2026 Board Nominees

Kari Sadley - State of TN GIS Services, Location Intelligence Analyst

Kari Sadley is a Location Intelligence Specialist with the State of Tennessee Finance and Administration STS-GIS Services group and holds a Masters degree in Geoscience from Middle Tennessee State University. In her role, Kari supports the Imagery, LiDAR, and TREC projects and is always committed to advancing the state’s geospatial capabilities and contributing to the success of STS-GIS division.

Mark Crow - LJA Engineering, GIS/CAD Group Leader

Mark Crow has over 20 years of professional land surveying and GIS experience. He works on a wide range of projects including water, wastewater, and stormwater, sanitary sewer rehab, stream restoration, survey and mapping grade GNSS data collection, transportation systems, and GIS mapping for utility districts, federal agencies, and municipalities. Mark is active in the ETSU Surveying and Mapping department and serves as President of the Northeast TN GIS (NETGIS) users group. Mark is a is the group leader for all GIS and CAD work for the Public Works group in the Southeast region for LJA Engineering and leads efforts to develop and maintain standards for the presentation of GIS maps, format of spatial data, and web content. 

Caitlyn Mills - Stantec, GIS Senior Systems Analyst

Caitlyn Mills is a GISP and Senior GIS Analyst with Stantec in Chattanooga. She has a geography degree from UT Knoxville and over 6 years of professional experience. In her work she supports planning, transportation, water resource engineering, and asset management projects. Her technical experience ranges from data assessment, database design, system integration, technical documentation, and data delivery. She primarily works with FEMA and other State Emergency Management offices on the national RiskMAP program.

Caitlyn has been a TNGIC member from the start of her career, attending each yearly conference-including the virtual in 2020. She is Vice Chair of the TNGIC Web and Data Committee, which maintains the TNGIC website and TNGIS data hubs. These websites provide free data and resources to the GIS community in Tennessee.

Caitlyn has lived all over the beautiful state of Tennessee – born in Jackson, raised in Memphis, became a GIS nerd in Knoxville, started her career in Nashville, and recently settled down in Chattanooga. In her free time, she loves to run, roller skate, read (usually fantasy, thriller, or sci-fi!), play cozy video games, and take on the world as a Ranger Elf in her friends’ D&D campaign.

Caitlyn’s goal as a board member is to focus on the resources and opportunities available through TNGIC to assist students and developing professionals with the transition from the educational environment to the professional GIS world and beyond.

Chris Pape - Washington County TN Government, Planning Analyst

Chris Pape is the GIS Analyst for Washington County, Tennessee’s Zoning Office, where he has worked since 2007. His responsibilities include GIS analysis, land use planning, stormwater management, floodplain administration, and redistricting. He also serves as Assistant Secretary of the Washington County Regional Planning Commission, helping citizens navigate rezoning, variance requests, subdivisions, and other land‑use applications.

Chris has been an active member of Tennessee’s GIS community for nearly two decades. He has served NETGIS for 18 years, including two years each as Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer. Within TNGIC, he has held the roles of Secretary, Vice-President, President, and now Immediate Past-President. Chris has also coordinated map galleries and vendors for multiple Eastern Regional Forums and supported vendor coordination for several TNGIC Conferences. During his current Board term, he has contributed to organizational improvements, including championing the development of a financial policy for TNGIC.

A GISP since 2013 and an Eagle Scout, Chris is committed to professional integrity and community service. He lives in Afton with his wife, Arlene, and their three pets—Winston and Tucker, both Collies, and Moose, a Siamese cat. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, and spending time with family.

Andrew Wunderlich - TN Geological Survey (TGS), GIS Coordinator

Andrew L. Wunderlich, M.S., GISP serves as the GIS Coordinator for the Tennessee Geological Survey (TGS). In this role, he oversees geologic data management and supports the production of TGS geologic maps and publications. He also works with TGS’s data preservation and modernization efforts, developing repeatable workflows and web-based mapping approaches that make historical geologic collections easier to discover, access, and use.

Andrew has more than 20 years of experience in production cartography, spatial analysis, geodatabase design/data modeling, and application development/automation. He began his career at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) Cartographic Services Laboratory, then moved on to National Geographic Maps in Washington, D.C., supporting cartographic production and geodatabase development for their data-driven atlas products. He later worked for 11 years at UTK as the GIS Coordinator and Cartographer for a research group supporting structural geology and tectonics research by providing mapping, publication, and editorial support.

Andrew is a member of the Tennessee State Government GIS Coordination Council (and the Data Sharing subcommittee), the TN Department of Environment and Conservation GIS Program Review team, and the USGS’s National Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program Steering Committee. He has active collaborations on data-sharing projects with colleagues in both state and federal agencies. He has also contributed to the work of the Tennessee LiDAR Program, creating a workflow enabling direct LiDAR tile downloads from the State of Tennessee LiDAR Coverage Map—done in partnership with staff from State of Tennessee STS-GIS. As a TNGIC board candidate, he is focused on strengthening data sharing and access and expanding training and professional development opportunities to support a strong, connected GIS community of practice statewide.