Douglas Yates

Background

About Douglas Yates

28 years progressive experience in working with organizations to improve processes and provide logical, creative, and efficient technical solutions to a wide variety of software, production workflow, coordination, or procedural issues. I take challenges head-on, working with stakeholders, challenging the status quo, and ultimately providing technological and cost-effective solutions that satisfy the needs of the clients, increase system efficiency, and save time and money long term. Expertise in GIS Architecture, Solution development, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Desktop, Geocortex Essentials, VertiGIS Studio, GIS Web viewer development in HTML5/Silverlight/Flex, SQL Server, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office suite, and Virtual server environments. Specialties: Esri GIS, process improvement, needs assessment, procedure design, solutions consulting, efficiency improvements, database management, project management, team leadership, requirements design and translation to development teams, coordinating software engineering efforts, management and motivation of technical teams, and working well with all organizational levels from entry-level staff to executives. Extensive experience in providing technical training, producing technical documentation, writing proposals, and contributing to major RFP/RFQ responses.