James Jones
Product Engineer at Esri
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Jones is a Product Engineer at Esri with over 17 years in intelligence and data management and eight years building GIS-focused software and automation for defense, law enforcement, and intelligence customers. He blends senior GIS analysis with hands-on Python and JavaScript engineering—authoring ArcPy tools, Jupyter notebooks, unit tests, and web GIS workflows that move complex, multi-source GEOINT into analyst-ready products. James has repeatedly translated urgent field requirements into scalable solutions, from enterprise RDBMS/NoSQL data pipelines to deployed ArcGIS Server services and cloud/disconnected implementations. A former senior enlisted GEOINT leader and instructor, he pairs operational insight from deployed special-operations support with product design sensibilities to ensure usability under pressure. He is known for turning ad hoc analyst needs into repeatable automation and clear documentation, and for advocating simpler, testable product experiences driven by real-world workflows.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies, Associate of Arts (A.A.), General Studies at American Military UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Geography, 3.3, Bachelor’s Degree, Geography, 3.3 at Arizona State UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Geographic Information Science, Master of Science - MS, Geographic Information Science at Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs
Github Skills (7)
api3
geoserver3
wps3
arcgis3
geotiff2
intel2
gdal1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GeoJamesJones/download-articles
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
NodeJS script to download news articles, extract text, and save to local JSON.
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
extract-textjavascriptnodejsnewsnodejs-script
GeoJamesJones/gdelt-pilot
Sep 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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