Brian Shepard, Gisp Email & Phone Number

Astoria, Or, Us

Astoria, Or, Us

• Support the business needs of users across several departments including Public Works/Engineering, Community Development/Planning, City Management, Fire, Parks and Recreation, and Finance.• Automate dataset updates across internal fgdb feature classes, open source WFS and WMS services, and ArcGIS Online ensuring consistency of features and metadata between source and replica datasets.• Provide training and support of GIS and asset management software to Public Works and Engineering staff.• Develop standards for data management, governance, cartography, data visualization and communication.• Create and maintain data integration between GIS, asset management and other business systems.• Create, acquire and maintain cadastral, utility, natural resources and remote sensing data.• Create and maintain custom geospatial web applications for desktop and mobile use.• Develop and maintain authoritative standards, datasets and documentation.• Coordinate city-wide small Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (sUAS) program.• Acquire, maintain and administer GIS and CADD licenses.• Standardize and automate ETL/ELT processes.

Provide input on PCC's GIS/UAS/Geomatics curriculum, certificate programs and degree programs.

• Develop and implement systems that transform data into actionable information and track the planning and decisions to turn that information into shared, persistent knowledge.• Established, manage and lead a multidisciplinary team of Geospatial and Business Systems Professionals, including recruitment, supervision, mentoring, and workload distribution.• Developed expectations and standards that maximize efficiency, communication and transparency in a hybrid work environment with practical standards.• Lead interdisciplinary teams to solve complex problems and implement multi-year strategic plans.• Established data visualization and business intelligence standards and practices to effectively communicate information, utilize precognitive processing, and maximize understanding.• Serve as a geospatial expert, consulting on product development, data acquisition, management, and integration.• Oversee stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, documentation, planning, scoping, coordination, and testing.• Gather requirements, create functional and technical specifications, and develop solutions in an Agile environment.• Develop system and business process procedures, standards, and implement best practices.• Set standards for data management, access, sharing, security, geospatial coordinate systems, metadata, and analysis.• Leverage technology to develop real-time data collection, analysis, visualization, and reporting systems.• Design systems to collect, summarize, and report spatial, financial, and business operations data.• Develop data integration plans, including schema, relationships, and models for reporting and visualization.• Create analytical processes for suitability modeling, change detection, and implementation prioritization.• Conduct QA/QC of data in SQL Server and utilized Python for QA/QC processes and data engineering.• Administer ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, and other web-based applications.

• Automate and improve system and business processes. Maximize operational efficiency utilizing lean Six Sigma principles.• Oversee system development, maintenance and improvement, as well as work requests coordinating a four-person team.• Supervise and mentor staff, including recruitment, hiring, workload prioritization and professional development.• Create geodatabases and electronic data collection applications that integrate with existing enterprise systems.• Leverage technology to develop systems that collect, maintain, analyze, visualize and report data in real time.• Develop system and business process procedures. Train and support users, and provide troubleshooting.• Develop data integration plans, including schema, relationships and models for reporting and visualization.• Develop and lead interdisciplinary teams to solve complex problems and multi-year strategic plans.• Foster transformational partnerships to reduce costs, leverage resources and maximize outcomes.• Create systems to collect, summarize and report spatial, financial and business operations data.• Administer ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Portal and Restoration Mangement Systems.• Developed and coordinate agency-wide Uncrewed Aircraft Systems program.

Provide mapping, spatial analysis, and database management in support of riparian habitat enhancement.

• Make recommendations for data acquisition, specifications and deliverables covering ortho imagery, oblique imagery and LiDAR.• Plan, budget, scope and acquire remote sensing data in partnership with multiple regional organizations. • Survey stakeholders across multiple industries to recommend products that meet everyone's needs.• Draft, review and score contracts, proposals and contractor submissions.• Develop and review multi-year acquisition budgets.

Marked and tagged juvenile salmonids at fish hatcheries throughout Oregon for fisheries management and population studies.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Performed data collection to assess and monitor seagrass habitat throughout South Florida.

Dual Master Of Science (Ms), Marine Biology And Coastal Zone Management

Primary area of study was on seagrass propagation and seagrass bed ecosystem restoration. Managed seagrass culture facility at NSU and led.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biodiversity, Ecology, And Evolutionary Biology

Focus was on limnology and aquatic ecology. Created an ethogram of captive California sea lions at the Kansas City Zoo for senior project.