Summary of Qualifications

• My multifaceted work experience over the last two decades has built for me a solid foundation that enables my GIS skills and perspectives and has given me the ability to showcase these in writing. I share a passion with those whom, through maps want to create a collective vision of understanding and advance our world with GIS.
• I have extensive experience in conveying and applying GIS technology. I am NIMS certified and have expertise in a disaster setting; being a key member of the team that implemented GIS for the largest ecological disaster in US History- the Deepwater Horizon Disaster in Louisiana. I possess visible strengths in analyzing, evaluating, and documenting business processes and a visionary when it comes to intelligently integrating GIS technology into business workflows.
• I am also an excellent technical writer and for the past few years has been writing and blogging for Point Of Beginning Magazine. In January 2012, I was added to BNP Media’s newest site geodatapoint.com and join the spotlight with other expert contributors.
• Currently, I am the Program Director for The GIS Institute and represented them at the ESRI’s 2012 User Conference.
• Also, for the past few months I have been working with WayPoint Mapping on an Amazon Cloud GIS project for a right of way acquisition company based in Texas. In addition, I am consulting in the health care industry with Florida based Providian and AmeriSys a managed care company on an EDI project.
• Recently I consulted at CSX, a Fortune 250 company - developing a Strategic Plan that will become the roadmap for sustaining an enterprise GIS at the largest railroad in the eastern United States. I also served as the Quality Assurance Manager at CSX on the PTC project, introducing and leading the effort of incorporating ESRI’s Data Reviewer product into the CSX Data workflow.
• I am an effective and intelligent communicator at any level. I create presentations that stand out and that are spot on the message. I am a superb presenter and have become a regular at promoting the value of GIS at the NYSAPLS conferences in New York. I am easy to get along with and quickly develop a repertoire with clients and thrive showing them how to the pervasiveness of GIS can be included into their business model.

MBA
BS, Information Technology

Confidential, Program Manager (2010 Present)
Responsibilities include handling the agenda, marketing and communication efforts at ESRI User Conference and the main point of contact at the conference for the institute.
Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida Consultant ,QA ,QC Manager (Nov 2011 March 2012)
At CSX I was assigned the responsibility of researching and developing a target end state for the enterprise GIS at CSX. Another task was to prepare a catalog of data and services. I developed a key presentation consumable by both business and technology audiences to promote the enterprise vision of GIS. As Quality Assurance Manager my mission was to define, diagram and maintain a reliable and effective quality assurance program and maintain and audit work according to standard and uniform practices approved for CSX (PTC) Positive Train Control initiative.

Confidential, Louisiana Team Leader Database Design ,Server Administration (April ,May 2010) Responsible for leading the database ,server administration team comprising of Smoke Jumper GIS Specialists and ESRI’s staff in development and design of an Enterprise GIS (ArcServer, SDE, ArcGIS 10) in an Emergency Response Capacity for the GIS Unit at the Houma, LA (ICP) Incident Command Post. Developed work flows and processes for the GIS Unit that tracked critical geospatial data sources from multiple federal agencies such as; United States Coast Guard, National Guard, Home Land Security, Fish and Wild Life, Louisiana’s affected Parishes, Louisiana’s Governor’s Office; as well as maps for the President of the United States for his visit to the site. Developed and documented the processes and procedures for the team. I coordinated the handover to the BP and ESRI teams and worked with the development of the GIS database schema.

Confidential,Jacksonville Florida Technology Director (Jan 2005 Jan 2010)
Responsible for the technology and data management needs of the organization. Developed business and data processes. Applied technology that significantly enhanced operations and increasing productivity by 20%. I architected an intelligent system that fused a new financial system with SharePoint, Survey, CAD, GIS and Office Documents creating a seamless portal to access and analyze vital company information.

Confidential, St Augustine, Florida - Senior GIS Analyst / Programmer Responsible for the development of a GIS application and base layers used to track arsenic concentration on an old golf course being developed and converted into a new subdivision. Configured ArcPad for geologists and scientists to capture sample data from site and then model this data in ArcMap to show levels of contamination within certain depths with EPA guidelines. (Feb 2004 Dec 2004)

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida- Senior GIS Analyst ,Programmer (Feb 2004 Dec 2004)
Responsible for the development of the Land Developer that tracked the stages of land development projects from start to finish. The application linked maps with spreadsheet data used to capture project information; this data was tagged and linked to the location of the property and further used as a link to websites that required permit applications.

Confidential,Jacksonville, Florida- Senior GIS Analyst ,Programmer (Feb 2004 Dec 2004)
Responsible for the development and analysis of GIS maps identifying super voters, for political candidates. Strategy maps were developed showing super voters and gave an overview of the areas that were heavily populated with super voters. Walking maps were also produced that allowed the candidate to identify each voter by their voting history on their walk around in areas developed identified on the Strategy Maps.

Confidential, Trinidad and Tobago, Senior Analyst ,Programmer (Oct 1990 August 2003)
I was a key team member responsible for the implementation of an Enterprise GIS at Petrotrin (Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago). He delivered multiple presentations; including a key delivery to the board of directors for funding for GIS. Conducted GIS training sessions; throughout the oil fields. Other functions included, software testing and analysis and business process modeling. The GIS Team won ESRI’s SAG award in 2002. Prior to contributions on the GIS Team. I developed intelligent piping and instrument diagrams at Stone & Webster Engineering Houston, for the $300M refinery upgrade instrumentation modernization project.

• Webinar NYSAPLS Project Delivery GIS June 2012
• BNP Media - GeoDataPoint.com

Writer ,Blogger January 2012 - Present

• “NYSAPLS” 53 Annual Conference

Project Delivery with GIS January 2012

• “Changing Directions”, Point of Beginning Magazine, Feature Article January 2012
• “NYSAPLS” 52 Annual Conference

Deepwater Horizon The GIS Response - 2011

• “The Data Czar”, Point of Beginning Magazine, RPLS.com - Feature Writer ,Blogger 2009 -Present
• “Data and the Deep Water Horizon Disaster”, Point of Beginning Magazine”, Feature Article - July 2010
• “Taming the Wild GIS”, Point of Beginning Magazine, Digital Exclusive - October 2009
• Does your company need a Data Czar”, Civil Engineering Central, Feature Article September 2009.