Professional Education and Outreach

KEVIN J. MICKEY

Director

Professional Education and Outreach

The PolisCenter

IndianaUniversityPurdueUniversityIndianapolis

Indianapolis, Indiana

Mr. Kevin J. Mickey is the Director of Professional Education and Outreach for The Polis Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; an adjunct assistant professor in the Loma Linda University School of Public Health Department of Environmental Engineering; and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Geography at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. The Polis 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 country. This nationally recognized program has supported the needs of hundreds of organizations including the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA); the U.S. Department of Labor; the National Library of Medicine; and many State and local government, private sector, academic, and not-for-profit entities.

Mr. Mickey’s instructional experience includes nearly 20 years of ESRI, Intergraph, and AutoDesk education in introductory through advanced applications including the ArcGIS product and many of its extensions. He is an expert in the FEMA HAZUS-MH application. His work with that application includes curriculum design as well as instruction of introductory through advanced courses in flood, earthquake, and hurricane modeling. He provides HAZUS-MH education at locations across the United States and is a senior instructor at the National Emergency Training Center/Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland.

In addition to serving as an educator, 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 delivered dozens of presentations on geospatial topics at conferences and other forums around the world.

Mr. Mickey is currently or has been involved in a variety of geospatial technology-related committees. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Indiana Geographic Information Council Board of Directors as well as the Finance Committee, and Indiana Board on Geographic Names. Mr. Mickey has chaired the IGIC Education and Outreach Committee since 2000. In addition, he chairs the Midwest HAZUS Users Group Steering Committee which supports the needs of HAZUS-MH users and beneficiaries in the Midwestern United States. He also provides many hours of community service as a member of the District Committee of the Pioneer District of the Boy Scouts of America.

February 23, 2009