ECKERSALL | Who We Are

GIS consultants company providing quality, cost-effective solutions for
government, utility, environmental, and facility management clients

Scott Eckersall opening office door
Scott Eckersall – founder & Senior GIS Consultant
We provide the high-quality and cost-effective geospatial solutions thousands rely on each day to make mission-critical decisions.

Established in 2006

ECKERSALL is a California Limited Liability Company (LLC) founded in 2006. Our company founder, Scott Eckersall has been working with ESRI and other GIS technology since 1995. We’re fortunate to have a small but growing team of talented GIS professionals with a shared vision to provide outstanding and cost-effective GIS solutions to a growing list of happy clients.

We specialize in Enterprise and Mobile GIS system design, database design, data conversion, software development, implementation, tuning, maintenance, training, and integration. Our focus is on government and utility clients. The team has a keen understanding of commercial and open source geospatial technologies. We offer our clients unbiased solutions that best meet their mission-critical needs without promoting any single approach or technology. We routinely connect GIS systems to many other databases and solutions and automate (and document) processes to keep it all running consistently and reliably. We team with our clients to simplify procedures and always strive to provide ample knowledge transfer so they can take it all over when we wrap up.

We’ve traditionally teamed with larger consulting firms but we’re increasingly consulting with clients directly. This provides more direct communication and ultimately a better outcome. We have no extraneous sales, marketing, or executive staff which translates to low overhead. To ensure a quality product, we use no subcontractors or offshore staff. Each member of our team is a dedicated full time GIS practitioner here at our Chino office. We’re available remotely or on-site, subject to current COVID-19 mandates and our clients’ needs. We understand some clients prefer to have a consultant on-site, which we are willing and able to accommodate.

Each of us has made a career of designing, implementing and supporting real-world Enterprise GIS. We have a consistent track record of delivering results and building long-term working relationships with our clients. Members of our team introduced in the project team section will be the actual staff carrying out all work, and each team member will be hands-on with every project.

Eckersall has one office located in Chino, CA with a team of five employees. Our normal working hours are Monday through Friday, 7am-5pm (Pacific Time). 

Meet The Team

Scott Eckersall, GISP – Senior GIS Programmer/Analyst
Founder, President

Mr. Eckersall has 30 years’ geospatial end user, software development and consulting experience.  He maintains a consistent track record of delivering professional grade solutions in use by thousands. Mr. Eckersall builds consensus and quickly translates requirements into fully supported and robust solutions using a mixture of agile methodologies. Scott routinely integrates GIS technology with other systems, databases, and processes. He is currently President of ECKERSALL, LLC and remains 100% hands-on as a software developer, consultant and trainer specializing in GIS and other geospatial technology running on the web, desktop and mobile platforms. Prior to starting ECKERSALL, LLC in 2006, Mr. Eckersall worked for ArborPro, Inc, Digital Map Products, Psomas, and Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.

skills

Enterprise GIS – ArcGIS Server Deployment – Geocortex Essentials – ArcGIS Portal / Online – Agile Software Development – Amazon AWS – ESRI and open source platforms –  Documentation / Training – SQL Server / Postgres Databases – Advanced Python / SQL scripting

For the past 15 years Chris has been working with local government, public safety, energy, and utility clients providing a variety of GIS consulting services. From environmental studies in Alaska to crime reporting in San Diego, Chris has worked in many disciplines at various levels within the GIS industry. Prior to joining Eckersall in 2020, Chris has worked for Michael Baker International, Intrado, Resource Data Inc., EagleView/Pictometry, The Omega Group, and Nielsen. Chris has a genuine curiosity for spatial technology, which has led him to increase his proficiency with ESRI products, Python and SQL scripting to automate the recurring conversion, QC, and deployment of geodatabases containing millions of records.  Chris has a solid understanding of mapping and managing complex utility distribution and transmission systems.

skills

Advanced GIS – GIS Programming – GIS Application Integration – Process Automation – Open Source GIS – Project Management – GIS Consulting – GIS Sales – Data Management – Data Engineering – Data Analytics

Chris Robinson, GISP – Senior GIS Programmer/Analyst
Senior GIS Consultant, President of CGIA

Cathleen Uy - Software Developer

Cathleen Uy
Software Developer

Cathy has an aptitude for defining real-world problems mathematically and using software approaches to solve them. She has extensive knowledge in reasoning and logic, statistics, machine learning, and software engineering used to process, analyze, and present data to both technical and non-technical audiences. She regularly applies this knowledge to create powerful yet intuitive GIS solutions.

skills

Web Technologies – SQL –  Python – MATLAB – Java – C – C++ – Data Visualization – Statistical Modeling – Time Series – Open Source GIS – Data Management

Victoria is the newest member of the team, having joined us in September, 2021. She graduated from Cal Poly Pomona in 2020 with a BS in Geography, Geospatial Analysis Option.  She is skilled with ArcGIS Desktop and ArcGIS Pro. She recently earned her FAA Part 107 Drone Certification and is working on Research and Development at the firm, development a proof of concept of integration of drone video with flight paths in GIS. She also performs map editing, software testing, data validation, and field GPS.

skills

Desktop GIS –  Video editing / production – Drone technology – Land Surveying – Software testing – GIS Data Quality Control

Victoria Rama
GIS Analyst