LIVERMORE FALLS – Tim Gallant has been hired by Main-Land Development Consultants as the firm’s first Geographic Information Systems coordinator.

Gallant, 29, is a native of Rumford who graduated from Mountain Valley High School and received his bachelor of science degree in forestry from the University of Maine in 2002. He recently returned to the region from southern Maine, where he worked at Corner Post Land Surveying Inc. in Springvale as a survey project manager.

As the GIS coordinator at Main-Land, he is responsible for creating, analyzing, organizing and managing the GIS data collected for clients and by other parties in preparation for presentation to local planning boards and state agencies and use by Main-Land’s team of engineers. He also works under the firm’s licensed surveyors to perform all aspects of land surveying, as well as wetlands delineation. Gallant lives in Wayne with his wife.