BLUE SKIES CONSULTING, LLC Blue Skies is a woman-owned small business that provides aerial data acquisition for remote sensing and aircraft maintenance services. The company, established in 1999, is registered as a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise with the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program and the New Mexico Unified Certification Program. Please click here to view our current NMDOT/DBE/NMUCP certificate of registration. The company also achieved ISO 9001:2000 certification for its aerial mapping services in September 2005 and continues to maintain this certification. Please click here to view our current ISO 9001:2000 certificate. Blue Skies awards include the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year for 2003. Please click here for an index of articles and press releases about Blue Skies. BLUE SKIES PERSONNEL Tami Wiggins, Blue Skies' CEO and majority share holder, received a Master of Science in Applied Geography degree from Southwest Texas State University and an undergraduate degree from Rice University. For more than 25 years, Ms. Wiggins has been involved in the mapping and surveying, photogrammetry and remote-sensing industries. She has extensive experience in project management for the environmental science field, including work at the National Geographic Society, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of Environmental Affairs, and Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. In January of 1999, Ms. Wiggins founded Blue Skies Consulting, LLC, with Michael Racine. Mike Racine, President of Blue Skies, received a Bachelor of Science degree in Geography from the University of New Mexico. He has more than 20 years of aerial mapping experience and is a large-project specialist. Mr. Racine is a commercial pilot with single- and multi-engine land instrument airplane licenses and has more than 7000 hours flying time. He holds a second-class medical certificate and has had no accidents or incidents. Mr. Racine is also a Federal Aviation Administration-certified Airframe and Powerplant (A&P) aircraft mechanic with Inspection Authorization (IA).