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Thomas Hervey

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    PhD at UCSB improving geospatial search tools | Product Engineering with ArcGIS Hub.

  • Education

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

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    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

      2010 - 2014
      Bachelor of Science - BS Information Systems

      Activities and Societies: Web Development Certificate

    • UC Santa Barbara

      2015 - 2018
      Master of Arts - MA Geography

    • UC Santa Barbara

      2018 - 2023
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Geography

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

      2010 - 2014
      Bachelor of Arts - BA Geography

      Activities and Societies: Geographic Information Science Certificate | UMBC Men's Club Ultimate Frisbee | Students for Environmental Awareness | ReSET Recycle Program

  • Experience

    • (CUERE) Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education

      Mar 2012 - May 2012
      Research Assistant

      Georeferenced, digitized, constructed DEMs and analyzed historic Baltimore topography.

    • JMT Technology Group

      May 2012 - Jan 2013
      GIS Technician

      Manipulated address and vector data, geocoded, and interpolated/enhanced city centerline routing. Developed and implemented custom tools, data dictionaries, and editing procedure documents.

    • California State University, Long Beach

      Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
      National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates: Summer Researcher

      Gathered field data, conducted spatial analysis, and presented research on submarine groundwater discharge in the Ka'a'awa valley, Hawai'i. Developed skills working with ERDAS Imagine, eCognition, and Agisoft Photoscan.

    • Applied Weather Technology Inc.

      Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
      Software User Testing Intern

      Gave critical feedback during code reviews, and highlighted usability and performance bugs. Reported user interface improvement suggestions for several language versions of the product.

    • Center for Spatial Studies, UCSB

      Sept 2015 - now
      Graduate Student Researcher

    • Esri

      Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
      Software Developer Intern

      Added classification functionality to the KoopJS ETL engine. Began pilot work on a polygon reverse geocoder, including curating an authoritative geometry dataset to query against.

    • OpenStreetMap Foundation

      May 2018 - Aug 2018
      Google Summer of Code student

      Created OSM notes service and integrated them into the iD editor. Conducted research on the production and usage of OSM notes. Began construction on quality assurance tools, such as KeepRight.

    • OpenStreetMap Foundation

      May 2019 - Aug 2019
      Google Summer of Code student

      Began integration of Humanitarian OSM Team's API with OSM iD editor

    • Esri

      Apr 2020 - now

      • Senior Product Engineer

        Jan 2024 - now

      • ArcGIS Hub, Product Engineer II

        Mar 2021 - Jan 2024

      • ArcGIS Hub, Product Engineer I

        Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

  • Licenses & Certifications