Ekotrope
Arthur Fisher is a Senior Software Engineer at Ekotrope. Arthur previously worked as a software engineer at Retroficiency and AIR Worldwide. At Retroficiency, they developed software to analyze and improve energy efficiency in commercial buildings. At AIR Worldwide, they developed a series of desktop and web based tools to visualize and analyze catastrophe data for the ALERT process (AIR Loss Estimation in Real Time). Arthur also created an online damage survey planning tool for natural disasters, built several other web mapping applications using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, JQuery, Dojo, and D3, and developed a C# (Windows Forms) application to read model output files to a database and create geometry components (e.g. hurricane tracks, earthquake epicenters) using spatial SQL. Arthur won the Research Department’s “Innovator of the Year” award in 2013.
Arthur Fisher's educational career began with a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from Dartmouth College. Arthur continued their studies with a Graduate Certificate in Web Application Development from Boston University. Arthur then went on to earn their Masters in Environmental Management/ GIS from Duke University.