Emily O'dean
Engineering Manager at NBMG-UNR
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily O'dean is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience turning messy geoscience and ecological data into clean, actionable assets for research and public agencies. She led the Great Basin Science Sample and Records Library and geoscience data efforts at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, combining domain expertise from a forestry MSc with a computer science foundation to bridge field science and software. Her career spans hands-on software engineering and QA roles through to data science fellowships, giving her a rare mix of production engineering discipline and ecological research rigor. Emily excels at building workflows and teams that make complex datasets discoverable and reusable for scientists and policymakers. She’s based in Reno, brings practical project leadership to mission-driven work, and often applies software testing and data-management practices gleaned from earlier engineering roles to improve reproducibility in geoscience. An understated strength is her ability to translate field-collected observations into structured systems that support long-term research and stewardship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoComputer Science, Computer Science at Whitworth University
Github Skills (24)
ecology10
doi10
eml10
arctic10
r-package9
data-repository9
metadata9
open-data9
science8
adc7
data-processing6
traits4
data-management4
python4
biodiversity3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NBMG-UNR/resourcespace-migration
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
Code and tasks related to migrating GBSSRL into a CMS
Contributions:19 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
cms
NBMG-UNR/nbmg_tools
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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