Linda Rockwood - Geospatial Technology - June 5th 2013
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At our Wednesday meeting, Little Falls Rotary Club welcomed Linda
Rockwood as its after dinner speaker who spoke about Geospatial Technology.
Rockwood’s Herkimer based company, Mohawk Valley GIS, is recognized
as being part of one of 14 emerging industries nationwide. The explosion
of easily accessible and more affordable technology, including mobile
devices, has fueled significant growth within the Geospatial field.
Her technology career began with 12 years experience working as a
systems designer and analyst for Eastman Kodak Co. and for W. R. Grace.
A temporary assignment preparing and teaching technology workshops
developed into a new passion, that of making technology less intimidating
for "non-techies". The work that Rockwood does through her consulting
business provides spatial technology training and custom mapping solutions
to municipalities, educational institutions, businesses and non-profit
organizations and agencies throughout upstate New York. The trend
toward mobile computing has taken the business in new directions,
adding tourism and recreation promotion apps and interactive web maps
in to the mix of offerings.
Pictured with Linda Rockwood are Colleen Corsi (left) and Chris Farber, both Rotary Members.
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