Jason Howard Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Az, Us

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Manage day-to-day operation of the GIS group; balance demands of other divisions within MAG with regular maintenance of data collected and maintained by the Regional Analytics Division (RAD); establish work priorities for GIS staff; evaluate staff on an annual basis; track performance of staff with regard to tasks and goals; align work with annual performance measures for the division.Manage the implementation of ArcGIS Server. Develop services and map viewers in response to the demands of the user base. Conduct training sessions for the use of MAG’s online map viewers.Manage MAG’s ArcGIS Online presence (user accounts, groups, and credit allocation). Develop applications as requested to highlight specific data and projects. Manage MAG’s open data portal to provide public access to data maintained by RAD. Manage MAG’s My Esri organizational account. Address requests for individual licenses.Maintain geospatial data in a versioned Enterprise Geodatabase on over 200 geospatial data sets and related attribute tables. Ensure that MAG staff has access to the most recent imagery, road network, parcels, boundaries, and other data from numerous sources. Ensure that MAG staff are kept up to date on changes and additions to commonly used data sets.Manage on-call consultant contracts for GIS projects, including drafting and execution of task orders, contract and task order budgeting, and overseeing the quality of deliverables.Develop and maintain metadata for geospatial data sets. Produce detailed documentation of core land use data sets maintained by MAG.Provide introductory GIS instruction to MAG staff. Provide maps and analyses as requested by MAG staff and MAG member agencies.Serve as point-of-contact for all geospatial data requests.Develop data collection, maintenance, and review schedule for geospatial data maintained by GIS Group within Regional Analytics. Establish schedule of updates for base data from outside agencies.

Developed and maintained multiple ArcIMS viewers using GeoCortex IMF.Designed, deployed, and maintained ArcSDE Enterprise Geodatabase implementation, including database design, data loading, versioned workflow development, and testing.Provided maps and analyses as requested by MAG staff and MAG member agencies.Maintained Municipal Planning Area and Traffic Analysis Zone boundaries data sets.Provided GIS support for Central Arizona Groundwater Replenishment District personnel, including geodatabase development and mapping of groundwater replenishment districts from legal descriptions.

Phoenix, Az

Designed and maintained the Arizona Geographic Information Council (AGIC) and State Cartographer’s Office (SCO) web sites, keeping content current and relevant.Designed, developed, and maintained a geospatial data portal for State agency data (AGIC Portal). Developed a stand-alone front-end application to maintain entries in the portal database.Prepared maps for reports, grant applications, and other publications.Created new geospatial datasets from existing tabular data acquired from other state agencies for inclusion in Arizona State Land Department ArcIMS sites, as well as for sharing with other State agencies. These datasets included state and county office locations and libraries. Performed maintenance on existing data sets in the ArcIMS sites.Developed ArcObjects tools for data loading and distribution.Installed and configured ArcIMS and web servers on Solaris and Windows platforms.Created, maintained, and customized ArcIMS sites on Sun Solaris and Windows platforms.Researched hardware requirements for GIS database server and made recommendations to procurement staff. Installed and configured ArcSDE and set up an Enterprise Geodatabase to host statewide imagery. Developed map services and ArcIMS sites to host the imagery services.

Tempe, Az

Created maps for project deliverables and other documents.Developed Access database applications for EPA Superfund Site management. Developed interfaces for querying and adding data to Access databases using VBA.Served as lead mapping resource for Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). This included coordinating mapping needs of three section leaders, developing a base map and template applied uniformly throughout the project, map production, and providing acreage reports from various analyses.Created test-well dataset from GPS points for analysis of groundwater pollution and mapping of project area.

Phoenix, Az

Designed and developed web sites for the Arizona State Cartographer’s Office and AGIC.Provided staff support to AGIC.

Tempe, Az

Created new datasets from tabular data collected from State agencies, including alcohol retailers and gang member residences.Designed and developed MapObjects interface using Visual Basic.Created an ArcIMS application for online delivery of map data.Created an ASP application for selecting and downloading geospatial data sets.Corrected water/wastewater quarter section maps using ArcInfo. Corrected pre-existing and conversion errors on in GIS database.Researched as-built drawings for map accuracy and conducted field research where map features were questionable.Performed QA/QC checks on maps produced by other staff.Assigned duties to other students and acted as liaison between City of Phoenix project manager and ASU faculty (Dr. Elizabeth Burns).

Phoenix, Az

Tested soil, rock, concrete, and asphalt binder for construction suitability. Oversaw concrete room: responsibilities included logging incoming concrete samples, managing testing cycle of concrete, masonry and soil-cement mixtures, and maintenance of machinery involved in testing.

Colorado Springs, Co

Digitized zoning master plan maps. Used ArcInfo to correct digitized maps and existing errors, Updated maps of neighborhood associations. Updated city boundary maps for Census Boundary and Annexation Survey.

Ma, Geography

Master's thesis titled “Water Managers' Strategies for Addressing Uncertainty in Their Use of GIS for Decision-Making," 2008.

Ba, Geography

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