Paul Ramsey

Senior Consultant

Paul has been working with geospatial software for over ten years, as programmer and consultant. He founded the PostGIS spatial database project in 2001, and is currently an active developer and member of the project steering committee. In 2008, Paul received the Sol Katz Award for achievement in open source geospatial software.

As a team member with OpenGeo, Paul leads consulting engagements, software and support of the PostGIS database; he works with our business development team to improve communication about our open source offerings; and, he speaks and teaches regularly at conferences around the world.

Education

BSc Mathematics, University of British Columbia, 1993
MSc Statistics, University of Victoria, 1996

Recent Publications

“Geospatial: An Open Source Microcosm”, Open Source Business Resource, March 2009
“Open – For Business”, Geoconnexion International, January, 2009
“Open Source Success”, GIM International, October, 2008

Professional Specialities

Development: PostGIS core development, Mapserver core development, Proj4 core development
Education: Frequent speaker and teacher at conferences and training sessions
Consulting: Twelve years experience in geospatial systems design and IT project leadership

Open Source Projects

PostGIS: Founder, Project Steering Committee member, committer
Mapserver: Committer, maintainer of PostGIS module
GEOS: Founder, committer, release manager
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo): Founding member, Board member 2007-2009
FOSS4G Conferences: OSGeo conference committee member and organizer of 2007 event

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