Eric Patrick Email & Phone Number

United States

• Develop and implement streamlined and standardized processes to support effective business unit operations for areas including safety, quality, project management, contracting and subcontracting, field readiness.
• Supervise/manage the resources of the entire business unit. Ensure technical staff are managed, mentored, and trained to support the project managers and clients.
• Support and assist the Executive Vice President with development of strategic direction, organizational structure, and operational optimization, and the overall management of operations
• Directly manage Senior Project Managers and Project Managers.
• Support the identification and pursuit of business opportunities.
• Provide project/program management and help develop personnel and project management skills of others.

A continuation of my role as GIS Services Manager, GIS Solutions Architect and Senior Project Manager with NSGIS after our acquisition by Tepa LLC.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Direct staff and project managers in the execution of all services projects to ensure high quality outcomes to NorthSouth GIS (NSG) projects while striving to maximize return on investment for clientsLiaise with all resource teams, including software development, training, and supportEnsure that billable staff have a balanced load of billable work, admin.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Design, document and manage data conversion and maintenance workflows for high profile clients such as the Port of Los Angeles, Port of Stockton, Port of Oakland and the Port of Long BeachDesign, install and configure all aspects of a Geocortex Essentials and ArcGIS for Server-based Silverlight web viewer for the City of BurbankConfigure and customize.

Performed mission critical GIS technical support, troubleshooting, and workflow optimization and for map production staff around the worldDeveloped, documented and improved workflows for creating cartographic products including the well known Thomas Guide®Provided oversight in the development of ArcObjects-based tools and transformed user requests into.

Managed project to create enhanced 911 (e911) data for the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Computer Aided Dispatch SystemTook over a historically failing venture and quickly turned it into a profitable projectImproved relations with a challenging client who later purchased additional services conditional upon my technical oversightTurned low morale staff.

Lead GIS Analyst tasked with improving map production efficiency via automation and workflow optimizationDeveloped prototypes and workflows for new projects including TIGER attribute conflation and custom realtor atlas creationCreated numerous AML applications to increase production efficiency and facilitate a wide range of tasksCoauthored automated AML.

Sole manager for all GIS projects, including developing data for Thomas Bros. Maps atlases, digital orthophoto parcel conversions for municipalities and transportation layer address upgradesManaged and trained up to 16 GIS employees and remotely supervised/supported a production team in Gujurat, IndiaActed as Systems Administrator for a network of 10 UNIX.

Managed paper to GIS nautical chart conversion project as a subcontractor to ESRI and the Defense Mapping Agency (NIMA)Supervised up to 18 people working in three continuous shiftsCreated AML, ATOOL and UNIX shell script applications to enable editors without prior GIS experience to quickly become productivePrepared cost estimates and scopes of work for.

Created historical environmental maps of ancient China in ArcView for use as illustrations in academic publicationsCreated vegetation field maps and converted them into a seamless GIS for use by biology students and nature conservation groups Taught basic GIS (Arc/Info editing, digitizing and other data conversion techniques) to students and new interns

Certificate, Visual Basic

Completed an 84 hour VB6 certification course

Bachelor Of Arts, Environmental Studies

Activities and Societies: Whittier Scholars ProgramMapped vegetation within the Puente Hills wildlife corridor and then converted the map.