Love GIS Consulting is a full service GIS Consulting firm owned and operated by Reily Love.  The business provides consultation on all phases of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) implementation with specialization in enterprise GIS database creation and management, sophisticated GIS application development, and technical GIS training.  Love GIS has extensive GIS application programming expertise in data conversion, database design, data development, conflation, geocoding, quality assurance, graphical user interface design, and data dictionary and metadata creation for large spatial databases.  Mr. Love worked as a Product Specialist with Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) early in his career and became a certified ESRI trainer.  He has extensive software development experience with the ESRI product suite: ArcGIS, ArcObjects, ArcSDE, MapObjects, ArcIMS, AML, ArcView and Avenue.

LoveGIS Consulting focuses on client requests particularly those requiring turnkey software solutions that integrate map data with clients business specialization. Available services include:

•         Comprehensive GIS Needs Analysis
•         Software requirements analysis and technical design
•         GIS Software Implementation
•         Software testing and maintenance
•         GIS training with specialization in Pair Programming techniques

Mr. Love is a creative GIS technical professional with 9 years of diversified consulting experience and over 15 years of GIS project and personnel management assignments.  He has most recently provided programming and nation-wide database development services for Rand McNally (www.randmcnally.com).  Prior to that, he was a consultant for Microsoft (MS) in the Geography Products Unit, which developed global databases and software solutions for various digital mapping products such as MS Streets, MS Trip Planner, MS Virtual Globe, MS MapPoint and the map data used by www.expedia.com.  Mr. Love began his consulting career providing enterprise GIS database development and programming for AirTouch Communications and PCS PrimeCo, which merged with other wireless providers to become Verizon.

Mr. Love received his B.A. in Computer Science from Clark University and went on to complete a M.S. in GIS and Remote Sensing at University of South Carolina in 1988.  His Masters thesis focused on creating a user interface for ESRI's ArcInfo software that would allow non-technical users to perform spatial analysis.  After working at ESRI several years he studied for his Doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley in Environmental Planning.  He then performed GIS project and personnel management for two environmental consulting firms before embarking on a GIS consulting career in 1995.

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