Gabriel Paun

Current

Geospatial Technology Consultant at GISWIZARD

Past

GIS Specialist at California Water Service Company
Founder at INFOSFERA

Education

San Jose State University
San Francisco State University
Universitatea din Bucuresti

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Gabriel Paun’s Summary

Geography graduate dedicate to increasing location awareness within private and public organizations all around the globe since 1993. Geography matters and for the most of human activities it is critical.

The real power of geospatial technology is in its analytical application to advance strategic objectives and optimize decisions and business outcomes. Also, that analytical power is highly dependent upon quality and variety of input data. Therefore, I am committed to continuously improving these two critical components, and helping GIS make the leap from “cost center” to “profit center” in any organization.

It makes a big difference for a newly established soft drinks company to efficiently route their delivery trucks in a historic Eastern European town. A geographic information system saved them a lot of money in gas, driving time, and truckload management.

Spending advertising dollars in areas where your customers are makes not only business sense, but common sense to one of the biggest publishing house in Central Europe. Geo-targeted marketing keeps increasing their readers’ base and their bottom line.

Can anyone design successful large scale buildings in one of the toughest real estate markets in the world without paying attention to the sites’ surroundings and demographics? Geography-based 3D renderings, simulations and analysis helped architects of Silicon Valley to promote their innovative vision.

When you turn on your faucet have you ever asked yourself where the water comes from? How “the essence of life” makes it to your house? Digitally mapping over 5,000 miles of California's pipelines for the first time – and everything else attached to them – was huge task for sure, but I enjoy doing it.

These are complex problems efficiently solved by integrate Geospatial Information Solutions (GIS). Whatever the challenges are, professional GIS implementations always work and the Return on Investment (ROI) is very often greater than expected.

Gabriel Paun’s Specialties:

Geospatial information project management. System integration. Geodatabase design. Geographic data acquisition, discovery and fusion. Geospatial analysis. 3D Geographic Information Systems. Applied geography.

Gabriel Paun’s Experience

Geospatial Technology Consultant

GISWIZARD

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2006 — Present (2 years 10 months)

GISWIZARD is a geospatial technology consulting practice, enabling organizations to collect, model, integrate, analyze, and present geospatial information.
GIS Specialist

California Water Service Company

(Public Company; CWT; Utilities industry)

March 2001 — May 2006 (5 years 3 months)

Cal Water hired me to help convert their 80 years worth of California water distribution networks geospatial data (literally thousands of paper maps ("plat sheets") and tens of thousands of "As-Built" folders) into digital format. I became the "go-to" person for geospatial technology advice and quickly nicknamed "GIS Wizard" by the five-men team with whom I ended up implementing an integrated database-driven ESRI-based enterprise-wide GIS that changed the way Cal Water understands, manages, and uses the location of its assets to better serve a half-million Californians.
Founder

INFOSFERA

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1997 — October 2000 (3 years 7 months)

INFOSFERA was a pioneer geospatial data production company in Romania. Built from scratch with 100% Romanian capital, in only three years, with a small (16 people) but very ambitious crew, the firm managed to produce digital maps for 15 large Romanian cities, including Bucharest. In a continuous effort to create and educate the market, we enjoyed an impressive list of customers among which large corporations like Coca Cola.

Gabriel Paun’s Education

San Jose State University

MS , Geospatial Information Science , 2002 — 2004
San Francisco State University

Certification , Geospatial Information Systems , 2001 — 2002
Universitatea din Bucuresti

BS , Geography , 1991 — 1996