Scythe & Spade Welcomes Gavin Doss as New GIS Systems Analyst

Scythe & Spade is proud to announce the addition of Gavin Doss as our new GIS Systems Analyst. Gavin will be supporting the GIS needs of Scythe & Spade clients both internal and external farmland acquisitions/dispositions real estate activities, due diligence studies and farm management services, as well as further developing Scythe & Spades vast proprietary FarmBase™ GIS, GPS, and relational databases and analytics system.

Gavin comes to Scythe & Spade with over 10 years of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) experience and a background in agricultural underwriting. Gavin most recently worked as a credit analyst for Alabama Farm Credit focused on agriculture underwriting a portfolio of about $1.4 billion in assets. In this role he worked with diverse agricultural clients throughout North Alabama with an agricultural mix of poultry farms, timber lands, corn and soy farms, and cotton gins.

Much of Gavin’s GIS experience comes from his time as a geospatial engineer in the U.S. Army serving with the 10th Mountain Division and 3rd Infantry Division where he attained the rank of specialist and maintained a TS/SCI security clearance . While with the Army, his GIS roles and experience included development of integrated GIS spatial or non-spatial databases for seven countries across a variety of objectives, created web map applications, preparation of topographic line maps, line of sight products, helicopter landing products, geospatial intelligence products, and terrain categorization products.

Gavin also served as GIS Manager for Alabama 811 maintained geospatial data for over 400 different entities with a myriad of GIS users across Alabama’s many utility operators.

Gavin earned his B.S. in Geography with a minor in GIS during his military service. Gavin also has an M.B.A from Samford University. In his free time, Gavin enjoys hiking and kayaking with his family. Gavin can also frequently be found coaching his daughter’s soccer team.