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Fennimore Ashcombe-Darko

Junior GIS Analyst
Boise, ID, United States

Professional Summary

Junior GIS Analyst with 2+ years building spatial datasets, web maps, and field-data workflows for county planning and natural-resource clients. Skilled in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, Python (ArcPy, GeoPandas), and PostGIS; cut parcel-update turnaround 40% by automating QA checks. Comfortable translating messy field data into clean, decision-ready maps for planners, engineers, and the public.

Employment History

Junior GIS Analyst
Snake River Spatial Solutions · Boise, ID
Jun, 2024
Maintain a 210,000-feature parcel and zoning geodatabase for 3 county clients, publishing weekly updates to ArcGIS Online. Wrote ArcPy topology and attribute QA scripts that cut parcel-update turnaround from 5 days to 3 and reduced edit errors 62%. Built 14 ArcGIS Dashboards and StoryMaps for wildfire-risk, floodplain, and road-maintenance programs, used by 300+ staff. Configured Field Maps and Survey123 forms for 25 field crews, replacing paper logs and saving ~120 staff hours per quarter. Georeferenced and digitized 1,800 historical plat sheets to support a county addressing overhaul. Supported a FEMA floodplain map revision by running HEC-RAS result overlays and impacted-structure counts.
GIS Technician (Contract)
Idaho Rangeland Conservation Partners · Twin Falls, ID
Aug, 2023 · May, 2024
Classified 4,600 sq mi of sagebrush habitat from Sentinel-2 imagery using supervised classification in ArcGIS Pro (86% accuracy). Cleaned and merged 9 years of GPS wildlife-collar data (1.2M points) into a PostGIS database with documented metadata. Produced 40+ print-ready grant and permit maps meeting BLM cartographic standards.
GIS Intern
City of Boise Planning and Development Services · Boise, ID
May, 2022 · Aug, 2022
Audited 12,000 address points against utility billing records, resolving 780 mismatches. Built a QGIS model to flag permit applications inside wildland-urban interface zones. Assisted with public-meeting maps for the Comprehensive Plan update.

Education

B.S. Geography, GIS Emphasis
Boise State University · Boise, ID
Aug, 2019 · May, 2023
GPA 3.6. Capstone: Modeling Treasure Valley urban heat islands with Landsat 8 LST.

Skills

ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Online
QGIS
ArcPy
Python
GeoPandas
PostGIS
SQL
Survey123
Field Maps
Remote Sensing
Georeferencing
Cartography
Topology QA
Data Governance
Excel

Courses

Esri ArcGIS Pro Associate Certification
Esri
Jun, 2024
IS-00022: GIS for Emergency Management
FEMA Emergency Management Institute
Mar, 2023
GIS Specialization (4 courses)
UC Davis via Coursera
Dec, 2022
Project: Boise Greenbelt Accessibility Map
Personal open-source project
Sep, 2023
Open-source web map of ADA access points along the Boise Greenbelt built with Leaflet and GeoJSON; averages 2,400 monthly views.