About Farallon Geographics
Farallon delivers complete, scalable, available, and manageable spatial data solutions
Farallon's Mission
Farallon understands that a successful enterprise GIS implementation must solve a business need. Our GIS implementations deliver value to our clients first by focusing on improving the effectiveness of a specific business process, and then by transferring our knowledge to in-house staff.
Farallon Geographics is a leader in strategic planning, implementation, and integration of GIS systems and location technology software to support mission critical business functions.
Farallon was founded in 1997 by geologists and engineers who recognized that geospatial data represent valuable and yet largely under-used assets within most organizations. Since then, Farallon has earned an unrivalled reputation for crafting scaleable, robust, and manageable enterprise-scale geodatabases and GIS implementations, even under the most aggressive budget and schedule constraints.
Farallon's Values
Farallon fosters an environment of industry leadership, innovation, intellectual curiosity, entrepreneurial spirit, shared knowledge and a sense of ownership. We build long-term mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, partners, vendors and employees.
Farallon offers exceptional technical depth and implementation expertise for ESRI, Intergraph, and AutoDesk GIS and mapping software. Our GIS developers have extensive experience working with geodatabases, geospatially enabled relational databases, as well as the latest programming and development techniques including .NET, XML, AJAX, and web services-supported applications.
Farallon is a leader in the integration of GIS with Open Source and freely available application programming interfaces (API's) such as Bing Maps, Google Earth, and Google Maps. To ensure the interoperability of our GIS deployments, we have also pioneered the implementation of emerging geospatial standards and specifications as developed by the Open GIS Consortium (OGC).
We have successfully completed hundreds of projects for a broad spectrum of clients, including commercial, city, county, state, and federal government agencies, as well as insurance, risk management, transportation, pipeline, and electrical utilities.
Farallon is an employee-owned, State of California-certified small business enterprise located in San Francisco. As a small business, we can provide innovative services with maximum flexibility of approach.
Farallon Senior Management Team
Dennis Wuthrich, CEO
Dennis Wuthrich is CEO and founder of Farallon. He has over 20 years of experience in designing and developing GIS and geospatial solutions. His industry experience includes commercial, federal, state and local government, utility, public safety, homeland security, environmental, natural resources, insurance and risk management clients. He has extensive enterprise-scale integration and strategic planning expertise using ESRI, Oracle, Intergraph, MapInfo, AutoDesk, Acquis and Microsoft software and systems.
Dennis has been responsible for over 200 GIS system integrations: ranging from focused departmental systems to enterprise-wide GIS closely integrated with line-of-business information technologies. He leads Farallon's GIS strategic planning, needs assessment and business case development consultants. He has extensive experience in designing the technology infrastructure, governance, workflow processes, geospatial data models and staff training programs necessary to help clients successfully implement enterprise GIS.
Dennis is a registered geologist and hydrogeologist with a M.S. in Earth Sciences from U.C. Santa Cruz. He serves on the Board of Directors of BAAMA and the California Spatial Reference Center.
Joseph Metro, Vice President of Marketing / Chief Financial Officer
Joe Metro is Farallon's Vice President of Marketing and Chief Financial Officer. He has over 20 years of diverse executive, strategic and financial experience in business strategy, marketing, finance and administration for organizations in a variety of industries including technology, financial, professional services and non-profit.
At Farallon, Joe has helped shape business strategy aimed at delivering leading edge, high quality services to clients. He is responsible for identifying, recruiting, training and retaining top technical talent. As VP of Marketing, he promotes Farallon's expertise integrating GIS into organizations with varying levels of GIS sophistication. He also manages business partner and reseller programs with ESRI, Oracle, Intergraph, MapInfo, Autodesk, and Acquis. As CFO, Joe manages Farallon's financial and administrative functions.
Joe holds an MBA from Kellogg Graduate School of Business / Northwestern University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the state of Illinois.
Alexei Peters, Director of Web Development
Alexei Peters is Farallon's Director of Web Development. He manages a team of GIS developers that designs, develops and builds client web-based applications. He manages the creation of website logic, layout and functionality, deployment and integration of websites with client database and GIS web software.
Alexei has extensive expertise in spatial data development as well as map design and production. He understands the importance of data driven sites and closely integrating them with the underlying database. He is knowledgeable with what is possible to be incorporated into GIS-based sites. Alexei holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Franklin University and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.