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**Introduction / main QGIS related activities:** I’m a consultant, QGIS certified educator and author based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. For the last 10 years I have operated my own small (me) GIS consultancy, Bird’s Eye View (http://www.birdseyeviewgis.com/). I primarily work for non-profits on ecological conservation and public health issues. I have been doing GIS for 20 years and was an early QGIS and FOSS4G adopter. I began using MapServer, GRASS and PostGIS for web apps in the early 2000’s.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. I co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum (https://fossgeo.org/) and then published it as "Discover QGIS". Prior to that I co-authored "Mastering QGIS" and am currently working on the 3rd edition. I regularly teach conference workshops, custom professional workshops, short courses and full semester courses (at my local colleges and universities). In 2015 I was on the team that won the GeoForAll Educator of the Year team award. I am an Osgeo Charter Member, a GeoForAll lab and GeoAmbassador. I recently helped revive the QGIS-US user group. I have also been involved with QGIS Certifications, helping approve QGIS organizations.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. I co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum (https://fossgeo.org/) and then published it as "Discover QGIS". Prior to that I co-authored "Mastering QGIS" and am currently working on the 3rd edition. I regularly teach conference workshops, custom professional workshops, short courses and full semester courses (at my local colleges and universities). In 2015 I was part of the GeoAcademy team awarded the GeoForAll Educator of the Year award. I am an Osgeo Charter Member, a GeoForAll lab and GeoAmbassador. I recently helped revive the QGIS-US user group. I have also been involved with QGIS Certifications, helping approve QGIS organizations.
**Motivation:** I love the QGIS community and have been looking for more ways to contribute and be of service. I also feel the outgoing PSC did an incredible job. For me it was a great honor just to be nominated. I hope that the fact that I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer, means I might bring a different viewpoint to the PSC. That of a small business offering QGIS services but not directly working on QGIS. Since I’m a North American (I’d rather not be considered an American at the moment) I would also represent a different part of the world.