GISP: It's not the DO, it's the WHO!A GISP has never been just about what I DO in GIS, it's about WHO I am as a professional!Retired: Living the Dream of my 'Golden Years' & in the Zip Code I grew up in! - Aging in Place - Doing it Well - so far!A Geospatial Paladin - 'Have GISP - Did Travel' - '...A knight without armor in a spatial land...' As the Retired Executive Director of GISCI, I was their geospatial Paladin, responsible for all things GISP, tending to a worldwide flock of Certified geospatial Professionals, and it is my personal goal to connect to every GISP on LinkedIn! (And I always did like Richard Boone's old TV series!.........:)From the Permian Basin of West Texas, the fracking capitol of the world, in a formerly sleepy W TX ranching and oil town, I had a geographically untethered position as their Executive Director, and, as such, I got to rub shoulders with geospatial professionals from all over the world! How cool is that?!!To this position, I brought a varied background, with experience in ranching, truck driving, technical sales and marketing, acquired coast-to-coast and border-to-border in these United States & Canada, budgeting and management from the same perspective, oil field production treatment chemicals from W TX and the Rockies, pipeline ROW mapping & negotiating, and (last but certainly not least) GIS from a Regional water-supply, Federal, and Municipal Enterprise perspective.All this came about after growing up on a ranch in West Texas (which the family still runs), obtaining a degree in Chemistry, an MTh, and having been a MGIS Candidate in the illustrious Penn State Online Program. In short, I am still Living the Dream, from a geospatial or any other perspective!.....and, I'm well into cultivating towards my 3rd 10,000 group of LinkedIn Contacts, and enjoying my simple life, active with my church family in a small, connected, West Texas community!............:)Specialties: I completed a GIS Certificate through Penn State's online program in 2009, was an MGIS Candidate starting in 2014. I am a current member of URISA, & the AAG, and a past member of ASPRS & the International Right of Way Association (IRWA) . I have served on Outreach Committee, the Applications Committee, and the Board of the GISCI, and still serve on the National Advisory Board of the GeoTech Center. .I received my GISP certification in January, 2010, and the rest is history in the making!!