Daniel Sheehan
Educational Technology Consultant - GIS Specialist (GIS Programmer & Analyst)
Office of Educational Innovation and Technology and MIT GIS Lab
Principal focus
Collaborating with MIT Libraries and their Head, GIS Services on the GIS Laboratory (sponsored by MIT Libraries and IS&T, and OEIT)
, the Geospatial Data Repository, and GIS workshops. I work with both individual students on projects and with faculty and TAs on integrating GIS into their curriculum.
Expertise
- Design and development of software tools for GIS in teaching and research
- Integrating GIS into research and teaching
- GIS software training
- Programming in VB, C. Knowledge of KML, Google Map API
Recent, upcoming, and ongoing activities
- Lead architect and software engineer for MIT Geodata Repository expansion
- Instructor for Fall 2007 GIS workshop for Course 1E MEng students
- Assist with 12.000, Fall 2006
- Instructor for IAP 2007 workshops on GIS and Spatial Data
- MIT's second delegate to UCGIS
- MIT's technical representative to the Open Geospatial Consortium
Prior work at MIT, NMFS, and UW Madison
Previous employment
1990-1999
- GIS Specialist, designed and developed GIS tools for fisheries science and management, National Marine Fisheries Service, Woods Hole Lab, Woods Hole, MA.
- Software Engineer, designed, developed, and implemented software tools for measuring ice sheet mass balance changes using satellite altimetry data, supervised by Charlie Bentley, Deparment of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Education
Personal interests
Link to Open Source web map test
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