Dave Michelson
Chief Product Officer at UNC Asheville NEMAC
Candler, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDave Michelson is a seasoned geospatial product leader and Chief Product Officer with nearly three decades of experience designing and building web-based mapping tools that translate complex environmental science into usable, actionable interfaces. At UNC Asheville NEMAC he leads multidisciplinary teams to deliver climate resilience, forest health, and sustainability applications, blending user-centered design with deep technical fluency in tools like Leaflet, MapBox, QGIS, PostGIS and Google Earth Engine. He has a long public-sector background—spanning municipal systems work and K–12 GIS coordination—that sharpens his ability to surface the real problems stakeholders face and simplify data-heavy workflows. Holding a geography BS and a master’s from UNC Asheville, he treats technology as a means to reduce uncertainty, often pairing prototyping and usability research with pragmatic database and tool choices to get projects into use.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Geography, Bachelor's degree, Geography at Salisbury UniversityMaster's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Master's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at University of North Carolina at Asheville
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Github Skills (41)
qgis9
tms9
wps9
sandbox9
geotools9
gis9
spatial9
gml8
shapefile8
system-information8
wms8
gdal8
wcs8
data-management8
openstreetmap8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
SouthFACT/southfact-gatsby-site
Apr 2021 - Nov 2023
https://southfact.github.io/southfact-gatsby-site/
Contributions:3 reviews, 71 PRs, 186 pushes in 2 years 7 months
gatsbygatsby-sitereactgatsbyjs
SouthFACT/landsatfact_usgs_json_api
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
json api interface (node.js)
Contributions:50 PRs, 209 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
apiapi-interfaceexplorenode-jsnodejs
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