New Corporate Initiative To Focus On Expanding GIS Capabilities
07/25/05—FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
HUNT VALLEY, MD—KCI Technologies, Inc. has formed a Technology Services Division (TSD) to offer Geographic Information System (GIS) consulting and implementation services to government and utility clients. KCI has provided GIS services since1988 and has delivered more than $20 million worth of data capture, project management, quality assurance, application development, database design, and Web hosting services. Primary clients have included the City of Baltimore, Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA), and Howard County.
“Previously, GIS services were offered through KCI’s engineering groups as part of larger contracts,” said Executive Vice President of the Mid-Atlantic Region Nate Beil, PE. “This new initiative allows TSD to expand our capabilities and pursue the broader GIS services market.”
The new group is headed by Christopher P. Heyn, PE, a 12-year veteran of KCI. “We have a solid group of consultants and developers, and the full suite of software from ESRI and other vendors,” Heyn said. “We are well-positioned to expand rapidly from our existing foundation.”
Heyn received a B.S. in civil engineering from Lehigh University in 1993 and a M.S. in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2001. He previously worked as a senior civil engineer in KCI’s Water Resources Division, and has experience in GIS database design, records research, digitizing, data conversion, field inspection, stormwater design and analysis, highway drainage, erosion and sediment control, NPDES permitting, and Hydrologic & Hydraulic modeling.
FIRM OVERVIEW—With revenues of $84.7 million in 2004, KCI is ranked 101st among the top 500 engineering firms in the country by Engineering News-Record. The employee-owned, multidisciplined company employs more than 840 people operating in 20 offices in nine states—Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia—as well as the District of Columbia.
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