John D. Evans 968 South Street, Roslindale, MA 02131  
jdevans@mit.edu / (617) 325-0096
 
Objective To create and marshal interoperable spatial information systems for inter-organizational management, planning, and policy. 
Experience MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Cambridge, MA
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Postdoctoral Associate (1997-1998) 
Creating interoperable data services to disseminate 35 Terabytes of digital orthophotos and farmland information to/from over 2,000 field offices of the US Dept. of Agriculture. Advise Department's reengineering team, and participate in the OpenGIS industry consortium.
Research Assistant (1987-1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1997) 
Designed, built, evaluated, implemented geographic data, tools, and Internet services for planning, teaching, research, and technology transfer to federal, state, & municipal agencies.
Instructor (1988-1994) 
Designed and taught graduate courses in data analysis, computer mapping, geographic information systems, relational databases, and Internet tools.
WALLACE, FLOYD, ASSOCIATES - Architects & Planners Boston, MA
GIS / Information Systems Specialist (1995-1996) 
Developed procedures, standards, and systems to collect, integrate, and report municipal data for handicap access planning. Trained city staff; oversaw client / contractor relations.
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LA PLATA La Plata, Argentina
GIS Consultant (Summer 1995) 
Advised (in Spanish) civil engineers on data systems for infrastructure management.
PLYMOUTH ROCK ASSURANCE CORP. Boston, MA
Unix systems consultant (1991, 1995) 
Studied Unix / Informix server performance. Advised hardware/software upgrade paths.
WORLD BANK, Environment Div., Africa Technical Dept. Washington, DC
Consultant (1988-1989) 
Advised African governments and donors on remote sensing/land information strategies. Convened African experts workshop in Norway. Co-wrote World Bank Technical Paper.
Education MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY  Cambridge, MA
Ph.D., Information Systems in Planning, June 1997
  • Dissertation: Infrastructures for sharing geographic information among environmental agencies. Studied data sharing efforts in state, regional, federal agencies in WA, OR, ID, MT, IL, MI, MA, NH, ME, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. Built an interactive orthophoto service testbed (http://ortho.mit.edu) on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure.
  • National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant, 1995-96.
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee Competitive-Cooperative Agreement, 1995-96.
  • Prior work in Information Systems and Environmental Management.
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    B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1987
    Proficiencies Taught Arc/Info, ArcView, GRASS, Atlas*GIS, and MapInfo GISs; Oracle, Informix, MS-Access, MS-FoxPro, and dBase DBMSs; Excel, Lotus. Some knowledge of Genasys and Sybase. Programmed in perl, C, Fortran, LISP, Unix shells, AML, HTML/CGI, SQL; now learning Java, MapBasic, Access Basic. Administered Unix (Solaris, Ultrix, AIX, etc.) and Windows 3/95/NT operating systems. Fluent in French; some Spanish; some Arabic.