Leigh Holcombe

979-574-6032 (mobile)

lholcombe@northwestspatial.com

Skills Overview

Recent Experience

Front End Developer, Paladin Staffing/Charles Schwab; Austin, TX — Oct 2015-Current

Developed emails, landing pages, and charts for a large financial company. Contract position offered through staffing agency.

Web Developer, Infinity Sports & Entertainment; Bryan, TX — Feb 2013-July 2015

Developed and maintained web sites for a small software company using a proprietary Content Management System (CMS) focused on sports and arena clients. Also participated in design and development of proprietary CMS functionality.

Graphic Designer, Stuart Burbach & Associates; College Station, TX — May-September 2012

Created and edited maps, charts, illustrations, and other data visualization graphics as a part-time freelance consultant.

Web Marketing Analyst, WorkForceLogic/Google; Remote from Renton, WA — 2009-2010

Analyzed marketing data and website quality for a large search engine. Contract position offered through staffing agency.

GIS Analyst and Cartographer, City of Woodinville; Woodinville, WA — 2008-2009

Unpaid class project at the University of Washington to design and implement an innovative technique to estimate tree canopy coverage for a small northwestern city.

Electronics Technician, TDI-Brooks Intl; College Station, TX — 2006-2007

Purchased, repaired, and maintained survey electronics (sonar, GPS) and field computers for an offshore petroleum exploration company. Official title was Field Electronics Manager.

Research Assistant, Texas A&M Univ Oceanography; College Station, TX — 2004-2006

Used open source tools (including GMT and MBSystem) to create maps of the Gulf of Mexico using bathymetric survey data. Many of these maps were published by Texas Sea Grant as a multimedia CD-ROM.

Education

University of Washington Extension — Seattle, WA

Received GIS graduate certificate in 2009. Coursework included GIS, cartography, software project management.

University of Colorado — Boulder, CO

Received Bachelor of Arts in geography in 1999. Coursework included GIS, cartography, snow hydrology, plant biology.

Achievements