I graduated in 1998 from the University of Winnipeg with a B.Sc. Honours Biology and worked in environmental sciences in the private sector for eight years before joining the Manitoba Conservation Data Centre, part of Manitoba Conservation Wildlife and Fisheries Branch, where I currently reside. After being introduced to GIS in the private sector and dabbling in a few university and ESRI courses I found I really liked GIS and geomatics in general, seemed perhaps somewhat good at it, and received satisfaction being the GIS support for my co-worker's and undergraduate student's projects. In 2013 I decided to obtain a diploma in GIS which I completed in 2016- graduating from the Assiniboine Community College with a Dipl. Adv. GIS Environmental Technologies. In the next few years I hope to research species distribution modeling and apply my knowledge to conservation efforts. More generally I hope to continue learning about GIS technologies as I still find the field quite fascinating and expansive enough to always be interesting.