After running a successful GIS consulting business based in New Mexico, Kurt moved to Denmark in 2021 and now works for Denmark’s largest open-source geospatial firm Septima. He has a broad skillset. He is a spatial analyst, cartographer, teacher and author. His focus has always been conservation GIS. Over the last 30 years, he's worked for most of the conservation non-profits in the western US . He is an expert in modeling wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors, most recently modeling biodiversity connectivity for the Laurentian Forest Province.

Kurt is also an open-source GIS advocate and author. He recently authored his eighth, ninth and tenth books on the software QGIS: these are the 2nd editions of both Discover QGIS 3.x  and QGIS for Hydrological Applications, along with Field Data Collection with QGIS and Mergin Maps, all  with Locate Press. In 2015 he was elected as an OsGeo Charter Member and he serves on the Leadership Council of the Rewilding Institute and a board member of Wild Arizona.