Professional Resumé
David N. Kelly
ESRI Certified Instructor
Education
- Law School (semester and a half), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1973.
- M.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1972.
Major - Forestry (Quantitative Forest Ecology) - B.S., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1971.
Major - Forest Management
Experience
President, Forest Resource Consulting Inc., Tallahassee, Florida
1989 to present
This consulting business focuses on teaching ArcGIS, software development, and resource modeling.
As an ESRI authorized ArcGIS instructor, I have taught ESRI GIS to hundreds people of widely differing backgrounds. The ESRI courses I am authorized to teach are Introduction to ArcGIS I, Introduction to ArcGIS II and Working with ArcGIS Spatial Analyst. A number of custom courses have also been developed. At the 1998 ESRI User Conference, I received an ESRI award - Honorable Mention for Excellence in Teaching ESRI GIS. The award was the result of a numerical comparison by ESRI of the student evaluations of all courses taught by authorized instructors in 1997. Out of 543 authorized instructors, I was fourth.
Software development is an increasingly important part of my business. I have developed custom applications in Avenue, VB/Map Objects and VBA in ArcGIS. I am presently working on a project for the US Forest Service to build an interface in ArcGIS for CalPuff. CalPuff predicts in 3D the smoke plume generated by a wildfire or prescribed burn.
In the past, I have built several timber supply models using the ATLAS simulation model and Forest Survey data. Projects in the works are to embed the ATLAS model in ArcGIS and to develop a Landuse/Landcover change model in ArcGIS/Spatial Analyst.
Distributed Computer Systems Analyst, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida
April 1996 to 2003
The Division of Forestry has over 900,000 acres in thirty plus State Forests around the State and fire suppression responsibility on over twenty five million acres.
ArcView and ArcGIS are used to give GIS support to the Division’s fire fighting efforts. My duties included providing GIS support to the Division’s fire fighting efforts. I participated in several incidents as a GIS Tech (GIST) giving GIS support to wildfire incidents within the state and out West. I also participated as a GIST in other incidents for Citrus Canker and in the Shuttle Recovery effort in Texas.
Field personnel use ArcView to manage each of the State Forests. My duties included supporting the field units in their use of ArcView and GPS, and training in the use of ArcView, ArcGIS, and GPS.
Additional duties were to design, develop and maintain custom ArcView/ArcGIS applications, and integrate ArcView into other applications currently being used, like the Division’s forest inventory system. Applications that I have developed include ArcView extensions to simplify digitizing timber stands, automating the extraction of data from the Division’s (Access) inventory system and a simple ArcPad type application for Division’s County Foresters developed in VB6/MapObjects.
During my last year with the Division, I was heavily involved in the development and definition of the Division of Forestry’s Data Model for managing Florida’s State Forests.
Senior Forester, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida
April 1994 to April 1996
Develop, manage, and maintain Division GIS software and data. Develop and install appropriate GIS data sets for the various units of the Division around the State. Train Division personnel in the use of GIS software and data. Provide technical advice and support in GIS, forest biometrics, statistics, economics, and forest resource modeling. Coordinate the purchase of Division software and hardware and provide general software support to Division personnel.
Economist/Forest Economist, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida
August 1983 to April 1994
Conduct supply and demand studies of the State’s forest resources to identify economic development opportunities or problem areas using Forest Survey data and/or Census data.
Build simulation models to study future harvest levels on various state forests under different management strategies. Develop, manage, and maintain Division GIS software and data. Develop software tools for field personnel. Coordinate the purchase of Division software and hardware and provide general software support to Division personnel. Provide technical advice and support in GIS, forest biometrics, statistics, economics, taxation, and forest resource modeling.
In 1989, I received a Davis Productivity Award – "For your smart work and dedication above and beyond the call of duty, resulting in increased performance and cost savings which enhance the productivity of Florida government and improve the lives of Florida’s Taxpaying Citizens" – from Florida TaxWatch, Inc. and The Florida Council of 100.
Resource Analyst, Southern Operation, Timberlands Division of Champion International, Greenville, South Carolina
April 1978 to August 1983
Duties were to provide economic analytical support to the Operation, conduct wood resource availability studies for Champion’s mills in the Southeast, monitor Champion’s intensive forest inventory on about 700,000 acres in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, and develop growth and yield models for use in Champion’s LP Harvest Scheduler on a large IBM mainframe. Used SAS extensively and did some Fortran programming.
Area Forester, Timberlands Division of Champion International, Camden, Texas
June 1974 to April 1978
My duties were the management of approximately 85,000 acres of company lands. This included the supervision of seventeen hourly employees and responsibility for all on ground activities like management of hunting and grazing leases, site preparation, timber cruising, timber budgets, insect control and timber marking (excluding harvesting).