Throughout Brad Bottoms’s work with New Light Technologies (NLT), he has completed projects on five continents, with a focus on North America and Southeast Asia. He is NLT’s Lead Geospatial Analyst and Product Manager for Project: Ptolemy, leading the development of the platform. He holds a B.Sc. in Geography (Geographic Techniques), with minors in Anthropology and Global Studies from Middle Tennessee State University and a graduate certificate in Geospatial Intelligence from Penn State. He has a M.Sc. GIS (Environmental Management) from the University of Southampton, with a dissertation on using open data to monitor tiger habitats in Vietnam.