services. I enjoy exploring new tools and methods to analyze various types of data. I am also passionate about implementing creative, yet functional, design to my projects. A continuous goal of mine is to expand my ability to make impactful differences through my work.

Thank you for visiting my portfolio!

Projects



San Francisco Films Web Map


Format: Web Map

Languages Used: Javascript, Python, HTML5/CSS

Software/Tools Used: Leaflet, MapBox Geocoding API, relational DB structure, Bing image downloader python package

Downtown Duluth Underutilized Land Potential


Format: ESRI Story Map

Languages Used: Python

Software/Tools Used: Adobe Illustrator, ArcGIS Pro, ESRI Story Maps, financial insights

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Interstate Topology and Urban Morphology


Format: PDF Presentation

Languages Used: Python

Software/Tools Used: ArcGIS Pro, Matplotlib

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Map of Africa


Format: PDF Map

Software/Tools Used: ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Illustrator


Writings



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MySQL Performance Tuning


Strategies to measure and improve My SQL performance using a bike shop dataset


In the Works



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Cribbage Game


Format: Web Game

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Predictive Model for Single Family Homes in Los Angeles


Format: TBD

Resume


An experienced GIS professional focused on building a strong technical background in detail-oriented analysis, automation, and data visualization. Works closely with people in diverse professional backgrounds to implement accurate and innovative GIS solutions.

Work Experience

GIS Specialist

Westwood Professional Services
  • Used Python and Model Builder scripts to automate collection, standardization, analysis, and uploading of large and often uncleaned spatial data
  • Organized and maintained data using both ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online while regularly pulling data using the ArcGIS REST API
  • Constructed technical reports, presentations, and planning documents related to engineering and survey projects
  • Learned new software such as Survey123 and VertiGIS Studio to collect and deploy spatial data
October 2023 - Present

GIS Intern

State Cartographer's Office
  • Collaborate in a team of four to create a high-resolution flood and exposure vulnerability map for Ashland County in northern Wisconsin
  • Populated, organized, and managed a multi-layer geodatabase used for hazard mitigation, resource allocation, vulnerability assessments
  • Develop a survey for regional leaders and emergency managers to assess areas of need in flood exposure vulnerability analysis
  • Actively contributed to team planning and execution, applying relational database structure organization using defined keys
October 2022 - May 2023

GIS Intern

High-Road Strategy Center
  • Collaborated with a team of academics and students to create a municipal financial analysis report promoting more efficient and equitable development
  • Collected, cleaned, and analyzed datasets for 18 municipalities to construct 3-D financial analysis visualizations
  • Managed and automated analysis implementing geodatabases and ModelBuilder
  • Researched data analysis and presentation methods related to spatial municipal analysis
June 2022 - May 2023

Skills

GIS-Specific
  • ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Enterprise | ModelBuilder | ArcGIS Online | Esri StoryMaps | QGIS | VertiGIS Studio | Survey123 | Global Mapper
Other Software
  • MySQL | Microsoft Products (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams) | git & GitHub | Adobe Illustrator
Programming Languages
  • Python
    • Arcpy | Geopandas | GDAL | Pandas | NumPy | scikit-learn | Matplotlib | Seaborn | RegEx
  • Javascript
    • Leaflet | Mapbox GL | JQuery
  • HTML5/CSS
    • Bootstrap
  • R & RStudio
  • SQL
  • Arcade

Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Majors
  • Cartography and Geographic Information Systems (B.S.)
  • Physical Geography: Earth Systems and Environmental Processes (B.S.)
Certificate
  • Environmental Studies
Related Coursework
  • Advanced GeoComputing and Geospatial Big Data Analytics - Learned new ways to store, process, and analyze geospatial data using python. Utilized different APIs including Flickr, Google Earth Engine, Geemap, and more.
  • Data Science Programming II - Learned to create tree and graph data structures to represent hierarchical data and implement algorithms for efficiently searching these structures. Learned and utilized techniques like logging, benchmarking, web scraping, and A/B testing.
  • Environmental Remote Sensing - Learned techniques for lidar data visualizations and processing. Utilized machine learning, post-processing, object-based analysis, and accuracy assessments on remote sensing imagery.
May 2023
Resume PDF

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Let me know!

(734) 604-4158

nikkosiegfried@gmail.com