Local technology business, Mohawk Valley GIS, expands

HERKIMER, N.Y. — Mohawk Valley GIS recently announced it has hired two full-time employees and moved into office space on North Main Street in the village of Herkimer.

Founded in 2003 when owner Linda Rockwood moved to the area, Mohawk Valley GIS has offered computer mapping, training, and programming services to municipalities, businesses, and nonprofit organizations throughout Central New York.

“The timing was right to grow the business from a consultancy to bringing employees on board,” Rockwood said in a news release. “I feel very fortunate to have found two talented, recent college graduates in the area.”

David Vail, a 2014 SUNY IT computer-science graduate, joined Mohawk Valley GIS in May as a systems designer, after working as an intern with the business since the spring of 2013.

Francis Stripp, a 2014 St. Lawrence University geology graduate, joined the company in June as a GIS analyst and provides geographic-information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) expertise, the release stated. The two new employees join Bré Baylor and Vickie Perry, who have been providing sales, marketing, and social-media support for the past year.

“With additional personnel, we can now meet the needs of more clients in the region,” Rockwood said in the release. “Besides mapping the distribution of customers to better target marketing efforts or performing combat zone analysis between a business and a competitor, we also create community maps for promotion and can help businesses convert their website to a mobile-friendly site or get started with social media. These new services complement our established expertise in custom mobile app development for iOS and Android devices, interactive web maps for tourism and recreation promotion and all aspects of GIS and GPS data work, analysis, training and system development.”