Jeff serves as the GIS (Geographic Information System) specialist for the Geography Department.  A graduate of the Geography program in 2000, Jeff’s GIS experience began in 1997, and steadily gained momentum with two stints in the city of Lexington, and the Bluegrasss Area Development District.  He returned to the University in the late fall of 2006, to prepare for his first teaching job.  He is now adjusting to academia, instructing students in the GEO 309 course, managing the GIS lab, and seeking contractual work.  GEO 309 is an introductory course to GIS principles and the ESRI software ArcGIS.  Jeff is also qualified to teach the ESRI-Authorized ‘Introduction to ArcGIS I’ class, an intense, two-day course outside of the University curriculum.

Jeff has produced and maintained GIS layers for a variety of agencies, including state and local governments, universities, and private contractors.  His GIS experience has included projects involving emergency response, planning and zoning, transportation maintenance, infrastructure inventories and accessibility, conservation, and map production for publications.

Any description of Jeff’s career would be incomplete without mentioning Shane New (currently at BGADD).  Taking a reprieve from university classes in 1997, Jeff stumbled into the GIS area of the Department of Engineering at Lexington.  Looking only to busy himself on a rainy day, Jeff introduced himself to Shane and thus began his path toward the GIS field.  He returned to the University the next semester and started work on a Geography degree.

Jeff was born on Staten Island, NY, spent years in Virginia Beach and New Mexico before arriving in Lexington in 1989.  Immediately enamored (inundated?) with Kentucky basketball, Jeff soon found the other love of his life, his wife Sarah, with whom he has two sons, Sam and Henry.