OUR TEAM

Patrick Way...
Patrick began his career with the Glenn County Air Pollution Control District as an air quality inspector. In this capacity, he began to appreciate the application of computer modeling and GIS to environmental issues. Because of his captivation with the capabilities of GIS and environmental monitoring, combined with his adeptness at computer technology, Pat set forth to create a user friendly spatially enabled program for managing the RMPP database. In 2001 Pat founded the Patrick Way Consulting Inc. and began putting all his efforts into the AgGIS project. As a contractor for several county agencies, and an employee of North Tree Fire International, Pat also worked with Type 1 incident management teams operated by the U.S. Forrest Service. Pat worked as an integral part of a team managing extreme national incidents. His duties included collecting spatial data from operational commanders, preparing incident management maps, and performing spatial analyses as requested by fire behavior analysts. Pat was assigned to several incidents including the Oregon Wildfires of 2002, the Cedar fire in Southern California, and the Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery project in Corsicana, Texas. In 2004 Pat was contracted by the Glenn County Department of Agriculture through a grant obtained by the State Water Resources Control Board to incorporate spatial analysis features into the AgGIS v2 application. For the past 4 years Pat has dedicated 100% of his efforts towards rewriting the AgGIS application.His experiences working as a GIS tech, combined with his ability to write complex computer programs, have allowed him the opportunity to build a state of the art GIS application designed specifically for the needs of agricultural commissioners and their staff. Patrick Way's academic qualifications include a BS in Environmental Science and a minor in Chemistry from California State University Chico in 1999.

Kenneth Polson...
Ken Polson began working on the AgGIS v3 project in 2006 for the Glenn County Department of Agriculture, providing technical and administrative assistance as needed. Principal tasks included researching and developing server hardware specifications; researching, developing, testing and detailed documentation of configuration and installation procedures for servers and clients; design and editing of the project webpage; and field and phone support. Technical working knowledge now extends to the AgGIS v3 and Permit6 applications, the Linux kernel, Java and Perl programming languages, the Java Runtime Environment, Apache web server, PostgreSQL database and Post- GIS spatial extensions, HTML, server administration, networking theory and practice. Prior to this Mr. Polson worked for 10 years as a property insurance adjuster specializing in residential and commercial catastrophe losses. This included traveling at short notice, often for months, to storm sites across the country to handle new claims from initial contact with the insured through property inspection, documentation, damage estimation, and settlement. Mr. Polson also worked unsuper- vised at remote sites, performed re-inspections, negotiated settlements and became adept at using and maintaining computer hardware and software. Mr. Polson's academic qualifications include the study of Mechanical Engineering at CSU Fresno.