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Joerodriguez12 Waze Biography

Milestones:

  • Joined Waze August 2015
  • First edits: July 2016
  • First edits in Michigan: August 2016
  • R3 Promotion: November 2016
  • R4 Promotion: May 2017
  • R5 Promotion: January 2018
  • First MI AM granted: December 2016
  • First IL AM granted: December 2016
  • LAM D7 IL: March 2017
  • GLR-PLN Collaboration Area: Minnesota AM April 2017
  • GLR-NWR Collaboration Area: I-5 Corridor AM January 2018
  • MAR-GLR Collaboration Liaison: October 2017
  • NWR-GLR Collaboration Liaison: January 2018
  • SM of Illinois: January 2018
  • Waze App Beta Leader: February 2018
  • 2018 GLR Meetup Planning Committee: June 2018
  • Waze and Spothero Beacons & PLA project: September 2018

Projects:

  • Waze Illinois Media Team
    • Help Manage the Waze Illinois Facebook and Twitter accounts collaboratively with other editors
  • Waze Illinois Cafe Committee
  • World Series Game Day closures
    • Activities included monitoring police scanners and submitting closures based on radio chatter
  • Protests in Chicago
    • Monitor Police scanners during various protests throughout Chicago to provide real-time closure data
  • Minnesota FC Project: Redwood County, Watawon County, Martin County, Faribault County
  • HOV/HOT launch group
    • Assisted the HOV/HOT team in adding various HOV lanes in Minnesota to help set standards for HOV mapping
  • LiveStream WME - Broadcast WME live to any user around the globe, answering questions from other editors and interacting with viewers while editing. Also ran a questionnaire prize stream and made a form for viewers to answer questions and receive Waze swag as prizes. While streaming I would teach different techniques of editing and discuss how other regions differ in certain aspects as well as get input from other editors while streaming. 
  • Waze Apple Carplay Alpha Tester: Helped test he first stages of Apple Carplay with a select group of users from around the world before the September 2018 release
  • Chicago Beacons Project: Helped CDOT install 450+ beacons around 5 miles of Chicago. Then worked with staff to map each beacon and add it to the Waze database for launch in September 2018
    • Lead my own team of CDOT members to install beacons while Staff was monitoring different sections
  • Chicago PLA Project: Work with a small team at SpotHero, to map every parking lot on the lower level streets correctly, as well as all other parking lots in the Chicago area

Meetup Presentations:

  • GLR Meetup October 2018: Chicago Waze Beacons Project
  • PLN Meetup October 2018: Chicago Waze Beacons Project
    • Presented to both the PLN Region & Canadian Meetup
    • Presented in collaboration with Waze staff

Meetup Attendance:

  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Grand Rapids November 2016
  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Lansing April 2017
  • Illinois Waze Cafe: Joliet January 2017
  • GLR Meetup Indianapolis: August 2017
  • Wisconsin Waze Cafe: August 2017
  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Frankenmuth November 2017
  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Farmington Hills January 2018
  • NA Champ & Beta Meetup: San Francisco March 2018
  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Grand Rapids March 2018
  • Michigan Waze Cafe: Grand Rapids August 2018
  • GLR Meetup Chicago: October 2018
  • PLN Meetup Minneapolis: October 2018
  • NOR Meetup Morrisville: November 2018
  • MAR Meetup Tysons Corner: November 2018

Map Raid Participation:

  • India February 2017
  • West Virginia March 2017
  • Indiana Spring Cleaning Mini Raids April 2017
  • East Michigan Cleanup Raid
  • Philly MapRaid September 2017
  • Turkey-VAN October 2017
  • Zambia November 2017
  • MapRaid X: November 2017
  • Mapraid Russia: February 2018
  • West Virginia Map Raid 2: April 2018
  • Texas PUR Map Raid: October 2018

Mentoring:

  • R3/AM Mentee w/ Kestrel: November 2016
  • R4 Mentee w/ doryphore_6: February 2017- May 2017
  • R5 Mentee w/ doryphore_6: September 2017 - January 2018
  • Tag-team Mentor: mhh60 R3>R4 August 2017 - December 2017
  • Tag-team Mentor: Veritas27 R3>R4 August 2017- January 2018
  • Tag-Team Mentor: Mvan231 R2>R3 December 2017 -
  • Tag-Team Mentor: mhh60 R4>R5 June 2018 -
  • R4 Mentor: Happy_Lyn R3>R4 March 2018 -