I’d like to introduce you to Jeff Young, LizardTech’s business development manager for geospatial solutions. He joined the LizardTech team this week. 

Jeff will be responsible for expanding our third-party relationships in targeted market segments, including U.S. defense and civilian agencies, state and local governments and commercial markets. Jeff brings more than 30 years of experience to the LizardTech team. Prior to joining us, he held positions in business development, consulting and sales with several geospatial companies, including Leica Geosystems, Space Imaging and Bentley Systems.

In addition to his professional experience in the GIS industry, Jeff sits on the board of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Rocky Mountain Region, as a national director. Jeff earned a BS in geography (cum laude) from Lock Haven State College in Pennsylvania and an MA in geography, specializing in land use analysis and environmental hazards, from Arizona State University.

Jeff lives and works out of Centennial, Colorado, where he loves spending time with his wife Pamela, daughter Kelsey and son Colin. Travel, saltwater fishing, and golf are his other big loves. He has slept in all 50 states of the Union and in 50 countries around the world.

Everyone knows the peril of navigating a box of chocolates that have various fillings but no legend to tell you which ones are filled with what.

The following is excerpted from an email string that occurred late yesterday after each engineer received a box of chocolates from our activities team as a Valentines Day treat.

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine’s Day from LizardTech.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:20 PM
Importance: Low
Subject: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

Technically it’s a cylinder not a circle.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:21 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

The other round one is coconut.  :-(

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:22 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

We should be able to put a spreadsheet together pretty quickly and get it to Jaime to distribute…

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:32 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

Except by then it may be too late . 

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:35 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

This is not rocket science. Each dev eats ONE of the as-yet-unidentified chocolates, and we’re there in a trice. :)

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

One of the rectangles was a dark choc inside.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

did it have two ridges on it or just one?

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

Too late, already in tummy.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

alright, does the remaining dark rectangle have two ridges or one?

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:40 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

Unclear – it’s kinda got a bunch of medium length ridges.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:42 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

I think we should have *one* dev eat all of his chocolates for posterity.

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Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:43 PM
Subject: RE: the DARK chocolate circle is marshmallow creme <eom>

They mapped the human genome but we can’t figure out what’s in a box of chocolates. I’m going home…

LizardTech will be at the ESRI Federal User Conference in Washington D.C., February 17-19. Look for us at Booth #321.

Says our senior product manager, Jon Skiffington, “We’re particularly excited to show off recently released version 7.0.2 of GeoExpress, which provides support for compressing CADRG/CIB files.” We expect this and other new capabilities to be of great interest to our defense and intelligence customers. If you’re attending, please stop by the booth and say hello.