Introduce Yourself!

[MichelleMathias]

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 GeoNet 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.

note: this post has been archived, and is available in read only mode. To create a new introduction, please visit the new GeoNet Member Introductions‌ space. Thank you!

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Mike, Welcome to the GeoNet community! I hope you find valuable insights and resources here.  A few places in the community that might be of interest:

Education‌

Arc Hydro‌

Ocean Sciences‌

Cheers, 

Michelle

[Matthew_Lynch]

Where do you work and what is your role?

I work for a small Municipality our side of Portland Oregon, I am the GIS tech. I mainly deal with tax lot data and city-based projects, Comp plans, utilities, roads, and parks.

What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds)

I would say a win is trying to get comfortable with Arc pro and setting up apps for other employees to use.

What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community?

I would say I'm pretty comfortable with Arc online and some of its surrounding apps. 

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

35.1428° N, 120.6413° W

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Matthew, Welcome to the GeoNet Community! 

Here are some places of interest:

ArcGIS Pro‌

ArcGIS Online‌

Also some places to look for coming soon to GeoNet:

ArcGIS Urban

OGISA ( this is a new group for the Oregon GIS Association to collaborate and share information/ask questions, it is not available yet, but will be in the near future, you might want to connect with mcavoye he is setting up this new group).

Cheers, 

Michelle

[RosalyZambrana]

• Where do you work and what is your role? 

         I work for the City of Vallejo Water Engineering. I pretty much do all the GIS work related to water. Right now I have another GIS platform, but we are moving all of our assets into ESRI pretty soon.

• What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use? (big or small - no win is out of bounds)

         I learned how to use all my excel spreadsheets and incorporate them into GIS presentations. I know this might be ease so some of you, but to me it felt almost like magic. I was so proud of doing this.

• What is your expertise (GIS related or not), and how can that help the community?

         My expertise is anything related to mapping and design both in the field and in the office: I have a Bachelor's Degree in Land Surveying and Mapping and worked in land surveying and  civil engineering (office and field) since College. Skilled with all sorts of surveying equipment and calculations for stakeouts, as-built, tentative plans, grading, improvements. Skilled with programs such as Munsys, Civil 3d, windows software.

• My favorite place on earth is 18.431984, -65.845891

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Rosaly, Thanks for joining the GeoNet Community! I hope you find it a helpful resource. Here are a few places you might find of interest:

Water Utilities‌

CAD/GIS Data Integration‌

Land Records‌

Implementing ArcGIS‌

Esri Training‌

Cheers,

Michelle

[RichardLott]

Michelle,

This is Richard, I am not sure if you sent this to the right person. LOL

Richard J Lott

[RichardLott]

Michelle,

I do have a question though about my photograph. How do I convert that to a thumbnail image?

Richard J Lott

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Richard, this doc will help with uploading an avatar image: https://community.esri.com/docs/DOC-1073-upload-your-profile-photos-and-avatar

Cheers.

[RosalyZambrana]

Wow, Michelle, thank you so much for the links. I will use them.

I really appreciate the time you took to post them.

Yes, Richard, I need those, LOL!

Have an awesome day, both of you!

[PaulConners]

Hello my name is Paul Conners!

Where do you work and what is your role?

• I just started my role as GIS specialist and IT assistant at the City of Guymon in the panhandle of Oklahoma.  My role is to facilitate projects and the needs of the staff with their GIS and mapping needs here in the city.  I just started on June 1st, so my projects and work here are slowly coming at me.  I am also responsible for maintaining the Water/meter readings using ArcGIS Pro.

What GIS success have you had this year and what product did you use?

• My biggest success this year was completing my degree in Geography with a minor in GIS from the University of Oklahoma.  Throughout my time at OU and in the GIS coursework we used ArcMap.  I am now transitioning into using ArcGIS Pro, so I am very excited about that.  

What is your expertise (GIS related or not) and how can that help the community?

•  I'd say my expertise lies with the use of Microsoft Office and using my problem solving skills to tackle GIS related projects.  This could be a help when needing an extra opinion on the best tool to use or the best route to navigate to fulfill the task at hand.

My favourite place on the planet is set at 36.633648, -4.487258