Paul Amos Managing Director Wharton GIS Lab 436 Vance Hall 3733 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6301 Phone (215) 898-4256 Fax: (215) 573-5261 Email: amosp@wharton.upenn.edu

Managing Director

Paul Amos is the Managing Director of the Wharton GIS Research Laboratory. He has over ten years experience with desktop geographic information systems software. Since coming to The Wharton School in 1997, Mr. Amos has focused on customizing GIS software for commercial real estate clients, developing internet mapping software applications and analyzing residential property values with GIS. Mr. Amos writes GIS software product reviews for Directions Magazine (www.directionsmag.com) and co-chaired the programming committee for the first annual "Location Technology and Business Intelligence Executive Symposium" in 2004. Prior to coming to The Wharton School, Mr. Amos was a GIS Analyst under the direction of Craig Smith, MAI at Smith-Parke & Co., Inc. in Sarasota, Florida. He has earned a Masters degree in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania, a Masters degree in Geography from the University of Florida, and a Bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Pittsburgh.

PUBLICATIONS

GIS Software reviews at Directions Magazine

Amos, P.  (2004) Desktop GIS for Hydrological Applications - Southwest Hydology -  May/June, 2004, vol 3, no. 3

Thrall, G. and Amos, P. (1999) Urban Office Market Evaluation with GIS. Part 4: Analyzing the Location Decision. Geo Info Systems 9 (11): 44-49.

Thrall, G. and Amos, P. (1999) Urban Office Market Evaluation with GIS. Part 3: The Decision to Locate. Geo Info Systems 9 (9): 39-45.

Thrall, G. and Amos, P. (1999) Urban Office Market Evaluation with GIS. Part 2: The Decision to Build. Geo Info Systems 9 (6): 40-46.

Thrall, G. and Amos, P. (1999) Urban Office Market Evaluation with GIS. Part 1: Background and Setting. Geo Info Systems 9 (4): 32-36.

Amos, P. (1998) Integrating Desktop Geographic Information Systems into a Real Estate Office Market Analysis to Analyze the 24-Hour City Phenomenon. Master of Arts Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Dunkle, J., McClean, M. and Amos, P. (1996) The Florida Graphic Atlas: Human Resources. University of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.

Thrall, G. J. del Valle, P. Amos, and K. McGurn (1996) Measuring the Development Potential of an Historic Downtown. Geo Info Systems 6 (4): 44-49.

Dunkle, J., McClean, M. and Amos, P. (1996) The Florida Graphic Atlas: Agriculture and Natural Resources. University of Florida. Gainesville, Fla.

Thrall, G. and Amos, P. (1995) GIS within Real Estate and Housing Mortgage Industries: Agendas for the Near Future. In Business and Research Uses of GIS in Housing Mortgage Financing: Proceedings of the 1996 Special Fannie Mae Conference. Washington D.C: FNMA.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 American Real Estate Society (3/00) Santa Barbara, CA "New Geographic Procedure for Measuring Office Market Potential"

Pennsylvania Geographers Society (11/99) Indiana, PA "Geography Careers in Business."

Business Geographics (10/99) Chicago, IL "GIS Applications within Real Estate."

Association of Assisted Living (9/99) Philadelphia, PA "GIS and Retail Site Selection"

ESRI User Conference (6/99) San Diego, CA "Retail Site Selection and ArcView Business Analyst-A Case Study."

Association of American Geographers (3/99) Honolulu, HI "GIS and Retail Site Selection"

Business Geographics (6/97) Atlanta, GA "Using GIS to Map Wind Storm Risks in Florida"