A geospatial career journey
Prior to my current role, I spent 25 years working in the federal contracting space. Almost all technology built in that world is one-off and designed for the specific needs of a customer. Often, those needs are complex and meeting them involves creating new technology. "Productizing" a solution is common trope around the Beltway among … Continue reading Services, Solutions, and Products
I've spent the last year or so doing very little with geospatial technology, but I find myself missing it tremendously. Of course "in my blood" and "how I'm wired" and similar aphorisms apply to how I'm feeling, but that's not what really has me missing geospatial. In a shocking (for me) turn of events, I … Continue reading Give Me a Standard, Any Standard
For a long time now, I have tried to take a holistic approach to my day. I long ago seized upon the idea that time is the primary resource to manage and that all others, including money, are secondary. Show me a person who says "Time is money" and I will show you someone who … Continue reading Geography Matters Less
To say that programming saved my life would be overly dramatic. Given that I started programming at an age where most of us are prone to drama based on the ebbs and flows of hormones, a dramatic reading of my first forays into programming would be forgivable. But, while programming didn't save my life, it … Continue reading A Programming Life
"Ops" is all the rage these days - DevOps, RevOps, FinOps, PeopleOps. I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of "GeoOps" yet, given the propensity of our corner of the world to attach the "geo" prefix to what ever the current hotness may be. "Ops" is, of course, short for "operations" and "operations" is a … Continue reading In Praise of Process