Kelly Wright

About Kelly Wright

Kelly Wright, MS, GISP is the GIS Analyst for the City of Monroe, Ohio and coordinates GIS initiatives supporting all city departments. She began her GIS career at the Ohio Department of Transportation and later excelled as the GIS Program Manager at an AE Consulting firm in Dayton, Ohio, managing asset management, web GIS and transportation GIS projects for local, state, and federal governments. Ms. Wright has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin (2004) and completed her Master’s degree in Geographic Information Science from the University of Southern California’s Spatial Sciences Institute (2017), receiving the 2018 Jacques May Thesis Prize issued by the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Health and Medical Geography Specialty group for her thesis Web GIS as a Disease Management Workspace: Enabling Advocacy at Multiple Scales Across Multiple Continents with the Case of Tungiasis. She was profiled in the Summer 2016 issue of ArcUser magazine for her graduate work An Exceptional “Normal” Person Changing the World and has presented her graduate work at both the Esri Developer Summit and the AAG annual meeting. She is a proponent of continuing geospatial education, attaining her GISP certification in 2019 and developing training content and workshops to assist others in achieving that certification. Ms. Wright is President of the Southwestern Ohio GIS User Group (SWOGIS) and is also deeply involved with the Kentucky Association of Mapping Professionals (KAMP), participating in local and statewide event and conference planning in both Ohio and Kentucky. She regularly offers professional development and GIS technology presentations, workshops, and webinars, most of which are geared toward early career professionals, women, and underrepresented groups in GIS, and she finds great fulfillment in networking with and mentoring others in the industry.

Experience

1. Geographic Information Systems Analyst

   City Of Monroe, Ohio

   Mar 2021 — Present · Monroe, OH, US

   GIS Subject Matter Expert for the City of Monroe, Ohio. Program Development, Coordination and AdministrationAs a subject matter expert in both GIS and local government operations, advise Public Works and City Manager’s Office with data analyses to streamline operations and make data-driven decisions that make Monroe a better community for its residentsArchitect and manage a multi-user enterprise GIS in ArcGIS Online to manage Public Works, Planning, Economic Development, Police and Fire, and Engineering initiativesDevelop annual budget and long-term plan for GIS with a focus on fiscal responsibilityUsing spatial analysis of impervious surface, develop equitable stormwater fee structure to generate sufficient revenue to fund the city’s stormwater program, enabling proactive work to improve the stormwater networkCoordinate and support interdepartmental initiatives, making technology and process improvement recommendations to improve workflows and prevent duplication of effort and errors in transcriptionDevelop mapping applications and forms to support Engineering and Public Works projects, including dynamic dashboards for bid estimation, capital improvement planning, and EPA reportingPerform complex data analyses to support lead water service line mapping efforts, stormwater fee recalibration, zoning updates, future transportation and connectivity models, public facility site suitability, ecological impact studies, ADA transition planning, asset management plan development, and future build-out scenariosServe as a role model both within the city and within the industry, developing collaborative relationships with nearby municipalities and advancing Monroe’s image within the region and state

Education

• University of Southern California

  Master's degree, Geographic Information Science and Technology

  2014 — 2017

• The Ohio State University

  Coursework in, Molecular Genetics, Spanish

  1997 — 2001

• Pilot Institute

  Part 107 Remote Pilot, Aircraft Pilot (Private)

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Minor in Spanish

  2001 — 2004