At Virginia Tech, he heads up the Virginia Geospatial Extension Program and the VirginiaView consortium. John's programming focuses on supporting geospatial workforce development issues, including GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing across Virginia (and beyond...). John works with an array of partners across the Commonwealth, including: Virginia Cooperative Extension, the Virginia Community College System faculty, the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, the Virginia Association of Mapping and Land Information Systems (VAMLIS), and others.