Paul Doherty
Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Doherty is an Emergency Management Specialist (Geospatial) with 11 years of experience applying GIS to public safety, search and rescue, and disaster response at organizations including FEMA, Esri, and the NAPSG Foundation. He combines operational field experience as a National Park Service law enforcement Ranger and SAR volunteer with academic and instructional roles, teaching GIS for emergency management and developing curricula. At FEMA he created a role to integrate geospatial capabilities into urban and wide-area search operations, and previously led technology and innovation efforts at NAPSG to scale GIS adoption across agencies. Paul holds advanced training in environmental systems/GIS at the PhD level and brings a practical, mission-focused approach that bridges technical strategy, stakeholder coordination, and hands-on incident support. An often-overlooked strength is his international consulting and deployment experience, which has helped adapt GIS solutions to diverse operational contexts.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Biology, M.S., Biology at Hofstra UniversityB.S., Environmental Biology, B.S., Environmental Biology at State University of New York, Environmental Science and Foresty at SyracusePhD, Environmental Systems, GIS, PhD, Environmental Systems, GIS at University of California
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (33)
sar9
research-and-development9
user-interface7
csv7
json6
rescue5
feature-service5
esri5
arcgis-online5
arcgis5
typescript4
sql4
social-media4
arcgis-js-api4
location3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pjdohertygis/FireMappers
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
pjdohertygis/MapSAROnline
Jul 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:36 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 8 months
user-interfacesardeploymentresearch-and-developmentmapping
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