I was born in Ashtabula, Ohio and grew up in southern California hiking and camping with my three brothers, a sister and parents.  I turned eight at the top of Mt. Whitney.  I played basketball, volleyball and softball in HS and softball in college at San Bernardino Valley College.  I graduated from California State University at Chico with a major in Geography and a minor in Biology.  I hiked most of California along the Sierra Crest Trail after college and then went to work as a grower in a greenhouse in Oklahoma.  After a year I joined the US Army and went to Augsburg, Germany for two years.  When I came home I began Graduate School at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  (I managed to go to two big party schools without  knowing it.)  While in graduate school, I began as the first employee of GeoSpatial Solutions, Inc. and worked my way up to part owner and manager. After we sold that company I started a consulting GIS firm, New World Mapping Company, and provided general GIS services on 911, storm water, lidar and other projects.  After spending several years raising 4 sons, I started a new company, Range Maps, Inc. which provides photographic services in support of real estate transactions, land stewardship and conservation practices.  

GIS: ESRI products, IDRISI, TerraModel, MAPS, MOSS, Garmin GPS, ERDAS, OziExplorer, OziPhototool, Ozi3D.HTML, limited JavaScript.

Data formats: Image formats, many IDRISI formats, ESRI formats, U.S. Census TIGER files, USGS DEM and DLG, Landsat, TM, SPOT.

General Office software: OpenOffice, WORD, Adobe PDF, PowerPoint, HTML editing, GanttProject, Mozilla FireFox and Thunderbird, Print Shop and others.

Mapping, GIS and Image Processing Work Experience

Range Maps, Inc. President Sept 2004 to present. RMI provides photographic services in support of real estate transactions, land stewardship and conservation practices.

New World Mapping Company, Inc. President Jan 1997 to 2000. NWMC provided GIS services to lidar (EagleScan of Boulder Colorado), telecommunications (Qwest, Denver, Colorado), engineering and GIS companies.

GeoSpatial Solutions, Inc. Manager August 1987 to January 1994 GSS provided GIS and IP services to engineering firms, municipalities, water districts, atmospheric research organizations and others.

Education

MA in Geography, emphasis in GIS and Image Processing, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1989

BA in Geography, Biology minor, California State University at Chico, 1982

Personal

Beekeeper and editor of the Boulder County Beekeeper Association's newsletter.

Wildlands Restoration Volunteer – seed collection, weed pulling, ponderosa pine forest thinning and watershed restoration - also Boulder County Open Space and Volunteer Outdoors Colorado doing weed pullling and seed collection volunteer work.

Organic farmer, raising goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits, a steer, chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, cats, dogs and a garden.

Odyssey of the Mind coach and Charter School parent volunteer – over 100 hours each year.

Hiked most of the length of California on the Pacific Crest Trail.

DDR dancer - not too bad

Professional Memberships

Colorado Native Plant Society

Colorado Weed Management Association

Quivera Coalition

Society for Range Management

References

Caren McMahan, (303) 440-5136, marketing director at GeoSpatial Solutions.

Rob Eadie, (303) 708-0955, ext. 242, marketing director at EagleScan

James A. Maslanik, (303) 492-8974, co-owner of GeoSpatial Solutions and boss

Kimberly Kosmenko, (303) 543-1411, volunteer coordinator at Wildlands Restoration Volunteers

Tom Theobald, (303) 652-2266, president of Boulder County Beekeepers Association

Publications

Remote Sensing and GIS Assess Storm Sewer Master Plan. Uzair M. Shamsi, John M. Maslanik, Sara E. McGimsey. GIS World Sept 1991, pp.82-86.

GIS Applications in Basin-Wide Stormwater Management Planning. S. E. McGimsey. Stormwater Management / Wetlands / Floodplain Symposium, 1991, State College Pennsylvania.

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Assessment of Storm Sewer Master Plan. S.E. Wold (McGimsey) U.M. Shamsi and J.M. Maslanik. International Conference on the Application of GIS and Knowledge Based Systems for Landuse Management, 1990, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia.

Topographic Information as a Supplement to Landsat Imagery for Stream Flow Estimation Based on Snow Covered Area. S. E. Wold (McGimsey), Masters Thesis, 1989, University of Colorado, Boulder.

The Use of GIS and Terrain Modeling in the Development of a Pennsylvania Stormwater Management Plan. S. E. Wold (McGimsey) and J.M. Maslanik, 1989. Proc of American Geophysical Union, 10^th Annual Hydrology Days, pp. 64-77.

Watershed Mapping Using Merged Thematic Mapper and SPOT Panchromatic Imagery. S. E. 1989. Geoscientific Information Systems Applied to Exploration and Research, Denver Geotech'89, pp.69-74.

The Use of Merged Imagery in GIS Database Development, S.E. Wold (McGimsey) 1989. Presented at the 1989 ARC/INFO User's Group Meeting, Denver, Colorado.