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Nicholas D. Arnold

Cartographer, Web Dev, Geospatial Dev

Summary
My professional interests are at the intersection of geography & technology. I am a skilled geospatial data analyst & web developer with more than a decade of professional experience. I earned a B.S. in Geography in 2012 from Frostburg State University, a M.S. in Geography in 2015 from Oregon State University, and completed a Web Dev Bootcamp at The Tech Academy in 2018.


Bio
I grew up the kid of a Geography professor and some of my earliest memories are of maps. As a really young kid my dad would give me maps of the U.S. states on overhead projector sheets and I would spend hours tracing them with markers. On the many road trips in the back of my parent's station wagon I explored the old Rand McNally atlas over and over again until I knew all of the big cities and state capitals. Little did I know, all of that tracing and memorizing catalyzed a real passion for maps.

My dad taught Meteorology and for several years of my childhood he led a college classes on a storm chase for a month. And, being his kid I also went along on storm chase trips- a total of three times. On one of those trips, at age 12, I became one of the youngest storm chasers to ever be interviewed by a local TV station. Along the way I learned some things and gained an interest in weather & climate.

Eventually I went to college, deciding to study Geography. It did not take me long to figure out I wanted to go to grad school, so I applied and got a Teaching Assistantship at Oregon State. During grad school I was also a GIS intern during summer breaks. After finishing grad school, I started my career in earnest as a GIS analyst & cartographer and have since evolved into a software engineer with an emphasis on geospatial data & visualization.

I am an avid sports fan and follow NBA (Trail Blazers) and MLB (Giants) very closely. My interest in sports and skills in data & software development led me to create Tickercast, a project dedicated to elevating Youtube sports casts by bringing live, automated, on-screen "score bugs/score tickers" to creators.

In my spare time I'm usually out hiking, fly fishing, gardening, nooding on a guitar and appreciating the beauty and nuance of the Pacific northwest.