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You've reached the home page of Richard Semple. I'm originally from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. I now live just outside the City of Austin, Texas, with my wife, Kate (also from the Pittsburgh area), and our two crazy dogs.
We left Pittsburgh in early 2002 with just us and a truck full of stuff bound for California. We spent just about 3 years in wonderful Monterey, California. We had a great time, made good friends, and enjoyed life. And got a dog. Eventually, we decided we need to search for a place that we could afford to live and buy a house, and had more job opportunities for both of us. We settled on Austin, Texas and moved (with help!) in late 2005. Hearbroken as we were to leave the California coast and our friends, we've made it good here.
Currently, I am the Geographic Information Systems Manager for Williamson County, Texas (Wikipedia | Home Page). I work in the Information Technology Services (ITS) Department for the ITS Director. My job is to manage the County-wide GIS that consists of users in various departments, servers, databases, and interfaces. I work with a wonderful IT staff and GIS professionals in IT and other departments. (For more on GIS, click here or the navigation link above).