User:Roadtechie/bio

Editing Milestones:

• Began editing: June 07, 2014
• First AM granted: Fall 2014
• Large Area Manager (LAM), SE Ohio: June 15th, 2015
• State Manager (West Virginia): June 26th, 2015-present
• Formal Mentor: July 13th, 2015 - present
• Editor Rank 5 (R5): September 24th 2015 - present
• State Manager (Indiana): January 15th, 2016 - present
• MAR Place Name Harmonization Moderator: July 25th, 2016 - present
• Country Manager (USA): August 9th, 2016-present

Mapraids

• 2014
  • New York City, NY
  • Los Angeles, CA
• 2015
  • MegaMapRaid (MMR)
    • Assigned to Washington, DC
  • Boston, MA
  • Ohio Training MiniMapRaid
    • Assisted with leading/mentoring.
• 2017
  • West Virginia Raid
    • Involved in Raid from the very beginning stages of planning. Was a key part in a successful raid along with ldriveskier, JasonN899, and Stephenr1966
  • Indiana MiniMapRaid
    • Involved in raid from the very beginning stages of planning. Huge thanks to Enfcer74 for a successful raid
  • Great Lakes Annual Meetup Raid
    • Involved with raid from the very beginning stages of planning. Huge thanks to Enfcer74 and Ehepner1977 for a successful raid

Virtual Emergency Operations Center (VEOC)

• 2016
  • Hurricane Matthew: primarily as a CM closer
  • West Virginia Flooding: formally requested VEOC activation as SM of WV. Led response effort in evenings.
• 2017
  • Hurricane Harvey/Irma: primarily as a CM closer

Meetup Attendance

• 2016
  • Great Lakes Regional Meetup 2016, Indianapolis, IN (registered, had to cancel last-minute for family emergency)
  • South Atlantic Regional Meetup 2016, Charlotte, NC (attendee)
• 2017
  • North American Champs 2017, San Diego, CA (attendee)
  • Mid Atlantic Regional Meetup 2017, Washington, DC (attendee)
  • Great Lakes Region Meetup 2017, Indianapolis, IN (Meetup Planning Committee -- Raid Coordinator)
  • South Atlantic Regional Meetup 2017 (registered, Nov 2017), Louisville, KY (attendee)

Mentoring

• enfcer74 (R4 -> R5 SM)
• ldriveskier (R2 -> R4 SM)
• phoenixhawke (R2 -> R4)
• mrnicguy (R3 -> R4)
• kwrigh01 (R4 -> R5)

Projects

• Nationwide Diverging Diamond Interchange (DDI) Compliance
  • Key participant in GLR-led development of new JSG guidance for DDI's
  • Created comprehensive list of all DDI's nationwide
  • Once JSG guidance for DDI was promoted from personal namespace to USA WoP, contacted leadership in all 30+ states with DDI's -- across multiple multiple regions -- to communicate that the guidance had been updated, and offered to help ensure all interchanges were compliant with new guidance

• Indiana Speed Limit Implementation
  • With the help of the tools terrypurdue, vtpearce, and dummyd2 developed, generated maps for tracking speed limit implementation
    • Editors were not excited about SL implementation and the overwhelming number of segments that would need work. I jumped in and gave a helping hand to show SMs aren't immune to having to do that hard work, too! Inspiring lower ranks to join in the effort and eventually brought us from a low of 33th place to 16th in scored completion, from the Waze speed limit sheet.

• West Virginia Speed Limit Implementation
  • With the help of the tools terrypurdue, vtpearce, and dummyd2 developed, generated maps for tracking speed limit implementation
    • Editors were not excited about SL implementation and the overwhelming number of segments that would need work. I jumped in and gave a helping hand to show SMs aren't immune to having to do that hard work, too! Inspiring lower ranks to join in the effort and eventually brought us from a low of 47th place to 7th in scored completion, from the Waze speed limit sheet.

• MAR Locking Standard
  • Formed a consensus with MAR RCs, SMs, and editors to regionalize the segment locking standard.

• Communication Platforms
  • Created (with stephenr1966) the first ever WV Google Hangout
  • Created (with xanderb) the first ever KY Google Hangout
  • Created (with stephenr1966) the first ever Mid-Atlantic Region discord server
  • Created (with stephenr1966) the first ever American Territories Region discord server

• Inter-Regional Relationships
  • SAT
  • Was granted temporary (which became permanent) AM access for all of Kentucky to assist with anything the Kentucky editors needed during a short hiatus of Xanderb's
  • MAR
  • Worked closely with Ohio State Managers to mentor and guide MarkR4468's Waze career to position of NE Ohio LAM and WV SM.

• West Virginia
  • Personalized the West Virginia wiki immediately upon assuming SM role along with Stephenr1966. Added Major Road Naming Standards (i.e. WV-### and CR-###/##), 1/4/8 UR Management Policy, Minimum Lock Standards, Walking Trails/Pedestrian Boardwalk Guidance, Counties and Cities listings with links to GIS sites and PLs.
  • Heavily involved with the Validator Localization for WV (Big thanks to Xanderb for coding it for us) and NameNorm (WV) development (Big thanks to sketch for that one)
  • Currently working to implement Large Area Manager program

• Indiana
  • Heavily involved with the Validator Localization for Indiana (Big thanks to Xanderb for coding it for us)
  • Implemented Large Area Manager program shortly after assuming SM role.
  • Worked alongside with jdeyoung and enfcer74 in implementing a CR-XXX standard for Indiana.