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Instructors

Dedicated to their professions, these instructors share their on-the-job experiences with students:

Harvey Arnone
Senior GIS Analyst, Seattle Public Utilities

Harvey has worked as a GIS Analyst for the City of Seattle since graduating with a B.A in Geography from the University of Washington in 1992. He currently supervises a team of eight GIS Analyst/Developers at the City of Seattle. Harvey and his team work on a variety of Utility and City projects ranging from geographic analysis, to GIS software development, to support for engineering, planning and emergency response functions.

Joe Brentin
GIS Analyst, CH2M HILL

Brentin is a GIS analyst in the Seattle office of CH2M HILL. He is experienced in ArcMap, ArcView, ARC/INFO, ArcPad, and Groove Virtual Office. He specializes in providing spatial solutions to private- and public-sector clients involved in emergency management and public safety, including providing GIS assistance to emergency operations centers in Mississippi as part of the Hurricane Katrina response. Brentin has extensive experience in GIS analysis and map production, as well as GPS technology, programming, and cartographic design. He has taught GIS classes at several local colleges and universities and worked for a variety of local state and national agencies. He received a bachelor's degree in geography from Central Washington University, where he specialized in GIS and geomorphology.

Jamie Crawford

Stephen Hyde
GIS Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Hyde has served as instructor and teaching assistant for many of the advanced GIS classes offered by the UW Department of Geography, including classes on thematic mapping, cartographic principles, geographic information analysis and collaborative approaches to GIS project management. Before returning to the University, he worked as a GIS technician for Seattle Public Utilities. Hyde received his master's in geography in 2004.

Tom Nolan
Corporate GIS Manager, City of Seattle

Nolan has more than 10 years of experience leading the development of Seattle's state-of-the-art geographic information system. He heads a staff of over 40 GIS professionals, surveyors and engineers. In addition, Nolan oversees GIS operations at Seattle Public Utilities, regional provider of water, sewer and solid waste services to approximately 1.3 million customers. He is also responsible for providing GIS products and services to a variety of customers, such as elected city officials, Seattle Police and Fire, Seattle Transportation, the City Attorney's Office and Sound Transit, as well as private survey, engineering, architecture and development firms. Nolan holds a M.A. in geography/geographic information systems from the University of Washington.

Chris Wayne
Principal, Mazama Mapping, Inc.

Wayne is an independent GIS consultant specializing in field GIS applications, and GIS training, and is an ESRI-Authorized Instructor in three courses. Previously, he was affiliated with ESRI, where he specialized in ArcPad,ArcGIS and its analysis extensions. For three years, Wayne served as the lead instructor of the UW Certificate Program in Geographic Information Systems, where he developed and taught three desktop GIS courses. He also has extensive field and GIS experience in government, higher education and the private sector. Wayne holds a M.S. in geography from Oregon State University.

Instructors are subject to change.