Richard Citkowicz | SJI
Richard Citkowicz is a GIS business support analyst for SJI. SJI is an energy services holding company that delivers safe, reliable, and affordable natural gas to over 700,000 customers. Since 2017, he has been part of a dynamic team focused on using geospatial technology to improve and support their utilities. Richard enjoys helping teams realize how GIS can add value to the work done at SJI. His upcoming GIS projects include implementing tracking and traceability for Elizabethtown Gas and the utility network for SJI.
Richard enjoys New Jersey’s blueberry fields, baseball games, and taking his family to the Jersey Shore boardwalk.

Matthew Voelker | Spire Energy
Matt Voelker is the director of GIS at Spire. In this role, he takes an innovative approach to addressing business challenges in several areas including asset management, business and economic development, engineering, and operations to help serve 1.7 million natural gas customers in Missouri, Alabama, and Mississippi. Matt has been with Spire for 15 years and has helped the energy provider achieve significant improvements in productivity and safety through the innovation of GIS. He is a true GIS hero in the GIS community.
Matt currently resides in Illinois and enjoys spending time with his wife Lauren and two children.

Chris Polley | Summit Utilities
Chris Polley is a senior GIS analyst for Summit Utilities in Colorado. Chris started work for Summit Utilities in 2009 and is a driving force behind their move to an enterprise GIS. The system stores data in Esri’s Utility and Pipeline Data Model for all three states in which Summit Utilities operates. He also has contributed to the development of a range of mobile and back-end GIS applications. Chris is the small gas utilities representative on Esri’s GeoConX Advisory Board.

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