Rives Deuterman

Rives Deuterman is the GIS Manager at Geographic Technologies Group. Rives has been with the company since January 2019 and in their current role, they are responsible for managing multiple projects at a time for a varied range of clients across North America. In addition to Project Management duties, they perform technical work as needed such as the creation of GIS web maps, web applications, dashboards, and story maps. Rives also manages & maintains ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise deployments - including versioned enterprise geodatabases, performs GIS analyses and data edits, produces PDF maps, and trains clients on GIS processes and applications.

Prior to their current role, Rives was a GIS Technician with Geographic Technologies Group from May 2018 to January 2019. In this role, they performed technical GIS tasks, including data creation, data editing, map creation, enterprise database management, and field data collection. Rives was also the lead technician for a centerline improvement project with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) aimed at updating existing roadway information across the State of California. For this project, they developed standard operating procedures for each step in the review process, refined the previous review process to be more comprehensive in its approach when reviewing centerline attribute data to account for one-way directions and node elevations, designed a process using a Network Dataset to generate Routes, Service Areas, and Origin-Destination Cost Matrices in order to

Rives Deuterman received their Graduate Certificate in GIS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. They also received their Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Environmental Science with a Geography minor from UNC Chapel Hill.

They are on a team with Grace Tueller - GIS Specialist, Jonathan Welker - Senior GIS Analyst, and Erika Colaiacomo - GIS Project Manager. Rives Deuterman reports to Jason Marshall, GIS Director.