Please welcome Sandi Stroud!
Minnesota CGIO Dan Ross is pleased to announce that MnGeo has hired a new Deputy GIO and Director for MnGeo, Sandi Stroud.
Sandi brings strong experience in both the public and private sector. She started her career as the GIS manager in the City of Laurel, Maryland, where she was a one-person GIS division. She went on to work for the Baltimore Metropolitan Council, coordinating multiple large jurisdictions on data sharing initiatives. During that time, the developing requirements for NG911 piqued her interest in public safety GIS, specifically 911. She contributed her knowledge in this area via NENA committee involvement, standards documentation, and authoring the curriculum for a URISA NG911 GIS workshop.
Sandi then joined Michael Baker International where she led a team of public safety and GIS professionals in developing a suite of solutions for stakeholders charged with readying data for NG911. During her tenure at the company, she built a team of 32 staff that launched several commercial GIS applications and documented data readiness best practices.
Sandi holds a degree in Urban Studies and Planning from California State University Northridge. She started her new position September 11 and looks forward to working with MnGeo staff and the Minnesota geospatial community.
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