Paul Churcher has been working with the Infrastructure and Environment group at National Defence since 2008, first as a GIS tech supporting portfolio planning, and then moving to the Directorate of Architecture and Engineering Services (DAES) as a site infrastructure data specialist. He is involved with the Real Property Spatial Data Warehouse project which is transforming the management of spatial and engineering real property data. He has also worked as a web mapping specialist in the private sector and as a draftsman at Election Canada in the early 1990s. He was educated at Carleton University (BA Hons.) and Wilfred Laurier University (MA).