LinkedIn: Bill Dollins

Current

Software Developer at zigGIS
Senior Vice President at Zekiah Technologies, Inc.

Past

Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton
GIS Applications Developer at Century Technologies, Inc.
GIS Applications Developer at Applied Ordnance Technology, Inc.

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Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County

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Connections

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Industry

Defense & Space

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Bill Dollins’s Summary

I have been working in the GIS industry for 15 years. I currently lead the GIS business at Zekiah Technologies. I am interested in the integration of geospatial technologies with traditional enterprise systems. My background is software engineering and database development and I am proficient with most modern development languages.

Bill Dollins’s Experience

Software Developer

zigGIS

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Contributing developer to the zigGIS open-source project, an ArcObjects library that enables a direct read of PostGIS by ArcGIS. Efforts focused mainly on enhancing spatial reference support, code cleanup and porting to ArcGIS 9.2. Joined the project after its inception and collaborate with two of the best developers I have had the pleasure of working with.
Senior Vice President

Zekiah Technologies, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Defense & Space industry)

August 2001 — Present (6 years 10 months)

I am responsible for leading the GIS business at Zekiah. My duties include marketing, development, technology evaluation, software engineering and general consulting. I am proficient with the ESRI product line and also gaining proficiency with some open-source tools.
Associate

Booz Allen Hamilton

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

March 1998 — August 2001 (3 years 6 months)

Developed geospatial applications for Navy client in Dahlgren, VA. Development used ESRI GIS products as well as Microsoft SQL Server and related technologies. Developed infrastructure netowork modeling tools.
GIS Applications Developer

Century Technologies, Inc.

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry)

June 1996 — March 1998 (1 year 10 months)

Developed data conversion automation tools for generating VPF databases in Arc/Info version 7.0. Developed a cartographic production system for the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. Developed network modeling tools in ArcView 3.0 to simulate behavior of a switched communications network.
GIS Applications Developer

Applied Ordnance Technology, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Defense & Space industry)

July 1993 — June 1996 (3 years)

Developed GIS applications in MapInfo, Arc/Info rev. 6 and 7, and ArcView 2.1. Also developed database applications using Omnis 7. Performed numerous GIS data conversion tasks. Managed data production teams in support of Defense Mapping Agency contracts.