Philip Gibbons

I have a Masters degree in Geography with over six years of professional experience using GIS related to natural resource and environmental management. My professional interests include environmental modeling, landscape ecology, infrastructure management, data analysis, and data presentation. My recent work history is presented below.

Assistant Environmental Specialist--Environmental Services

• Serve as the principal contact for the management, creation, and quality assurance of geospatial data regarding storm water infrastructure, natural resources, and sustainability projects
• Produce maps for various media including print, digital, and web
• Create tools and methodologies for infrastructure inspections and habitat/wildlife mapping
• Develop GIS scripts using ArcGIS ModelBuilder and Python to automate tasks, analysis, and reports
• Responsible for the management and maintenance of data collection hardware
• Manage a consultant contract pertaining to the development of a web-based relational database management system regarding the jurisdictional storm water program
• Assist in the creation and organization of standards for a GIS enterprise system
• Participate in multi-agency workgroups to coordinate regional water quality monitoring, scientific investigations, and water quality improvement activities
• Co-write jurisdictional and watershed-wide urban runoff management plans, annual reports, and SOPs

Adjunct Professor

• Instructed a college level Physical Geography Laboratory course which focuses on use of GIS, maps, charts, graphs, instruments, and internet research to understand the Earth’s natural processes

Research Assitant

• Designed ecological models of terrestrial mammalian movement and land use scenarios in fragmented habitats in southern California
• Collected wildlife data using infrared digital cameras

ESRI ArcGIS (including Spatial Analyst), ArcPAD, Trimble GPS, Pathfinder Office, Microsoft Office, Adobe, Crystal Reports, SPSS, Python, JavaScript (Google Maps and ArcGIS API), HTML, KML, CSS.

MA Geography. San Diego State University. Thesis: Determining Suitable Locations for Wildlife Crossing Structures across a Southern California Interstate. 2008.

BA History. University of California, Santa Cruz. 1997.