Jamie Mcgrath Email & Phone Number

In my current role, I head up the Geospatial & Analytics team at KPMG Future Analytics.I'd describe myself as a subject-matter expert in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), geospatial data analysis and broader research. I am experienced in leading teams in the delivery of built environment projects, from demographic modelling, to socio-economic assessment, to a variety of data visualisation and interactive outputs. Since 2012 I've had the pleasure of working with excellent colleagues at Future Analytics - a planning consultancy based in Dublin. It was acquired by KPMG in 2020.Day-to-day, I work on a variety of diverse projects in almost every sectoral domain; with residential and commercial development, viability and impact analysis being the most common areas of focus.Typically I develop multi-criteria decision analyses, cost-benefit assessments, models of socio-economic and demographic trajectories and produce a wide array of data-visualisations to enhance otherwise static outputs; from conventional print-publication infographics to interactive-online dashboards. A big component of that is to identify and powerfully report on underlying insights.If I was to simplify all of that I would just say this, 'I like to find answers to puzzling questions, dig a little deeper to see what's really going on behind the figures, and change a few minds (or my own) along the way'.Working closely with our town planning team I've had the opportunity to engage in both public and private projects of all shapes and sizes; at every level from local to national and European. I've been able introduce statistical workflows to our processes which help strengthen how we employ analytics to answer queries; greatly enhancing decision support robustness and helping to inform better planning outcomes. The data-led approach I promote helps build trust in what we do for our clients.I've helped create a highly skilled and multi-disciplinary team in Future Analytics. A team that's undertaken a large variety of projects where a clear need to derive and present an evidence-based rationale has been essential. Sometimes, that's meant telling clients that their plans won't work out, and other times, it's helped us prove for them, why they will. Evidence is really at the heart of everything we do and I'm always keen to enhance how our service offer in geospatial analytics, planning and research can be applied in practice.You're very welcome to connect with me and get in touch at any time.

Listed skills include Gis, Data Visualisation, Spatial Analysis, Data Mining, and 21 others.

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  Director | Kpmg Future Analytics

  Kpmg Ireland

  Nov 2020 - Present - Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland