Kristen Stilson, GIS specialist with the Department of Information Technology is the February 2019 Dare County Employee of the Month. IT Director Matt Hester presented Stilson with the award at the Feb. 4 Board of Commissioners meeting.
Since beginning her career with Dare County in 2017, Stilson has been working on the Geographical Information System The GIS is a framework for gathering, managing, and analyzing data by organizing it into visualizations including maps.
“Kristin has made the GIS easier to use with multiple levels of searching and enhanced functionality. By utilizing some of the latest open source software she has been able to do this with minimal cost for the county,” Hester said during the award presentation.
“Kristen has done an amazing job recreating and updating the county’s GIS online parcel system. I’ve worked with this application for over 20 years and this is the first time I have received positive feedback upon replacing an existing version with a new one,” GIS Coordinator Greg Ball said.