	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 Chair of the National Tracking Drinking Water Quality Content Workgroup. I am the CA state representative to the National Tracking Network Standards and Network Development and Geospatial workgroups. Some sub-projects of the CEHTP include: Principal investigator and software engineer in developing web-based reporting application for California public 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