Experience

Licker Geospatial Consulting Co.

• Canada
• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Mr. Licker is the Principal and Lead Analyst at Licker Geospatial Consulting Co. (LGeo). Launched in January 2017, LGeo represents a life goal for Aaron to run his own small-scale consultancy. The main business driver in the formation of LGeo is to operationalize a known market gap in geospatial consulting wherein there are very few organizations providing much-needed high-value applications of GIS in a service-oriented setting. Thus, LGeo’s main business areas will be in the delivery of key spatial data, analytical services, and applications that will be responsive to clients’ business needs and serve to build organization capacity for GIS in an emerging market. LGeo's success will be predicated on Aaron’s confidence in his ability to leverage his: • strong reputation delivering technically innovative GIS work; • enthusiastic customer-centric business model;• experience in developing market-leading geospatial analyses;• proven business acumen; and• a strong focus on technical rigor through repeatable and defensible processes. Initially LGeo will be focused on providing geospatial consulting in five practice areas:• Urban Geospatial Analysis;• Urban Energy and Emissions Modeling;• Population Accessibility Modeling; • Specialized geospatial modeling; and• GIS Management ConsultingAaron is very pleased to be launching this practice and would be happy to discuss any potential opportunities as they arise.



Golder Associates

• Peru
• Wholesale Import and Export
• 1 - 100 Employee

• BC GIS Lead

  • Sep 2013 - Jan 2017

  Mr. Licker is the Geographic Information Systems/Information Management (GIS/IM) Group Manager in Golder’s British Columbia office with 12 years of planning, GIS and spatial IM experience. As BC GIS Lead Aaron currently manages a team of 13 GIS/IM professionals who provide information management, spatial analysis and cartography for the full range of Golder’s clients.In addition to being BC GIS lead, Aaron’s specializations are in the areas of consensus decision making, spatial optimization, scenario modelling and options analysis. Currently, Aaron acts as a specialized senior resource with the GoldSET (Golder Sustainability Evaluation Tool) initiative to execute complex siting and optimization efforts for Golder's major municipal, urban development and infrastructure clients. These efforts variously comprise framework development for options assessment, facilitating the two-way knowledge transfer of client and Golder expertise, conducting trade-off analysis with respect to triple bottom line frameworks, advising clients with respect to spatial optimization (strategic positioning, cost reductions and implementation timelines) and serving as a conduit between GIS resources and project management teams.

• GIS Specialist

  • Dec 2007 - Sep 2013

  As a GIS Specialist, Aaron’s specializations are in the areas of spatial modeling, custom application development and graphical communication of spatial concepts. Aaron currently leads the development of the spatial modeling component of CEEMAP, a greenhouse gas emissions forecasting and modeling tool. His recent projects include municipal and regional population and employment growth forecasting, transportation modeling, spatial regression analysis, wildlife habitat suitability analysis, ecosystem modeling and analysis, database application development, climate impact forecasting and analysis, 3D modelling and buildout analysis, data management and data QA/QC.