2003 Panda Consulting News & Notices
December 2003 - Panda Consulting Announces Internship Program
It was announced today that Panda Consulting has implemented an internship program to assist those individuals interested in developing their GIS skills and seeking GIS experience within a vibrant, challenging environment while continuing their education. The internships are six or twelve months in duration and open to anyone attending an educational program seeking a degree. Applicants should be self motivated, self learning individuals that work well with minimal supervision. GIS software and project management skill training is available. If interested, send all resumes to interns@pandaconsulting.com.
November 2003- Panda Consulting Partners on a Project for St. John's River Water Management District
It was announced today that Panda Consulting has entered into a partnership agreement with GIS Solutions, Inc. (GSI) to provide easement mapping services for St. John's River Water Management District (SJRWMD). Under this agreement, Panda Consulting will develop a geodatabase for managing SJRWMD easement interests and provide parcel mapping design, and conversion services. Panda Consulting will review and map SJRWMD easements in 19 different counties and input these easements into this geodatabase. In addition, Panda will develop a web-based database to manage the non-spatial attribute information relating to these easements.
November 2003- Panda Consulting Enters into Agreement with Citrus County Information Cooperative
It was announced today that Citrus County Information Cooperativel, (CIS) and Panda Consulting have entered into an agreement under which Panda Consulting will provide parcel mapping design, conversion and training services for CIS. Panda Consulting will work with CIS staff to develop a comprehensive geodatabase design and create the 140,000 +/- parcels within Citrus County into this geodatabase. The contract includes the conversion and complete knowledge transfer to CIS staff of techniques and procedures used for this conversion. Under this contract, Panda will also be creating a separate subdivision lot database for the Citrus County Engineering Department.
November 2003- Panda Consulting Enters into Agreement with Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District
It was announced today that Northern Palm Beach County Improvement District, (NPBCID) and Panda Consulting have entered into an agreement under which Panda Consulting will partner with Andelain Softworks, Ltd. and develop and install a web-enabled flexible organization wide information management system for use by NPBCID staff. This information management system will allow NPBCID staff to store and maintain information on all NPBCID facilities, contracts, work authorizations and files. The system shall include the ability to capture and produce maintenance orders and documents and images to any record within the system. In addition, the agreement includes the provision for Panda Consulting to aid NPBCID in developing a comprehensive GIS for the organization.
November 2003 - Jasper County, SC Renews Contract with Panda Consulting
It was announced today that the Jasper County, South Carolina Property Assessor Office (PAO) and Panda Consulting have renewed the existing agreement under which Panda Consulting provides "virtual" GIS services. Under the contract Panda Consulting performs all GIS related tasks for the PAO including splits and combines of parcels, updating and maintenance of the Countywide layers and generation of all map products generated and required by the PAO. In addition, Panda Consulting will develop and install a public access application for use by Jasper County landowners allowing full read access to the PAO data.
November 2003 - Village of Palm Springs Renews Agreement with Panda Consulting
It was announced today that the Village of Palm Springs, (VPS) and Panda Consulting have renewed their agreement under which Panda Consulting provides complete GIS services for the Village. Previous efforts with VPS have resulted in completion of all initially identified data layers and conversion of most of the utility data layers. This new agreement shall include completion of the remaining layers and assistance in acquiring and training of a Village of Palm Springs GIS technician.
October 2003 - Panda Consulting enters into Agreement with the Town of Jupiter
It was announced today that Panda Consulting and the Town of Jupiter (Jupiter) have entered into an agreement for scanning, georeferencing and conversion services. Under the agreement, Panda Consulting shall scan design and as-built Engineering drawings for the Utility Department, georeference the scans and create GIS databases features from those georeferenced scans. The features are attributed with type, size, drawing and other pertinent information and then provided to Jupiter to update their GIS.
October 2003 - Panda Consulting Expands Office
Panda Consulting announced today the expansion of its offices at 9089 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens. The new expanded office includes a 450 square foot enhanced training facility, expanded offices and a break room. The training facility can handle from 6 to 18 students at a time and is outfitted with state of the art equipment including laptops for all students, high resolution projector, whiteboard and wireless Internet access.
September 2003 - Joseph Conkling Joins Panda Consulting
It is our pleasure to announce the addition of Joseph T. Conkling to the staff of Panda Consulting. Joseph brings over ten years experience in Global Positioning Systems, Subdivision Planning, Layout, Utility and Mapping to the existing capabilities of Panda's staff. His experience will help Panda provide deeper parcel and real estate mapping services to our clients. Joseph will assume a project management responsibility for parcel and land oriented projects.
March 2003- Panda Consulting Enters into Second Agreement with Seacoast Utility Authority
It was announced today that Seacoast Utility Authority and Panda Consulting will build upon the success of its asset management system and have entered into an agreement under which Panda Consulting will partner with Andelain Softworks, Ltd. and develop and install a web-enabled flexible facility management system for use by Seacoast Utility Authority. This facility management system will allow the geographically dispersed plant operators to develop and maintain descriptive information about the plant facilities in an extremely flexible format. The system shall include the ability to capture and produce maintenance orders and documents and images to any record within the system.
March 2003 - Panda Consulting Opens New Office
It was announced today that Panda Consulting is opening its new office at 9089 North Military Trail, Suite 21 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. This office will allow a central location for Panda's clients to gather and meet with Panda's employees, as well as, provide a new classroom facility for offering advanced courses in GIS.
January 2003- Panda Consulting Enters Agreement with Seacoast Utility Authority
It was announced today that Seacoast Utility Authority and Panda Consulting have entered into an agreement under which Panda Consulting will partner with Andelain Softworks, Ltd. and develop and install a web-enabled asset management system for use by Seacoast Utility Authority. After reviewing initial acquisition cost for software, hardware and staff training, Seacoast has contracted with Panda Consulting to develop and implement its Asset Management System providing real time organization wide access to information on its field assets and provide service order management for all its field crews.
