My Career

I graduated with a master's degree in City and Regional Planning from College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley in 1995. My specialization is application of information technology, especially geographic information systems (GIS) in planning and management. I hold a master's degree in physics also from University of California, Berkeley.

I recently started working for Total Immersion Software, a start-up software company in Alameda, CA producing computer simulation games utilizing GIS data. I am also a part-time faculty member at City College of San Francisco's Earth Sciences dept. and Engineering & Technology dept. Since 1998 I have taught beginner, intermediate and advanced GIS classes, now part of the GIS Certificate Program. Previously I worked for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) as a GIS application engineer for 12 years. My focus has been on engineering custom GIS software applications: for example, automated map design tools, analytical tools, GIS-linked tabular reporting, multi-user editing, GIS client-server administration tools, enterprise GIS system integration, web GIS services, mobile GIS. Prior to working for PG&E, I worked in the Applied Environmental Geographic Information Systems Laboratory (AEGIS) at UC Berkeley as a research specialist, under Professor John Radke. My resume is in my Linkedin.com profile (updated March 2008).

Projects I have worked on:

• Earthquake Risk Evaluation for Gas Pipelines: leveraging GIS integration in the utility organization. Abstract of my presentation (last item on page 20) at 2007 CalGIS Conference sponsored by Bay Area Automated Mapping Association (BAAMA).
• Pipeline Risk Management using GIS: deriving High Consequence Areas (HCA) and Class Locations for PG&E's transmission pipelines. Abstract of my presentation at 2005 ESRI (Environmental Systems Reserach Institute) User Conference.
• Rocky Flats Project: measuring effects of environmental factors on real estate values. Abstract of my presentation at 1995 ESRI (Environmental Systems Reserach Institute) User Conference.
• East Bay Hills Fire Hazard Survey: finished report with lots of photos and graphics.
• Berkeley Bike Route Model: This project is published in Berkeley Planning Journal Volume 10. PDF link.
• GEODESY Project: developing educational software to teach geography in K-12 schools.

My hobby map projects

My Google Map web page Showcasing places I have been to in the world and photos I have taken, my world travel map web page is a work in progress. 3-D Color Shaded Relief Maps San Francisco Bay Area, CA Greater Bay Area (185 K) Detailed with placenames (845 K) notice the San Andreas Fault! Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA-NV Overview: from Nevada to Tulare counties (178 K) Detailed with placenames (951 K)

Revised Map for the Game "Risk" The original map of world "countries" used for the war strategy game "Risk" was heavily biased toward creation of "countries" in the frigid Northern Arctic regions while omitting significant areas in the Tropics and Southern Hemisphere. Additionally, the original map (based on Mercator projection) grossly enlarged the areas of Northern Arctic regions while shrinking the areas of Africa and Australia. In my version of "Risk" map, I use a more equitable map projection (Eckert IV) to portray the actual land area proportions of the world's regions. Changes I made to the "countries": N. AMERICA -2 countries add Caribbean Islands Northwest Territories + Alberta Western Canada Quebec + Ontario Eastern Canada eliminate Greenland EUROPE -1 country Scandinavia + Iceland Scandinavia Western Europe + part of Southern Europe Latin part of Southern Europe + part of Middle East Constantinople Northern Europe Central Europe Ukraine Russia ASIA even Middle East Arabia + Persia + part of Constantinople Ural + Siberia Western Siberia Irkutsk + Yakutsk + Kamchatka Eastern Siberia Mongolia Korea + part of Mongolia China China + Tibet + part of Mongolia AUSTRALIA even Western Australia + Eastern Australia Australia add New Zealand AFRICA +1 country Northern Africa Morocco + Western Africa part of Egypt + part of Eastern Africa Ethiopia Southern Africa + part of Eastern Africa Southern Africa S. AMERICA no change

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