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Greg Babinski, MA, GISP Finance & Marketing Manager, King County GIS Center Past-President of URISA

Greg Babinski has been Finance and Marketing Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle, Washington since 1998. Before that he was the GIS Supervisor of the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, California. He holds BA and MA degrees in geography from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. With 28 years of GIS experience, he is a certified GIS professional (GISP). He is also a member of the Government Finance Officers Association (he has presented at GFOA conferences and written for Government Finance Review) and of the American Marketing Association (AMA). He has been active in the Urban and Regional Information Systems association (URISA) and its chapters for more than 26 years. He served on the Board of the BAAMA Chapter and helped organize the California GIS Conference. He served on the Board of the Washington State Chapter and helps organize the annual Washington GIS Conference. He is also founder and former Chief Editor of The Summit, the Washington GIS Newsletter. He is a URISA workshop author and certified instructor. He helped author the URISA Leadership Academy (ULA) and is a former ULA instructor. He served on URISA’s Board of Directors for six years and was URISA President in 2011-2012. Greg has written numerous articles about his interest and original research into geospatial industry management, finance, and budgeting. He was the author of the original GIS Capability Maturity Model and coordinated its review and revision for adoption by URISA in 2013. He is the founder and was the first chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute Committee. Greg has received the URISA Leadership Award and the WAURISA Summit Award and was named a ‘GIS Hero’ in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of ArcNews. Greg has spoken about GIS at many conferences and events in the US and Canada, as well as in the Caribbean, Australia, and across Europe and Asia. In his spare time he likes hiking steep narrow dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views.