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Jenkis resume — File 23-0831
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DORIS JENKINS, EIT
BACKGROUND
2021-Present
Climate Resiliency Engineer II
Weston & Sampson
2020-2021
Green Infrastructure and
Stormwater Staff Engineer I
Hatch
2019-2020
Water Resources Staff Engineer Il
Kleinfelder
2018-2019
Water Resources Engineering Intern
Aldrich + Elliot
2017
Wastewater Engineering Intern
Fuss & O’Neill
EDUCATION
2019
Bachelor of Science
Environmental Engineering
University of Vermont
PROFESSIONAL
REGISTRATION
ISA Certified Arborist® No-7583A
Vermont, Engineer-in-Training
LEED Green Associate Accredited
Doris currently serves as a Climate Resiliency
Engineer and Certified Arborist for Weston &
Sampson’s Water group. She is responsible for
providing technical assistance for urban forest
resiliency plans, vulnerability assessments, climate
baseline and projection analyses, low-impact
designs and stormwater solutions, and state-wide
resilience standards development. Doris specializes
in integrating natural resources as well as built
infrastructure into planning decisions and designs.
SPECIFIC PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Resilient Urban Forest Master Plan and Urban Heat
Island Assessment, Lowell, MA. Co-manager for the project, coordinating with
the client and community partners to achieve project goals. Leading the field data
collection effort for city-owned trees and working with community partners to aid in
data collection through a Survey123 application. Reviewing field data and existing
urban heat island data to identify priority planting areas, and preparing a master
plan and maintenance guidelines for the City. (ongoing)
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment, Department of Conservation and
Recreation (DCR), Boston, Massachusetts. Provided technical assistance to
support the assessment of the climate change vulnerability of DCR owned and
managed properties. Attended client meetings to discuss project goals, performed
ArcGIS analysis of assets; and evaluated assets’ exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive
capacity to identify vulnerabilities associated with multiple climate hazards: coastal
flooding, precipitation, heat, winter weather, and wind. Developed a vulnerability
assessment tool to be used by DCR on future assessments of additional properties.
Prepared recommendations for additional studies.
Resilient Massachusetts Action Team (RMAT) Technical Assistance Contract,
Statewide, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
(EOEEA). Technical team member for the RMAT project that will advance priority
actions from the State Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Plan (SHMCAP)
for climate resilient projects throughout the Commonwealth. Responsible for
exposure data analysis and testing the beta tool.
Installation Energy and Water Plan, Massachusetts Army National Guard (MA
ANG), Massachusetts. Applied the SHMCAP hazard data to the Massachusetts’s
Army National Guard assets into an integrated GIS tool to assess vulnerability of
mission critical energy and water infrastructure. Developed existing conditions
reports for over 20 sites to provide a basis of understanding for programmatic and
design recommendations to improve resiliency and reduce risk to the assets.
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DORIS JENKINS, EIT
Experience with Prior Employers
Stormwater
Management
and
Streetscape
Improvements,
Somerville,
Massachusetts. Worked on a collaborative team of engineers and landscape
architects to mitigate flooding through the installation of green infrastructure in
highly impervious areas. Work included delineating sub-catchments for potential
green infrastructure locations, followed by sizing and placing infrastructure based
on optimized loading ratio calculations. Details, designs, and maintenance plans
were drafted for bioretention basins, tree trenches, subsurface infiltration trenches,
and porous pavement. Oversaw construction, tree installation, and final plantings.
(with previous employer)
Urban Forest Field Assessments, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Led a field team
to survey existing tree canopy for tree health, height, and diameter-at-breast-height
to inform future planting and construction decisions. Field assessments included
identifying canopy gaps and providing recommendations for placement of new
trees and nature-based solutions. (with previous employer)
Urban Forest Canopy Assessments, Throughout North America. Worked on a
diverse team of spatial analysts editing large LiDAR datasets. Projects included
assessments comparing impervious and pervious surface areas, quantifying
forest canopy growth / loss over time, and development of land-use datasets. (with
previous employer)