About Us

As the founder and owner of Cornerstone GIS, I have decided to tell our story and make it available to all who wish to follow along. Having made this decision I must begin by confessing that I am not the best writer in the world, by far. I will do my best. May it be an inspiration.

In 1994, at the age of seventeen, I returned from time in Europe and began college at the University of South Carolina. After a brief stay, one semester to be exact, in engineering, I made the decision to switch my major to marine science. I knew right away that it was the right decision. It wasn’t long after that when I was first introduced to geographic information systems (GIS), and at the time USC had quite possibly the best geography department in the country. Immediately recognizing the opportunity, I committed myself to learning GIS concepts and began applying those concepts in the field of marine science.

Circumstances led me in 1999 to transfer from the University of South Carolina to Coastal Carolina University to finish my degree in Marine Science. Roughly six months before graduating I was hired by the university. Now an official employee of the state of South Carolina, I immersed myself in the field of coastal and marine science research. Over the next five years I logged countless hours of experience, a majority of it within the fields of geographic information systems and marine science. I had many responsibilities in five years, including coordinating a state-supported coastal program for over a year. The exact value of knowledge gained through experience during this time was and still is immeasurable.

My time at Coastal Carolina University allowed me many great working opportunities. Quite possibly two years of that time was spent working within the South Carolina Coastal Erosion Program (http://camelot-2.coastal.edu/), an extensive program that in short has established a mechanism for monitoring and addressing coastal erosion. I also worked for a year with the United States Minerals Management Service and South Carolina Department of Natural Resources to build South Carolina’s on-line sand resource and critical bottom habitat database (http://gis.coastal.edu/website/IMS_MMS/viewer.htm). Learning to work cooperatively with organizations like the United States Geological Survey, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, the U.S. Minerals Management Service, and others has proven invaluable thus far.

Now, I bring all of this experience and present it as Cornerstone GIS. The company is fortunate to have already been awarded its inaugural contract, which you can read all about on the News page of this site. In Cornerstone GIS I have envisioned a company (or shall I say resource) that enables people to operate their own businesses more efficiently, whatever that business may be. We are information management of a high level, and though this has been done before…our mission is to do it better. Contact us now to start finding out what Cornerstone GIS can do for you.

God bless.