Recent Tweets
- @GeodataPolicy drawing conculsions from a 9 year old survey in this market is pretty spurious - i agree it is time for a redux #urisa
- @DaleLoberger @geocrusader80 Do you think more local gov'ts are moving towards #opendata since the 2003 #URISA survey? // cc @kpomfret 2/2
- @DaleLoberger I believe I suggested that it's time for an update to the #URISA data policy survey. 1/2
- Two #URISA Certified Workshops are being offered at the Alaska Surveying and Mapping Conference, February 13-14. http://t.co/25EG41tz
- Bravo!: URISA's GISCorps Continues to Impact the World: http://t.co/W17ey6VL via @gisuser #URISA #GISCorps
ULA Faculty - Leaders Teaching Leadership
Carl Anderson, GISP
Senior Consultant
Spatial Focus, Inc.
Carl consults on GIS projects at the Federal, State and Local levels. Untl recently he was the Assistant Director for GIS for Fulton County Georgia, developing and directing the implementation of enterprise-centric GIS applications for decision support and business improvement for all County departments. He has initiated web based and desktop GIS applications using both Open Source and proprietary software, contributing to and utilizing Open Source projects over the past 20 years.
Carl has served on the Georgia URISA chapter's board of directors, is a fellow of the National Speleological Society, serves on the Georgia Speleological Survey's executive committee, has been involved with Southeastern Cave Surveys in both cartographic and archival roles for the past 23 years and has been the primary cartographer for several speleological projects.
Carl is currently serving on the URISA Board of Directors and recently moved to the Washington DC area as a consultant with Spatial Focus.
Greg Babinski, GISP
Finance & Marketing Manager
King County (WA) GIS Center
Greg is the Finance and Marketing Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle, Washington. In addition to work in the natural gas, oil, and chemical engineering industries, he has 20 years of GIS management experience, including project management, utility related GIS development, enterprise GIS operations management, and GIS consulting work. He is the founder and Chief Editor of The Summit, the quarterly newsletter of the Washington State GIS community. Currently he serves as the Treasurer of URISA and as the Vice President of the Washington Chapter of URISA. He is a member of the American Marketing Association and the Government Finance Officers Association. Greg is currently President-Elect of URISA and will become President beginning in November 2011.
Clare Brown, GISP
Data Manager
New Orleans Regional Planning Commission
Clare is the Principal Data Management Manager for MWH, a global engineering firm. She has over 27 years of professional experience in the application of GIS and mapping to a wide range of disciplines. Seventeen of these years have been in some form of project and program management. Currently, Ms. Brown is overseeing the data collection and mapping for the City of New Orleans rebuilding efforts.
Additionally, she serves on the board of URISA and is a past president of Georgia URISA. She has also served as the GISCorps Team Leader for the Medical Mission Exchange project. Ms. Brown’s career has spanned diverse experiences in academia, private industry and public service.
Allen Ibaugh, AICP, GISP
CEO
Data Transfer Solutions, LLC
Allen Ibaugh is the CEO of DTS, a small business focused on developing and deploying GIS, multimedia (video/software/graphics), and web-based solutions for government and private industry. He has extensive knowledge and experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), transportation modeling, transportation planning, and GIS-model integration. He has been a member of the GIS Subcommittee of the Florida Department of Transportation Model Task Force for the past five years with responsibilities for design and review of the GIS-TM integrated modeling product developed by Central Office FDOT. Allen has over 15 years of project management and technical experience working on various GIS and transportation projects for DOTs, regional planning agencies, and various Town/County Governments.
During the past 10 years, Allen has been a member of URISA and most recently was the Treasurer of the organization on the Board of Directors.
Bruce Joffe, GISP
Principal
GIS Consultants
Bruce is the founder of GIS Consultants, providing GIS implementation planning and organizational management services to local and state governments, utilities, and private companies for 30 years. He contributes to the resolution of geospatial public policy issues which include defining professional responsibilities, building the NSDI, preparing for effective response to emergency disasters, and securing access to public agency geodata.
Bruce has served on the URISA and GIS Certification Institute (GISCI) Board of Directors.
David Lanter, Ph.D., GISP
Discipline Leader – Information Management
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc.
Dave leads CDM’ Information management systems (IMS) discipline for GIS and applications development. In this role, he mentors CDM’s GIS and applications development specialists in best practices, standard procedures, and quality management principles for conducting successful GIS, information management, and applications development projects.
Dave’s contributions include development of comprehensive data/information and applications’ architectures for local, regional, national and international governmental agencies to support planning and decision support functions. He helps his clients exploit GIS and information technology to meet evolving business needs in: government, utilities, telecommunications, transportation, marketing, scientific research investigations, and consumer product development. Dave is also the current chair of the URISA Curriculum Development Committee.
Dave earned his Ph.D. in Geographic Information Processing from the University of South Carolina, Master’s degree in GIS Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Bachelor’s degree in Science Technology and Society (with honors) from Clark University.
Michael W. Lovett, GISP
Senior Project Manager
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc.
Mike is a senior project manager with CDM. He has over 39 years of public and private sector experience in information management systems (IMS) for GIS, land surveying, aerial photography, photogrammetry, and engineering. He was a team member on the first AM/FM project conducted within the United States.
Mr. Lovett has provided advice and leadership to over 40 major data conversion projects. His leadership and management skills have brought many new digital data capture techniques into the forefront of the data conversion process. As lead practitioner, Mr. Lovett provides management and technical leadership in information management services for engineering, design, consulting and GIS activities throughout the southern United States.
Mike is one of the authors/instructors of the URISA certified “GIS Program Management” workshop. He has served the Florida Chapter of URISA as a Regional Director, Secretary, Vice President, President and is currently the serving Past-President. Mr. Lovett has been an active URISA Workshop Development Committee (WDC) member since 2004. Mike was the 2009 URISA Annual Conference Chair and is currently a member of the URISA Board of Directors
Claudia Paskauskas, MCSD, GISP
GIS Manager
East Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Claudia has over 15 years of IT professional experience working for private and government sectors including GIS, systems design and analysis, systems development and database administration. She is the Central Florida GIS Program Manager at the Regional Planning Council. Her main functions are related to GIS integration for a 10 county area, data development, application requirements, definition and design as well as project development, production and management.
Claudia has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Human Resources with emphasis in Quality Control Procedures. She is a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD).
Hilary Perkins, GISP, AICP
Regional Planner
East-West Gateway Council of Governments
Hilary has over 20 years experience working with GIS in both the public and private sector. She is currently a Regional Planner with the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, which is the regional planning authority for the St. Louis metropolitan area. Her previous work in transportation, environmental, urban planning, and community development has provided a variety of leadership and management opportunities for a wide range of projects. She is also interested in the use of GIS by the public and community-based organizations for addressing the complex information needs associated with solving regional problems and creating consensus-driven solutions.
Hilary served as President of URISA and has been honored with numerous URISA awards including Leadership, Service, and the Barbara A. Hirsch Special Service Award. She is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a Board Member on TRB ABJ60 Committee on Geographic Information Science & Applications.
Rebecca Somers, GISP
GIS Management Consultant
Somers-St.Claire GIS Management Consultants
Rebecca is a prominent GIS management instructor, writer, and speaker in national and international forums. She wrote the GIS Management Strategies column for Geospatial Solutions for 10 years and is finishing a book on GIS Management and Implementation for John Wiley & Sons. She has also served on many industry boards and committees including URISA, ACSM, GISP program development, FGDC, and the Penn State Masters in GIS program. Rebecca holds a Master’s degree in GIS.
Martha McCart Wells, GISP
Director of Consulting Services
Spatial Focus, Inc.
She is a past president of URISA, and a GISCorps volunteer. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Geography from San Francisco State University, and a Master’s degree in Resource and Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts.
Sara Yurman, GISP
Director of Information Services
Spatial Focus, Inc.
Sara Yurman is an experienced GIS Manager and a founder of Spatial Focus, Inc. She has over 20 years of experience in both organizational and technical aspects of geographic information, encompassing government at the local, regional, and state levels. Her activities have included team-building and change management as well as implementations of raster and vector GIS, GPS data integration, system development, and database design.
Before the founding of Spatial Focus, Inc. Ms. Yurman was a consultant for American Cadastre, Inc. Prior to that, she worked with a variety of clients on strategic and technical issues, advising clients on profit potential of existing geographic data within their organization. Ms. Yurman received a Bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master's degree in geography from Georgia State University. Sara is currently the Conference Chair for the 2011 URISA/NENA Addressing Conference.
