History

Sylvana Cares has worked in the mapping industry since 2006. In the beginning, her career was geared towards Cartography, having the privilege to make maps for museum exhibits, textbooks, and brochures. Starting in 2009, she subcontracted with Matson and Isom Technology Consulting, an IT company in northern California. There she gained hands on knowledge of back-end GIS infrastructure and implementation for various counties.

Upon her arrival to the Hawaiian Islands, she immediately began working with the University of Hawai’i, Hilo. She worked as the Geospatial Analyst, Cartographer, and Co-author for the ‘Statewide Agricultural Land Use Baseline 2015’ study. During her time at U.H., Hilo, she also had the opportunity to lecture for the Department of Geography and Environmental Science educating upper division and graduate students in ‘Advanced Geospatial Techniques’.

Cares Consulting opened its doors in 2017 and since she has worked closely with private, public, and nonprofit sectors to identify organizational needs, implementations, usability, and training of Enterprise GIS solutions.

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