Bill Parker
Principal Enterprise GIS Analyst at BART
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Parker is a Principal Enterprise GIS Analyst with nine years of professional experience applying geospatial solutions to habitat conservation, environmental review, land use planning, and infrastructure siting. He combines deep ArcGIS expertise—including geodatabase design, ModelBuilder and arcpy automation—with hands-on experience in PostGIS, Python ETL, LiDAR classification, and remote sensing workflows. Bill has led GIS teams on large transportation and energy projects, built repeatable tools for spatial analysis and data-driven figure production, and maintained cloud-hosted spatial databases for predictive location planning. Based in Oakland, he brings practical field-data collection knowledge (Trimble/Collector/Survey123) and a background in teaching Python for GIS, which helps him translate complex technical work into usable tools for multidisciplinary teams.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Anthropology, B.A. Anthropology at University of California, BerkeleyM.A Geography, M.A Geography at William C. Parker San Francisco State UniversityCertificate of Completion Geographic Information Systems, Certificate of Completion Geographic Information Systems at Diablo Valley College
Github Skills (6)
arcgis9
python7
census5
data-journalism2
journalism1
api1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Python-for-ArcGIS-Pro
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
Code Repository for Python for ArcGIS Pro, Published by Packt
Contributions:41 commits, 32 pushes, 2 comments in 8 months
arcgispython
parkerw13/markdown-portfolio
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 8 branches in 2 months
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