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Provide high level strategic and technical advice on business improvement and development to meet the agencies priorities on a state-wide within Spatial Information in the Dept. of Resources. Leading a team responsible for the delivery of spatial information for the business units of vegetation, state land, planning and sciences.

Provide high level strategic and technical advice on business improvement and development to meet the agencies priorities on a state-wide within Spatial Information in the Dept. of Resources. Leading a team responsible for the delivery of spatial information for the business units of vegetation, state land, planning and sciences.

The Acting Director, Spatial Information Services leadership role is responsible for leading team leaders and/or multiple projects or areas of work under broad direction of an executive. It is valued for the ability to lead program strategies and/or guide team leaders to deliver outcomes.

Major projects included:• Implementation of internal spatial system (ParkInfo)• QPWS Boundary reviews• Completion of a Bowen Soils database• Sheep Station Creek Revegetation project• Crocodile Signage Asset collection• WTMA Signage and Visitor Centre Asset collection• Townsville Town Common Cattle Fencing Project• Townsville Town Common Prescribed Burn Plots 2002• Bowling Green Bay Prescribed Burn Plots 2002• Fire Scar Mapping Project

Projects included:Cardwell-Hinchinbrook Regional Coastal Management PlanWet Tropical Coast Regional Coastal Management PlanSugar Coast Environmental Rescue PackageBowling Green Bay DatabaseNorthern Region QPWS Fire Burns DatabaseMoorrinya National Park Vegetation DatabaseEstablished the database for the publication ‘Rare & Vulnerable Flora of the Einasleigh Bioregion’Researched and completed the publication ‘Rare & Vulnerable Flora of the Desert Uplands Bioregion’.

Compilation of land use and natural resource information and mapping for the ‘Gustav Creek Catchment Study’.