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Chelsea Utzerath Pro-West would like to recognize one of our own, Chelsea Utzerath. Chelsea was a Senior GIS Technician at Pro-West before leaving to pursue a career in firefighting in 2018. We appreciate Chelsea and her colleagues for their dedication to their communities during the toughest of times. I spent 10 great years with Pro-West.…

As many of us mark two months of “working through COVID” we can reflect on the journey so far – what’s worked, lessons learned, and how we can best navigate our way forward. GIS emerged early as a mission-critical tool, vital to supporting the first pandemic we’ve been able to analyze in real-time using modern location technology.…

Welcome to Pro-West’s Staying Connected During COVID series! Meet the Pro-West team members who continue to collaborate and serve clients remotely, making sure we deliver quality service during a tumultuous time. Meet Steve Long, a Senior GIS Technician at Pro-West, who has led a wide range of GIS data projects over the past 14 years since making…

Cody Wolfe, GIS Technician Welcome to the first of three posts in which we will cover the fundamentals of reading legal descriptions – a task that is vital to tax parcel information and other land records-related work. To understand legal descriptions, it’s necessary to first understand the Public Land Surveying System (PLSS). The PLSS was…

Kendis Scharenbroich, Pro-West President & CEO As someone who has spent 20 years in a technology market with a rapid pace of change, no amount of change that I have experienced in the past compares to the frequency of change we are all faced with today. And, while the COVID-19 pandemic brings quickly evolving challenges…

Alisha Becker, Pro-West GIS Technician ALISHA BECKER, GIS TECHNICIAN College: Brigham Young University – Idaho Degree: GeoScience Computing I was originally a geology major and I took a GIS class as a requirement. Shortly into that semester I realized I wanted to be doing something in the field of GIS. I really liked that GIS combined a…

COVID-19 GIS tools are providing critical in helping monitor and mitigate the virus in communities across the globe. Governments are using location technology to bring together and share vital data with citizens on the status of local COVID-19 cases, where to find testing facilities, locations that are closed, and much more as we unite to…

Pro-West was recognized at the 2020 Esri Partner Conference with Esri’s Web GIS Transformation Award. Pro-West president Kendis Scharenbroich and Business Development Manager Brandon Tourtelotte were at the Esri Partner Conference in Palm Springs to accept the award on behalf of Pro-West’s team. The award acknowledges Pro-West’s ability to serve its clients with high quality web GIS solutions…

Pro-West will join the Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) and Esri at the 2020 PRIA Winter Symposium in Austin, TX, taking place February 24-27, to present on the organization’s “GIS Toolkit – How to Get Started”. Being held Thursday, February 27 at 11:10-noon, the session represents an extension of the previously published GIS and Land Records Integration white paper and will…

PRO-WEST IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS SPONSORSHIP OF THE , TAKING PLACE IN CHICAGO, IL FEBRUARY 25-26. Held for the first time in 2019, the  provides a unique opportunity for the Midwest’s GIS location technology community to connect with each other and with Esri to share knowledge and look ahead at what’s coming for GIS. As a…