W. JEFF LILLYCROP

Jeff Lillycrop is the senior consultant for Woolpert’s Strategic Consulting Group. Lillycrop brings extensive experience in managing coastal mapping and survey programs, research and development, as well as geospatial data analysis. Lillycrop most recently served as the technical director for Civil Works Research, Development and Technology at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Engineer R&D Center (ERDC). As chief of the Spatial Data Branch, Operations Division, Mobile District, he was responsible for the National Coastal Mapping Program and the Joint Airborne Lidar Bathymetry Technical Center of Expertise (JALBTCX). JALBTCX supports the coastal mapping and charting requirements of the USACE and the U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, as well as topo-bathy research with those groups, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey.

Lillycrop has managed numerous programs involving navigation, flood risk management, the environment, and the collection and analysis of spatial data through surveying and mapping. He also managed geospatial and geographic information system (GIS) teams for the USACE, as well as the National Dredging Quality Management Program. Lillycrop served as the USACE representative and co-chairman of the Interagency Working Group on Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IWG-OCM). He was lead researcher at the Coastal and Hydraulics Lab, ERDC, and program manager of the Scanning Hydrographic Operational Airborne Lidar Survey (SHOALS) Airborne Bathymetric Lidar Development Program.