A geospatial career journey
As a consultant, I have to submit my resume a lot. You always want you resume tailored to the project you're trying to land. In the old days, that meant taking the most recent version, tweaking it, and hope that any gaps from the previous version aren't fatal. But these aren't the old days and … Continue reading A Career Narrative – Not a Resume
Early in my career, I dealt with a requirement to post-process a corpus of existing documents to "geocode" them. This meant identifying the locations referenced in each document, calculating a minimum bounding rectangle (MBR), and writing the MBR, the file path, and some associated ID into a database, so that documents could be surfaced via … Continue reading Simple Geocoding with ChatGPT
It's been a few months since my last post, which is not necessarily what I intended, but I took some time off at the beginning of the year before jumping into new ventures. Since then, I've been quite engaged coming up to speed with a new team and getting going on some data architecture challenges. … Continue reading Visiting MAUI
Since the first of the year, I've been on my own. After considering a number of really compelling job offers, I decided to start my own company and take a contract position with company doing work that's meaningful to me (more on that in the future). I'm also picking back up with some GIS work … Continue reading New Directions