Steven DeRoy - GIS Technician

E-mail: sderoy@red-road.org

Steve is an Anishinabe from the Ebb & Flow First Nation in Manitoba. He has over 5 years experience providing training, mapping and geographic information system (GIS) support with First Nation communities and resource companies in western Canada. Previous to joining the Red Road HIV/AIDS Network, Steve was the coordinator of the Aboriginal Mapping Network supported by Ecotrust Canada, a non-profit conservation group located in Vancouver.

His experience as a GIS Specialist range from managing the implementation of a traditional use study; creating maps for resource-based projects such as watershed assessments, forest development plans, fish & fish habitat inventory projects; working with public utilities; and more recently, applying GIS technology to the field of health, in particular to HIV/AIDS within the BC Aboriginal community. Steve has been responsible for developing maps and GIS products for several First Nation community land use plans and atlases, as well as providing hands-on technical training support.

Aside from taking care of his newborn daughter Isabel, you can find Steve playing disc golf with his dog Mac, strumming his guitars, learning to play violin, camping, hiking, snowboarding, canoeing and kayaking.