Sundaran Gillespie Email & Phone Number

Mr. Gillespie is a certified GIS Professional (GISP). As a GISP, his role at WRA is to create high quality maps, calculations, and analysis integrating both GIS and CAD platforms. Mr. Gillespie has extensive GIS experience in projects dealing with wetland delineation and mitigation, watershed analysis, habitat conservation mapping, rare species impact analysis, biological resource mapping, three dimensional modeling, sea level rise analysis, wildlife corridor mapping, and hydrologic modeling. He is skilled in overcoming problems associated with data conversion through multiple coordinate systems, both local and statewide. Mr. Gillespie has worked in conjunction with several engineering and architecture firms to address issues associated with data integration between multiple software platforms.Mr. Gillespie has over seven years experience in the field of biology. He is responsible for conducting surveys and biological monitoring for a variety of special-status wildlife species including, California Red-legged Frog, California Tiger Salamander, Burrowing Owl, San Francisco Garter Snake, Foothill Yellow-legged Frog, Alameda Whipsnake and Western Pond Turtle. He received his BA in Geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His studies in Geography emphasized GIS and Remote Sensing. Mr. Gillespie has extensive experience in several geographic applications, including ENVI, eCognition, Trimble Terrasync, Pathfinder Office, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, and ESRI GIS extensions such as Spatial Analyst and ArcGlobe. Mr. Gillespie has a strong background in biological mapping through the use of GIS and Remote Sensing. In his final project for UCSB, he completed a two-part Remote Sensing/GIS study examining the vegetation change on Santa Cruz Island over a twenty-year time span.

Listed skills include Gis, Spatial Analysis, Wetlands, Esri, and 17 others.

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  Associate Gis Analyst And Biologist

  Wra

  Nov 2005 - Present