Resume

CURRICULUM VITAE

William F. (“Ric”) Skinner, GISP
ric.skinner@gmail.com


CAREER OVERVIEW

March 2008 – present The Stoneybrook Group -- MA
November 2007 – March 2008 Engineering/Environmental/GIS Consulting Firm -- MA
January 2002 – October 2007 Hospital/Healthcare System -- MA
March 1999 -- December 2001 State Health Dept. -- NJ
August 1998 – March 1999 Environmental/Engineering Consulting Firm -- PA
January 1995 - August 1998 Independent Consultant – Health Geographics -- PA
September 1976 – August 1995 Large Eastern Electric Utility (Environmental Management) -- PA
September 1972 – August 1976 Large Midwestern Electric Utility (Environmental Management) -- MI

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

March 2008 – Present
Owner/Researcher/Consultant, The Stoneybrook Group LLC, Sturbridge, MA. (A Veteran Owned Business) Independent consultant providing health geographics and healthcare preparedness, consulting/subconsulting services to local, regional and national clients.

November 2007 – Present
GIS Director, Tighe & Bond, Worcester, MA. Responsible for new business development in healthcare geographics, healthcare preparedness, municipal emergency preparedness and environmental geographics. Manage 10 member GIS staff.

January 2002 – October 2007
Senior Geographic Information Systems Coordinator/Program Manager, Health Geographics Program, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA. Principal contact and technical expert for GIS at Baystate Health/Baystate Medical Center. Provide overall project management, direction, and development of GIS resources and organization-wide implementation of GIS. Direct multi-disciplinary approach in planning, project oversight, and research within organization and between organization and local, state and federal entities. Manage staff of 3-4 GIS professionals. Serve as GIS representative on BMC Emergency Management Committee. Recommend, justify and direct software, personnel and information technology resources. Direct and prepare needs assessments, implementation plans, data creation and acquisition for department level and organization wide projects. Identify, initiate and/or support grant funding opportunities. Identify, initiate and/or support commercial for-profit opportunities. Project manager and/or project team member on numerous GIS initiatives, including several Automated Vehicle Location and dispatching systems, spatial analysis and mapping of human body systems, epidemiological studies, clinical/medical research projects, address quality and geocoding, “hospital-land” security and disaster preparedness. Project Manager for dynamic mapping extension for a Crisis Information Management System application. GIS Advisor to regional emergency planning committee. Conducted (August 2007) a comprehensive survey of disaster preparedness of U.S. healthcare facilities and healthcare systems.

March 1999 - December 2001
Senior Research Scientist/Geographic Information Systems Coordinator, New Jersey Dept. of Health & Sr. Services, Cancer Epidemiology Service, Trenton, NJ. Responsible for developing, organizing, and coordinating GIS resources within Cancer Epidemiology Services and State Cancer Registry. Spatially enabled and maintained State Cancer Registry geocoded database of 1.6 million addresses. Evaluated geocoding processes and applications. Provided internal instruction on basic GIS concepts and use of ArcView software. Principal Investigator on CDC funded $138K GIS grant to investigate factors affecting late-stage prostate cancer incidence and mortality. Served as NJDHSS representative on state-wide interagency GIS committee. Provided primary GIS support to CDC during anthrax investigation of Hamilton Mail Processing Center and other NJ postal facilities. Provided GIS support to State Epidemiologist during initial state-wide mapping to support West Nile Virus outbreak in 2000.

August 1998 - March 1999
Regional Office Manager (Eastern PA Start-up Office)/Environmental Consultant, The EADS Group, Altoona, PA. Established and managed an exploratory regional office in eastern PA for a western PA based environmental engineering firm. Responsible for all marketing and GIS-based technical environmental consulting out of the eastern office. Provided GIS input for program development for state-wide tourism promotion project. Provided GIS support for major regional transportation project proposal.

January 1995 – August 1998
Independent Consultant (Health Geographics), Alburtis, PA. Provided GIS services to hospital-affiliated family practice in Lehigh Valley, PA. Provided GIS-business assessment services to proposed hospital venture in Lehigh Valley. Completed needs evaluation, data acquisition and system services for cable TV company’s GIS-based job sketch system. Completed health and demographic data acquisition, analysis and GIS-based presentation support to a regional hospital for a two-county community health status assessment. Provided GIS training and software acquisition for Lehigh Valley-based national community health status assessment consultant. Consulted to VA-based national health information consulting firm on proposed expansion of services to include GIS.

September 1976 – August 1995
Project Scientist/ Sr. Project Scientist/ Sr. Scientist Consulting, Pennsylvania Power & Light Co., Allentown, PA. Responsible for a wide variety of aquatic and terrestrial environmental assessments and research. Established unique industry-agency program for cooperative monitoring and assessment of power plant impacts on aquatic life. Designed and built three effluent bioassay/biomonitoring laboratories. Provided GIS support for several electric transmission line and substation siting projects. Performed GIS analytical support for priority ranking of 400 remediation sites and a 500 acre industrial facility siting project. Represented Environmental Department on 8-month corporate information strategy team which, as a result of my involvement, recognized GIS as a critical core technology. Made significant contribution to PA Dept. of Environmental Resources wetlands protection regulations which remain in effect today. Project Manager for 2.5 acre wetlands mitigation project.

August 1972 – August 1976
Aquatic Biologist, Consumers Power Co., Jackson, MI. Responsible for aquatic biology studies at electric and gas generation facilities. Managed the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting program. Carried out six cooling water intake (“316b”) and discharge (“316a”) studies.

EDUCATION and SELECTED ADDITIONAL COURSEWORK

• West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, January 1970 – August 1972. MS, Biology.
• Bloomsburg State College, Bloomsburg, PA, September 1963 – August 1967. BA, Biology.
• Bloomsburg High School, September 1956 -- June 1963, Bloomsburg, PA, College Preparatory.
• University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1999. “Introduction to Epidemiology” and “Occupational & Environmental Epidemiology,” Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology.
• ESRI Users Conf., San Diego, CA, June 2002. “GIS for Health Organizations – Preserving Patient Confidentiality.”
• NJ Dept. of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ, October 2000. Metadata Training Workshop.
• Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ. November 2000. “Cartography for GIS Users.”
• URISA Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ, March 1999. “Address Issues and IS/GIS Implementation.”
• URISA Workshop, New Brunswick, NJ, June 1998. “Managing GIS Implementation.”
• URISA Leadership Academy (inaugural class), New Orleans, 2007.


CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Certified GIS Professional, #00019554, GIS Certification Institute, Park Ridge, IL, 2006
• Homeland Security – Community Assessment Model (HLS-CAM), 2008
• IS-100.HC, Introduction to ICS for Healthcare and Hospitals, 2008.
• IS-120A, Introduction to Exercises, 2008.
• IS-800B, National Response Framework, An Introduction, 2008.
• IS-808, ESF-8 Public Health and Medical Services, 2008.
• MA EMA Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program, 2008
• URISA GIS Leadership Academy, New Orleans, 2007.
• Community Emergency Response Team – Sturbridge, MA, 2007
• Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID) and Table Top Exercises, Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program, 2007.
• IS-860, Introduction to National Infrastructure Protection Plan, Emergency Management Inst., 2007.
• IS-700, Introduction to National Incident Management System, Emergency Management Inst., 2006.
• IS-100, Introduction to Incident Command Systems, Emergency Management Inst., 2005.
• Incident Command System for Health Care Providers, MA Executive Office of Public Safety, 2005.
• Integrated Emergency Management, Hartford (CT) Metropolitan Medical Response System, 2004.
• Registered Environmental Professional, #3117 (inactive), National Registry of Environmental Professionals, Glenview, IL.
• Certified Environmental Professional (Environmental Assessment), #1850 (inactive), National Association of Environmental Professionals, Malden, MA.
• Certified Fisheries Scientist, #1515 (inactive), American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, MD.

AWARDS

ESRI “Vision” Award, October 2004
ESRI “SAG award” – Special Achievement in GIS, June 2002
2nd Place, “Most Innovative Use of GIS,” 14th Annual NJDEP State Mapping Competition, 2001 (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/mapcon14.htm)
1st Place, “Most Innovative Use of GIS,” 13th Annual NJDEP State Mapping Competition, 2000 (http://www.state.nj.us/dep/gis/mapcon13.htm)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

Business Continuity Planning Workgroup for Healthcare Organizations
Urban & Regional Information Systems Association
Disaster Management Interoperability Services Special Interest Group & Steering Committee
Emergency Information Infrastructure Partnership
International Association of Emergency Managers
ESRI Health Users Group

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Co-Chair, URISA GIS in Public Health Conference, June 2009, Providence, RI
Tri-EPIC Regional Emergency Planning Committee, Volunteer GIS Advisor
Sturbridge (MA) Local Emergency Planning Committee
Member, “GIS Basic Practices Guidelines” Working Group, North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, 2000 – 2002. http://www.naaccr.org/filesystem/pdf/GIS%20handbook%206-3-03.pdf.
Advisory Group for First Annual ESRI Health GIS User’s Conference, Washington, DC, November 2001.
Co-Chair, Second International Health Geographics Conference, Washington, DC, March 2000.
Initiator and Co-Chair, First International Health Geographics Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 1998.

INTERESTS

- Nature Photography
- Travel
- Small Stream Restoration
- Professional Writing
- Wood Model Ship Building
- Flat-water kayaking