Alyssa is an Environmental Sciences professional with a background in Information Technology, Natural Resources Management, and Renewable Energy. She has worked with leading national companies and organizations in residential solar as a site surveyor, technician, and Jr. AutoCAD systems designer. Over her professional and academic career, she has been awarded LNT certification in Ethical Recreation (2011), NABCEP’s Associate in Photovoltaics (2017-2021), held memberships with the Sierra Club, Leave No Trace, and Thousand Trails, as well as an internship with the Student Conservation Association inventorying species of trees and plants in the plains of Colorado (2020). She is currently working for a global telecommunications company as a Notary Public (2 yrs) and ROW Clerk (1 yr), and attending Arizona State University online as a Geospatial Information Sciences/Systems (GIS) major. Her academic background in addition to ASU includes Grossmont College (San Diego, CA) and Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, MI) where she pursued Music Performance, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Sciences, and Geology. Her professional goal is to be involved in forestry and land management and work with the Federal, State, and County governments for preservation, natural resources and recreational land ethics.
Personal Bio
As an avid outdoorswoman and artist with a knack for organization and planning, she fancies painting, gardening, and photography in her free time as well as thoroughly enjoying activities such as hiking and camping, and participating in archery and fishing with her young son. She volunteers and chaperones with her child’s local Cub Scouts pack, utilizes her love of history, geography, and cartography for her road trip planning projects, as well as exploring her roots as her family’s apprentice historian and genealogist. With 80s & 90's pop culture classics like Jurassic Park, Dante's Peak, Indiana Jones and Twister influencing her childhood dreams, ending up in a STEM-based academic path was the natural direction. When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, her goal was a Park Ranger because of her love for animals and rocks. Family summer road trips cultivated her skills with navigation and identification and ignited her love of home-grown travel and thirst for knowledge. Throughout the decades, her love of wildlife and lithology has grown, but her umbrella of professional interests further embraces cartography, archeology, geology and paleontology. She still aims to be a Park Ranger even if she retires into it. Because sometimes life is not a straight path to your destination and isn't always the easiest nor shortest with plenty of obstacles to overcome. She attributes her collection of skills, interests, and experiences to her parents' support and knowledge (and the pivotal 90's science & natural disaster movies).
