Who We Are

Gus Nodwell
Chief Executive Officer

Gus Nodwell was born and educated in New Zealand. He has spent his career working as a technologist, business analyst, project manager, strategist and business owner.

Gus’ career so far has led him to work in Australasia, Asia, Africa, Europe and North America in a variety of work situations and projects. He has worked for financial institutions, government agencies, non-profits, energy companies (notably Anadarko and BP), advertising agencies, telecommunications companies, process engineering companies, automotive corporations, and inevitably, dot-com startups.

He has many years of experience delivering information management tools on very large-scale projects. His experience includes the $18 billion Pearl GTL project in Qatar, a joint venture between Royal Dutch Shell and Qatar Petroleum. Gus was the Lead Business Analyst for the Project Management Company (MW Kellogg, jointly owned by KBR and JGC – Japanese Gas Corporation), designing and developing the information management systems that were used to manage the Project. There Gus designed and implemented the invoice approval system through which all project invoices were processed, as well as many other systems used to manage the Project. Gus was also responsible for compliance activities on this project, which ensured Project contractors around the globe worked in alignment with the procedures and policies adopted by the Project and had auditable controls in place to prove the Contractor’s compliance.

In his career, Gus has helped many organizations better understand their own business processes and consulted with them to make improvements, and align their business processes to be more efficient for their operations. 

In 2008 Gus moved from London to Texas where he and his partner, Ellen, established IntegraShare Solutioneering Incorporated. The Company provides consulting services to organizations and advice on effective governance principles to projects. IntegraShare also specializes in helping projects that integrate geospatial (location-based) data to achieve their business objectives through strategic thinking and implementation of intelligent control frameworks. Gus is the CEO of IntegraShare.

Gus has surveyed industry subject matter experts in large project management to validate the real-world requirements of businesses for managing their work, and understand the ongoing frustrations that businesses have with managing their work efforts when it comes to management and visualization of real-time information in a timely fashion.  The same needs apply to businesses large and small, across many verticals. Gus designs software tools to address these needs. 

Gus is a graduate of Massey University in New Zealand (BSc – Computer Science), and the University of Kingston upon Thames, England. A strong supporter of geospatial teaching in education, Gus served on the board of directors of the APSG Education Foundation before it was absorbed into the APSG professional organization – a non-profit group for collaboration around best practices in survey, remote sensing, and geodesy; He serves on the advisory board for GIS at Brookhaven College (Dallas College System). Gus presently represents IntegraShare Solutioneering as a small business collaborator with Sam Houston State University's Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.

Ellen West Nodwell
Vice-President and Systems Architect

Ellen West Nodwell, a co-founder and co-owner of IntegraShare Solutioneering, is a certified GISP (GIS Professional) through the GIS Certification Institute (GISCI).  Ellen has been in the workforce since the early 1970's. 

She has been using various geological and geographic mapping technologies since the mid-1980's, the Esri technology stack since the early-1990's, and evolved into managing the Esri ArcGIS technology stack over time in various roles with different organizations. Data management of very large technical datasets evolved into geospatial data management, seismic data management, and management of other very large datasets for the main purposes of reporting and visualization to meet a variety of requirements.  She has also utilized open-source geospatial technology and supports map visualizations in those stacks. 

She also understands the operating systems, web architecture, and database technologies required to support software development and presently manages the IntegraShare Solutioneering cloud environment.

Ellen was born in West Texas, and after a few years, her family moved to Houston, Texas where she has now lived most of her life, with a couple of exceptions.  Ellen's family have been relying on maps since the early 1900's.

Ellen, having interests in geography, history, science and art – began drawing maps as a youngster and was guided by many kind and generous people in her quest to learn more about her world, making maps as she grew up.  She attended several post-secondary institutes of higher learning and training, most notably, The Episcopal University of the South (Sewanee), campuses within the Georgia State University System, Lone Star University System, and the private campus of Environmental Systems Research Institute (technical training for GIS), as well as receiving technical training through various professional organizations.

She has slightly more years experience with managing data of virtually all types, which she progressively evolved by moving through the early days of A2D technology development – undertaking training as each new technology emerged.  Bringing order to chaos is a theme of her career – and she understands well that this is an ongoing effort, never a “fix once and you're done” endeavor, as human behavior is the primary driver to successful management of information.

One of Ellen's favorite tasks with technology is troubleshooting difficult situations and improving existing implementations via conducting an analysis and re-designing a better system.

In her career, she has held roles as a data coordinator, project lead, intern program leader, global GIS manager, business consultant, systems and data architect and technology advisor. 

Her experience has also included management of information architecture and business intelligence teams who were responsible for the corporate data warehouses, and business solutions that included integration projects, deployment of globally federated geospatial information systems, and individual projects that delivered GIS and BI visualization and software solutions, small to very large in size.

She has been a business consultant specializing in a wide range of geospatial and data strategy, governance, and technology delivery projects since mid-2013. She most recently has been working on projects as a solutions architect, continually hands-on with geospatial systems and data sources of every type, spatial and non-spatial.  

As a volunteer, Ellen has also worked with non-profit organizations, advising on how to manage growth and combine leadership with technical and organizational goals in order to be successful, then facilitating efforts to achieve objectives.  She has also volunteered her time with URISA's GISCorps as a geospatial analyst in several missions, including the support of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control in virtual missions across Africa and the Middle-East in efforts towards immunizing against and eradicating Polio.

She is a past Treasurer, and past Chair of the APSG Education Foundation, whose mission was to support the development of spatial thinkers who become professionals focused on geomatics and geospatial integrity. That organization was absorbed into the APSG, a non-profit professional association for surveyors, geodesists, and those involved in geospatial data management and integrity. She is a contributor of articles to professional organizations and participates in certification updates research.  She has been and continues to be a presenter at various meetings and conferences.

She has worked with higher education organizations to research and promote curriculum that enables students in geospatial sciences and technology graduate being “work-ready”.  She serves on the Brookhaven Campus GIS Advisory Board (Dallas College in Texas), Sam Houston State University Geoscience and Geography Advisory Board, and has worked with Texas A&M University, College Station, on programs for enabling students of GIST to be “work ready” through APSG and APSG Education Foundation collaborations.

Recreation-wise, Ellen enjoys the outdoors and staying fit however she can – swimming, bicycling, jogging and hiking.  She enjoys fly-fishing, as well, and especially doing this activity in beautiful New Zealand – her second homeland.