How many GIS experts are on here?

What training have you had?

I just finished up the ARCGIS class offered by EMI and really enjoyed it. Curious how many others have had training or work with it in their jobs.

Not an expert, but that's what my degree is in. I've been doing it for 14 years now I guess. Started out working for a private GIS software company building electrical system models for utilities all over the US, then to a medical company supporting marketing and sales team, a water and sewer utility where I mapped all water and sewer features in the county, and a job now working for the public again. I've done a couple of these jobs simultaneously and did pretty well for my family. Pm me with any questions, I'll be glad to help.

I was looking at GIS Software yesterday. I learned a bit of GIS mapping 6-8 years ago, certainly not enough to make it into a job, but it was fun. Anyway if anyone has good suggestions for GIS software that is reasonably priced and works well with desktops and tablets, please let me know. I will be using it to map timber tracts, wildlife habitat, and for land sales. Access to public domain data through the software will be helpful.

We manufacture products geared for the gas distribution/transmission that locates leaks on gas piping that is overlayed into their existing GIS mapping.

Sounds like you need to to make simple maps or figures with the addition of points, lines, and polygons. Have you looked at the free arcexplorer from ESRI. I use it daily for these purposes for my job. I don't know if it works with tablets though.

Also a good bit of free data can be obtained geospatialdatagateway.

I've been writing GIS software for the Army for 30+ years in support of missile system trainers and simulators.

I don't have a great deal of experience with off the shelf software like ArcGIS but I do have extensive experience with Google Earth.

I do use industry GIS API's like GDAL on a regular basis

I work with ArcMap for forestry and land management applications. I took a class in college but learned mostly by using the program and from another guy at work.
We work with shape files on small properties up to databases with over 100,000 acres and tons of attributes. It's a powerful program.

This is resurrecting an old thread but I just saw a job posting for a GIS position with Calhoun County 911. Thought someone may be interested in it. Here is a snip:
The Calhoun County 9-1-1 District is currently recruiting for the full-time, non-exempt position of GIS/IT Technician. The primary function of the GIS/IT Technician is to provide for the appropriate operation, management, maintenance, oversight and quality control of various integrated IT and GIS-related systems, which requires the performance of complex work in providing for the effective and efficient storage, retrieval, customization, integration and archiving of diverse data sets relative to the 9-1-1 emergency call systems in Calhoun County, Alabama. The job description may be obtained at www.calhoun911.org<http://www.calhoun911.org> by clicking the "employment" tab.

TR, I sent that job announcement to the professors at UNA after clearing it with Amy yesterday. Top out pay ain't bad either.