Jim Tobias

Current

• Sr. GIS Developer at Northrop Grumman

Past

• Sr. Consultant at BearingPoint
• GIS Analyst at SAIC
• GIS Analyst at Georgia DHR

• Research Biologist at NOAA

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Education

• University of Southampton
• University of Leeds
• Coastal Carolina University

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Industry

Research

Websites

• GIS Certification
• URISA
• Yale University Training

Jim Tobias’s Summary

PUBLICATIONS:
Immunization Information Systems Use During a Public Health Emergency in the United States Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 2007, 13(5), 481-485.

Expansion of Simple Models for Bioterrorism Response to Determine Demographics and Critical Infrastructure Needs. Public Health GIS News & Information, Janurary 2006 pg 11-13.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Bioterrorism / Disaster Planning:
A Simple Model to Find First Responders During A Terror Attack on the Atlanta MARTA System. Public Health GIS News and Information, November 2005 (No. 67) pg 11-13.

National Immunization Conference (March 2006) – Poster Presentation
GIS and Registry Data: A new tool to detect pockets of need.

Georgia Perinatal and Premature Mortality Measures by Census Tract with Commission Districts, 1998-2002

A Decade of Change: The Demographic Atlas of Georgia 1990 & 2000

Metro Atlanta Public Health GIS: A Collaborative Effort to Collect, Illustrate, and Analyze Surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV) Activity in the Metropolitan Atlanta Area.

VHF Radio Tracking of a North Atlantic Right Whale (Eubalaena Glacialis) Female and Calf in the Calving Ground: Preliminary Results; January 1999.
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/Atl-RightwhaleVHF-tagging-1999.pdf

Baseline Data for Evaluating Reef Fish Populations in the Florida Keys.
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-427. 61p.
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/427techmemo.pdf

Sanctuary Monitoring Report, 2000. Aerial Survey of Vessel Usage and Marine Animal Occurrences in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, 1992-2000. http://www.fknms.nos.noaa.gov/research_monitoring/Monitoring_Report_2000.pdf

Opportunistic sightings of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, along the southeast Florida coast and Florida Bay, 1992-1997. NOAA Tech. Mem. 435. 18pp. http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/435techmemo.pdf

Jim Tobias’s Specialties:

Geovisualization
Model Building
Organizational Memory and Knowledgebase construction

Jim Tobias’s Experience

• Sr. GIS Developer

  Northrop Grumman

  (Public Company; NOC; Defense & Space industry)

  March 2009 — Present (9 months)

  Working with CDC Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE).
  I provide GIS development and analyses for the Surveillance Epidemiology and Outbreak Investigation Branch (SEOIB). I am using geographic information systems (GIS) to conduct mapping and spatial analyses for the TB Genotyping Information Management System (TB GIMS).
  
  Guest Speaker, GIS: Morehouse School of Medicine, July 8, 2009

• Sr. Consultant

  BearingPoint

  (Public Company; OTC:BGPTQ; Management Consulting industry)

  2006 — 2009 (3 years )

  Provide Enterprise GIS support to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Pilot testing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) for shared geospatial services for public health.
  Support enterprise GIS license management and distribution of software. Provide GIS support to many programs at CDC.
  
  Support for Disaster / Emergency Response including:
  -Hurricane Katrina (2005)
  -China earthquake response (2008)
  
  Executive Training
  Yale University, BearingPoint Consulting Foundations II (2008).

• GIS Analyst

  SAIC

  (Public Company; SAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 8 months)

  I worked with the National Immunization Program of the
  Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. I designed a system to detect spatio-temporal clusters of adverse reactions to vaccinations. This system involved SAS code to extract and mine data from CDC SAS data sets and produce html pages
  with tabular report results and GIS mapping of spatio-temporal clusters. I worked with SAS and ArcGIS to identify clusters of adverse vaccination events and to promote vaccine safety. I built spatial analysis models with ArcGIS Model Builder to assure that spatial analyses are documented, repeatable, and create valid and reliable output grids with the same extent and cell size. Projects included: 1) mapping incidence rates of Pertussis (whooping cough) by county units of geography (USA), 2) mapping / spatial analysis of immunization rates within the state of Oregon using state immunization data, 3) assistance with mapping of villages in Kenya, Africa for CDC vaccination programs.

• GIS Analyst

  Georgia DHR

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2001 — January 2005 (4 years 1 month)

  The Office of Health Information & Policy (OHIP) is the analytical branch of the Georgia Division of Public Health. I worked with a team of people from OHIP and the University of Georgia to create an Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS). This system provides the public with a tool to query and map data pertaining to Georgia births, deaths, and Cancer Morbidity. The system uses ArcIMS 4.0 technology.
  
  Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS):
  http://oasis.state.ga.us/
  
  OASIS GIS Mapping Tool:
  http://ecom.itos.uga.edu/dphgis/

• Research Biologist

  NOAA

  (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Government Administration industry)

  March 1992 — December 2000 (8 years 10 months)

  The Protected Species Branch of the Miami Laboratory is involved with status assessment and protection of marine mammal, sea turtle, and reef fish populations. GIS played a critical role in the ability to sample, measure, and analyze population data. Marine mammal surveys were conducted aboard NOAA research vessels and aircraft. Some flights were conducted aboard US Coast Guard Helicopters. GIS was used with line transect methodologies to plan, execute and analyze marine mammal population data. GIS was used to track North Atlantic right whales tagged with VHF transmitters along the Georgia coast. Reef fish populations were monitored with visual census surveys conducted in study sites in the Florida keys. GIS was utilized to map study sites, plan scuba dives, measure survey areas and plot distributions of protected fishes such as black groupers. I provided GIS instruction to members of the reef team, marine mammal team and university biologists.

Jim Tobias’s Education

• University of Southampton

  MSc , Geographic Information Systems (GIS) , 2006 — 2009

• University of Leeds

  GIS 2006 — 2008

  Attended University of Leeds as part of my online degree program at the University of Southampton. Both universities are part of the Worldwide University Network (WUN).

• Coastal Carolina University

  BS , Marine Science , 1987 — 1991

  Activities and Societies:

  Omicron Delta Kappa
  
  NCAA Cross Country

Additional Information

Jim Tobias’s Websites:

• GIS Certification
• URISA
• Yale University Training

Jim Tobias’s Interests:

GIS, Grid Computing, Scuba Diving, Marine Biology, Chess, Literature, Poetry, Japanese

Jim Tobias’s Groups:

Scientists Without Borders - http://scientistswithoutborders.nyas.org/
URISA - Urban and Regional Information Systems Association
GISP - Certified Geographic Information System Professional
GISCI - GIS Certification Institute

•    BearingPoint Alumni Group
•    Python Community
•    PyAtl
•    University of Southampton Alumni
•    VizThink
•    URISA
•    MindManager Enthusiasts
•    BearingPoint (KPMG Consulting) (2700 members)
•    SAS Users
•    Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
•    GPS/GIS Jobs
•    Visual Thinking
•    NORTHROP GRUMMAN CONNECTIONS
•    The R Project for Statistical Computing
•    DC Metro Consultants: BAH, D&T, E&Y, KPMG, (PwC) IBM BearingPoint, Accenture
•    GIS Application Developers
•    Geographic Information Systems Day ... GIS Day
•    University of Leeds Alumni Group
•    Google APPS users
•    Global Analytics Network (+5K analytic professionals)
•    National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI)
•    Adobe Flex Group
•    MapWindow GIS Open Source Users and Developers
•    Adobe RIA Group - for developers and fans of Flex and AIR
•    Geographic Information Systems Professional (GISP)
•    Omicron Delta Kappa - National Leadership Honor Society (Members Verified by ODK National Hdq.)
•    Scientists Without Borders
•    ESRI User Conference
•    Public Health Informatics Research Grid
•    GEOinformatics
•    Geospatial Data Integration
•    Coastal Carolina University
•    Google Earth Users
•    O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference
•    Remote Sensing of Vegetation
•    Georgia GIS Professionals
•    Open Source GIS
•    GIS UK
•    National Marine Fisheries Service
•    GIS and Science
•    Spatial Cloud Computing (SC2)
•    GIS Training and Education
•    ESRI Developer Network
•    SAS Jobs Network (USA)
•    Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics

Jim Tobias’s Honors:

2008- BearingPoint Silver Beacon Award
2008- Certificate of Appreciation - CDC NCPHI, China Earthquake Response
2005- HHS Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service - Hurricane Katrina
1994- Certificate of Appreciation - Mayor Semour Gelber, City of Miami Beach

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