Design Lead, OpenGeo

Rolando joined OpenPlans in 2006 and soon became our first staff web-designer. Today, he is OpenGeo‘s lead interaction, graphic, and web designer. In addition to working with all of their software, he works on GeoSilk, a set of icons for geospatial applications.

Rolando first began working with geospatial software while still an undergraduate and found the experience so frustrating that he vowed never to use it again unless he could make it better. A few years later he found himself working with OpenGeo to make the user experience of the OpenGeo Suite the best in the industry.

Before OpenGeo, Rolando worked at Brown University’s Instructional Technology Group developing educational uses for emerging technologies. He graduated from Brown magna cum laude with a degree in Sociology and Urban Studies.