About me
Greg Babinski is a GIS management consultant and founder of GIS Management Consulting Services LLC and the GIS Management Academy™ located in Edmonds, Washington.
Between 1998 and the end of 2021 he served as GIS Manager, GIS Finance Manager, GIS Marketing & Business Development Manager, and GIS consultant for the King County GIS Center in Seattle. Previously he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland.
He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. Greg is a GISP – Certified GIS Professional. He is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter.
In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has spoken about GIS management across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
He developed the original GIS Capability Maturity Model and co-chaired the committee that developed the USDOL Geospatial Management Competency Model. He has authored four articles in the Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge.
Greg has taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor with the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration. In 2019 Greg was awarded one of the first seven EthicalGEO Fellowships by the American Geographical Society. In his spare time Greg likes ‘...hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views’.
