Resume of Laura C. Moore (detailed version)

laura@lauramoore.com

Career highlights:

• Founding Partner at Pancha Enterprises LLC, a Sensibly Green consulting firm.
• Vice President of Community and Environmental Relations at Sun Services, a green construction services company in Prince George’s County, 2011.
• Senior policy aide on environment, development and zoning issues for Prince George’s County Council Member, 2008–2010.
• MIT Class of 1991.
• Conversational in French and Spanish.
• U.S. Naval officer 1991–1994, stationed in the Philippines and Panama. Secret Clearance. Honorable Discharge.
• Masters in Entomology from University of Maryland, 2010. Biology teaching experience and entomology field and lab experience.
• President, Graduate Student Body, University of Maryland, 2006–2008. Spearheaded lobbying efforts on state–level collective bargaining legislation for graduate employees, lecturers, and adjunct professors. Lobbied state legislature and University administration on graduate student housing, stipends, and working conditions. Initiated representation of graduate students on College Park Foundation’s Board of Trustees.
• Worked on ultralight aircraft-led crane migration project, 2000–2001.
• Worked at Patuxent Widlife Research Center as an animal care intern (Whooping and Sandhill Cranes), as a biotech in the Native Bee Lab, and as Web and Database Designer for Managers’ Monitoring Manual.

Education:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology: BS Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1991
• Department of Defense Information School: Public Affairs Officer Course, January – March, 1993
• University of Maryland: Masters in Entomology, 2010

Affiliations and leadership:

• Vice President, Board of Directors, Greenbelt Homes, Inc. (GHI), a 250-acre housing cooperative with 1600 homes and $9.3 million annual budget
• Board of Directors, Greater Beltsville Business Association (GBBA)

Experience:

• Sensibly green environmental solutions for your building and redevelopment projects.
• Greening communities through collaboration.

• Responsible for all aspects of community relations, including media and communications, maintaining relationships with local organizations and serving as main point of contact for community concerns and questions.
• Developed and oversaw governmental relations strategy, served as principle liaison to elected officials and state and county agencies, and as Sun’s principle advocate in the public arena.
• Handled permitting and licensing issues with state and county agencies, and actively monitored compliance with existing regulations, standards and industry best practices.
• Revamped and designed web site and online presence, including social media.

• Senior policy aide on development, zoning and environmental issues for Council Member during his time as Council Chairman, Vice Chairman, and Chair of Transportation, Health, and Environment Committee.
• Reviewed all aspects of proposed developments, including storm water management (SWM) plans, landscape requirements, parking and transportation requirements, and Adequate Public Facilities (APF)
• Achieved consensus on development projects by working with developers, stakeholders, community members, planning staff, incorporating smart growth principles and addressing community concerns.
• Helped initiate, draft and edit key zoning and environmental legislation, including storm water regulations, zoning use changes, agricultural preservation, density provisions in sector and master plans, municipal zoning, and zoning code revisions and clarifications.

• Spearheaded lobbying efforts on state–level collective bargaining enabling legislation for graduate employees, lecturers, and adjuncts.
• Achieved graduate student representation on Board of Trustees of College Park Foundation, and served as first graduate student Trustee.
• Managed two employees and six vice–presidents.
• Joined forces with other student groups to improve state–level student housing legislation.
• One of 3 students on East Campus Community Review Steering Committee, 2007.
• Served on Search Committee for Vice President of Administrative Affairs, 2007.
• Created Maryland Teachers and Researchers, an American Federation of Teachers union for graduate employees, lecturers and adjuncts. Recruited organizers and members, made recruiting presentations at meetings.
• Media coverage in Washington Post, New York Times, and local and student papers.

• Researched effects of wildflowers on insect control in soybeans.
• Presented research at regional and national conferences.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Principles of Biology I and II. Taught two three-hour lab sections per semester, each section including twenty students. Teaching responsibilities include lecturing, running experiments, and grading all assignments.

• Development and design of online Managers’ Monitoring Manual which provides guidance to land managers and others in designing wildlife monitoring programs.
• Development and design of relational databases, and making data web–interactive, using Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL and Macromedia ColdFusion.
• Developed workable database for Grassland bird breeding use of managed grasslands on National Wildlife Refuges within Region 5 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

• Field/lab assistant with Native Bee Lab, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD.
• Managed various bee field projects, including site selection, sample collection, bee identification, and data entry.
• Managed volunteers and interns.

• Intern with Whooping Crane Program
• Participated in costume-rearing of Whooping Crane chicks, including teaching chicks to eat and drink, and monitoring and recording behavior.
• Participated in care of Sandhill Crane and Whooping Crane breeding flocks, including daily checks, feeding, and pen maintenance.

• Monitored aircraft–led Sandhill crane chicks at post–migration site in Florida, including behavioral observations, radio tracking, and bird handling. Trained volunteers on bird monitoring and radio telemetry, and organizing volunteers to complete repair work on pen.
• Participated in costume-rearing of 8 experimental Sandhill crane chicks, including guiding them on acclimation walks, and monitoring and recording behavior.
• Participated in health checks and banding of chicks.
• Participated in one-by-one release of chicks into wild flocks, including scouting potential release sites, clearing release through landowner when necessary, assisting in retrieving bird for release, and assisting in actual release.
• Participated in recaptures of released birds.
• Tracked released chicks using radio telemetry and recorded behavioral observations daily.
• Worked closely with project partners including International Crane Foundation and Operation Migration.

• Network Administrator and head of Technical Support for Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, a 75-person educational non-profit
• Managed all aspects of day–to–day operations of LAN, including deployment and training.
• Managed 85 PC’s and Macintoshes on a Novell/NT/Unix network.
• Managed one technical support technician and temporary staff.

• PC Support Technician for VHB, a 500-person Civil engineering firm.
• Supported 450 networked PCs in 9 offices on the Eastern Seaboard.
• Wrote support documentation and user guides for in–house applications and intranet.

• Responsible for testing new software products, technical documentation, configuring computers, and coordinating collection of voice data.
• Quality Assurance and testing for SpeechMail, first shipping product. Tracked bugs and managed temporary QA staff.
• Wrote all technical support documentation for SpeechMail.
• Coordinated collection of over 100,000 voice utterances to train speech-recognition software.
• Key member of human factors core team which designed call flow for crucial speech-recognition product.

• Responsible for all Public Affairs functions for all U.S. Navy and Marine Corps activities in Central and South America.
• Managed and trained two Navy photographers and one civilian Public Affairs Specialist.
• Increased Navy coverage in Southern Command’s weekly newspaper from quarterly to weekly.
• Deployed to Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Colombia to cover Naval activities.
• Published in numerous Stateside papers.
• Chaired 18–person committee which organized 1993 Navy Ball in Panama, attended by over 400 people.
• Command Duty Officer approximately weekly. In charge of all base activities, including base operations and security.

• Responsible for all administrative functions for 300–person Air Operations Department of Navy’s central aviation activity in the Western Pacific.
• Directly supervised four U.S. enlisted and three foreign national personnel.
• Managed command’s physical fitness program for over 950 people. Expanded remedial training, resulting in a 57% improvement in the pass rate.
• Received Letter of Commendation from Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Philippines for extensive involvement in regional community projects in neighboring Filipino communities.
• Participant in drawdown and withdrawal of military presence from the Philippines.
• Command Duty Officer monthly. In charge of all base activities, including flight operations, security, and VIP arrivals and departures.

Writing samples:

A sampling of articles written while a Public Affairs Officer stationed at US Naval Station Panama Canal:

• Combined Navy effort clears away sunken ship, April 1993
• USS Grasp sailors lend Hondurans a helping hand, April 1993