Paul Crickard is a systems administrator in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has a master's degree in Political Science and has presented papers at the United States Naval Academy's Foreign Affairs Conference and the American Journalism Historians Association Regional Conference in Salt Lake City. He has given demonstrations on the use of Revit, BIM, and GIS to the Public School Facility Authority in New Mexico and the Albuquerque BIM505 users' group. Above all, he is loved and adored by his beautiful wife and son, without whom all other accolades pale in brilliance.

Chandler Sterling is a GIS Analyst for the City of Pasadena's Department of Information Technology in California. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned a graduate capstone certificate in GIS and a bachelor's degree in Geography and Political Science. He also co-founded an online resource hub for geospatial learning, the GIS Collective, which can be found at www.giscollective.org. He enjoys playing music with his band, The Electric West, and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Tram Vu Khanh Truong received her master's degree in Regional and City Planning at the University of Oklahoma and has worked in the planning field for almost four years. Currently, she is a Transportation Planner at the Greensboro Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. Her duties include GIS development, data analysis, and Transportation System Planning. Tram Truong has a passion in utilizing GIS in transportation planning to support decision making and linking multimodal transportation planning with mixed use of land development planning.

John (Yiguang) Zhang has been in the geospatial industry for over 20 years with a strong background in GIS, photogrammetry, and remote sensing. He has been working as a GIS developer and analyst for the past 15 years and has experienced various GIS projects from start to finish on the GIS application design, development and implementation, GIS analysis, and map production. He has also managed complex spatial databases and experienced a lot of spatial data conversion and integration processes. His creative thinking skills have helped him solve problems effectively through the course of his career in public and private sectors, such as city of Chilliwack and Inergraph. He is proficient with Esri ArcGIS family products including ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Server and spatial database management systems such as Oracle Spatial, SQL Server, and Open Source PostgreSQL/PostGIS. He is also competitive in .NET and Web 2.0 technologies. He holds a master's degree in Digital Photogrammetry and an advanced diploma in GIS from British Columbia Institute of Technologies, Canada.