John Hickok
Principal GIS Analyst at Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
Burbank, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Hickok is a Principal GIS Analyst with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, automating, and managing authoritative spatial data for Los Angeles County agencies. He combines deep technical skills—PL/SQL-backed Oracle database management, complex Python geoprocessing scripts, and Geocortex-powered GIS web management—with practical cadastral and field surveying experience gained supervising county mapping and annexation projects. Known for turning legal descriptions and parcel data into robust, auditable GIS layers, he has led technical efforts from countywide storm drain networks to sewer maintenance mapping and multiuser SDE administration. Based in Burbank, he brings a pragmatic, curiosity-driven approach to GIS tooling and automation, and is equally motivated by writing clean GIS code and making geospatial systems easier to use for stakeholders.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies, Bachelor's degree, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies at Ambassador UniversityGeomatics Engineering, Senior student - (still working on it!), Geomatics Engineering, Senior student - (still working on it!) at California State University, Fresno
English
Github Skills (6)
geofencing10
geocoding10
geofence9
geodata9
bank5
react3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
johnhickok/CalStreetLookup
Jun 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:110 commits, 115 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
johnhickok/LdotCook
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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