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note: this post has been archived, and is available in read only mode.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!

[BradfordDean]

Where do you work and what is your role?

My name is Bradford Dean, GIS manager to the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake, located on the reserve of Kahnawake, Quebec, Canada

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

My training was on ArcGIS desktop but I am working with ArcGIS Pro, there I have been working with address symbols and locators and using remote sensing satellite images from USGS.

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

I have been trained in GIS and remote sensing at the University of Concordia, Montreal. The city is literally across the river from Kahnawake. Kahnawake is new to the GIS technology and it is my hope to help bridge knowledge of GIS use to local Indigenous knowledge and make great maps with meaning for our community.

[deleted-user-Ku5FDFW4ozxT]

Where do you work and what is your role? 

My name is Eric Lomelí and I am the GIS Supervisor at Bexar County (Texas).

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

We recently contracted esri professional services to conduct a GIS system architecture assessment. The recommendations of the report is propelling us towards cloud-ready solutions.

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

I have been working with GIS since 2000. I have a M.S. in GIS (Management Track) from the University of Redlands (California).  I can help the community by providing lessons learned from my 11 year experience in Local Government.  

Bonus Round! 

One of my favorite places on earth: 40.107856, 9.689894

[deleted-user-gM8UAZIUIYqC]

Where do you work and what is your role? 

My name is Gemma Stubbs and I'm a GIS Specialist working at Stantec in the UK, providing support to an Environmental Compliance and Sustainable Development team.

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

I've recently rolled out some basic GIS training using ArcGIS for desktop 10.5 to colleagues that had no experience of the software, with an end goal to enable them to use a template I created that brings together multiple open source data sets and client data, to help inform environmental assessments. This has massively improved efficiencies in the assessment production.

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

I've been working with GIS, mainly ESRI products for the last 16 years in a variety of roles over the years, ranging from cartographic roles, to data management roles all with an environmental emphasis. After a few years of being in project management roles, I'm back to being technical, and I'm looking forward to connecting with the community. 

Bonus Round!

There are so many amazing places it's difficult to narrow them down, but I'm going to state that my favourite place on earth is here:  

53.175201, -2.442125

[MichelleMathias]

Hi Gemma,  Welcome to the GeoNet Community! Happy to have your expertise added to our community, I hope you find it valuable. Let me know if you need any help navigating or using  the community. We also have great resources and tools on our https://community.esri.com/community/help-and-feedback?sr=search&searchId=b7a6b27b-cfc8-4ba4-8766-c9...‌.

Cheers, Michelle Mathias (GeoNet Community Manager)

[deleted-user-gM8UAZIUIYqC]

Thanks Michelle.

[JoeFlint]

Where do you work and what is your role? 

Hi my name is Joe Flint. I have been retired for the past 4 years.I was a programmer for an insurance company. My interest in GIS comes from my hobby, Genealogy. In the study of family history we have tools that let us record what and when something happened in the past. We can even record where something happened as text. What I want to do with GIS is to analyze the relationship between places. For example Why did John Smith marry Jane Doe? In the 19th century your prospective partner was probably within walking or at least horseback distance. What I am trying to do is Historical GIS on an individual basis.

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

My greatest GIS success this year has been finding ArcGIS for Personal Use. I started out with Google Earth. I soon realized that there was a lot of data out there in shape file format. I tried a free GIS and then a middle priced GIS not wanting to spend the money for ArcGIS. Finding that I could get the real deal for a very affordable price was great. One of the landmarks that can persist through time are rivers and streams. I now have a map populated from the USGS NHD of all the named streams in the USA. I now understand why one ancestor has been reported living in two counties at once. The deed says he lived on Naked Creek and there are two Naked Creeks one in each county.

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

While I started out as a mainframe COBOL programmer, the last 15 years of my career where spent working in Visual Basic and especially C# and SQL Server. I am hoping to use my programming skills to automate the process of displaying the land purchased in the US public land states by specific individuals.

[MichelleMathias]

Joe, Welcome to the GeoNet Community. i hope you find it a valuable resource. A couple of places to check out: ArcGIS Online‌, GeoNet Resource Hub‌. 

[ShelbyConnors]

Where do you work and what is your role? 

I am currently working as an intern for the GeoNet Team! 

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

I haven't, but I anticipate much GIS success to come now that I'm part of GeoNet!

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

I have a good amount of knowledge of the UC and Student Assistantship as well as a degree in psychology

[MichelleMathias]

Shelby, We are super excited to have you join the GeoNet team for the summer! 

[AlPollard]

Where do you work and what is your role?

I work for the Transportation Security Administration in Idaho. What is my role? That is kind of tough to answer. I am the SME for ArcGIS for TSA in the state which sounds pretty impressive, but I am self-taught and at this time my department/group is one (me).

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

I created a map for all the TSA employees in the state so we can track how natural disasters or events may affect them. Currently the threat is wildfires so I closely monitor the wildfire activity and see if any employees are/will be affected. I am still working on “standing up” the GIS group here.

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

As I indicated, I am self-taught (with the help of some online resources). Thank you Coursera! My expertise is that I am a digger! I tend to like to get into the nuts and bolts of things and how they work. I am fairly skilled at finding answers.

My favorite place?

There isn’t just one. Anyplace there are a few trees and a lake or stream is fine with me!