Books By Gordon Ye, Peter Dale - Author

Gordon Ye is an instructor at the City College of San Francisco who developed and taught a well-regarded GIS certificate program from 1999 to 2019 over a span of 21 years. He has a master's degree in physics from University of California at Berkeley in 1993 and started specializing in Geographic Information Systems at the UC Berkeley City Regional Planning department as a research assistant. His research projects include modeling wildfire susceptibility and modeling real estate value impacts by environmental events. In 1996 he started working for San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Co. as a GIS analyst and later as an application engineer, during which he developed GIS mapping systems for management of both gas and electric infrastructure. During 2008-2010 he worked briefly for a defense contractor as a software engineer and developed automated tools to build 3D virtual reality models of foreign war zones for military training games. He returned to work for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. afte