Dr. Timothy Niblett

Experience

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  California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)

  Jul 2007 - Jun 2008

  I worked for Dr.'s Foroohar, Hiltpold, Hopper, and Snetsinger in the History Department grading assignments as well as showing films and other technology related issues. I worked as a student researcher for Dr. Linda Vanasupa researching the history of the College of Engineering of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo of which the material and paper I created were used in a promotional video used by the college to highlight the achievements of the students to various visiting industry executives.

  • Student Assistant

    Sept 2006 - Jun 2008

  • Student Researcher

    Jul 2007 - Sept 2007
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  UCSB Geography

  Sept 2008 - Jun 2010

  Teaching Assistant

  I was the teaching assistant for a wide variety of courses offered within the Geography department at UCSB. These included Geography 3A (Introduction to the oceans and atmosphere and their role in the Earth's climate and its weather patterns. Focus on the flows of solar energy through the ocean and atmosphere systems. Human impacts of the Earth's climate are also introduced.) Geography 3B (Study of the interactions among water, landforms, soil, and vegetation that create and modify the surface of the Earth. Impacts of physical environment on human societies and humans as agents of environmental change) Geography 8 (Overview of global warming and climate change processes. Description of complex relationships between scientific, technological, economic, social, political, and historical facets of global warming and climate change. Introduction to the concept and practice of climate modeling) Geography 12 (Maps and Spatial Reasoning - Surveys properties of maps, emphasizing map use and interpretation. Lecture topics include map abstraction, generalization, map projections, and symbolization. Special purpose maps, thematic maps, and the display of quantitative and qualitative information is considered) Geography 20 (The Geography of Surfing - Social and physical science concepts manifested in the sport of surfing. Topics include wave generation and forecasting, economics of the surf industry, spatial search, strategic behavior under crowding, territorialism, and the generation/diffusion of regional surf cultures) Geography 101 (Transportation Futures - Introduction to transportation problems involving energy, the environment, congestion, infrastructure, and future trends. Historical perspective on transportation innovations and their impacts on urban form. Reviews current problems, including the movement of freight and the development of transit-oriented neighborhoods) Geography 191 (Introduction to "Operations Research") Show less

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  UCSB Geography

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2013

  Graduate Student Researcher

  I have worked under various grants from the University of California Transportation Center working on Bus Routing and Access problems.

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  UC Santa Barbara

  Jul 2013 - Jul 2016

  Graduate Student Instructor

  I was responsible for developing and presenting curriculum in a university level course. My responsibilities included: having office hours to discuss and assist students with the course materials, classroom lectures, grading exams, and student evaluation.

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  Arogi

  Apr 2016 - Jul 2016

  DevOps, Algorithms, and Software Development

  I was responsible for maintaining the server environment and interfacing with the application developers to make our web mapping tools work as seamlessly as possible. I worked extensively with Docker and GitHub coding primarily in Python although I also wrote some shell script. I also contributed to MapZen's Valhalla routing system through conversations with their developers concerning bugs that we found.

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  GIS Consultant

  Oct 2016 - now

  GIS Analyst

  I currently write code to process spatial data in python. I also work frequently with QGIS, an open source geospatial software package that is comparable in functionality to ESRI ArcGIS. My clients give me problems to work on and I deliver results tailored to their specifications.

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  Stanislaus County

  Sept 2017 - now

  • Software Developer Analyst

    Jan 2021 - now

  • GIS Specialist

    Sept 2017 - Jan 2021