	BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

	NAME Craig Wolff		POSITION TITLE IT/GIS Director
A. Education
	INSTITUTION AND LOCATION	DEGREE		YEAR(s)	FIELD OF STUDY
	University of California, Berkeley	M.S., Eng.		1998	Environmental Engineering/Water Resources
	University of California, Los Angeles	BS		1995	Mathematics & Geography with Specialization in Computing
	Coursework in civil and environmental engineering: lake/reservoir management (limnology), wetlands ecology and management, engineering hydrology, groundwater/seepage, design of water resource structures, water/wastewater management, hazardous waste management, environmental fluid mechanics, sediment transport processes, contaminant transport processes. Coursework in advanced mathematics: applied modeling, complex/numerical analysis, partial/ordinary differential equations, optimization of algorithms, combinatorics. Coursework in geography and earth sciences: surface/sub-surface hydrology, engineering geology, spatial information analysis, environmental impact analysis, regional and international development, remote sensing, cartography, climatology, biogeography, geomorphology, economic geography.

B. Chronology of Employment/Consultancies

1995	Research Assistant -- UCLA, Lewis Center & Digital Media Center
1995 - 1997	Staff Research Associate -- UCLA, North American Integration and Development Center (NAID)
1997 - 1998	GIS Consultant -- Border Health Geographic Information Systems Study. Impact Assessment, Inc., contractor to the CA Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.
1998	GIS Consultant -- GIS Analysis of Statewide Transmission Lines, Power Grid and Land Use Policy Analysis. Impact Assessment/Decision Insights, Inc. contractor to the CA Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.
1998	GIS Technician -- Tetra Tech, Inc., Lafayette, CA.
1998 - 2002	Research Specialist -- Testicular Cancer: Etiologic Factors Study. Impact Assessment, Inc., contractor to the CA Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.
1998 - 2000	Consultant -- Cancer Detection Programs Map. Public Health Institute, contractor to CA Department of Health Services, Cancer Detection Section.
2001	Consultant -- EHIB Intranet/Internet Content Management System. Impact Assessment, Inc., contractor to CA Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.
2001 - 2005	Consultant -- Cancer Detection Programs Map. University of California, San Francisco, contractor to CA Department of Health Services, Cancer Detection Section.
2002 - 2006	IT/GIS Manager & Research Scientist -- California Environmental Health Tracking Program. Impact Assessment, Inc., contractor to the CA Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.
2005 - 2008	Consultant -- Inventory/assessment of environmentally-related disease and environmental databases in the California/Baja California border region. Public Health Institute, contractor to US Environmental Protection Agency.
2006 - present	Consultant in IT/GIS Management -- California Environmental Health Tracking Program. Public Health Institute, contractor to the CA Department of Public Health, Environmental Health Investigations Branch.

C. Experience Narrative.

I serve as the IT/GIS Director for the California Environmental Health Tracking Program (CEHTP). I provide management consulting services to the CEHTP IT/GIS team and develop methods and automated tools for the Network's service-oriented architecture. I identify and form partnerships with public, private, and non-governmental entities that might benefit from using or contributing to environmental health tracking data and services. I am the CA state representative to the National Tracking Network Standards and Network Development workgroup and also serve on the Drinking Water Content and Portal Analysis Visualization and Reporting workgroups. Some sub-projects of the CEHTP include: Principal investigator and software engineer in developing web-based reporting application for California community water system service area boundaries; Principal investigator of special project that examined exposure assessment methods and feasibility for tracking of drinking water indicators; Development of enterprise geocoding web service; Development of health-to-environment or environment-to-health spatiotemporal integration/linkage services; Development of mapping services that assist in visualizing and disseminating Tracking data.

In December of 2002, I concluded my research work on a project that investigated the etiologic factors associated with statewide incidence of testicular cancer. I was the lead for the water exposure assessment portion of the project. I was responsible for management, coordination and implementation of data collection effort of ~1000 California public water systems. I was the lead on methods development and statistical analysis for spatio-temporally linking analytic water quality data to study subjects, accounting for volume and treatment effects in multi-source systems. I continue to translate the results of this project and the breadth of the experience into methods development and policy-oriented talking points so that the environmental health tracking of drinking water can be accomplished in the future. Manuscripts from this work are forthcoming.

Other projects/activities at EHIB:

1. Technical visionary, project manager, and chief software architect for the EHIB Content Management Application (http://www.ehib.org).

2. Associated sentinel health events and children populations to pesticide applications and provided recommendations for in situ sampling at sensitive receptor sites.

3. Created CA/Mexico border environmental health GIS.

4. Developed cropping pattern classification using satellite imagery as proxy for pesticide use.

As a GIS consultant to the CA Department of Health Services Cancer Detection Section, I created a statewide cancer detection GIS data dissemination and visualization tool. I was responsible for all aspects of the planning and development effort. I assessed program and stakeholder needs in terms of administrative IT oversight, hardware, software, and diverse client requirements. Developed data model and software architecture. I was responsible for entire coding effort and training of database/application administrators.

At Tetra Tech, I was responsible for the construction and analysis of GIS and multi-media transport models used in hazardous waste site characterization. Some sites that I worked on were: Aliso Towne Manufactured Gas Plant, Daly City PG&E and Stringfellow Superfund sites.

At UCLA's North American Integration & Development (NAID) Center, I was responsible for the analysis, presentation, maintenance, and updating of the NAID database. I assisted in investigations of regional impacts of trade integration with NAFTA partners, industrial classification systems, global commodity flow dynamics, and location analysis of migrant populations. I operated a partial equilibrium model to estimate domestic layoffs due to import substitution.

For the US Forest Service, I assisted the chief hydrologist in watershed erosion management, control, and prevention projects. I operated and tested forest input/output models using data collected in the field as well as previously compiled watershed and land-use data sets.

D. Peer-reviewed publications.

ER Roberts, PB English, JK Grether, GC Windham, L Somberg, CD Wolff. 2007. Maternal Residence Near Agricultural Pesticide Applications and Autism Spectrum Disorders Among Children in the California Central Valley. Environ Health Perspect doi:10.1289/ehp.10168.

PB English, ER Roberts, M Wong, CD Wolff, S Valdez, SK Van den Eeden, GT Ray. 2006. Progress in Pediatric Asthma Surveillance II: Geospatial Patterns of Asthma in Alameda County, California. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 July; 3(3): A92.

PB English, D Goldberg, CD Wolff. 2003. Parental and birth characteristics in relation to testicular cancer risk among males born between 1960 and 1995 in California. Cancer Causes and Control 14(9): 815-825.

E. Funding Sources.

Ongoing

U38/EH000186-01 English (PI) 2006 - 2011

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program - Network Implementation

Role: Consultant

Completed

U50/CCU922449-01 English (PI) 2002 - 2006

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Environmental Public Health Tracking Program

Role: IT/GIS Manager

U50/CCU922449-01 Wolff (PI) 2005 - 2006

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Drinking Water Exposure Assessment Supplemental Project

Role: Principal Investigator

99-00513V-10156 English (PI) 1999 - 2001

California Cancer Research Program

Testicular Cancer: Etiologic Factors

Role: Research Specialist

7V2030NASX English (PI) 1997 - 1998

US Environmental Protection Agency

Development of U.S./Mexico Geographic Information Systems to Support Decision Making in Environmental Health

Role: Consultant

1-7OU-6877 English (PI) 1997 - 1998

Research Triangle Institute

Analytical Procedures, Methodologies and Field Protocols to Monitor and Determine Environmental Contaminants (Pesticide Use in California: U.S./Mexico Border Region)

Role: Consultant

F. Professional Skills.

Applications: ESRI Server/Desktop GIS (ArcGIS Server, Arc/INFO, ArcSDE, ArcIMS), Google Maps API, Google Web Toolkit, MapInfo, ER Mapper, SQL Server, Access, SAS, Matlab, Excel, Surfer, P/MODFLOW, Photoshop, Illustrator

Programming Languages: Java, Javascript, Visual Basic, SQL, C++

Application Development: J2EE, AJAX, ArcIMS/ArcXML, SOAP/AXIS, ArcObjects/ArcGIS, Access/VB, Avenue/ArcView, MapBasic/MapInfo

General Skills: Global Positioning System, Surveying, Digitizing, Conversational Spanish