I am a geospatial professional with seven years of experience working in the private and public sectors. I graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Geography and a Certificate in GIS, starting my career with an aerial-imagery start-up, before working at Apple. Currently I work for the City of San Jose Department of Transportation as a GIS Specialist, helping to build maps and data systems to efficiently maintain our infrastructure and plan the future of our city. When I am not working, I enjoy spending time in nature, cooking for friends and family, and rooting for the Giants.
Moumié Maoulidi
Moumié Maoulidi's passion for GIS is rooted in a conviction that, in an ever-changing world, geospatial data helps people solve real world problems. He currently works for the City and County of San Francisco (CCSF) and prior to that, he worked in academia, UNICEF, and the private sector. Moumié has a Ph.D. in Economics and Education and an Ed.M in International Education Development from Columbia University.
Andy Lyons
Andy works with the University of California as Program Coordinator for the Informatics and GIS Statewide Program within the Division to Agriculture and Natural resources. In this role he supports a wide range of GIS and data science projects in agriculture, natural resources, climate change. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science Policy and Management, and has taught classes at Berkeley, Stanford, and Davis in spatial analysis with open source software, drone photogrammetry, GIS, environmental problem solving, population modeling, cryptography, African studies, social justice, and sustainability. Outside of work, Andy can be often be found hiking the hills of the east bay.
Jake Dialesandro
Jake is a Lecturer of Remote Sensing, GIS and Environmental Statistics at Santa Clara University’s Environmental Studies Department. Prior to SCU Jake was a postdoctoral research fellow using remote sensing and geospatial data to solve urban climate and environmental justice issues at University of California Los Angeles Luskin Center for Innovation. He recently graduated with a Ph.D. in geography from UC Davis with a focus on urban climatology and remote sensing.
Before joining the Geography Graduate Group at UC Davis, Jake was a geospatial research analyst for two years with the USDA Southwest Climate Hub in Las Cruces, New Mexico at the Jornada LTER Research site studying climate change impacts in agriculture and snowpack in the Southwestern U.S. Jake also served five terms with NASA DEVELOP as an assistant center lead and project lead at the Tempe, Arizona and Pocatello, Idaho nodes. He holds a Master’s of Applied Geography degree from New Mexico State University and Bachelor’s degree in GIS from Kent State University.
Ian Conroy
Ian is a GIS Project Manager for G2 Integrated Solutions, specializing in Utility asset management. Originally starting in the Environmental Field as a Habitat Restoration Technician, Ian has been working with GIS data in some form for the last 11 years. He has experience in C++ and Python, creating custom scripts/tools to automate GIS workflows. Ian enjoys collaborating with others and sharing knowledge with the GIS community.
Away from the computer, Ian can be found surfing various locations in Northern California and occasionally playing music with his band Gene Wilderness.
Eric Samson
Eric Samson is a Senior GIS Consultant at G2 Integrated Solutions. He is originally from Maine and is currently living in Walnut Creek. Eric has been working with GIS technology for 7 years, starting out focusing in climate science and remote sensing. He now works in the utility industry, improving GIS workflows through python programming. He is passionate about cartography, clean code, skiing, and backpacking.
Cam Denney, Instructor and BayGeo Assistant Education Director
Cam is an unabashed map nerd, cartographer, and GIS professional. Cam currently works as a Research Analyst at the Alameda County Community Food Bank, and previously worked on the Spatial Computing Team at Facebook. He is also an enthusiastic teacher, having taught courses in GIS, outdoor education, high school math/science, and ESL.
Prior to that, he completed a master's in Geography from UC Davis and an Engineering degree from the University of Illinois.
Cam lives in Alameda, and can often be found shopping at his favorite grocery store located at: 37.8133886, -122.2682824
Rob Gaston
Rob Gaston has spent the last ten years building geospatial web applications at Farallon Geographics (http://fargeo.com/) in San Francisco, CA. He's a core developer on the Arches project (http://archesproject.org), an open-source system for managing cultural heritage data.
He has a passion for teaching technical skills in a hands-on environment and has spent time teaching web development skills at General Assembly.
Outside of work, he is a husband, music & politics nerd and cat lover, who can often be found volunteering to help save Oakland’s cats with Cat Town (http://cattownoakland.org/).
Dan Swick
Day job: Mapbox Support Team
Dan is on the support team at Mapbox, where he works with developers to make sure their maps are running smoothly and looking great. He also writes documentation and guides to help new Mapbox users find the information they need. Before joining Mapbox, Dan was a project manager at the Delta Institute, where he worked with Great Lakes communities, businesses, and governments to build a more environmentally resilient region. Dan holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from the University of Kansas. Before coming to San Francisco, Dan started Maptime Chicago. After work, Dan can usually be found pedaling towards the woods.
Rick Kos, BayGeo Education Director
Day Job: Faculty in the Masters of Urban & Regional Planning program at San Jose State University
GIS Focus: Introducing students to GIS technology and demystifying it.
GIS is Important to me because: In order to solve local, regional and global problems, we first need to know as much as possible about the topic to be solved. In almost every case, this information has a locational and relational component that can be represented on a map - this is why GIS becomes such a powerful tool to study and solve multi-faceted problems. Unfortunately, I feel that today's GIS software is clunky, confusing, unfriendly and off-putting to new learners, so I've made it my mission to promote GIS as a powerful tool that needs to be clearly explained and demystified for the benefit of present and future problem-solvers.
You Should Also Know: Proud to say I was born and raised in New Jersey, though I love California and the Bay Area!
My Projects
City of Mountain View 2030 General Plan Update mapping
City of Orinda GIS training
Co-author: GIS for Economic Development
Digital Cartographer: Worldlink
Urban Planning and GIS instructor: San Jose State University
Personal GIS tutoring services
My Groups: American Institute of Certified Planners, American Planning Association, National Trust for Historic Preservation, BayGeo