About the Authors

Lee Lichlyter: As President & CEO of GISi, Lee is responsible for creating an environment where employees and clients can be successful in achieving their goals. Which involves everything from business strategy and sales to operations and administration. However, Lee primarily focuses his energies on building an organization that embodies GISi’s core values and core purpose.  Email: llichlyter@gisinc.com.

Dale Dunham: As Geographic Information Officer, Dale holds the primary responsibility for assessing the GIS market, identifying new technology and steering incorporation in client solutions. In this role, the GIO often acts as senior business process analyst on significant projects. He sits in his ‘vision cloud’, relentlessly pursuing his passion to incorporate spatial technology into everyday decision-making to make a difference in the world we share.  Email: ddunham@gisinc.com.

Dan Levine: As Chief Technology Officer, Dan’s primary responsibilities include collecting client requirements and designing long-term solutions.  Dan oversees both our development staff and the implementation of all our Application Development activities. He’s also responsible for GISi’s continued participation in ESRI’s Beta programs.  Email: dlevine@gisinc.com.

Sonny Beech: As National Sales Manager, Sonny’s primary responsibility is to define new market opportunities by industry or region and to help ensure that those opportunities meet the core competency and direction of GISi. He also works with the marketing staff to ensure the brand of the company reflects our core values and purpose.  Email: sbeech@gisinc.com.

Susan King: As GISi’s Federal Program Manager, Susan wears many hats, including business development and fostering client relationships, staff mentoring, project management and program management for the Federal Business Line, as well as a continuing role in technical implementation across this market.  She also manages GISi’s Training Program.  Email: sking@gisinc.com.

Michael Healander: As GISi’s State & Local Government General Manager, Michael’s responsibilities include overseeing  state and local government business activities, daily coordination support for staff efforts, business development, project management and technical design.  Email: mhealander@gisinc.com.

Katie Irwin: As Marketing & Sales Support Specialist, Katie’s primary responsibilities include supporting the sales team, maintaining the website and blog, creating and updating marketing materials, writing press releases, coordinating tradeshows and events, and ensuring that all these things preserve the company brand.  Email address: kirwin@gisinc.com.

Neil Clemmons: As a seven-time ESRI MVP award-winning Senior Application Developer, Neil’s primary responsibilities include designing and implementing software solutions.  He brings a vast amount of experience in programming ArcObjects and developing extensions to the ArcGIS Desktop applications.  Email address: nclemmons@gisinc.com.

Chris Blakely: As a Senior GIS analyst, Chris brings a long history of technical problem-solving and broad background in GIS analysis and programming, Web development, and graphic design together to help bridge the gap between the application development process and clients/end users.  Chris is involved in defining project requirements, interfacing with clients, storyboarding, graphic design and prototyping, and usability testing throughout a project’s lifecycle.  Email: cblakely@gisinc.com.

Phil Whitley: As a Senior Application Developer, Phil has been programming in the GIS field using ESRI’s ArcInfo, ArcCad, ArcView and currently ArcGIS Desktop technology since the mid 1980’s.  Phil has been a developer with GISi since the company started and he has a vast amount of experience in programming with ArcObjects and developing extensions to the ArcGIS Desktop applications.  Email: pwhitley@gisinc.com.

Christopher Fricke: Christohper is a Solutions Engineer for the State & Local Government teamt.  In addition to providing excellent technical support, Christopher is merging his loves of cartography and web development to create intuitive GIS Applications.  Email: cfricke@gisinc.com.

Bryan Rayo: In his role as Senior Application Developer, Bryan has been developing in ESRI’s ArcInfo, ArcObjects, WebADF (both .NET and Java), Javascript API and most recently in the Flex API for ArcGIS Server. He holds a Masters in GIS from the University of Redlands and has been active in the GIS field for more than nine years.  Email: brayo@gisinc.com.

Tommy Bramble: In his role as Senior Application Developer, Tommy’s primary focus is on developing web mapping applications.  He has a Masters in Geography from the University of South Carolina and has been building web mapping applications with ESRI software since 2002.  Email: tbramble@gisinc.com.

Nate Lebel:  As a Senior GIS analyst, Nate has been involved with military GIS analysis and data standardization for over 10 years. In addition, he provides training on map authoring and web service best practices and optimization to various government clients.  Email: nlebel@gisinc.com.