Darren Murphy

 

5500 Friendship Blvd Apt 2025N, Chevy Chase, MD 20815

703-622-2448 • darren.murphy.a@gmail.com • www.linkedin.com/in/darrenmurphyxdrafter

 

OBJECTIVE

 

Pursuing a career as an entry-level Drafter / Draftsman, seeking to deliver analytical, Computer-Aided (CAD) drafting, and presentation skills that will benefit a company within the engineering, building construction, or manufacturing industries.

 

EDUCATION

 

·               Certificate, Computer-Aided Drafting for the Building Professional, GPA: 3.6

Montgomery College, Rockville, MD                            06/2013 – 12/2015

·               Graduate Certificate, Geographic Information Sciences          

George Mason University, Fairfax VA                                                     09/2007 – 05/2011

·               Master of Arts, Urban and Regional Planning                                               

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL     09/1999 – 08/2002

·               Bachelors of Arts, Biology; Bachelors of Science, Environmental Science and Policy  

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL     06/1994 – 08/1997

 

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE

 

·               Autodesk's Revit 2016 - Architecture module

·               Autodesk’s 2016 - Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) module

·               Autodesk's AutoCAD 2016

·               ESRI’s ArcGIS for Desktop 10

·               Microsoft’s Office 2010 - Access, Excel, Word, and Visio

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Map Specialist Level III, Collins Consulting, Inc.                                             04/2012 – 03/2013

Alexandria, VA

 

Supported the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Map Information eXchange (FMIX) by providing both general and technical guidance to the general public regarding FEMA’s complex regulatory Letter of Map Amendment application (LOMA) and Letter of Map Revision-Based on Fill (LOMR-F) processes.

 

·               Disseminated information by phone and email in accordance to FEMA's legally approved guidelines.

·               Processed approximately 40-50 daily inbound calls in accordance to the company’s procedures and metrics.

·               Responded, in accordance to FEMA – approved language, to 10-12 e-mails within a daily 1-hour time frame per the company’s established metrics.

·               Resolved disputes between two or more parties pertaining to the FEMA-administered National Flood Insurance Program’s flood insurance requirements.

·               Acted as a liaison for FMIX-related problems as reported by the public, such as a mission-critical website that was experiencing technical issues.

 

GIS Analyst II, District of Columbia Government, Geographic Information System          01/2010 – 04/2012

Washington, DC

 

Assisted with the management of District of Columbia Government, Geographic Information System’s Master Address Repository, a complex geospatial database of building addresses, intersections, city blocks, residential units, and other location identifiers within Washington, DC.

 

·               Created automated geoprocessing models to run routine updates to specific, mission critical geospatial datasets that resulted in approximately 60% reduction in the amount of time.

·               Edited, updated and/or created geospatial data sets that were in accordance to DC GIS’s standards

·               Respond to user-reported discrepancies, researched owner information, and relayed important changes to public/private entities, such as the U.S. National Park Service and Google.

·               Assisted in an annual project with the United States Postal Service to ensure address accuracy of Washington, DC’s primary and secondary addresses, which resulted in a 4% match rate increase from 2010 to 2011 with an overall match rate of 95%.

·               Provided technical writing and editing support for the GIS Task Lead in publishing MAR-related online documentation and publications.

 

GIS Associate I, Michael Baker Jr., Inc.                             05/2006 – 06/2009

Alexandria, VA

 

Provided technical and administrative support, as part of FEMA’s Flood Map Modernization program, to process Letters of Map Revision (LOMR) - MT-2 applications.

 

·               Processed LOMR - MT-2 applications, using ESRI’s Production Line Tool Set for ArcGIS 9.2.

·               Completed 6 - 8 LOMR - MT-2 applications per month in accordance to my company’s set metrics

·               Reconciled and posted database updates to FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer geospatial database.

·               Acted as a liaison between the Lead Engineer, the Quality Control Analyst and the FEMA official, who issued the final approval.

 

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCES

 

Urban and Regional Planner/Project Manager, Loudoun County Government           08/2005 – 02/2006

Leesburg, VA

 

Coordinated federal, state, and local agency referral comments and applicant responses under specified County and State statutory timelines; Presided in pre-application meetings for the purpose of providing guidance to an applicant about the allowable density/intensity in accordance to the County’s Growth Management Plan and Zoning regulations; Negotiated proffers (cash contributions from the applicant) with rezoning applications and wrote conditions of approval for special exception applications; Prepared various land use applications (rezonings, zoning ordinance modifications, special exceptions and commission permits) pursuant to either the County’s GMP and/or Zoning Regulations for official public hearings.

 

Urban Planner I, Collier County Government                        03/2003 – 08/2005

Naples, FL

 

Reviewed land use applications (rezonings, conditional use) for compliance with Collier County’s Growth Management Plan (GMP) as part of the land use review process; Presented land use applications before the Collier County Planning Commission and the Board of County Commissioners; Presided in land use amendment application meetings for the purpose of providing guidance to an applicant about the allowable density/intensity in accordance to the County’s GMP; Involved in updating specific Elements of the County’s GMP, such as the identification of unsafe housing, hurricane evacuation assessments, limiting public expenditures in coastal high hazard areas, land use inventory.