Randal Hale

Athens, Georgia Area United States

Volunteer

Technology / Software / Internet

I'm the owner/President of North River Geographic Systems, Inc. I started the company as a hobby in 2006 and retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority in 2008 to pursue this full time. NRGS provides geospatial services to federal/local gov't/non-profits/private businesses thoughout the southeast. NRGS became an ESRI BP around 2008 and remained in the program until 2012. At that point we decided that client data/budget were more important than software. Since then we have worked with whatever software fits the job. In many cases it's a combination of Commercial and Open Source software. The last few years have found NRGS doing a little bit of everything from teaching to working with...