Boldly Going Where Many a Human Has Gone Before…

Enough with the pretentiousness, I am Esha, and I am currently a student of BTech GIS programme at BCIT. As much as I hate making a hobby my entire Identity, I think I can safely bet on this being the part that you, as a GIS blog reader, would be most interested in.

In fact, my foray into GIS started with consulting maps, pinning for faraway adventures, and sulking why the places are tens of thousands of miles away from me. Even though exotic locations, attributes of those locations attracted me to study geography, as life would have it, I studied rather a completely different topic in my past life and became a business analyst.

However, as fate would have it, I was presented with the opportunity to play my own “choose a career” interactive game called “Expatriation”. Hence, i decided to double down on my analytical skills and add my old love of maps to that, by studying GIS.

What I discovered is that the bread and butter software of GIS professionals, ArcGIS pro, can do so much for a Business Analyst (and i am not only talking about the Business Analyst Pro extension). You can literally use ArcGIS to complete critical statistical analysis and create prediction models and all that even before shelling out bucks for the BAP extension. I also learnt about a new line of business intelligence has opened up for me, location intelligence.

Right now, as a part of my academic tasks, I am working with a sustainable realtor, Renewal Development. We are designing a geodatabase and also cleaning feature datasets with the help of ESRI products. In class, I am learning about ESRI products beyond AcGIS, such as City Engine.

So here I am now, on the pursuit of learning the ropes and tricks to be the location intelligence professional I want to be. Succeeding for me at this juncture of my life would mean becoming a GIS professional at governance, renewable energy, or sustainable resource extraction sectors.