Another year has drawn to a close, and while it may not have run it’s course like we thought it would, our team is thankful once again for our continued success. Below are some of our most memorable highlights of the past year:
Cloudpoint providing campus-wide ADA Compliance Survey
Cloudpoint celebrates 10 Years!
Congratulations to the entire Cloudpoint Geospatial team on celebrating their 10-year anniversary of providing professional GIS services. The company was originally incorporated on August 25, 2011 soon after founder Jonathan Hodel, entered the tech startup world when he built a website, sent out letters, and began evangelizing the power of GIS technology. Since then Cloudpoint has…
Cloudpoint Geographics' Year Portfolio 2019
Our team is thankful for yet another successful year as we continue to grow together as a team and build friendships among ourselves and those we serve. Below are our most memorable highlights of this past year.
January:
Cloudpoint kicked off the year by attending the 2019 NENA conference in Orlanda. Erin Strickler, the NG911 team lead was able to gather more information on standards and expand on the team’s GIS data audit and cleanup capabilities with her additional expertise she brought back.
February:
Cloudpoint team members, Micah and Matt, exhibited at WLIA (Wisconsin Land Information Association) this year. While they were there, they discussed Managed GIS Services, Kickstart Services, NG9-1-1 Data Audits, and Esri’s Parcel Fabrics. Also in February, Jon and his family moved to a different home in Roanoke which his family continues to enjoy the neighbors and the park nearby.
March:
Jon attended the Esri Partner conference for the first time. After Micah encouraged him from his past visits, the opportunity presented itself to enjoy a business vacation, to the West Coast where he and his wife, Megan, represented Cloudpoint at the Esri Partner Conference. They enjoyed seeing popular tourist attractions and going for hikes in their spare time.
April:
April of 2019 marked the 5th birthday of SignOps! This is the application we use to for sign inventory asset management which helps the user to track inventory, maintenance history, collect GPS location, and more for their traffic sign inventories. With its cloud-based features, SignOps comes in a variety of flavors for use on desktop browsers and mobile devices.
May/June:
May brought exciting new technology as Cloudpoint was able to participate in Esri’s ArcGIS Indoors Specialty training in Redlands, CA. The team is currently working on a pilot project and partnering with Esri to build on its Indoors capabilities throughout the Midwest.
Cloudpoint welcomed two summer interns in June; Titus Williamson and Drew Martin. They helped immensely with projects such as Springdale Cemetery, various Parcel Fabric conversions, and ArcGIS Enterprise intalls.
In June, we started working with a new client; The City of Rockwall was our first client of our Parcel Fabric in the Lone Star state and it has been a joy to work with their staff.
Icecream You-scream were all part of our debt free scream!
July:
July brought more than one independence celebration. We were able to celebrate the payoff of all debt and become a debt free company.
In addition, Matt Junker was able to attend the Esri User Conference. He had a busy week learning and discussing the latest in Parcel Fabric and he even heard about something new called Excalibur.
August:
Jon Hodel was able to attend the CFTA(Campus FM Technology Association) Conference in Austin, TX for the first time this year. Not only was the conference an exciting and memorable experience but the city itself was an amazing experience!
Team member, Matt Junker, became a certified GISP (Geographical Information Systems Professional). Becoming certified is not an easy task. It takes many long hours of preparing and then taking the strenuous GISP Exam. However, Matt survived without a scratch. We are so glad to have a co-worker with a great passion for his work.
Jon provides an interactive tour of the new office from his daughter's hover board. Be careful it might make you sick. #donttrythisathome
September:
After several weeks of renovation and a few days of moving our belongings across town, Cloudpoint is now able to call Suite B of 1407 W Front St. home. It is spacious and inviting and most importantly a great place for put-put. The stone fireplace adds a great touch and some added warmth in the winter months.
October:
In September, we sought after someone to fulfill the Marketing Intern position. That person ended up being Destyne King, a Junior at Roanoke-Benson High School. She sends out email campaigns, organizes contacts, and writes our blogs (much like this one). After high school, she plans to work as well as attend ICC (Illinois Central College) to earn an Associate’s degree in Marketing/Business then to earn a Bachelor’s at undecided university.
Another project highlighted in Octorber was Westlawn Cemetery, which strives to provide the up-most convenience for their visitors. This is why they called upon Cloudpoint to help them create a visitor’s kiosk. This would enable visitors to search for loved ones when the office was closed. This kiosk is a routing service that leads people to a grave they search for.
November:
Micah, our Geospatial Services Director and leader of our Enterprise and Ongoing Services team, earned the Hilton Distinguished Collaboration Award at the ILGISA Conference this fall. In an interview, Micah said, “ I’ve always kind of bent towards talking about what someone is doing or encouraging people to go out and present what their doing. Tell your story rather than, you know, keep it quiet.” We are grateful to have a team member like Micah.
December:
Cloudpoint was honored to work with Norcomm, a 9-1-1 consolidated dispatch center in the Chicago land area. We preformed a data audit for Norcomm. By doing this, we check their data to make sure it is able to meet the State’s requirements and play a vital role in the life-saving services that Norcomm provides each day.
Cloudpoint’s, Micah Williamson preparing some last minute technical components of the 2019 winter showcase held in Morton, IL.
As many know, Cloudpoint hosts a winter showcase in Morton annually. Each year’s showcase however is unique. We enjoyed wonderful, engaging talks by Esri and special guest, Glen Wetterow from the City of East Peoria. We are already excited for next year’s winter showcase.
…And that’s a wrap. Are you interested in joining our team, or learning more about how Cloudpoint can help you make data-driven decisions? Contact us or call us at (877)-377-8124
City of Pekin ready for GIS Excellence
The Cloudpoint is excited to have the opportunity to take the City of Pekin’s GIS to the next level. The city has used Cloudpoint’s professional GIS services off and on for the past five years but after losing their full-time GIS coordinator last fall, they realized the critical importance of maintaining their GIS system and decided to take their relationship with Cloudpoint from one of courting, to a more serious partnership. With that, Cloudpoint and the City of Pekin have engaged in a two-year contract for professional GIS services to support the various departments throughout the city. The team has begun intensive meetings with city staff to further dive into their needs and how they can better utilize the GIS system for their daily workflows. With the new contract, Cloudpoint staff will be onsite for up to 30 hours per month, with additional technical support services coming in the forms of enterprise GIS management and GIS application deployment. One of the main objectives is to enable city staff to take more ownership of GIS data and make edits and updates for their department with user-friendly web-based applications. The Client has a wealth of GIS data which has been well managed and distributed in the past but with greater editing capabilities, the use of real-time GIS updates should further enhance the value of their data. In addition, the city hopes to easily share this authoritative data both internally as well as externally to contractors, consultants, and developers. For more information on Cloudpoint’s Managed Professional Services (MPS) please contact us or call 877-377-8124.
