Introduce Yourself!

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on Feb 2, 2018
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Welcome to GeoNet!

We are a community that collaborates, learns and shares together. To help you connect with other members, we started this introduction thread. Think of this as your intro to GoeNet networking and a chance to get to know each other as we begin our GeoNet journey.

Please introduce yourself to the rest of the community by sharing your answers to the questions in the comments section below.

Where do you work and what is your role?
What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds)
What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community?

Bonus Round! Post the coordinates to your favorite place on earth.

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MMathias-esristaff @ JohnRFix on Feb 5, 2019 2:51 PM
Hi John, Welcome to GeoNet! Wow, what a wealth of experience. I hope you find our community useful and collaborative, we have a lot of great people here. If you are looking for anything specific let me know. A good place to start is on one of our landing pages:
Product Communities
Industry Communities
Developer Communities

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ AGarcia_OCDE_GIS on Feb 5, 2019 3:08 PM
Hi Albert, Welcome to GeoNet! I love your focus on GIS for education! I hope you find our community helpful in your pursuit of helping educators. We have a couple of places you might find interesting:

Education
K12 Instruction
Story Maps for Education
GIS Day
ArcGIS Pro

I haven't been to Joshua Tree yet, but my SoCal colleagues who visit often, really love it and share their amazing pics from there. It has been added to my list of places to visit!
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MMathias-esristaff @ jkulhan_VAFAM on Feb 5, 2019 3:13 PM
Hi Julie,
Welcome to GeoNet! This is a great place for Newbies! We are a friendly bunch and happy to help. Here are a few places in the community that might interest you:
New to GIS
Esri Training
ArcGIS Pro
Story Maps

Let me know if I can help you find anything specific. Here are a few tools to help navigate the community:
GeoNet Quick Tips: Spotlight Search
GeoNet Home Page Video

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ daniel.rydl on Feb 5, 2019 3:21 PM
Hi Daniel, Welcome to GeoNet! I hope you find the community helpful. We have a lot of great resources and people here. And it sounds like you have a lot of knowledge to share as well!

A couple of places that might interest you:
Implementing ArcGIS
ArcGIS Online
ArcGIS Pro
Public Safety

Let me know if there is anything specific that you might be looking for.

And now I have added Nebraska to my list of places I must visit!

Cheers!
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GoGlobal2018 Feb 5, 2019 7:30 PM
Greetings! My name is William Tarpai. I’m a UNHCR professional officer retiree, in my 70s. I’m also President-Elect for the Arlington Rotary Club of District 5330 in southern California which has 60+ clubs, dedicated to social good. I participated in a United Nations High Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Peace-Building and Sustaining Peace in New York in April 2018.
- Where do you work and what is your role? I’m a Globalization consultant, promoting the Sustainable Development Goals (17) challenge during Agenda 2030 (2015-2030). Bringing new players to the table to achieve successful SDG outcomes is what I perceive as my major role, AND why I want to be involved with YOU.
- What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds) Participating in my first ESRI on-line training
- What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community? More than three decades working in support of refugees and internally displaced persons globally, going to places not on well traveled international tourism paths. I am actively involved with supporting students and young professionals to gain skills sets and experience required to succeed in the global humanitarian assistance and development job markets.
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duaaizzismail @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 5, 2019 10:18 PM
Hi, am Eng. Duaa Ismail, Working in Ras Al Khaimah Municipality in the
United Arab Emirates as Survey Engineer.

Am participating now in one of the Organizational projects, and I took one
of ESRI MOOCs' (DO IT YOUR SELF), also working on developing my GIS
Skills by completing the GIS Specialties online courses which i just
started, mainly they are five courses taken through COURSERA online courses
by University of California,Davis
UC Davis, Taught by: Nick Santos: Geospatial Applications Researcher,
Center for Watershed Sciences

As a Survey Engineer I find it important to get to know GIS, because we as
surveyor and survey Engineers provides GIS with the spatial data and much
as we know about the coordinates systems and the Geo-referencing,
Geo-processing, So that means that my expertise is only related to GIS but
it the core of GIS and am trying to increase my knowledge by knowing how to
integrate GIS with other systems.
So as the first step I need to have some courses and the get in tough with
such communities like GeoNet and begin to develop some applications and
improve that by systems ingratiation, I know its a long path but I also
know u could help me by showing me the right path to start with.

Favorite place is Appalachian Mountains & Rivers in USA, No specific
coordinates available
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MaryBAN Feb 6, 2019 3:31 AM
Hi, I am Mary Bandziukas, writing from New York City. I was recently hired by the NYC Dept.of Transportation, where I am on the asset management GIS team. We perform record-keeping and research functions. We currently are refining a model to prioritize refurbishment of pavement markings. I was with this team part time for almost 2 years, during which I began to develop a pedestrian trip model for the agency. One purpose of the model will be to calculate pedestrian risk of being involved in a ped-vehicle accident. Using documented trip generation rates, I am calculating trips per lot based upon land use, and I will need to decide how to calculate modal split. The agency has short-term (2- or 3-hour) ped counts and is beginning to collect some long-term counts which may be useful in validating the model.

The main innovative GIS successes for me over the past few years have been:
- learning about and using the SatScan tool to generate center lines for sidewalk and crosswalk polygons for the purpose of developing a pedestrian network
- investigating potential applications of the agency's DEMs generated from aerial LiDAR. We were interested in the potential to identify road imperfections such as potholes. I implemented ESRI's Bluespots model in this work. We will have access to mobil LiDAR in the future, which will likely give much better results.
- automating mapping of work orders and other documents with a Python program

If I have to identify areas of expertise, I would say I have had an eclectic career so far, with experience in urban planning and higher ed, as well as recently-developed skills in research and with respect specifically to GIS, in map design and cartography. Long-term, my "dream" would be to implement service-learning projects between students and community groups. Shorter-term, I want to provide GIS services to community groups on a volunteer basis. I expect to learn a great deal about community need and technical aspects of GIS in this way.

Thank you for implementing this group. I am looking forward to seeing all the interesting things people are doing around the world.
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POD3201 Feb 6, 2019 4:46 AM
Hello,
James Barrett is my name. I am library media specialist, learning ARCGIS! If you have any intro lessons to share please post! Thanks.
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abdo.abdelrasoul@swca.com Feb 6, 2019 6:53 AM
Abdo Abdelrasoul, SWCA Environmental Consultant, GIS Systems Admin. 12/10/2018 to present
Just started, before that I was managing An ArcGIS Enterprise for the town of Oro Valley, I provide a solution to use GIS in pavement, presented at ESRI User conf. 2017, and again I participated in the lighting talk 2018. I provided a solution in street marking and OMS integration, and operation dashboard in planning (shared with ESRI) I was planning to submit for presentations.
My experience is in GIS applications in local governments, and consulting at many levels (local government to regional, and private sectors) in GIS implementations and management, planning, environmental and water resources, engineering, broadband, real states, and teaching. I have 22 years of GIS experience, Ed. Clark University, MA, 1996.
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philip.queen @ POD3201 on Feb 6, 2019 8:49 AM
Hi James,

Welcome to the exciting world of GIS! Here's some GeoNet links that have been shared above that might help you kickstart your learning process:

New to GIS
Esri Training

Also, as a librarian, this might interest you:
Education

Hope that helps!
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philip.queen Feb 6, 2019 10:24 AM
Where do you work and what is your role?
My name is Philip, and I work as a GIS Technician at a local engineering firm based in Richmond, Va. I do a lot in data collection and maintenance, and in the setup for those efforts. I often serve as Technical Lead for projects.

What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use?
My major successes in the past year have been in helping design collection methods - either workflows in custom AGOL apps or surveys in Survey123. These were both in large, statewide ADA compliance surveys where the existing collection methods were slow and unwieldy, and the updated workflows were able to save hundreds of hours from the process.

What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community?
Most of my work has been in utility collection and data maintenance. I specialize in developing efficient workflows for collection and maintenance, and finding creative solutions to technical issues. My knowledge in both technical issues and on-the-ground field collection make this possible. I often head to GeoNet when I reach a roadblock during a project to look for existing solutions, and I hope to share my experiences back with the community.

Favourite Location
38.053224, -81.059575
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MMathias-esristaff @ GoGlobal2018 on Feb 6, 2019 11:20 AM
Hi William, Welcome to GeoNet! I hope you find our community helpful. The humanitarian work you do sounds really interesting and challenging. If there is anything specific you are looking for in the community, let me know.

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ MaryBAN on Feb 6, 2019 11:24 AM
Hi Mary, Welcome to GeoNet! Happy to have you join us here. Really interesting work mapping pedestrian paths to avoid ped-vehicle accidents! Here are a few places in our community you might find interesting:

Urban and Regional Planning
Transportation
Roads and Highways User Group (RHUG)

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ POD3201 on Feb 6, 2019 11:26 AM
Hi James, Welcome to GeoNet! The places Philip recommended are a great starting point! Let me know if you need help locating anything specific.

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ abdo.abdelrasoul@swca.com on Feb 6, 2019 11:32 AM
Hello Abdo, Welcome to GeoNet! Congratulations on your new position as a GIS systems admin for SWCA! Sounds like you have a lot of great experience in GIS and with Esri software! We welcome your knowledge and hope you share your experiences with others in the community! If you are looking for anything specific a few places to get started in the community are these landing pages:
Product Communities
Industry Communities
Developer Communities

or Implementing ArcGIS

Thanks for joining, I look forward to hearing more from you.

Cheers!
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MMathias-esristaff @ philip.queen on Feb 6, 2019 12:55 PM
Hi Philip, Welcome to GeoNet! Thanks for jumping in and helping James, that is exactly what we like to see in our community! I am also happy to hear you have already been using GoeNet to find solutions! You probably already know these places but just in case, these might be of interest:

Survey123 for ArcGIS
ArcGIS Online
Collector for ArcGIS

Let me know if there is anything I can help you find.

The NRG is a really beautiful location, do you kayak or raft on the river? I currently live in WV (North-Central) so I am a little familiar with this part of "wild and wonderful" WV and it is beautiful. Richmond is a pretty cool city as well, lots of history and interesting historic architecture.
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GoGlobal2018 @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 6, 2019 2:29 PM
HI Michelle, I have 2 country projects that I need to get mapped out, 1)
in Thailand, and 2) in Ethiopia.

Next month, in March 2019, a group of our members, including the Arlington
Rotary club will be making a trip to Thailand to visit the farms and attend
an inauguration ceremony organized by the Thai Rotary Club and the
Northeast Water Foundation. The group will be arriving in Bangkok on the 23
rd of March and fly to Khon Kaen on the 24th of March. The inauguration
service and the visitations of the Ponds (created by the project) will be
on the 25th of March 2019. I would like any hints or guidance that might
help our team map out, and create data points which might prove helpful to
decision making in the future.

Thanks William
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philip.queen @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 7, 2019 5:07 AM
Thanks Michelle!

I haven't gotten a chance to boat down the river yet. I mainly do a little-known sport called highlining, so I spent a lot of my time up on top of the cliffs - or at Summersville Lake. You're lucky to live in WV!
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susan_carmichael_cuesta Feb 7, 2019 12:26 PM
- Where do you work and what is your role?
Hello! My name is Sue Carmichael, I live in Paso Robles, CA. which is in the beautiful county of San Luis Obispo, home of Cal Poly. Paso is located half way between Los Angeles and San Francisco and is in central California.
I do not work with GIS; I’m a student. In September of 2017, I retired from AT&T after 38 years, and I’m currently looking for employment.
- What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds)
My GIS success this year involves partitioning my new MAC, relearning Windows, using Windows 10, learning how to use my Apple mouse with Windows, and downloading GIS desktop along with learning how to use ArcMap.
The product we use in our class is ArcGIS.
- What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community?
I have no expertise what so ever. Before January of this year, I had never heard of it! I’m taking a GIS Fundamentals course at Cuesta College on their off-site campus in Paso, which is being taught by Dr. Feride Schroeder.
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susan_carmichael_cuesta @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 8, 2019 11:59 AM
Hello,

I’m unable to find your reply in GeoNet. Any suggestions on how I could do this? Also, I may be going to the GIS convention in July, Will you be going?

Happy Friday &,
Shalom,
Sue
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MMathias-esristaff @ susan_carmichael_cuesta on Feb 8, 2019 12:31 PM
Hi Sue, Welcome to GeoNet! and Welcome to GIS! GeoNet is a great place to learn more about GIS, ask questions and overall expand your knowledge. A few places to help you get started are:

New to GIS
Education (look for the MOOC programs)
Esri Training
Women's Geospatial Forum

And to familiarize yourself with how to navigate GeoNet:
GeoNet Quick Tips: Spotlight Search
GeoNet Home Page Video

Cheers!
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susan_carmichael_cuesta @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 8, 2019 1:00 PM
Hi Michelle,

Thank you. How thoughtful!!

Will you be going to the convention in July? If so, I thought it would be nice to met you.

Thank you again for the links below!

Sue
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MMathias-esristaff @ susan_carmichael_cuesta on Feb 8, 2019 1:27 PM
Hi Sue, yes we will have a GeoNet Booth in the expo area at the UC conference in July and we will have GeoNet member meetups- we will post more info about this as we get closer to the conference! Look forward to meeting you!

To find this post, you can use the spotlight search and type in Introduce Yourself, instead of hitting enter let the system find suggestions, it should be near the top. When you click on the post, scroll to the bottom, our exchange will be near the bottom of the comments.

Cheers!
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susan_carmichael_cuesta @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 8, 2019 1:31 PM
Hi Michelle,
Cool, and thanks again.

Shalom,
Sue
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MBharadwaj-esristaff @ MMathias-esristaff on Feb 8, 2019 4:04 PM
Please keep me in the loop for more info on the GeoNet booth at UC 2019! Thanks Michelle!
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