Dr. Todd Pierce has worked with geographical information systems (GIS) since 1993, bringing GIS innovations to both public and private businesses in the fields of environmental data management, natural resource management, climate resilience, and disaster recovery. Dr. Pierce earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering at Tulane University before obtaining a doctorate in geography at the University of Oxford, UK. His doctoral work examined the use of fuzzy logic and data algorithms in GIS to optimize boundary delineation problems such as political redistricting. Dr. Pierce has taught GIS and visualization classes at the college undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Pierce started working with Locus Technologies in 2003. Dr. Pierce oversees a Locus team focusing on Locus’s EIM and Water EIM applications, which manage environmental data in the cloud using software-as-a-service technology. Dr. Pierce is responsible for research and development of Locus’s GIS and visualization tools for mapping analytical and subsurface data. Dr. Pierce is proficient in GIS applications, services, and APIs from Esri and Google; the Microsoft SQL Server relational database; and programming technologies including Lucee, Java, and JavaScript.