Alex Chiba is one of the Curators of the map collection at the Texas General Land Office. He has worked at the GLO for over 14 years and has extensive knowledge and experience with the archival collections of the agency. Alex is also the chief architect and administrator of the database that drives the online map store and is instrumental in maintaining, improving and providing access to this data via the GLO website. Currently he is working on a large project to draw polygons of thousands of historic surveying sketches into the GLO GIS application to aid with customer research.