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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 12 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 am a co-founder of the QCooperative, an umbrella organization offering QGIS support services.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. In 2014 co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum (https://fossgeo.org/)> Since I have authored/co-authored six QGIS books. The most recent being Discover QGIS 3.x and QGIS for Hydrological Applications. QGIS is my day to day tool for spatial analyses and cartography. I regularly teach everything from conference workshops to 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 help manage the QGIS Certification Program.
I’ve been using QGIS since 0.6 ‘Simon’ and teaching it since 1.0 ‘Kore’. In 2014 co-authored the GeoAcademy curriculum. Since I have authored/co-authored six QGIS books. The most recent being Discover QGIS 3.x and QGIS for Hydrological Applications with Locate Press. QGIS is my day to day tool for spatial analyses and cartography. I regularly teach everything from conference workshops to 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 help manage the QGIS Certification Program.
**Motivation:** First I’d like to say it is a great honor to be nominated. I feel the community is what makes QGIS such a special project. For me it has always been a welcoming collaborative and supportive environment and it has given me so much. I would like the opportunity to be give back and be of service at this level. I am not a developer, rather a power user and educator/trainer. I run a small business offering QGIS services but not directly developing QGIS. I am based in the southwestern U.S. For these reasons, I feel I will bring a unique perspective to the PSC. I am interested in facilitating the ongoing adoption of QGIS in more and more sectors.