Robert Holtom Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Currently Full time secondment to the Thames Water, Strategic Resource Options (SRO) Portfolio team as GIS Manager. Providing client-side leadership and management of the GIS for the SRO Programme.PreviouslyGIS Manager for Connect Plus Services - operator for the M25 and trunk roads within National Highways Area 5.Atkins Geospatial Senior Team Lead - Responsible for the day to day operations of 21 geospatial experts. Accountable for the team’s productivity, assessing current and future workload and opportunities. Leading on geospatial solutions to support large projects, including mobilisation and project management.

Solihull

Midlands Geospatial Team Lead - responsible for staff/resource management of a team of 20 analysts and developers. Also, development and implementation of the team strategy and business plan.HS2 Phase 2B Lot 3, GIS Project Lead - Led a 30+ project team to deliver all aspects of the GIS scope. for a joint venture project to provide civil engineering design and environmental assessment services for the scheme. GIS Project Lead for several Highways England, Smart Motorways projects. Overall responsibility for implementation of all GIS systems and delivery of the GIS scope.Developer/Product Owner, of a scalable, multi-tented, open source, web GIS platform that provides access to GIS tools and data for project teams on several major projects.Land Access and Survey Management System - Led the development of the Arup land access and survey management system rolled out for use on HS2. Collaborative GIS Project Work Environments - Lead a business wide internal investment task to standardise and automate GIS project set up processes to support and encourage best practice for non specialist GIS users across the business.

Freelance Consultant

Rivers Trust - Provided GIS analysis and development services for a number of projects including; Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), Cam and Ely Ouse Catchment Ecosystems Services (ES) Mapping, Cain Valley sediment pollution risk modelling applicationWWF - Developed a PostGIS database application to collate, store and process 18 water risk data sets to provide the UK data component for this global application http://waterriskfilter.panda.orgSeptember 2011 to March 2013 - Career break to carry out house renovation and pursue personal interests.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Project Manager for national scale projects with budgets over £1m. Managed project teams including Survey Technicians, Analysts/Developers, Database Engineers and Software Engineers.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Lead developer for a number of major GIS applications for the transport and utilities sectors. Key part of a development team providing a national web based GIS system for the management and delivery of network wide traffic congestion and travel time data to local authorities and central government.

Sydney, Australia

Responsible for the company wide technical intranet. Developed key technical documentation and technical information resources.

Sydney, Australia

Developed a set of GIS decision support tools for infrastructure location planning and operations planning. Worked within the national network planning teams providing a range of GIS analysis and mapping support.

Sydney, Australia

Led a university based team to compile a geographic information databank and on-line environmental database for the area surrounding the location of the Sydney Olympic arena and venues.