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Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

Greater Sudbury, Ontario

Metal Earth

Metal Earth is a Canadian $104 million applied R&D program led by Laurentian University. With funding from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund and federal/provincial/industry partners, this initiative will be a strategic consortium of outstanding Canadian researchers from academia and allied Canadian and international research centres, government, and industry. Metal Earth will transform our understanding of the genesis of base and precious metal deposits during Earth’s evolution. It will make Canada a world leader in metal endowment research and world-class innovator through open source delivery of new knowledge and the implementation of new technology.Information Systems Administrator and GIS AnalystManaging the processing, quality control and hosting of many types of spatial data for numerousGIS and Geoscience modelling applicationsProviding application services including development, coaching and training for GIS and desktop productivity applicationsProviding training and support for office and mobile hardware components and peripherals

Sudbury, Ontario

Managed application portfolio for exploration departments including maintaining contracts, records, undertaking application upgrades, testing and remediationManaged the migration and remediation of client and server applications working with management, end users, developers, vendors and IT business partnersAdministered multiple Windows Servers used for hosting various applications and information systems including disaster recovery and backupMigrated all end users to Windows 7 and decommissioned numerous legacy serversTrained, supported, and coached numerous desktop productivity applications

Sudbury, Ontario

Provided GIS and application services, desktop support, coaching and training for GIS and geospatial modelling applications for up to 140 end users across 5 sites in CanadaManaged the processing, and hosting of many types of spatial data for numerous GIS, engineering and geoscience modelling applicationsAnalyzed and audited records and information for quality assurance and standards compliance Collaborated with and provided GIS services to third party consultants and academiaDeveloped business unit information classifications, policies, standards, workflows, guidelines, and training materials Supervised and coached staff on interactions with information systems and applicationsImplemented file server modelling and access rights and security managementIntroduced a successful records management model for unstructured file system dataIntroduced secured digital archives and information workflows, mitigating risks and ensuring valuable historical information and knowledge availability to the business for future successDeveloped database applications in support of information projects and business needsDefined and implemented standard GIS services that achieved significant cost savings in end user based spatial data managementLed and worked on project teams, managing over 100 years of historical spatial content, making it available for discovery and use in GIS or other information systemsPromoted a culture of Enterprise GIS and collaboration on GIS initiatives to potential stakeholders within various departments

Sudbury, Ontario

Contributed to and lead project teams collecting and processing historical information assets. Developed database applications fulfilling information projects & business needs.

Ecornell Master Certificate In Systems Design And Project Leadership, Information Technology Project Management

Computer Systems Engineer, Computer/Information Technology Administration And Management