My Resume

JAMES E. BUNNING

7511 Whitney Dr
Apple Valley, MN 55124
(952) 496-8056 Work
(952) 393-3055 Cell
Email: james.bunning@yahoo.com, jim@redhotgis.com

WORK EXPERIENCES:

Owner / GIS Savant - RedHot GIS

Apple Valley, MN
March 2004 - Present.
Duties: Custom map creation, data manipulation. Custom ArcIMS Site development. Web site creation and maintenance.

GIS Manager - Scott County

Scott County, MN.
June 2006 - Present.
Duties: Meetings, meetings, meetings. Emails and voicemails and then more meetings.

GIS Analyst - Scott County

Scott County, MN.
September 2000 - June 2006.
Duties: Custom ArcView application creation, code writing and process automation. ArcSDE installation, maintenance, and automating data importing, exporting, and upkeep. ArcIMS installation, maintenance, and upkeep. Custom ArcIMS application development and creation. Automation of data updating, manipulation, and distribution. Webpage creation, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Software installation, computer troubleshooting, and maintenance for GIS software and GIS applications. Develop more efficient methodologies, techniques and procedures. Recommend hardware and software purchases.

GIS Guru - PlanSight, LLC

Vadnais Heights, MN.
September 1998 - September 2000.
Duties: Tri-City GIS Ranger Rider project manager for the Cities of Columbia Heights, Fridley, and Andover. Creation and maintenance of Intranet GIS Connection for the Tri-City project. Creation of One-Stop-Shop GIS Data Warehouse for the North Metro I-35W Corridor Coalition. Quarterly updating of parcel and assessing data for I-35W Corridor Coalition. Comp Plan maps creation for several municipalities. GIS data conversion, creation and analysis. Custom ArcView application development. In house network setup, computer troubleshooting, and computer maintenance. PlanSight's homepage creation and upkeep.

GIS Analyst - Planning & Development District III

Yankton, SD.
July 1997 - September 1998.
Duties: Responsible for constructing parcel map for City of Yankton, roughly 5000 parcels. Collecting and manipulating of GPS data with GeoLink software for South Dakota Department of Transportation contract. Basic cartography and data conversion for in office use and for various clients. Development and maintenance of District III's internet homepage. Computer troubleshooting.

GIS Intern - City of Quincy

Quincy, IL.
January 1997 - June 1997.
Duties: Creating maps for planning commission, zoning board of appeals, and site reviews. Basic cartography. Editing and correcting of coverages and TIGER files for use in map creation. Error checking and correction of address database for use by US Census Bureau. Computer troubleshooting.

GIS Intern - Planning & Development District III

Yankton, SD.
May 1996 - August 1996.
Duties: Creating maps for zoning and other purposes with PC ARC/INFO, ArcView, MapInfo, and AutoCAD Lt. Working with and creating GPS data and coverages with Geolink software for SDDOT.

Geography Graduate Assistant - Western Illinois University GIS lab

Macomb, IL.
January 1996 - December 1996.
Duties: Updating maps and coverages utilizing PC ARC/INFO for use by the City of Macomb. Creation of sample data for Land O' Lakes hog farm placement. Teaching weekly physical geography lab.

Computer Skills:

Applications:
ArcGIS 10, 9.3.1, 9.1,9.0,8.3,8.2, 8.1 (ArcCatalog, ArcMap), ModelBuilder	ArcIMS 9.3.1,9.1,9.0,4.1,4.0,3.1
ArcSDE 9.3.1, 9.1,9.0,8.2	ArcView 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0 and 2.1
ARC/INFO 7.1 (GRID, NETWORK, ARC/PLOT, ARC/EDIT, INFO, TABLES)	SQL Server Enterprise Manager
NT ARC/INFO 7.1.1(ARC/EDIT, INFO)	PC ARC/INFO 3.4.1
ArcCAD 11.4	MapInfo 3.0
CartéGraph	Pipeworks
GeoLink	AutoCAD r13, r14
AutoCAD Lt	Corel PHOTO-PAINT 7.0
dBASE 3.0	Adobe Photoshop 5.0 & Illustrator 8.0
Microsoft office 2003, XP, 97, & 95 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook)	Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Communicator and Internet Explorer
Macromedia (Homesite, Flash)	Microsoft PhotoDraw v2

Operating Systems:
Windows (XP professional, XP home, NT 4.0 workstation, NT 4.0 Server, NT 3.51, 98, 95, 3.x)	MSDOS
UNIX (System V)	Solaris OpenWindows
Macintosh OS 7

Hardware:
PCs (IBM Compatibles)	Sun SPARCstation LX
Macintosh	Motorola GPS equipment
Hewlett Packard printers and plotters	Epson printer
Various digital cameras

Languages:
Avenue	Arc Macro Language (AML)
JavaScript, VBScript	Active Server Pages (ASP)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
DOS batch files	PASCAL
TransactSQL	Python

EDUCATION:

St Mary's University of Minnesota.

Graduated December 2011.
Master of Science in Geographic Information Science.

Western Illinois University.

August 1995 - May 1997.
Coursework for Master of Arts in Geography with emphasis in Geographic Information Systems and Urban studies.

University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire.

Graduated December 1993.
Bachelor of Science in Geography, Urban-Economic, with minor in Computer Science.

Affiliations:

Member of Minnesota Statewide Geospatial Advisory Council, MetroGIS Coordinating Committee, Regular alternate to MetroGIS Policy Board, Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium 1998 - Present. President of Gamma Theta Upsilon, local chapter of Geography Honorary Society, Western Illinois University, 1996 - 1997.

Additional GIS Education:

ESRI training: "ArcSDE Administration for SQL Server", "Introduction to Programming ArcObjects with VBA", "Introduction to ArcView", "Programming with Avenue". Minnesota GIS/LIS Consortium annual conference attendee 1998 - Present, various workshops each year. Mid-American GIS Symposium, Lincoln, NE, May 1998. ESRI International UC 2005, San Diego, CA. Rowkamp Tech Forums attendee 2000 - Present.