Name: Limei Piao
Title: GIS Application Developer/Database Administrator
Phone: 406-243-6777
Email:
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Limei Piao is GIS Application Developer / Database Administrator at the National Center for Landscape Fire Analysis, College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana
EDUCATION:
MS in Computer Science, 2000 - August 2003, University of Montana, Missoula.
Completion of the following ESRI Course:
- "ArcSDE Administration for SQL Server"
- "Building Geodatabase II"
- "Geodatabase Design Concepts"
- "Developing Application with ArcGIS Server (.NET)"
- "Introduction to Geoprocessing Scripts Using Python"
- Completion of Microsoft Course "Microsoft .NET 2.0"
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PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES (Transcript ID#: 1827058):
Brainbench's Certified MS SQL Server 2000 Administration
Brainbench's Certified ASP.NET, master level
Brainbench's Certified Visual Basic.NET, master level
Brainbench's Certified C#
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AWARD:
First place award in category "Embedded GIS Application" at 2005 ESRI International User Conference as a main developer of MAGIS (Multi-Resource Analysis and Geographic Information System).
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
GIS Application Developer / Database Administrator
May 2007 - present
GIS Application Developer / Database Administrator at National Center for Landscape Analysis, the University of Montana, Missoula. Duties include:
- Designs, implements, and maintains experimental geospatial applications that integrate databases, Geographic Information Systems, web applications, and fire models using MS SQL Server; MS.NET; ArcGIS technologies, including VB.NET/C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, and other MS technologies, such as COM and VB; ESRI ArcGIS technologies, including ArcObjects, ArcGIS Server, and ArcSDE server; .NET; C; FORTRAN; and Java;
- Identifies new technologies and solutions that meet project goals and maintain Center competitiveness in Geospatial Sciences
- Administering NCLFA's MS SQL Server DBMS system
- Administering server GIS system, including ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server
Computer System Analyst
Jan 2004 - May 2007
Computer System Analyst at College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula.
Duties include:
- Developing a web/database based research project for estimating fuel characteristics, fire hazard, and treatment effectiveness and costs using MS SQL Server, MS .NET, XML, Java, and professional forest science models including FVS fuel models, prescription treatment models, cost calculating models , etc.
- Designing and developing SQL Server databases for different projects.
- Designing and administrating Geodatabases using ESRI ArcSDE, ArcInfo, and SQL Server.
- Designing and developing ArcGIS web applications for different project using .NET, ArcSDE, ArcGIS Server and ArcObjects.
- Administrating ArcGIS Server.
Research Specialist
May, 2002 - Dec 2003
Research specialist at and school of Forestry, University of Montana, and Federal Forest Service Lab, Missoula
Project: Multi - Resource Analysis and Geographic Information System (MAGIS).
- Utilized Microsoft Visual VB and ESRI ArcObjects to implement the serial graphical user interfaces for MAGIS-Express.
- Developing serial COM ActiveX controls for MAGIS-Express wizards to manipulate geospatial data.
- Utilized ASP.NET and SQL Server, JavaScript to create on-line defect tracking web application for software team members to report effects during the testing process.
Research Project: MIPIII solver performance testing
- Running MAGIS MPIII and LP solver performance testing on Geospatial models to establish scenario set up protocols to improve the efficiency of the solvers.
Project: Water Yield and Sediment Model version III (WATSEDIII)
- Using VB and FORTRAN to develop WATSEDIII application, a software to aid in Forest Service planning efforts and for use by cooperating agencies and landowners concerned with cumulative watershed effects.
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TECHNIQUES AND SKILLS:
Programming Language & Technology:
VB6, VB.NET, C#, VBA, VFP, SQL, ASP, ASP.NET, Java, C++/C, ESRI ArcObjects, VBScript, JavaScript, FORTRAN, HPF, HTML, DHTML, XML, CSS, XSL, and Shell Scripting
Operating System:
Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX, and Linux.
Software & Tools:
Visual Studio, Visual Studio.NET, JBuilder, ESRI ArcGIS applications, ArcInfo, Visual InterDev6.0, MS Visio, Visual SourceSafe.
Database & Web Server:
SQL Server 2000, MySQL, MS Access, Dbase IV, Crystal Report, MS VPF; ODBC, OLE DB, ADO.NET, ADO, JDBC, SQL, Stored Procedure, DTS packages, ESRI ArcSDE server, ESRI ArcGIS Server.
Object-Oriented Software Engineering:
Unified Modeling Language (UML), Object-oriented programming (OOP), and full life cycle of software engineering development.
Client-Server & Distributed Application:
COM/DCOM, and Multi-Tier Architecture.
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PRESENTATIONS:
Piao, Limei, Developing Web Mapping Applications with ArcGIS Server and .NET Technologies for Projects in NCLFA. Intermountain GIS Conference 2007. Tamarack Lodge, Donnely, Idaho. April 2 - 6 2007.
