Jacques Pretorius Email & Phone Number

Durbanville, Western Cape, South Africa

At the GoMetro Operations Department, our mission is centered on supporting the successful transition to electric vehicles and optimizing long-haul truck operations in key regions such as the UK, South Africa, USA, EU, and Australia.We play a crucial role in facilitating the onboarding of our clients onto a digitalization platform, which is fundamental for their success in adopting electric vehicles. Leveraging our expertise in spatial and non-spatial data analysis, we provide invaluable insights and solutions to internal and external stakeholders.Our goal is to streamline processes, enhance data integrity, and reduce manual errors, ensuring the smooth and efficient functioning of all aspects related to mobility and logistics in this transformative period.Through continuous research and development, we stay at the forefront of emerging industry trends, implementing improvements to existing systems and solutions. Collaborating closely with various teams, including sales, design, product, and operations, we contribute to the realization of the company’s objectives and targets.Our commitment to standardizing and automating data workflows allows us to deliver detailed and insightful data outputs in the form of reports and visualizations, ultimately driving the overall success and growth of the organization.In this high-paced environment, our passion for in-person collaboration, innovation, and accountability propels us forward, ensuring excellence in our operations while having fun along the way.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Driving the processing, quality assurance and delivery for collected public transit mobility data for the EMEA region• Collaborating with operations to identify, query and improve data quality/areas of maintenance• Validation, process, quality assurance and delivery of collected spatial and non spatial mobility data aspects from in-house collector app, audits and maintenance cycles• Delivery and full understanding of gtfs standard and non-standard delivery specifications• Leading a team of data processors and quality specialists to ensure maintenance and delivery to client platforms in agreement with SLA (Gauteng)• Plan for and execute the processing, quality assurance and delivery function in a new city collection (Amman/Beirut)• Training of temporary processors and guiding through processing to delivery• Develop and implement data quality protocols and procedures and communicate best practices• Prioritise, suggest and assign tasks to operations, processing or development using the ticket managing system and track progress and key performance metrics• Facilitate and participate in Research & Development workshops to resolve challenges and inefficiencies but also improve in-house tools and data quality aspects• Conduct quality scorecards and report on regional data quality aspects for consideration• Conduct performance reviews and report on development of reporting staff

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Western Cape Municipal Cadastral Tender:• Cadastral Data maintenance (Capture, QA, Reconcile and Post)• Cadastral Data dissemination, validation and improvement• Documentation of guidelines and reporting on research outcomesAnglo America GIS Modernization Project:• Data Integration between Deswik (CAD) and GIS• Publish of Web Maps, Web Layers and Geoprocessing Services to Portal (ArcMap and ArcPro)• Create and Customize DMR Map Series and generic templates and layouts• Documentation of Reference Guides for Key Plan and Map Series printing• Create, edit and manage metadata across GIS items (Feature layers, Maps, Tools) using xml• Creating, caching and hosting image and vector tiles• Conducting research and presenting results clearly Royal Bafokeng Administration Water Utilities Model:• Migration of water supply data into a Water Utilities data model structure• Creation of a Geometric Network and applying Subtypes, Domains and Attribute Rules• Creating Class Relationships and Associations• Applying a topological hierarchy and rules to comply with the Water Network and Model.Other:• Design and Configuration of Asset and Operational Management Systems (Cityworks)• Design of process flow diagrams• Georeferencing of As Built Plans for Drakenstein Municipality tender• Interpretation and capture of Formal/Informal Housing footprints for Overstrand Municipality tender• Assisting in the training of GIS to editing staff• Mentorship of Professional Geomatics Professional in Training in regulation with SAGC (B Moolman CGP GISc 0288)

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• GIS Transport Data Migration to central SDE environment.• Assisting with physical and logical design of centralised SDE Geo-Database.• Application of sub-types, domains and metadata according to design and Spatial Data Management Framework. • Spatial and Attribute Data classification, extraction, creation and update by applying SQL and Python scripting queries, operations and clauses,• Creating Standard Operating Procedure documentation for GIS Transport asset capture and maintenance according to Linear Asset Management triangular design.• Reviewing and managing project plans and timelines.• Utilising ArcGIS Workflow Manager to create, assign and complete tasks on production Geo-database.• Quality Assurance of completed edit tasks• Reconciling and posting changes to production GDB.• Synchronising changes to Financial and Operational System (SAP/ERP) via geo.e framework.• Preparation of technical documentation, reports and summaries.• Application of Data Integrity measures in the form of topology rules and attribute domains.• Creation and activation of routes on Road Centerline data as base for Linear Referencing and Linear Asset Management• Mentoring staff in alignment with professional registration with SAGC. • Designing and performing complex GIS process functions including analytics, modeling and queries.• Creating and applying models with ArcGIS model builder.• Working with Portal for ArcGIS.

City Of Cape Town (On Site For Dlk Group)

• Spatial data management and maintenance.• Interpretation and capture of spatial property boundaries, leases and servitudes from SG-diagram source.• Reprojection and transformation of co-ordinates.• Spatial/Attribute data investigation and update.• Quality Assurance of captured tasks via Workflow Manager.• Interpretation of current and historic diagrams for accurate application of lineage status.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

External marker of assignments and tests for Geography 1st year students.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Creation of vegetation extracts in raster format by utilising bands in multispectral satellite imagery by applying threshold algorithms and other remote sensing techniques. • Introducing regions and applying pre-defined ratios such as NDVI to deal with limitations in the imagery.• Using additional sources to improve accuracy and deal with restrictions such as cloud cover.• Stacking of separate classified urban and layers into the final RF planning product for delivery. • Quality assurance.• Research and development on different automated capturing methods including supervised/unsupervised classification.

Boksburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• GIS Project Management • Design, create and maintain property sales geodatabase environment.• Manipulation and analysis of GIS data relating to national road infrastructure.• General GIS assistance to valuators (property extracts, comparable sales indications, GPS data, etc)• Converting spatial data from CAD (dwg, dxf) to GIS types for presentation and dissemination.• Delivery of bulk site plans and accompanying areal images• GIS data management, maintenance, quality assurance and control.• Mentorship of Professional Geographic Information Science Technician in Training in regulation with SAGC.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Capture of all current and historic dealings of the Crown Estate between mean high and low water marks. • Attribute data was captured using oracle forms and joined with financial information to the digitised spatial data. • Assisting with Land Registry program for England and Wales. • Validating and checking of returned registered titles and following up of anomalies and objections. • Day to day casework demands of the coastal team, external customers and managing agents. • Doing GIS related checks, creating maps for end-users and adding newly finalised dealings to the corporate GIS

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Creation of vegetation extracts in raster format by utilising bands in multispectral satellite imagery by applying threshold algorithms and other remote sensing techniques. • Introducing regions and applying pre-defined ratios such as NDVI to deal with limitations in the imagery.• Using additional sources to improve accuracy and deal with restrictions such as cloud cover.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

• Geo-referencing of scanned topographical 1:50 000 maps ranging from 1940s-present date to the standardized WGS 84 co-ordinate system. • Capture of Metadata. • Standardising output according to DPI, color and compression.

Nelspruit Area, South Africa

• The undertaking of a Land Audit for the Umjindi Municipality to ensure an accurate and updated Geographic Information System in preparation for the development of their Land Use Management System.• Assisting the three urban planners on their projects by providing GIS support and creating various plans.• Joining data received with acquired data from various sources such as ownership, environmental sensitivity, agricultural potential, water-rights, land use, zoning information, deeds data, land claims, and mining potential.

Ampthill, Uk

• Manually improving accuracy levels of geographic data owned by the council by editing and updating spatial extents to fit the improved Ordinance Survey Mastermap. • Data capture for several departments within the council including Planning Applications, Building Control, Housing Allocations, Parish Boundaries, Listed Buildings, Transport Networks, Archaeological Data, Tree Preservation Orders, Conservation Areas, Contaminated Land and Mineral Consultations.

London, United Kingdom

• Capture and linking of spatial, attribute and scanned information. Capps Uniform was used as GIS platform while IDOX was used to scan and link investigation reports to the specific contamination cases. • The role gave me an opportunity to work individually on updating and maintaining spatial data but also further developed administrational skills as assistant to the Contamination Officer.

Long Stratton, Uk

Systematic validating and correcting of digitised spatial extents and related text information against historic microfiche and map originals.