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Cordelia Haverford-Mbeki

Junior GIS Analyst
Sacramento, CA, United States

Professional Summary

Junior GIS Analyst with 2+ years building spatial datasets, web maps, and field-data workflows for water, land-use, and wildfire programs. Skilled in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, PostGIS, and Python (ArcPy, GeoPandas) automation that cuts manual editing time. Known for clean metadata, careful QA/QC, and maps that non-technical stakeholders can read at a glance.

Employment History

Junior GIS Analyst
Sacramento Valley Water Authority · Sacramento, CA
Jul, 2024
Maintain a 48,000-feature water distribution network geodatabase (mains, valves, hydrants) in ArcGIS Pro with versioned editing and attribute rules. Wrote ArcPy scripts that automate weekly hydrant and valve inspection updates from Field Maps, cutting manual editing by about 9 hours per week. Built 6 ArcGIS Dashboards for main-break tracking and leak response used daily by operations and the board. Ran topology and attribute QA/QC on 3,200 as-built edits, reducing data errors flagged by engineering by 41%. Georeferenced and digitized 1,100 legacy paper plat sheets, closing a 15-year gap in service-line records for lead and copper reporting. Supported the 2025 Urban Water Management Plan with service-area, population, and demand-zone maps.
GIS Technician (Contract)
Placer County Community Development · Auburn, CA
Jun, 2023 · Jun, 2024
Updated parcel, zoning, and address-point layers for 2,400+ permits and lot-line adjustments using county survey records. Produced 120+ public-hearing exhibits and vicinity maps for planning commission and board packets on tight deadlines. Cleaned and loaded 14 years of permit history into PostGIS, enabling the county's first spatial permit-trend analysis. Helped migrate 30 legacy MXD projects to ArcGIS Pro with standardized symbology and layer files.
GIS Intern
CAL FIRE Northern Region (fictional placement) · Redding, CA
Jun, 2022 · Sep, 2022
Digitized fuel-break and defensible-space inspection points from Survey123 data for 3 fire-prevention units. Built a QGIS model that flagged inspection gaps by parcel, helping crews prioritize 600+ follow-up visits. Assembled daily incident perimeter map packages for briefings during the summer fire season.

Education

B.S. Geography, concentration in Geographic Information Science
California State University, Sacramento · Sacramento, CA
Aug, 2019 · May, 2023
GPA 3.6. Capstone: Wildfire evacuation route vulnerability model for El Dorado County.
Certificate in Geospatial Data Science
UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education · Davis, CA
Jan, 2024 · Dec, 2024
Applied coursework in spatial statistics, Python geoprocessing, and web mapping.

Skills

ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Online and Enterprise
QGIS
PostGIS and PostgreSQL
Python (ArcPy, GeoPandas, Shapely)
SQL
ArcGIS Field Maps and Survey123
ArcGIS Dashboards and Experience Builder
Georeferencing and digitizing
Topology and QA/QC
Metadata (FGDC and ISO 19115)
Cartography and map layout
Raster analysis and LiDAR basics
FME basics
Excel and Power BI

Courses

Esri Technical Certification: ArcGIS Pro Foundation
Esri
Mar, 2024 · Mar, 2024
GISCI GISP-in-training pathway (coursework)
GIS Certification Institute (GISCI)
Jan, 2025 · Jun, 2025
FEMA IS-100 and IS-700 (ICS / NIMS)
FEMA Emergency Management Institute
May, 2022 · May, 2022

Languages

English · native
Swahili · intermediate

Extra-curricular Activities

Mapping Volunteer
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Jan, 2021
Traced 1,500+ building footprints for disaster-response mapping tasks.
Selected GIS Projects
Open hydrant-flow web app; Sacramento tree-canopy change study
Open hydrant-flow web app: ArcGIS Experience Builder app showing flow-test results by pressure zone for fire marshals. Sacramento tree-canopy change study: compared 2016 and 2024 NAIP imagery to map canopy loss by neighborhood.