Go big,.. or go home. The Esri UC through Mansour Raad's eyes

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04-06-2015 07:24 AM
KarenRichardson
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Mansour Raad is a senior software engineer at Esri and Esri’s BigData Advocate. As part of Esri’s development team, he helps users implement Big Data solutions with ArcGIS server. He is also a Cloudera Certificate Hadoop Developer and HBase Specialist. You can  catch Mansour at the Esri UC this July, presenting technical workshops.

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Esri's Mansour Raad - pretending to be shy.

What is your background?

I was born in Lebanon and went to high school in France.  I received my Masters of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Boston University. I’ve been doing GIS since 1987. It’s been so long I can’t even remember the specific version of ArcInfo I first learned!

How many Esri UCs have you attended?

I’ve only missed one since 1995 - when my daughter Caroline was born.

What are some hot topics you and your team will be covering at this year’s UC?

I’ll be covering the topics I am passionate about including BigData ingestion, processing and visualization.

What are you preparing for this year?

Return of Killer Apps with my good friend Sajit Thomas - it is always a crowd pleaser.

Why do you like maps?

Maps are a great way to tell a BigData story.

Aside from your software presentations, what do you look most forward to each year at the
conference?

I really love to talk to users and hear their feedback.

When you are aren’t at Esri creating software, what do you most like to do?

I am really into road biking. I have a tradition to bike from Redlands to San Diego for the User Conference with my best friend Russell.
This distance is called a 200 metric century and takes us about seven hours.

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Catch Mansour at the Esri UC – register now!

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