2025 WA GIS Conference: Full Schedule

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8:30am PDT

Building Your GISP Portfolio: A Hands-On Experience

Monday June 16, 2025 8:30am - 12:00pm PDT

Does the thought of building a portfolio seem daunting?

Are you a learn-by-doing kind of person?

Do you work better when starting from a template?

Then this hands-on workshop for building your GISP portfolio is for you!

This workshop will briefly cover the GISP process and then dive into example-based work for documenting items in your GISP portfolio submission. We'll work through the major categories, review real-world examples, and set aside time to collaboratively work on attendee-provided examples.

Together, we'll demystify the portfolio building experience!

Speakers

Jordan Carmona, GISP

GIS Solutions Supervisor, Pierce County, Washington

Jordan Carmona is a GIS Supervisor, whose team is responsible for GIS application development and infrastructure within the Spatial Services unit at Pierce County, Washington. He began working professionally in 2014 and has worked in a variety of sectors: private consulting, municipal... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2025 8:30am - 12:00pm PDT
Milgard Hall: Rm 110

Workshop, GISP

1:30pm PDT

WGGL/YPI Networking Activity

Monday June 16, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT

Milgard Hall: Rm 110

Afternoon: WGGL/YPI Networking Activity – Young and Established Professionals (Milgard 110) 1:30pm-3:00pm

Speakers

Micah Gelber

Emergency Management GIS Specialist/ 911 GIS Administrator, Navy Region Northwest

Micah Gelber is an Emergency Management GIS Specialist/ 911 GIS Administrator for Navy Region Northwest. Micah is currently a WAGISA board member where he serves as committee co-chair of the community engagement committee, co-coordinator of the Dick Thomas Award, and co-lead of WAGISA's... Read More →

Christina Chelf

GIS Manager, City of Tacoma

Christina Chelf is a GIS professional with over 12 years experience. Currently she serves as the GIS Manager for City of Tacoma where she leads a team of 8 that is responsible for providing maps, spatial analysis, and data management for city staff. She is also the President of the... Read More →

Dan Miller

Monday June 16, 2025 1:30pm - 3:00pm PDT
Milgard Hall: Rm 110

Workshop

3:00pm PDT

Washington Governmental GIS Leaders (WGGL)

Monday June 16, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Milgard Hall: Rm 110

A workshop for government GIS Leaders (active and aspiring), GIS Technical Leads, GIS Admins GIS Professionals and Leaders from the region present information to their peers, with opportunities for questions and discussion.

This workshop provides an opportunity to meet peers and learn from their experience and includes a networking event with young professionals.

$50 Half Day – 1:30pm-5:00pm

Speakers

Max Mousseau

GIS Administrator, City of Des Moines, Washington

Max Mousseau is the GIS Administrator for the City of Des Moines and strives to find ways to practice the idea of learn, do, teach. Having been born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and achieving both a B.S. in Environmental Science and a M.S. in Geospatial Technologies degree... Read More →

Stephen Beimborn

Manager of GIS Analysts, City of Seattle

Stephen Beimborn is the Manager of GIS Analysts for the City of Seattle. In his forty years working in the GIS field, he has done a little bit of everything, including cartography, analysis, programming, business systems integration, project and portfolio management, and people management... Read More →

Jim Jarvis

GIS Manager, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Daryn Brown

Kevin Wyckoff, MSc WRM, GISP

GIS Coordinator, Lakewood Water District

Kevin Wyckoff has served as the GIS Coordinator for Lakewood Water District since 2016, where he oversees the utility’s geospatial systems and facilitates information flow between field, office staff, and external stakeholders. He holds an A.A.S. in Water Conservation from Lane... Read More →

Monday June 16, 2025 3:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Milgard Hall: Rm 110

Workshop, WGGL