KEVIN J. MICKEY
Director
Professional GIS Education Program
The PolisCenter
IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversityIndianapolis
Indianapolis, Indiana
Mr. Kevin J. Mickey is the Director of the Professional GIS Education Program for The Polis Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; an adjunct instructor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; and an adjunct assistant professor in the Loma Linda University School of Public Health Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. The Professional GIS Education Program, created and developed through his leadership, currently offers more than two dozen technical and theoretical courses in Indianapolis as well as onsite at client locations throughout the United States and elsewhere. The program, recognized as a resource for its wide variety of standards courses as well as for customized education, has supported the education needs of hundreds of organizations including many State and local government, private sector, academic, and not-for-profit entities.
In addition to his management responsibilities, Mr. Mickey has developed and taught a multitude of GIS courses through The Polis Center Education Program, the Continuing Education Program, the Geography Department, and School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Queens University Belfast; the University of California Berkeley; and other institutions. Instructional experience includes more than 18 years of ESRI, Intergraph, and AutoDesk education and consulting work in introductory through advanced applications including the ArcGIS product and many of its extensions. He is currently an ESRI-authorized instructor for the ArcGIS I and II courses.
Mr. Mickey has managed and supported more than 300 spatial technologies projects since joining The Polis Center in 1990. His responsibilities in these projects have included design, development, testing, implementation, and analysis of complex GIS applications, models, and databases. He has also delivered dozens of presentations on GIS-related topics at conferences and other forums around the world.
Mr. Mickey’s experiences in GIS applications related to the social sciences and humanities include development and instruction of several successful institutes that have been presented at the University of Portsmouth and Queens University Belfast in the United Kingdom, the University of California Berkeley, Indiana University, and elsewhere. He has also been involved with numerous projects that included the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data related to the social sciences and humanities. Of particular importance in this area has been his work with the Social Assets and Vulnerabilities Indicators (SAVI) project. This project, begun in 1994 and continuing to the present, involves the collection of massive amounts of information about social indicators within the central Indiana area including health, welfare, crime, and more. One of the major focuses of the SAVI project has been empowering SAVI users with the knowledge to effectively address community needs through the employment of information technologies.
Mr. Mickey has also supported the educational needs of a number of Federal agencies. He has designed and taught spatial technologies for the National Library of Medicine. He also designed and frequently teaches the GIS courses that are taught to labor market professionals under the U.S. Department of Labor’s Labor Market Institute. In addition, he is the curriculum developer and a lead instructor for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Hazards–Multihazards GIS-based software application that is used to conduct scientifically based loss estimations from natural hazards such as floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
March 4, 2008