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Cake day: June 28th, 2023

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  • I sort of stumbled into it. I was medium computer-oriented as a kid, and I majored in Management Information Systems in college, which felt like a very broad, Jack-of-all-trades IT program. Little bit of networking, little bit of programming, little bit of database work, etc.

    When I graduated the job market was terrible and I wound up getting a job in petroleum doing data entry and reporting, got hired away to do similar work for a smaller company, and got laid off and hired to a much larger company doing more of the same. I’m not sure when or how I got started in Arc, but the department I was in used Arc for lease mapping and I excelled at it, and now ~13 years later I’m one of three guys in our division’s GIS group under the IT department. I’d never heard of GIS before I started here and now I feel like I’m a fairly decent cartographer, data wrangler, and Python programmer.

    I kinda feel like GIS chose me. :)