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=== '''Milestones''' ===
Ldriveskier (Lisa) is a Rank 6, US Local Champ, US Country Manager, Mid Atlantic Region Multi State Manager, West Virginia State Manager, and Northeast Ohio Large Area Manager based out of Ohio.
* '''First edits''': February 2016
* '''R2 Promotion''': August 2016
* '''R3 Promotion''': November 2016
* '''First AM granted (WV)''': January 2016
* '''R4 Promotion''': March 2017
* '''LAM NE Ohio''': March 2017
* '''WME Beta tester''': April 2017
* '''Android Beta tester''': April 2017
* '''AM expansion (WV)''': May 2017
* '''Routing Beta Server tester''': August 2017
* '''State Manger (West Virginia)''': August 2017
* '''Formal Mentor''': August 2017
* '''R5 Promotion''': November 2017
* '''MAR MSM''': March 2018


=== '''Formal Mentoring''' ===
Goalː Help as much as possible without interfering.  I’m known to volunteer for any opportunity that I find out about.
* R4/AM Mentee with JustinS83
* R5/SM Mentee with Roadtechie
* Mentor for WazinBruce, R2->[R3/AM goal] - in progress
* Tag-team mentor for 
** mhh60, R3->R4 - complete, achieved R4
** kwrigh01, R4->[SM goal] - in progress
** Fweewayze94, R2->[R3/AM goal] - in progress
** bimmer4WDrift, R3->[AM/R4 Goal] - in progress
** AmericanaStorm, R2->[R3 goal] - cancelled
** Deafiebugboy1028, R2->[AM goal] - cancelled
** lilmamachris29, R1->[AM goal] - cancelled
* Proposed changes and provided updates for outdated information in various mentoring materials


=== '''Meetup Attendance''' ===
==='''Milestones'''===
* '''Ohio Cafe''', January 2017 (Columbus, OH)
* '''Mid Atlantic Regional''', August 2017 (Washington DC)
* '''Great Lakes Regional''', August 2017 (Indianapolis, IN)


=== '''MapRaid Participation''' ===
*'''First edits''': February 2016
* '''Tennessee''' (September 2016) - Wiki page
*'''R2 Promotion''': August 2016
* '''West Virginia''' (March 2017) - Wiki page
*'''R3 Promotion''': November 2016
** Management/Planning team, Group assistant. 
*'''First AM granted (WV)''': January 2016
** Was a key part in a successful raid along with Stephenr1966, Roadtechie, and JasonN899.
*'''R4 Promotion''': March 2017
* '''China MMR''' (August 2017) - Wiki page
*'''LAM NE Ohio''': March 2017
* '''GLR '''(August 2017) - part of 2017 GLR meetup
*'''WME Beta tester''': April 2017
* '''Pennsylvania''' (September 2017) - Wiki page
*'''Android Beta tester''': April 2017
** R4 Mentor (basemap raid for R1-R3 editors only)
**'''Waze Beta Top Contributor''': February 2020, September 2020, May 2021, June 2021
* '''Mapraid X''' (November 2017) - Wiki page Forum post
*'''AM expansion (WV)''': May 2017
** Assigned to Botswana team
*'''Routing Beta Server tester''': August 2017
** Made the overall HoF
*'''State Manager (West Virginia)''': August 2017
* '''Russia '''(February 2018) - Wiki page Forum post
*'''Formal Mentor''': August 2017
* '''South Carolina''' (April 2018) - upcoming
*'''R5 Promotion''': November 2017
*'''MAR MSM''': March 2018
*'''NM AM''': October 2018
*'''USA CM''': November 2018
*'''USA LC/R6 Promotion''': October 2019
*'''MAR ARC''': May 2020
*'''Beta Leader''': July 2020
*'''Tier 1 (ARC w/ Beta Leader)''': July 2020
*'''Beta Leader Suggestion Moderator (SugMod)''': October 2020
*'''Northern Pakistan AM''': November 2020
*'''Moderator for USA Facebook page''': March 2021
*'''Waze Product Expert (Silver)''': July 2021
*'''Waze Product Expert (Diamond)''': January 2022
*'''Global Champ''': July 2022


=== '''Projects''' ===
==='''Formal Mentoring'''===
* '''Virtual Emergency Operations Center (VEOC)'''
 
** Hurricane Matthew (October 2016): Actively found and inputted information into the closure sheet, helped bring other editors up to speed when they came to help, encouraged other editors to come to the VEOC to assist, suggested improvements.
*R4/AM Mentee with JustinS83
** Hurricane Harvey (August 2017): Actively promoted awareness of the VEOC and  recruited other editors to help.
*R5/SM Mentee with Roadtechie
** West Virginia flooding (February 2017): Found and entered many closures, organized local resources and help within MAR. Activated the VEOC upon a second flooding event within a week. Helped with transition to VEOC.
*Mentor for WazinBruce, R2->[R3/AM goal] - cancelled
* '''WV Flooding''' 
*Tag-team mentor for 
** July 2017 - widespread WV flooding within my AM, handled myself
**mhh60, R3->R4 - complete, achieved R4
** February 2018 - widespread WV flooding, see VEOC above
**kwrigh01, R4->[SM goal] - complete, achieved SM
** Working with WV LAM hippocampuslol to collect data from past flooding events to develop a resource for determining areas likely to flood with the intent to have a quicker response time for future flooding events. 
**Fweewayze94, R2->[R3/AM goal] - completed mentoring, but largely inactive
*  '''Wazeopedia primary contributions'''
**mhh60, R4->[R5/SM goal] - achieved SM
** Contraflow reconfiguration (proposed new page) - <nowiki>https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1636&t=226511</nowiki>
**WeezieAW, R1->[R3 goal] - achieved R2, went inactive
** Editing restrictions page overhaul assistance - Forum
**Umarth735, R2 -> [AM/R4 goal] - achieved AM/R4
** Editing restrictions page update - Forum
**bimmer4WDrift, R3->[AM/R4 Goal] - stalled
** Rank template updates - Forum
**AmericanaStorm, R2->[R3 goal] - cancelled
** Junction Style Guide/Interchanges guidance change - Forum
**Deafiebugboy1028, R2->[AM goal] - cancelled
** GLR roles page assistance - Forum
**lilmamachris29, R1->[AM goal] - cancelled
* '''Ohio Turnpike Project'''
*Proposed changes and provided updates for outdated information in various mentoring materials
** Participated in project to map and track large Turnpike projects involving reconfiguring road into crossovers. Resulted in proposing a page for the Wazeopedia on contraflow reconfiguration and collaborating with other editors on ideas they had.
 
* '''MAR-LAM'''
==='''Meetup Attendance'''===
** The topic of Large Area Mangers (LAMs) had been broached in the past with no results. I formed a consensus with MAR RC/ARC and SMs to create the new position within my first week of becoming SM based on my experience as a GLR LAM. The MAR-LAM role was formally adopted a month later. 
 
* '''West Virginia CCP work'''
*'''Ohio Cafe''', January 2017 (Columbus, OH)
** Communicate with unofficial CCP in Ohio County (OCSO2, deputy sheriff in Ohio County - has closure access in WME)
*'''Mid Atlantic Regional''', August 2017 (Washington DC)
** Feb 2018 - made strides in communicating with WVDOT
**Solicited questions for Q&A
*** Responded to many @WVDOT/@WV511 Tweets that Waze had the road closures up to date, promoting the fact that Waze had the closures up to date in the map.
*'''Great Lakes Regional''', August 2017 (Indianapolis, IN)
*** Succeeded in getting added to WVDOT mailing list to receive closure reports that include weather related (flooding) closures, planned construction closures, accident/emergency closures, etc.
*'''Ohio Cafe''', November 2017 (Toledo, OH)
*** Google group created for WV AM+ and got added to the WVDOT mailing list so others could receive closure reports.
*'''Michigan Cafe''', May 2018 (Northville, MI)
* '''Inter-Regional Relationships'''
*'''South Atlantic Regional''', June 2018 (Hilton Head, SC)
** Primarily active in both GLR and MAR
*'''Mid Atlantic Regional''', November 2018 (Tyson's Corner, VA)
** Establish and maintain communications with any region I have driving EA in and follow local guidance when working in those areas.
**Organized agenda topics, recruited presenters, solicited questions
** SAT: 
*'''Ohio Cafe''', December 2018 (Harrison, OH)
*** SC - Mapped SLs in Hilton Head private areas by BOTG
*'''NA Mega Meetup''', February 2019 (Los Angeles, CA)
*** Joined traveling SUBWAY team to complete SUBWAYs in GLR, NER, and NOR
*'''ODOT TMC Tour & Ohio Cafe''', October 2019 (Columbus, OH)
** NOR: PA/NY - Assist with URs and updating Places where I traveled
*'''Michigan Cafe''', October 2019 (Grand Ledge, MI)
** SER: FL - Minor updates in area I traveled while communicating in Slack. Participated in SER Webinar (September 2017), correctly answering the question at the end.
*'''Great Lakes/Plains Regional''', October 2019 (St Louis, MO)
** SWR: CO - Set speed limits, fixed basemap, some FC work
*'''NA Mega Meetup''', February 2020 (Miami, FL)
*'''Hosted Ohio Waze Cafe''', March 2020 (Akron, OH)
*'''Mid Atlantic/South Atlantic Regional''', March 2020 (Annapolis, MD)
*'''Beta Community Meetup''', July 2020 (virtual)
*'''NA Mega Meetup''', February 2021 (virtual)
*'''EMEA & APAC Mega Meetup''' (parts), May 2021 (virtual)
*'''Beta Global Meetup''', July 2021 (virtual)
*'''USA GLR, MAR, and PLN Regional Meetup''', October 2021 (virtual)
**Co-wrote presentation on Waze Community Roles/Promotions (presented by JoeRodriguez12)
*'''NA Mega Meetup''', May 2022 (San Francisco, CA)
**Contributed to presentation on Waze Community Roles/Promotions (presented by JoeRodriguez12)
*'''Beta Global Meetup''', July 2022 (virtual)
*'''Global Champ Meetup''', September 2022 (virtual)
*'''USA GLR, MAR, and PLN Regional Meetup''', October 2022 (Grand Rapids, MI)
**Presentation on Editor Recruitment & Retention
 
==='''MapRaid Participation'''===
 
*'''Tennessee''' (September 2016) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/Tennessee/Speed_Limit_Mapraid Wiki page]
*'''West Virginia''' (March 2017) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/West_Virginia/WV_MapRaid Wiki page] [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1392&t=216803 Forum post]
**Management/Planning team, Group assistant. 
**Was a key part in a successful raid along with Stephenr1966, Roadtechie, and JasonN899.
*'''China MMR''' (August 2017) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/MegaMapRaid/August2017 Wiki page]
*'''GLR '''(August 2017)
**Part of 2017 Great Lakes Regional meetup
**Cleaned up basemap in Michigan
*'''Pennsylvania''' (September 2017) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/Pennsylvania/Mapraid_Basemap Wiki page]
**R4 Mentor (basemap raid for R1-R3 editors only)
*'''MapRaid X''' (November 2017) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/Global/MapRaid/Botswana Wiki page] [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1392&t=242863 Forum post]
**Assigned to Botswana team
**Made the [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1449&t=248635 overall HoF]
*'''Russia '''(February 2018) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/Russia/MMR_page Wiki page] [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1392&t=248596 Forum post]
*'''South Carolina''' (April 2018) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/South_Carolina/MidlandsMapRaid Wiki page]
*'''West Virginia''' (April/May 2018) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/West_Virginia/WV_MapRaid_2018 Wiki page] [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1392&t=254740 Forum post]
**Raid Leader, Management/Planning team, Ringleader
**Made the [https://mapraid.waze.com/WVRAID-2018.html overall HoF]
*'''SAT''' (June 2018)
**Part of 2018 South Atlantic Regional meetup
**Clean up PURs in Charlotte, NC
*'''Texas''' (October 2018) - [https://sites.google.com/view/mapraid-texas/home MapRaid site]
**Primarily PUR raid
**Made [https://drive.google.com/file/d/17nWHQ0WNxt9J3zaRvqBZh-ydmwegWzns/view?usp=sharing HoF] for my Division
*'''Pakistan''' (March 2019) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/User:Dude495/drafts/Pakistan/Land_Of_The_Pure_Mapraid Wiki page]
**Third place on [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1449&t=281184 HoF] for my group
**Helped organizers with MapRaid advice
*'''PLN KS-MO''' (August 2019) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/USA/Plains/KS-MO_MapRaid Wiki page]
**Group Leader for group 1, NW KS with base map focus
**Shared MapRaid planning/leadership experiences and information with hosts
*'''SER AL-FL''' (October/November 2019) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/USA/Southeast/AL-NoFL_MapRaid_2019 Wiki page]
**Assistant Group Leader (AGL) for Group 8, Huntsville
**Primarily Places raid
*'''Waze Help Center''' (November 2019) - Forum page
**Staff sponsored raid on Help Center articles
**Placed 11th in HoF
*'''Maine''' (May 2020) - [[Maine/MapRaid2020|Wiki page]]
**Assistant Group Leader
*'''US Falcon''' (early 2021) - [[usa:Https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vQ0403nyTHM86eflnrq73hgiNuXXh2Ab7cfUhc0XrY2n OJ0vjZTGzL5j5lhRZYVncyz4qnm yAKOxx/pub|Guidance]]
**Active in raid planning, developing guidance, and helping to run the raid
*'''Pakistan WoWs3''' (January/February 2022) - [https://wazeopedia.waze.com/wiki/Pakistan/WoWs3 Wiki page]
**Active in planning raid
**Foreign host for raid
**Backed up Coordinator (Marcin_S) as MapRaid Manager, adding removing users as the raid went on and was extended
**Gave feedback to Coordinator with promotion recommendation after the raid
 
==='''Webinar participation'''===
''Confidential topics redacted or not included''
 
*'''SER Webinar''', September 2017
*'''SER Webinar''', September 2018
*'''NA/RBS/BAT Routing Webinar''', December 2018
*'''Confidential App Beta Webinar''', August 2019
*'''Beta Leader Led Webinar''': Beta community basics and essentials, November 2019
*'''Wazeopedia: Next steps and Brainstorming''', March 2020
*'''Confidential App Beta Webinar''', May 2020
*'''Beta Community Webinar''', My Waze Account, June 2020
*'''Falcon Snapper''' survey follow-up meeting, August 2020
*'''Community Conversation Session''' #2, August 2020
*'''Waze On''', September 2020
*'''NA Falcon MapRaid''' office hours with Gil Disatnik, October 2020
*'''Waze Beta SugMods''' call, October 2020
*'''NA Falcon office hours support''', November 2020
*'''Small group''' intro/feedback, January 2021
*'''Beta Leaders Chat''' with Waze Beta Team, February 2021
*'''Beta Leader/GC call''', April 2021
*'''Waze Project Deep Thought''' onboarding session, August 2021
*'''Small Discussion Group''', August 2021
*'''Feature Discovery''' (GC/BL), January 2022
*'''Feature Discovery''', March 2022
*'''Beta Leaders Call''', March 2022
*'''Beta Leaders:''' Round Tables with Gal, March 2022
*'''NA Growth Challenge''', May-July 2022
*'''WME Design Changes''', March 2022
*'''Various champ (NA, (A)RC, GC) calls''' - whenever possible
*'''Communities Webinars, Office Hours''' - either join live or watch recordings
 
==='''Projects'''===
 
*'''Virtual Emergency Operations Center (VEOC)'''
**Hurricane Matthew (October 2016): As a new R2, actively found and inputted information into the closure sheet, helped bring other editors up to speed when they came to help, encouraged other editors to come to the VEOC to assist, suggested improvements.
**Hurricane Harvey (August 2017): Actively promoted awareness of the VEOC and recruited other editors to help.
**West Virginia flooding (February 2017): Found and entered many closures, organized local resources and help within MAR. Activated the VEOC upon a second flooding event within a week. Helped with transition to VEOC.
**Hurricanes Florence & Michael (Fall 2018)ː Found/inputted shelters and closures, recruited and trained mentees who then helped, helped wherever needed, gave feedback for improvements.
**Winter Storm Jayden (January 2019): Found and mapped shelter pins in Ohio, then helped other states and regions with shelters and road closures.
**PLN Winter Storm/Flooding (March 2019): Found and entered closures.
**TS/Hurricane Barry (July 2019): (Minor help) Finding and entering closures.
**Supported many events by finding/entering shelters and closures, assisting with leadership tasks, and recruiting/mentoring other editors to gain more contributors.
*'''WV Flooding''' 
**July 2017 - widespread WV flooding within my AM, handled myself
**February 2018 - widespread WV flooding, see VEOC above
**Worked with WV MAR-LAM hippocampuslol to collect data from past flooding events to develop a resource for determining areas likely to flood with the intent to have a quicker response time for future flooding events.
**Worked with WV MAR-LAM (now SM) kwrigh01 to set-up a closure form and spreadsheet in WV based on the VEOC form and spreadsheet. Also found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV. From all this, developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page. This has greatly improved our response and organization of ongoing flooding in WV.
**Contributed to setting up a closure form and spreadsheet in WV based on the VEOC form and spreadsheet. Also found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV. From all this, developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page. This has greatly improved our response and organization of ongoing flooding in WV.
*'''West Virginia CCP work'''
**Communicate with unofficial CCP in Ohio County ([https://www.waze.com/user/editor/OhioCountySheriff-OCSO2 OhioCountySheriff-OCSO2], deputy sheriff in Ohio County - has RTC privileges for Ohio County, WV)
**Feb 2018 - made strides in communicating with WVDOT
***Responded to many @WVDOT/@WV511 Tweets that Waze had the road closures up to date, promoting the fact that Waze had the closures up to date in the map.
***Succeeded in getting added to WVDOT mailing list to receive closure reports that include weather related (flooding) closures, planned construction closures, accident/emergency closures, etc.
***Google group created for WV AM+ and got added to the WVDOT mailing list so others could receive closure reports.
**Using the above closure reports,(L)AMs have been pitching in with SMs and keeping the closures up to date.
*'''West Virginia SM work''' (in addition to the responsibilities listed in SM wiki)
**Based on the work in the WV flooding,
***found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV
***developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page.
**State of the state UR & MP reports for WV
**Regional UR & MP stats reports for MAR
***Worked with dbSooner to set-up and gained buy in and opinions from MAR leadership
***Run reports weekly and update [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=946&t=263418 forum post]
***Recruited and trained SirGadwall to act as back-up
**Keep updated pin maps to help editors find problem areas (SLs, non-WV segments, etc)
*'''Ohio Turnpike Project'''
**Participated in project to map and track large Turnpike projects involving reconfiguring road into crossovers. Resulted in proposing a page for the Wazeopedia on contraflow reconfiguration and collaborating with other editors on ideas they had.
*'''MAR-LAM'''
**The topic of Large Area Managers (LAMs) had been broached in the past with no results. I formed a consensus with MAR RC/ARC and SMs to create the new position within my first week of becoming SM based on my experience as a GLR LAM. The MAR-LAM role was formally adopted a month later. 
*'''Country Manager'''
**Wisconsin City Name Project - worked with other CMs to change over 600 city names in Wisconsin
**Assist various other states in city naming, including coaching on what is possible/appropriate
**Help out whenever able with assistance both in the forums and in any Discord server that local editors aren’t around to assist
*'''Toll Project'''
**Promptly mapped all tolls in WV & borders as soon as tool was available
**Chosen by Waze staff as top contributor for special project to assist other editors in mapping areas currently lacking and understanding the toll tool
*'''Lanes/Shields/Falcon Projects (ie, any new features'''
**Experimented and learned about each new feature either pre-beta (ie, lanes were R6 before beta) or when released to beta (WME & app)
**Assisted in developing USA guidance or giving feedback on guidance drafted by others (teamwork!)
**Communicated with and collaborated with editors from other countries that asked me questions about the USA guidance while developing their own guidance
*'''Script beta tester'''
**Test pre-release and updates before going to production
**WME Toolbox, WME URComments-Enhanced, WME Closure Helper, WME LaneTools, WME Locksmith, WME Magic, and others that can't be named
* '''URC-E'''
**Member of the URC-E beta team, testing pre-release and updates before going to production
**Invited members of MAR leadership to become involved, which kicked off MAR involvement
**MAR URC-E comment moderator team
**MAR representative for default USA CommentTeam
* '''Wazeopedia primary contributions'''
**Contraflow reconfiguration ([https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1636&t=226511 proposed new page])
**Editing restrictions [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1636&t=228045&p=1646585#p1646585 page overhaul assistance]
**Editing restrictions [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1636&t=247385 page update proposal]
**Rank template [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1636&t=248573 updates]
**Junction Style Guide/Interchanges [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1760291#p1760291 guidance change]
**GLR roles [https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=943&t=206143&p=1505563#p1505563 page feedback]
*'''Local Champ/Coordinator'''
**Waze USA Facebook Moderator - answer user requests
**Formally a MAR ARC, but also help out unofficially in GLR
**Work with SMs on promotions and AM requests
**Problem solving within the region, whether it be problems with editors or problems with the map
**Multi region work with other RCs to resolve conflict
**Reach out occasionally to Canada or Mexico Coordinators for NA/border concerns or projects
**Work on overall development, growth and the management of both the region(s) and the country
**Provide mentoring and leading positive change within the community through engagement, teaching and promotion of rank and positions within the community
**Implement disciplinary action when necessary to protect the map and the community
**Communicate with Waze Staff about concerns, feedback, projects questions from the community and give feedback to the community as much as possible
**Stay up to date on the latest Waze app and WME changes
**Host webhooks for MAR and GLR servers for Discord tile update notifications
**Participated in testing and gave feedback on upgraded Waze forums
**Contributor in updated Country Manager Promotion/role guidelines
*'''Waze Product Expert'''
**Diamond Product Expert
***One of the original PEs in Project Deep Thought
**Respond to user questions
**Guide and give advice to new PEs
*'''Publicity/promote Waze'''
**Waze On event (September 2020) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcy6YdNai3s&t=1115s Waze Communities, Why do I volunteer for Waze?] (18:35)
**Recognized as a part of Kindness Month 2020 for [https://jamboard.google.com/d/1ZcqfVAnAyoFLaIvi9tCkWHJYvbRT7J1NzOCnJx784ag/viewer?f=17 contributions to Waze USA]: Dec 2020
**Last 5 Drives (March 2021)
***Mentioned in [https://youtu.be/9cM3x0Kx744?t=588 Marketing Office Hours] (9:48)
***Video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNt5QUvZ49w Last 5 Drives]
***[https://www.instagram.com/p/CNF_opLHSPQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Waze Instagram post]
***[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=448772249532012 Waze Facebook post]
**Featured during Waze Communities Women’s Month (March 2022)
***[https://www.waze.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342216 International Women’s Day forum post]
***[https://sites.google.com/view/editorscommunity/community-newsletters/march-2022 March 2022 Newsletter]
*'''Inter-Regional Relationships'''
**Primarily active in both GLR and MAR
**Establish and maintain communications with any region I have travel to and edit in and follow local guidance when working in those areas. Some early examplesː
***SAT: 
****SC - Mapped SLs in Hilton Head private areas by BOTG
****Joined traveling SUBWAY team to complete SUBWAYs in GLR, NER, and NOR
***NOR:
****PA/NY - Assist with URs and updating Places where I traveled
***SER:
****FL - Minor updates in area I traveled while communicating in Slack.
****Participated in SER Webinar (September 2017), correctly answering the question at the end.
***SWR:
****CO - Set speed limits, fixed basemap, some FC work
****NM - entire state AM through informal collaboration program to help state with few active editors
*'''International relationships'''
**Australiaː
***Was asked to join Australia Discord server to share my insight in recruiting new editors as they strategize reorganizing and growing their community
***They’re very independent now, but I still mentor and contribute to discussions. I’m told they consider me part of their community.
**Pakistanː
***Area Manager
***Communicate with and help mentor local editors
***Participated in and helped with two WoWs (mapraids), active in planning/hosting/mentoring
**Global Discord Serverː
***Always ready to help anyone, whether it be setting roles, answering questions, or helping them find local assistance

Latest revision as of 14:34, 9 November 2022

Ldriveskier (Lisa) is a Rank 6, US Local Champ, US Country Manager, Mid Atlantic Region Multi State Manager, West Virginia State Manager, and Northeast Ohio Large Area Manager based out of Ohio.

Goalː Help as much as possible without interfering. I’m known to volunteer for any opportunity that I find out about.

Milestones

  • First edits: February 2016
  • R2 Promotion: August 2016
  • R3 Promotion: November 2016
  • First AM granted (WV): January 2016
  • R4 Promotion: March 2017
  • LAM NE Ohio: March 2017
  • WME Beta tester: April 2017
  • Android Beta tester: April 2017
    • Waze Beta Top Contributor: February 2020, September 2020, May 2021, June 2021
  • AM expansion (WV): May 2017
  • Routing Beta Server tester: August 2017
  • State Manager (West Virginia): August 2017
  • Formal Mentor: August 2017
  • R5 Promotion: November 2017
  • MAR MSM: March 2018
  • NM AM: October 2018
  • USA CM: November 2018
  • USA LC/R6 Promotion: October 2019
  • MAR ARC: May 2020
  • Beta Leader: July 2020
  • Tier 1 (ARC w/ Beta Leader): July 2020
  • Beta Leader Suggestion Moderator (SugMod): October 2020
  • Northern Pakistan AM: November 2020
  • Moderator for USA Facebook page: March 2021
  • Waze Product Expert (Silver): July 2021
  • Waze Product Expert (Diamond): January 2022
  • Global Champ: July 2022

Formal Mentoring

  • R4/AM Mentee with JustinS83
  • R5/SM Mentee with Roadtechie
  • Mentor for WazinBruce, R2->[R3/AM goal] - cancelled
  • Tag-team mentor for 
    • mhh60, R3->R4 - complete, achieved R4
    • kwrigh01, R4->[SM goal] - complete, achieved SM
    • Fweewayze94, R2->[R3/AM goal] - completed mentoring, but largely inactive
    • mhh60, R4->[R5/SM goal] - achieved SM
    • WeezieAW, R1->[R3 goal] - achieved R2, went inactive
    • Umarth735, R2 -> [AM/R4 goal] - achieved AM/R4
    • bimmer4WDrift, R3->[AM/R4 Goal] - stalled
    • AmericanaStorm, R2->[R3 goal] - cancelled
    • Deafiebugboy1028, R2->[AM goal] - cancelled
    • lilmamachris29, R1->[AM goal] - cancelled
  • Proposed changes and provided updates for outdated information in various mentoring materials

Meetup Attendance

  • Ohio Cafe, January 2017 (Columbus, OH)
  • Mid Atlantic Regional, August 2017 (Washington DC)
    • Solicited questions for Q&A
  • Great Lakes Regional, August 2017 (Indianapolis, IN)
  • Ohio Cafe, November 2017 (Toledo, OH)
  • Michigan Cafe, May 2018 (Northville, MI)
  • South Atlantic Regional, June 2018 (Hilton Head, SC)
  • Mid Atlantic Regional, November 2018 (Tyson's Corner, VA)
    • Organized agenda topics, recruited presenters, solicited questions
  • Ohio Cafe, December 2018 (Harrison, OH)
  • NA Mega Meetup, February 2019 (Los Angeles, CA)
  • ODOT TMC Tour & Ohio Cafe, October 2019 (Columbus, OH)
  • Michigan Cafe, October 2019 (Grand Ledge, MI)
  • Great Lakes/Plains Regional, October 2019 (St Louis, MO)
  • NA Mega Meetup, February 2020 (Miami, FL)
  • Hosted Ohio Waze Cafe, March 2020 (Akron, OH)
  • Mid Atlantic/South Atlantic Regional, March 2020 (Annapolis, MD)
  • Beta Community Meetup, July 2020 (virtual)
  • NA Mega Meetup, February 2021 (virtual)
  • EMEA & APAC Mega Meetup (parts), May 2021 (virtual)
  • Beta Global Meetup, July 2021 (virtual)
  • USA GLR, MAR, and PLN Regional Meetup, October 2021 (virtual)
    • Co-wrote presentation on Waze Community Roles/Promotions (presented by JoeRodriguez12)
  • NA Mega Meetup, May 2022 (San Francisco, CA)
    • Contributed to presentation on Waze Community Roles/Promotions (presented by JoeRodriguez12)
  • Beta Global Meetup, July 2022 (virtual)
  • Global Champ Meetup, September 2022 (virtual)
  • USA GLR, MAR, and PLN Regional Meetup, October 2022 (Grand Rapids, MI)
    • Presentation on Editor Recruitment & Retention

MapRaid Participation

  • Tennessee (September 2016) - Wiki page
  • West Virginia (March 2017) - Wiki page Forum post
    • Management/Planning team, Group assistant. 
    • Was a key part in a successful raid along with Stephenr1966, Roadtechie, and JasonN899.
  • China MMR (August 2017) - Wiki page
  • GLR (August 2017)
    • Part of 2017 Great Lakes Regional meetup
    • Cleaned up basemap in Michigan
  • Pennsylvania (September 2017) - Wiki page
    • R4 Mentor (basemap raid for R1-R3 editors only)
  • MapRaid X (November 2017) - Wiki page Forum post
  • Russia (February 2018) - Wiki page Forum post
  • South Carolina (April 2018) - Wiki page
  • West Virginia (April/May 2018) - Wiki page Forum post
    • Raid Leader, Management/Planning team, Ringleader
    • Made the overall HoF
  • SAT (June 2018)
    • Part of 2018 South Atlantic Regional meetup
    • Clean up PURs in Charlotte, NC
  • Texas (October 2018) - MapRaid site
    • Primarily PUR raid
    • Made HoF for my Division
  • Pakistan (March 2019) - Wiki page
    • Third place on HoF for my group
    • Helped organizers with MapRaid advice
  • PLN KS-MO (August 2019) - Wiki page
    • Group Leader for group 1, NW KS with base map focus
    • Shared MapRaid planning/leadership experiences and information with hosts
  • SER AL-FL (October/November 2019) - Wiki page
    • Assistant Group Leader (AGL) for Group 8, Huntsville
    • Primarily Places raid
  • Waze Help Center (November 2019) - Forum page
    • Staff sponsored raid on Help Center articles
    • Placed 11th in HoF
  • Maine (May 2020) - Wiki page
    • Assistant Group Leader
  • US Falcon (early 2021) - Guidance
    • Active in raid planning, developing guidance, and helping to run the raid
  • Pakistan WoWs3 (January/February 2022) - Wiki page
    • Active in planning raid
    • Foreign host for raid
    • Backed up Coordinator (Marcin_S) as MapRaid Manager, adding removing users as the raid went on and was extended
    • Gave feedback to Coordinator with promotion recommendation after the raid

Webinar participation

Confidential topics redacted or not included

  • SER Webinar, September 2017
  • SER Webinar, September 2018
  • NA/RBS/BAT Routing Webinar, December 2018
  • Confidential App Beta Webinar, August 2019
  • Beta Leader Led Webinar: Beta community basics and essentials, November 2019
  • Wazeopedia: Next steps and Brainstorming, March 2020
  • Confidential App Beta Webinar, May 2020
  • Beta Community Webinar, My Waze Account, June 2020
  • Falcon Snapper survey follow-up meeting, August 2020
  • Community Conversation Session #2, August 2020
  • Waze On, September 2020
  • NA Falcon MapRaid office hours with Gil Disatnik, October 2020
  • Waze Beta SugMods call, October 2020
  • NA Falcon office hours support, November 2020
  • Small group intro/feedback, January 2021
  • Beta Leaders Chat with Waze Beta Team, February 2021
  • Beta Leader/GC call, April 2021
  • Waze Project Deep Thought onboarding session, August 2021
  • Small Discussion Group, August 2021
  • Feature Discovery (GC/BL), January 2022
  • Feature Discovery, March 2022
  • Beta Leaders Call, March 2022
  • Beta Leaders: Round Tables with Gal, March 2022
  • NA Growth Challenge, May-July 2022
  • WME Design Changes, March 2022
  • Various champ (NA, (A)RC, GC) calls - whenever possible
  • Communities Webinars, Office Hours - either join live or watch recordings

Projects

  • Virtual Emergency Operations Center (VEOC)
    • Hurricane Matthew (October 2016): As a new R2, actively found and inputted information into the closure sheet, helped bring other editors up to speed when they came to help, encouraged other editors to come to the VEOC to assist, suggested improvements.
    • Hurricane Harvey (August 2017): Actively promoted awareness of the VEOC and recruited other editors to help.
    • West Virginia flooding (February 2017): Found and entered many closures, organized local resources and help within MAR. Activated the VEOC upon a second flooding event within a week. Helped with transition to VEOC.
    • Hurricanes Florence & Michael (Fall 2018)ː Found/inputted shelters and closures, recruited and trained mentees who then helped, helped wherever needed, gave feedback for improvements.
    • Winter Storm Jayden (January 2019): Found and mapped shelter pins in Ohio, then helped other states and regions with shelters and road closures.
    • PLN Winter Storm/Flooding (March 2019): Found and entered closures.
    • TS/Hurricane Barry (July 2019): (Minor help) Finding and entering closures.
    • Supported many events by finding/entering shelters and closures, assisting with leadership tasks, and recruiting/mentoring other editors to gain more contributors.
  • WV Flooding 
    • July 2017 - widespread WV flooding within my AM, handled myself
    • February 2018 - widespread WV flooding, see VEOC above
    • Worked with WV MAR-LAM hippocampuslol to collect data from past flooding events to develop a resource for determining areas likely to flood with the intent to have a quicker response time for future flooding events.
    • Worked with WV MAR-LAM (now SM) kwrigh01 to set-up a closure form and spreadsheet in WV based on the VEOC form and spreadsheet. Also found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV. From all this, developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page. This has greatly improved our response and organization of ongoing flooding in WV.
    • Contributed to setting up a closure form and spreadsheet in WV based on the VEOC form and spreadsheet. Also found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV. From all this, developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page. This has greatly improved our response and organization of ongoing flooding in WV.
  • West Virginia CCP work
    • Communicate with unofficial CCP in Ohio County (OhioCountySheriff-OCSO2, deputy sheriff in Ohio County - has RTC privileges for Ohio County, WV)
    • Feb 2018 - made strides in communicating with WVDOT
      • Responded to many @WVDOT/@WV511 Tweets that Waze had the road closures up to date, promoting the fact that Waze had the closures up to date in the map.
      • Succeeded in getting added to WVDOT mailing list to receive closure reports that include weather related (flooding) closures, planned construction closures, accident/emergency closures, etc.
      • Google group created for WV AM+ and got added to the WVDOT mailing list so others could receive closure reports.
    • Using the above closure reports,(L)AMs have been pitching in with SMs and keeping the closures up to date.
  • West Virginia SM work (in addition to the responsibilities listed in SM wiki)
    • Based on the work in the WV flooding,
      • found more resources to help pinpoint locations of flooding and other closures in WV
      • developed an updated closure process for all types of closures and added information to the WV wiki page.
    • State of the state UR & MP reports for WV
    • Regional UR & MP stats reports for MAR
      • Worked with dbSooner to set-up and gained buy in and opinions from MAR leadership
      • Run reports weekly and update forum post
      • Recruited and trained SirGadwall to act as back-up
    • Keep updated pin maps to help editors find problem areas (SLs, non-WV segments, etc)
  • Ohio Turnpike Project
    • Participated in project to map and track large Turnpike projects involving reconfiguring road into crossovers. Resulted in proposing a page for the Wazeopedia on contraflow reconfiguration and collaborating with other editors on ideas they had.
  • MAR-LAM
    • The topic of Large Area Managers (LAMs) had been broached in the past with no results. I formed a consensus with MAR RC/ARC and SMs to create the new position within my first week of becoming SM based on my experience as a GLR LAM. The MAR-LAM role was formally adopted a month later. 
  • Country Manager
    • Wisconsin City Name Project - worked with other CMs to change over 600 city names in Wisconsin
    • Assist various other states in city naming, including coaching on what is possible/appropriate
    • Help out whenever able with assistance both in the forums and in any Discord server that local editors aren’t around to assist
  • Toll Project
    • Promptly mapped all tolls in WV & borders as soon as tool was available
    • Chosen by Waze staff as top contributor for special project to assist other editors in mapping areas currently lacking and understanding the toll tool
  • Lanes/Shields/Falcon Projects (ie, any new features
    • Experimented and learned about each new feature either pre-beta (ie, lanes were R6 before beta) or when released to beta (WME & app)
    • Assisted in developing USA guidance or giving feedback on guidance drafted by others (teamwork!)
    • Communicated with and collaborated with editors from other countries that asked me questions about the USA guidance while developing their own guidance
  • Script beta tester
    • Test pre-release and updates before going to production
    • WME Toolbox, WME URComments-Enhanced, WME Closure Helper, WME LaneTools, WME Locksmith, WME Magic, and others that can't be named
  •  URC-E
    • Member of the URC-E beta team, testing pre-release and updates before going to production
    • Invited members of MAR leadership to become involved, which kicked off MAR involvement
    • MAR URC-E comment moderator team
    • MAR representative for default USA CommentTeam
  •  Wazeopedia primary contributions
  • Local Champ/Coordinator
    • Waze USA Facebook Moderator - answer user requests
    • Formally a MAR ARC, but also help out unofficially in GLR
    • Work with SMs on promotions and AM requests
    • Problem solving within the region, whether it be problems with editors or problems with the map
    • Multi region work with other RCs to resolve conflict
    • Reach out occasionally to Canada or Mexico Coordinators for NA/border concerns or projects
    • Work on overall development, growth and the management of both the region(s) and the country
    • Provide mentoring and leading positive change within the community through engagement, teaching and promotion of rank and positions within the community
    • Implement disciplinary action when necessary to protect the map and the community
    • Communicate with Waze Staff about concerns, feedback, projects questions from the community and give feedback to the community as much as possible
    • Stay up to date on the latest Waze app and WME changes
    • Host webhooks for MAR and GLR servers for Discord tile update notifications
    • Participated in testing and gave feedback on upgraded Waze forums
    • Contributor in updated Country Manager Promotion/role guidelines
  • Waze Product Expert
    • Diamond Product Expert
      • One of the original PEs in Project Deep Thought
    • Respond to user questions
    • Guide and give advice to new PEs
  • Publicity/promote Waze
  • Inter-Regional Relationships
    • Primarily active in both GLR and MAR
    • Establish and maintain communications with any region I have travel to and edit in and follow local guidance when working in those areas. Some early examplesː
      • SAT: 
        • SC - Mapped SLs in Hilton Head private areas by BOTG
        • Joined traveling SUBWAY team to complete SUBWAYs in GLR, NER, and NOR
      • NOR:
        • PA/NY - Assist with URs and updating Places where I traveled
      • SER:
        • FL - Minor updates in area I traveled while communicating in Slack.
        • Participated in SER Webinar (September 2017), correctly answering the question at the end.
      • SWR:
        • CO - Set speed limits, fixed basemap, some FC work
        • NM - entire state AM through informal collaboration program to help state with few active editors
  • International relationships
    • Australiaː
      • Was asked to join Australia Discord server to share my insight in recruiting new editors as they strategize reorganizing and growing their community
      • They’re very independent now, but I still mentor and contribute to discussions. I’m told they consider me part of their community.
    • Pakistanː
      • Area Manager
      • Communicate with and help mentor local editors
      • Participated in and helped with two WoWs (mapraids), active in planning/hosting/mentoring
    • Global Discord Serverː
      • Always ready to help anyone, whether it be setting roles, answering questions, or helping them find local assistance