Thomas Baker
Education Manager
Leawood, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Baker is an education manager at Esri with over a decade of experience designing and evaluating curriculum, leading educational research, and integrating GIS and instructional technologies across K–12, higher education, and informal learning. He holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology from the University of Kansas and has translated research on online teacher professional development and collaborative student networks into funded initiatives and classroom-ready tools. As a former middle- and high-school science teacher and cofounder/CIO of Pathfinder Science, he has hands-on experience building platforms that supported thousands of classrooms in international collaborative investigations. At Esri he blends technical skills (Python, SQL, ArcGIS, AWS, JavaScript) with marketing, strategic planning, and event leadership to scale outreach and teacher adoption. He is exploring machine learning, universal design, and accessibility for mapping the visually impaired, bringing a research-informed, equity-focused lens to product and curriculum development. Colleagues describe him as equally comfortable in data analysis and in the classroom, turning complex geospatial and learning science into practical, engaging experiences for educators and students.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas
Stackoverflow
1reputation
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0questions
Github Skills (13)
tally7
heroku6
arcgis6
python6
coldfusion6
flask6
prefixes5
arcgis-online5
metadata4
ipynb4
testing4
retrieval4
exif2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
trbaker/SSOcounter
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Determines if an ArcGIS Online org is using SSO and creates a tally from a supplied list of URL prefixes. There is a ColdFusion version (index.cfm) and a Python3 version (SSOcounter.ipynb) of this script. The Python script is now more developed.
Contributions:3 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
ipynbpythonarcgistallyindex
trbaker/GIStandards
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:402 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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