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Education

2019 Sep - 2022 May

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Master of Science in Geographic Information Science

Minor in Computer Science

2014 Sep - 2018 May

Northwest A & F University (China)

Bachelor of Science in Geographic Information Science

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Work Experience

2020 Sep - 2022 May

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

B1G Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Geoportal Project

Graduate Research Assistant

Worked as a Research Assistant at the Map Library to help develop and maintain the Big Ten Geoportal with other 12 research institutions from across the Big Ten Academic Alliance. Responsibilities include but not limit to: 

  • Constructed Python scripts in harvesting and transforming geospatial metadata into spreadsheets

  • Migrated GeoBlacklight metadata schema to Aardvark version

  • Automated the creation of OpenIndexMaps GeoJSON for both county-shape and regular polygons

  • Attended GeoBlacklight workshop, and presented at the annual Geo4LibCamp meeting in 2020 with metadata migration

     

2017 Sep - 2018 Mar

ESRI China Information Technology Co. Ltd.

Department of Technology

Intern

Worked as an intern to help maintain the ArcGIS localization documents. Promoted the Chinese version of the software by researching and writing technical documents based on localized documents and software. Also participated in company technology promotion activities such as New Product ArcGIS 10.6 Internal Instance Sharing Report, 15th ESRI China User Congress etc.

Professional Skillset

GIS Tools

  • ArcGIS Pro

  • ArcMap

  • ArcGIS Online

  • QGIS

  • PostGIS

  • Mapbox

  • OpenStreetMap

  • ...

MS Office

  • Word

  • Excel

  • Power Point

  • OneNote

Programming

  • Python

  • SQL

  • HTML | CSS | Javascript

  • Google/ArcGIS Javascript API

Others

  • Agile Project Managment

  • Version Control [ Git | GitHub ]

  • Cloud Service [ GCP | AWS ]

Operating System

  • MacOS

  • Windows

  • Linux

Language

  • English

  • Mandarin / Chinese

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