David Tavernini
Fire Management Officer at Parks Canada
Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Tavernini is a Fire Management Officer with nine years of hands-on experience leading wildland fire crews and managing fire and vegetation programs for Parks Canada. Trained as an MSc student in forestry at UBC and a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science, he blends field expertise—chainsaw work, crew leadership, incident command—with quantitative skills in GIS, lidar analysis, and ecological research on stream and riparian systems. His background spans tactical wildfire operations, program management, and academic teaching, giving him a rare combination of operational leadership and research rigour. Known for strong communication and team-building under stress, he also brings practical workshop skills (tree-felling and small-engine maintenance) and a passion for mentoring and outdoor pursuits that keeps him engaged in applied conservation work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Forestry, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Forestry at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (B.Sc., hons.), Environmental Science, Great Distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc., hons.), Environmental Science, Great Distinction at The University of Lethbridge
English
Github Skills (2)
stat7
data-wrangling3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dtavern/grainsizeR
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
dtavern/ok_trib
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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