Skylar Yu

GIS Analyst with 5 years of hands-on geospatial experience across local-government, infrastructure, and public-sector projects. Specializes in enterprise GIS, spatial data management, web mapping, field/asset data integration, and automation using ArcGIS Pro/Online/Enterprise, SQL Server, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python/ArcPy, and spatial QA/QC. M.S. in Geospatial Data Science & Sustainable Systems.

GIS Analyst at Flagler County (2025-03 – Present)

• Managed and QA/QC'd infrastructure and field/asset datasets including hydrants, pipe networks, drainage systems, parcels, and related county assets for engineering and operational teams.
• Built deep-learning land-use classification pipelines from centimeter-resolution UAV imagery covering 570 sq mi and 87,635 parcels, replacing manual digitization for countywide planning.
• Automated building-footprint extraction from training-data preparation through inference, CRS optimization, and QA/QC, producing a structure inventory for regional flood-resiliency analysis.
• Engineered a Python + webhook workflow translating Fire Marshal requirements into automated task assignments, saving ~100+ hours/year of manual coordination.
• Processed LiDAR for shoreline-change analysis and performed fire-station network analysis, supporting coastal-infrastructure protection and public-safety planning.

Sustainability Associate, Geospatial Modelling at Responsible Alpha (2024-08 – 2025-02)

• Built interactive TRI web maps with ArcGIS Online, Mapbox, JavaScript/HTML/CSS, and Story Maps, configuring layers, symbology, popups, filters, and project-specific views.
• Performed geospatial QA/QC and schema harmonization on multi-source datasets, validating attributes, geometry, and coordinate-system consistency.

GIS Intern at EarthDay.org (2024-06 – 2024-08)

• Developed a public ArcGIS Online + Experience Builder dashboard and optimized layer configuration to cut load times by 20%.
• Configured Survey123 field-data workflows supporting distributed teams and downstream web-map visualization.

Geospatial Analyst (Student Worker) at Los Angeles County, Chief Sustainability Office (2022-12 – 2024-04)

• Built a public ArcGIS Experience Builder dashboard for Los Angeles County urban-agriculture programs, translating requirements into clear map layers and interactive views.
• Wrote SQL screening queries and spatial selection workflows to identify candidate parcels for site planning.

GIS Analyst at Anhui QianMo Network Technology (2019-04 – 2020-08)

• Processed LiDAR and high-resolution imagery in Python for an environmental monitoring system; integrated multi-source datasets and maintained version-controlled workflows in Git.

M.S. in Geospatial Data Science & Sustainable Systems – University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability (2022-08 – 2024-05)

B.S. in Geography – Anhui Normal University (2016-09 – 2020-07)