Greetings,
By way of introduction.
My name is Robert Borchert. I am a GIS Analyst with Great River Energy, headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota. We are a Generation and Transmission Cooperative.
My career with this company started in 2001 and for the first 15 years my focus was converting Distribution systems from AutoCAD to ArcGIS.
The last 7 years I have switched focus to helping develop our Enterprise GIS our Transmission GIS and developing applications, mostly Telecom related.
Prior to this I worked in GIS for E911 systems for 3 years using MapInfo
Our GIS department is pretty self-contained in that we do not rely on a lot of third-party applications.