Mr. Healy earned his M.S. in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is GIS expert, environmental planner, policy analyst, and manager with 30 years of experience. He has worked as a consultant for the last fifteen years as the owner of his own business and partner in Stone Environmental. He has worked for the federal and state governments in policy, planning and regulatory positions. He is considered a leading innovator in the use of GIS in solving complex analytical and technical problems.
As a Vice President at Stone Environmental he has led the 30-person company’s efforts in offering Geographic Information System (GIS) and database application services for 13 years. He has been instrumental integrating GIS to all the company’s diverse environmental services. These efforts include using GIS: developing watershed modeling efforts; to examine poverty and the vulnerability of at the village level in Africa; to evaluate land use for determining best management practices to control non-point source runoff; to develop methods for using GIS for community management of on-site septic disposal; conducting community build-out analyses to determine phosphorus loading; using GIS tools to screen soils and crop databases for vulnerability to ground water contamination; and last the development of a compost management information system for CVSWMD & NEKWMD. He has provided desktop GIS training to many organizations. He has helped many organizations develop GIS capacity through a thorough understanding of their needs and capacities.
He was the Operations Administrator for the Vermont Center for Geographic Information from 1988 to 1992.
From 1981-1988, Mr. Healy was a Policy Analyst in the Office of the Governor in the State of Vermont. It was there that he developed the plan and drafted the legislation for the Vermont Geographic Information System (VGIS). He started his career at the Environmental Protection Agency Region IX in 1972 where he worked on programs for achieving air quality standards in the region.