PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Yunwoo Nam, PhD, is an associate professor of community and regional planning program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a faculty fellow of the CALMIT (Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies). He obtained his Ph.D degree in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

City of Cottonwood Heights GISP, GIS Specialist, City of Cottonwood Heights | | I coach competition soccer, play ice hockey, and I like to golf and hike (when I can find the time). I am very active with the Utah Geographic Information Council (UGIC) and promoting the use of GIS and geo-spatial technologies and tools in K-12 education. My favorite place in the world is Southern Utah, I spend as much time there as I can.

PhD, President, Vertices LLC

Mr. Robert Kirkman, GISP, is a Senior GIS Manager. Mr. Kirkman has over 18 years of experience in spatial sciences including GIS, remote sensing, and modeling, and has worked in the public, private, and research sectors. He specializes in GIS project management, specifically environmental inventories and the rapid design, implementation and operation of enterprise-level GIS for large, multi-disciplinary projects. For the last 10 years, Mr. Kirkman has focused on Departments of Transportation work. Mr. Kirkman has published and presented in a number of fields, including the application of technology to transportation projects at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET), GIS in Transportation (GIS-T), application of remote sensing in global warming research, and GIS and Natural Resources. He is currently the Program Information Manager, overseeing the GIS, IT, and IS teams for HDR’s joint venture project, Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners (OBDP). OBDP is under contract to the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and its Highway Division to accelerate the completion and manage the quality of projects in the OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program. The enterprise GIS that Mr. Kirkman designed the web-centric GIS and led the GIS team that serves all the disciplines within the $1.3 Billion project. This project has yielded several custom applications, including the AASHTO Silver Pathfinder Award for Team for a mobile data collection too. Mr. Kirkman was the designer and project manager for Oregon DOT’s Salmon Recovery and Sensitive Area Mapping (SRSAM) project. This multi-year $2+ million statewide inventory of environmental features inside the transportation corridor provided the Agency with high-resolution (wetlands, streams, and T&E species) data critical to maintenance and planning activities. Using field-collected data, additional information was derived from custom models that were proven 98% accurate to within 50 feet across the state. Mr. Kirkman designed and developed the procedures, developed the spatial modeling algorithms, and directed the multi-disciplinary team. Mr. Kirkman is the NW Regional GIS Coordinator and part of the GIS Leadership team for HDR Engineering. He helps in setting strategy, standards and policy for GIS within the company. His industry foci are transportation, sustainability, and economics. He particularly enjoys designing and matching project needs with the appropriate technologies needed for success. Mr. Kirkman has undergraduate degrees in Geography and Environmental Studies, graduate studies in (Natural Hazards) Geography from the University of Oregon, and a Master’s of Science in the Management of Science & Technology from Oregon Health Sciences University.

GIS Program Coordinator, Community Transit

GISP, GIS Supervisor, Prince William County VA

PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Yunwoo Nam, PhD, is an associate professor of community and regional planning program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a faculty fellow of the CALMIT (Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies). He obtained his Ph.D degree in city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dave has been designing and developing GIS software for the last 14 years, with projects ranging from small web-sites to state-wide enterprise systems. Current focus is on user-friendly, high-performance web applications build with HTML5 and Javascript.

User Experience Designer, GARAFA iOS Development

Mr. David Holdstock, GISP, CEO and co-owner of Geographic Technologies Group, with over 20 years of experience in the use and management of GIS for state, federal, and local governments. He has planned, designed, and coordinated the implementation of GIS technology for more than 200 local government organizations. Mr. Holdstock has written publications and presentations on GIS for local government, and his articles have been published in many highly reputable publications, including GeoWorld magazine. Recently, GTG earned the Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award for its work with the City of Huber Heights, Ohio.

Assistant Director, Fulton County GA Government

Fulton County GIS Supervisor, Fulton County GA Government

Mr. Aaron Petersen is a GIS Specialist with Pierce County, WA. Aaron has worked on a wide variety of geographic analysis projects ranging from land use to natural resource management. He has worked as a GIS professional for over ten years, with experience working with both local governments and federal natural resource agencies. He holds a M.A. in Geography from San Diego State University and a B.S. in Wildlife Biology from Colorado State University.

Peirce has had the great fortune to implement and manage two important and well-known GIS programs. From 1986-1993 he was the GIS Manager for the Orlando/Orange County (FL) GIS. The Orlando/Orange County program was a model in the implementation of a multi-government management/funding consortia, large-scale application development from a geographic data perspective (1,500 named tables with 18,000 data elements in an advanced DBMS environment). The program was instrumental in defining the importance of addresses, addressing and geographic keys across an enterprise-wide IT environment responsible for the implementation of one of the first governmental fiber-optic networks. Orlando/Orange County’s program was also instrumental in the use of newer geoauditing tools to uncover lost fees and tax revenues. His work with addresses and addressing standards led to a major initiative with URISA, including workshops and a specialty conference with NENA (now in its 12th year). His work with Assessment, CAMA systems and land records help launch the URISA/IAAO specialty conferences dealing with GIS and CAMA now in its 16th year. His work with Chester County, PA, also as GIS Manager, led to many major advances in the use of GIS for Emergency Manager and support of E-911, Assessment and land records integration with the Recorder of Deeds. Other salient points include a GIS Consortium with over two dozen members, including Townships, Boroughs, school districts, utilities and fire companies. The program also led to innovative use of aerial imagery, including oblique photography, 3-D data structures. He has been active with GIS as a professional since the mid-1970’s. He is an active URISA member has been on the board twice and is a past President. He received the Horwood Award for his service to the industry in 2008. His programs have won numerous awards from NACO and URISA’s prestigious ESIG award. He has also been active with GIS at the State and local levels active in GISPros, PAGIS conferences and URISA’s Mid-Atlantic Chapter. He received his BA degree in Geography, with Honors, from the University of Florida and a MA degree also in Geography from the University of Cincinnati. Presently he is a Co-chair for PRIA’s Land Records/GIS Integration Initiative. It is a three-year program that will document good methods for local government advances in integrating familiar land records with GIS maps and records with other key governmental data-sets. He is an Executive Consultant with geographic Data Base Management Systems, Inc. providing GIS and land record modernization services.

Judy Colby-George has over twelve years experience in the GIS and Planning field ranging from creating and updating GIS datasets, development of customized interfaces, and providing detailed analysis and using GIS to enhance decision making for municipalities. Ms. Colby- George has extensive public outreach experience using GIS. She uses CommunityViz software to assist municipalities in visualization and analyzing different growth strategies. Ms. Colby-George develops needs assessments to guide the implementation of GIS technology for the application to planning and environmental issues.

GIS Application Specialist, City of Brampton, Laura Cassian, BA, GIS-AS is a GIS Specialist working in the Community Services Department of the City of Brampton (Ontario, Canada). In her role there she addresses the GIS needs of five divisions: Arts, Culture and Theater, Recreation, Parks Maintenance and Operations, Fire and Emergency Services and Community Development and Service Planning. These needs can be anything from a small paper map to a complex analysis, to leadership of a large project with a GIS component. Prior to her departmental assignment, Laura was a GIS Specialist in the I.T. Division at the City of Brampton, and a Technical Services Coordinator with the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS), a not-for-profit private-public sector partnership for GIS data sharing in Victoria, BC.

Matthew Pietryszyn is the GIS Technical Lead at the City of Brampton, responsible for leading GIS staff in the day-to-day activities for projects undertaken by the section. The GIS Technical Lead is the primary contact for most of the projects that demand spatial information and provides advice / expertise to ensure business requirements are defined, and that systems and procedures are put into production and that overall project goals are met. Over the past eight years, working with the City of Brampton, Matthew has participated on project teams both in lead roles as well as supporting roles, working to integrate systems with the goal of making central information available across multiple platforms and applications. Matthew lead the team responsible for delivering the solution which won the 2011 GITA Innovator Award. He was also the winner of the 2003 National Geographic Award for Best Digital Map as well as the 2003 Canadian Cartographic Association President's Award for Electronic Map.

Dave has been designing and developing GIS software for the last 14 years, with projects ranging from small web-sites to state-wide enterprise systems. Current focus is on user-friendly, high-performance web applications build with HTML5 and Javascript.

Jonathan McLandrich is a GIS Specialist with AECOM in Portland, Oregon. He has a degree in Geography from the University of Kentucky. He has worked on flood study projects in over 20 states and a handful of international locations. Jonathan enjoys spending time playing Handball, Soccer and Mountain Biking and is an avid Cincinnati Reds fan.

GIS Coordinator, Kittitas County Ellensburg, WA I have been in the GIS field for 15 years, starting with ArcInfo workstation and AML scripts in college all the way up to current ArcGIS technologies developing with ArcObjects using C#. Development is my true passion but enjoy all aspects of GIS and how we can geographically express data to help answer real-world questions. I received my bachelors degree from Colorado State University with a minor in Spatial Information Systems. I worked for the Oregon Water Resources Department for 8 years as a GIS Analyst and now with Kittitas County for 5 years.

Paul Juarez, PhD is Professor, Vice Chair of Community Health, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Meharry Medical College and Principal Investigator of the Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence at Meharry. Dr. Juarez has championed the innovative use of computational, statistical and spatial models, methods and analytics to examine the complex effects of spatial and temporal characteristics of environment on health disparities and assembled a transdisciplinary team of national exports to carry this out.

MPH, GISP, Assistant Professor, Loma Linda Universit

Steve Taylor, Earth and Physical Science Dept., Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR 97361 taylors@wou.edu Dr. Stephen Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Geology from West Virginia University with expertise in fluvial geomorphology and geographic information systems. Dr. Taylor is currently professor of geology at Western Oregon University and chair of the Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. Dr. Taylor’s present research initiatives span a diverse array of topics including watershed analysis, cinder cone volcanism at Newberry Volcano, rapid bio-assessment of salmonid in Coast Range watersheds, and fingerprint pattern characterization.

Research Technician, Western Oregon University

Loma Linda University

Ed Wells, GISP, AICP is GIS Manager for the Washington (DC) Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. He has over twenty years’ experience as a GIS manager and consultant in the public and private sectors. He managed the implementation of Pittsburgh’s GIS from 1984-95. He graduated from Stanford University, did four years of graduate study in City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and received the Master’s degree in Public Administration from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a URISA member since 1984, served on URISA’s board of directors, and is the Past President of the URISA Board. He is also a member of GITA, ASPRS, APA, and AICP.

Mary Tsui is a principal in Land Systems Group, based in Monterey, California. LSG is a small California consulting firm specializing in GIS, permit and project tracking, and electronic publishing. She often assists in the development of data sharing agreements and regional GIS data consortia. She has been a URISA member since 1985, served on its Board of Directors and has participated in several other roles and committees. She served as the Chair of the California Geographic Information Association and is a member of BAAMA. She received the Bachelor’s degree from Southern Oregon State University, and the Master’s degree from UCLA

GISP, Sr. GIS Analyst, Oregon Department of Transportation, Chris Wright is as Senior GIS analyst who is currently on rotation with ODOT’s Asset Management Integration Unit as a project manager and analyst. Chris has been involved in numerous projects at ODOT providing project management, application development and analysis support. Chris has been with ODOT for three years; prior to joining ODOT Chris spent five years in the GIS consulting environment working on several large transportation and energy facility siting projects. Chris holds a master’s degree in geography with an emphasis is Geo-Spatial technologies and is a certified GIS Professional.

Sr. GIS Analyst, Oregon Department of Transportation, Ryan Johnson has been the Senior GIS Analyst at the Oregon Department of Transportaion since 2009. He is the project manager for the TransGIS web mapping application and is primarily resposible for ODOT\'s enterprise GIS infrastructure design and maintenance. Cartography for web mapping, enterprise data management and project management for building new web applications takes most of his time. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from the University of Oregon.

GISP, PG, GIS Analyst, HDR Inc

GISP, Transportation Planner, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority