About Us
Headquartered in St Peters, Missouri, in the St Louis Metro Area, Trailhead GIS specializes in the design, development, implementation and maintenance of Geographic information System Solutions. We are an Authorized Consulting ESRI Business Partner and a licensed ESRI ArcGIS Server/ArcIMS Application Service Provider.
Dedicated and Committed to our Clients
Trailhead GIS realizes that you do have choices when selecting a consultant to develop your GIS program. That’s why we pride ourselves in providing our clients with the professionalism, expertise, and flexibility they expect and deserve on every project. We understand the importance of meeting project deadlines, quality control issues, and budgetary constraints and work hard to stay within these guidelines. Whether we are conceptualizing, developing or implementing your GIS solutions or just providing consulting services to get your project off the ground, our dedicated staff has the expertise and knowledge to implement GIS solutions that best meet your needs.
Technology
Technology is one of the keys to Trailhead GIS’s continued success. From the latest software and hardware, Trailhead GIS utilizes state of the art systems to maintain and control your GIS projects. At Trailhead GIS, we believe in using the best and latest technology available because we understand that results are what matter most. At Trailhead GIS we are able to provide an entire end to end GIS, IT, and internet solution with on-going support of GIS, IT, and internet infrastructure including security needs customized to your requirements.
Key Management
Mike Pellegrino, President
Mike Pellegrino founded Trailhead GIS, Inc. (originally Pellegrino & Associates, Inc.) in 1996. Mike is responsible for the creation, development, and implementation of all Business and GIS operations within the corporation, including all Business Development and Management, Staff Management, and Resource Management. Mike has over 27 years GIS and mapping experience and coordinates all Project and Program Development.
Mike has also served as the Director of GIS Services for Walker Associates, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri, the GIS Technical Coordinator for the City of St. Peters, Missouri, and GIS Systems Specialist for Griener Engineering assigned to Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Ross Short, GIS Consultant
Ross Short has over 15 years GIS and mapping experience. He has held management positions in consulting companies and local government, and has lead the definition, architecture, and implementation of multiple GIS projects. He is the technical lead for our GIS projects and directs all aspects of GIS development including requirements and budget identification and analysis, conversion and quality control strategies, database definition, design, implementation and application development and deployment. Additionally, Ross has over 6 years experience with web applications for ASP services, e-commerce, web hosting, Oracle, and SQL Server.