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Alicia Billings

PO Box 321
Port Orford, OR 97465
alicia@lotuswebconsulting.com
http://www.lotuswebconsulting.com

Goal

To foster the flow of information from the source to the user by creating and promoting delivery systems.
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Computer Programs, and Languages Used

Purpose Type
Web Design HTML
MySQL
PHP
Javascript
Perl
CGI
Dreamweaver
MS Front Page
Graphical Programs Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
MS Publisher
Scribus
Other C++
Purpose Type
Word Processing
and
Office Programs		 MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint
MS Works
iWork (Pages, Numbers)
OpenOffice
Bookkeeper
Quicken
Databases MYSQL
MS Access
MS SQL Server 2008
GIS ArcView
ArcInfo
ArcExplorer
Google Earth
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Experience

Lotus Web Design and Consulting
Owner/DesignerNovember 2007 - Present
Duties:
  • Design and implement websites using graphics, html, php, mysql, and javascript
  • Design and implement database systems for other applications
  • Billings, accounting, taxes, and advertising
  • Coordinate any contract work
Highlights:
  • Presentation about the importance of fishing community involvement in regulation creation and change at the 6th International Fisheries Observer and Monitoring Conference in Portland, Maine (July 2009)
  • Created a Content Management System that requires authentication for clients to have more control over the content of their website. This was expanded for an application for the Port Orford/North Curry County Chamber of Commerce to allow members to login and maintain their business and account information
For a portfolio, please visit http://www.lotuswebconsulting.com/portfolio
Port Orford Ocean Resource Team
Ocean Project DirectorFebruary 2008 - June 2009
Duties:
  • Create scientific protocols, procedures, and reports
  • Design data sheets
  • Literature searches
  • Data Analysis
  • Tech Support for network and computers
  • Website (creation and content)
  • Public communication (newsletter, newspaper articles and press releases, public resolutions and comment, presentations)
  • General Office
Highlights:
  • Wrote a proposal that was one of only two picked by the Oregon State Legislature to be implemented as a pilot Marine Reserve
  • Networked computers and printers to ease movement of documents and shared printing
Contact Leesa Cobb at 541.332.0627
West Coast Groundfish Observer Program
Groundfish ObserverMarch 2007 - November 2007
The West Coast Groundfish Observer program provides trained biologists to work aboard commercial fishing vessels and produce statistically valid, fishery-dependent data of the catch. Duties:
  • Monitor for marine mammal interactions and other endangered species
  • Record fishing effort information (location, time, data, depth)
  • Estimate total catch, retained, and discarded weights
  • Sample for composition of species in the catch and document reasons for discard
  • Record weight, length, sex, and take dissections from tagged fish
  • Maintain logbook
  • Take biological samples such as sex, length, otolith, and tissues
Highlights:
  • Created an online, anonymous survey for observers
Contact Jon McVeigh at 707.443.1884 for job qualifications and David Edick at 800.483.7310 for employment records.
Dynamac Corporation, Inc.
Marine TechnicianJune 2005 - October 2006
Data Collection:
  • Navigating small boats in estuaries
  • Conduct conductivity, turbidity, and depth (CTD) scans
  • Collect fish, water, and sediment samples
  • On-boat underwater video collection
Laboratory Analysis:
  • Identification of invertebrates using a dissecting microscope
  • Analysis of total suspended solids (TSS) and grain size (GSA)
  • Computer analysis of CTD scans
  • View underwater video for later analysis
Other:
  • Long days beginning early in the morning, extended travel, diligence to tide charts and weather reports, and using GPS to navigate to collection site were required
  • Quality Control of entered data, from spreadsheets and databases
Highlights:
  • Hired as a three month seasonal worker and a position was created for me to stay on
  • Learned the value of quality of data and the storage vessels of that data (ie databases and spreadsheets
Contact David Beugli at 503.338.0807 or Tom Moser at 541.754.4463
Other employers include:
  • United States Forestry Service (Forestry Aide) - basic GIS experience
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Wildlife Intern) - basic GIS and GPS navigation skills
  • North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program (Groundfish Observer)
  • University of Kansas (Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Computer Lab Technician, Herbarium Worker, and Undergraduate Data Collection)
If you would like to know about these positions, contact me!
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Education

University of Washington, online
Graduate Certficates in Web Technology Solutions and Database ManagementJuly 2009

Completed two certificates to learn how to use databases for scientific data and to use the web as a means of disbursing that data
University of Alaska, Anchorage
Fisheries Practicum ClassOctober 2001

Three credit class for completing a three month contract in the North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
B.S. Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyMay 2001

Overall GPA of 3.6 in three years of attendance with 26 credits transferring from courses earned while in high school
Johnson County Community College
College Now Program and Early Release from high schoolMay 1998

Overall GPA of 4.0 in both advanced placement courses taken at the high school and courses taken at the college during Early Release
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Professional Associations and Accomplishments

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References Available Upon Request