I graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in Earth Science Atmospheric Science Concentration. I left the MS in Geography Agricultural Climatology Concentration after completing one year. I used ArcGIS, GRASS, and QGIS while analyzing data for the Climatology Group at MSU. I am currently a GIS Analyst/Programmer at Global Solutions Group creating an Ecological tool for the EPA using python QGIS 1.8 libraries and plugins. I've probably seen and created a workaround for 99% of problems associated with QGIS, from Pseudo Mercator(QGIS)/Web Mercator(ESRI) GDAL shifting, to QSpatialite version errors and everywhere in between.