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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

• The purpose of this role is to make MetroMap more competitive with market features and functionality, delivering regular improvements with strong clearly defined value and revenue generation. This role is responsible.
• Communicate with confidence and demonstrate strategic and technical mastery of my product area when interacting with executives, peers, customers, and partners.
• Take action to drive issues to resolution.
• Inspire teams to over-achieve in a fast-paced, distributed environment.
• Collaborates across other Business Unit's and engineering teams to ensure alignment of priorities.
• Actively engages key stakeholders to drive business requirements and the delivery of these requirements.

Australia

• This role was a key function to help MetroMap grow in the first stages of offering subscription services. This role designed and implemented the Atlassian Jira Support Service Desk and Support Policies, ensuring key.
• Designed, implemented, and managed the MetroMap Support Service Desk. Including processes, systems, and workflows.
• Provided Support Level 1 to 4 and met all Service Level Agreements.
• Create and maintain an online Knowledge Base for all technical and user documentation.Achievements:
• Grew MetroMap Support into winning customer contracts based outstanding customer service. Achieved and retained customer satisfaction of 4.9 consistently over the years. This became a unique selling point challenging.
• Onboarded and provided technical integration support for over 500 accounts from both SMB to Enterprise accounts.

Perth, Australia

• Eagleview purchased Spookfish Ltd at the end of 2018. The role of Customer Technical Success Manager was integral not only in transitioning the business from start-up to a more corporate international environment, but.
• Worked with senior management and project developers to understand and prioritise customer requirements.
• Reviewed and contributed to all RFQ’s, or bespoke imagery capture requests. This included flight ops planning, cost evaluations and guidance on Go/NoGo project initiatives.
• Performed data modelling and desktop processing to support moderately complex spatial products including the design of maps, digital data preparation (i.e. data extraction, data transformations and reprojection, etc).
• Identified and delivered innovative solutions to meet dynamic business needs for the company or customer. This often included large enterprise accounts with industry renowned clients who deserved bespoke account.
• Provided support to customers of desktop and web GIS applications, including bespoke spatial applications.

• The role of Technical Support, Customer Success and QA Specialist grew organically after joining Spookfish as a geospatial advisor. The exciting journey of developing a start-up and supporting a team of expertise.
• Defined the quality assurance imagery standard, created processed and metrics to measure and approve imagery for publication in a highly efficient and automated manner.
• Created all marketing maps and materials and assisted with strategising the company’s Unique Selling Points, defining product requirements, and implementing service deliverables.
• Assisted with website content, particularly the creation and nurturing of our Community and Knowledge Base. This would help divert support queries to known resolutions and work instructions often exceeding 1000’s site.
• Created a support base with known existing issues and workarounds. Created common responses and set up a ticketing system via Zendesk. Online chat facilitated immediate resolutions, many presales and coverage questions.
• Assisted customers with integration of our aerial imagery within their spatial products (desktop, web- based, etc), and to provide trouble-shooting support for technical issues relating to OGC web services.

Perth, Australia

• GIS Coordinator role comprised (but not limited) the following criteria:
• Assist and advised in the design, capture, manipulation, analysis and storage all types of geographical information from different sources and in different data formats;
• Designed and maintained FME scripts and workbenches to transform data from CAD to GIS compatible formats;
• Providing ad-hoc training and technical support to a wide range of departments and managed data analysis for governmental compliance reporting (such as Environmental Compliance, Mining, Geology, Hydrology, Demand.
• Geo-processing of spatial data, spatial data management, cartographic presentations and spatial analysis. Maintained and improved existing processes for delivering and storing of geographical information;
• Preparation of project implementation roadmaps, database design, and web map implementation (Geocortex), data conversions, data capturing and process designs;

Dar Es Salaam And 7 Other Cities Across Tanzania (Arusha, Dodoma, Mtwara, etc)

• This role was based full time in Tanzania and involved travel and work across the seven main cities in Tanzania: Dodoma, Mwanza, Kigoma, Arusha, Tanga, Mbeya, Mtwara. This role was successful if a full transfer of.
• Provision of a template for an integrated spatial and statistical data platform for council planning.
• Advice on the production and updating of maps and databases including administration boundaries (at ward and district level) for physical planning.
• Advice on the production of a map-based computerised register of properties showing valuation and payment status.
• Development of a basic Asset Management Register with GIS capabilities.
• Assistance in using the GIS perspective in the preparation of city development plans with goals, indicators, and development zones.

London/Zanzibar

• This was a remotely based role providing GIS assistance across a variety of products.Responsibilities:
• Producing maps on behalf of the Hummingbird team (particularly maps to visual assay results, maps for marketing, disseminating team results, drilling statistics, any ad hoc mapping, etc). This enabled the rest of the.
• Managing all datasets, formatting, and making them interoperable across the whole company.
• Disseminating maps, and assay results across the company.
• Introduced company best practice for delivering products.
• Provided promotional materials such as 3D flythroughs, visual demos and clear concise information (a picture says a thousand words!)

Ebene, Mauritius

• Following the success of my previous project I was seconded to the existing team in Ebene, Mauritius to be responsible for the development of data pre-processing and post- processing flowlines required to assist the.
• Assisting in the sourcing and evaluation of auxiliary datasets used in the above work and where necessary liaising with external bodies;
• Ensuring, when feasible, the use of the IMS for the data processing component thereby avoiding over-use of GIS tools such as ArcGIS;
• Assisting with the operational improvement of the field data collection system, to ensure improvement in meeting progress targets, by helping to train the field team and ensuring effective lines of communication for.
• Assisting the coordination of GIS training both within the LAVIMS Project Team and externally to the clients’ staff following delivery of the ArcGIS licenses;
• Providing support to the Operations Manager, particularly in QC assessment of the collected field data, to enable regular reporting to the LAVIMS project and the client. Assisting with ad-hoc mapping tasks such as.

Freetown, Sierra Leone

• I joined the existing consultancy team in Freetown, Sierra Leone to produce a teaching programme with a set of supporting ‘easy to read’ manuals for parcel mapping using GIS, GPS and spatial data management for LRMAP.
• Handheld GPS measurements to locate land parcels, download data, inspect, and bring into LRMAP for parcel mapping;
• Spatial Data Management for the LRMAP spatial database, server based reference data, personal data, and GPS measurements including backup procedures;
• GIS fundamentals using ArcGIS9.3 and LRMAP system including creating an mxd, connecting to a spatial database, viewing reference data, building a printable map, edit/query a spatial database, management of features;
• Using Available Imagery and Cadastral Map Sheets to digitise parcels;
• Scanning historical paper maps, orthorectification using Global Mapper or ArcGIS, mosaicing, and uploading to ArcGIS/LRMAP for digitizing parcels.Further to this I assisted coordination of counterpart staff in data.

London, United Kingdom

As part of Defra secondment, my responsibilities were to promote SPIRE within Defra by widening awareness, access and use of the SPIRE services and to contribute to the governments overall GI and EO strategy. To ensure that SPIRE programme gathers momentum from within Defra by facilitating buy in from end users and ensure services delivered by IBM and.

United Kingdom

I managed the data capture of a geometric network of canals and rivers for British Waterways, ensuring that the specification and technical methodology met client expectations. This included designing and implementing the procedures and best practice for undertaking said task, managing a team of digitisers, providing technical assistance as well as to.

London, United Kingdom

I joined this project to provide Noise mapping input products specifically for Rail Noise. This comprised capturing all rail and metro sources within agglomerations and in other sections of rail that exceeded thresholds across the country. My main responsibilities were to provide technical support and solutions enabling the resolution of technical queries.

Exeter, United Kingdom

I was asked to rejoin the project to manage a digitising and quality assurance team on-site for the client. As the key representative for my company I needed to ensure that standards and quality were met to targets. My responsibilities included managing a team of 20 digitisers and QA, providing training and guidance, liaising with the client and providing.

Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

I contributed to scientific research for many community based projects and ecological surveys conducted on behalf of the Tanzanian and British governments, as well as other established aid organisations. Tasks included identifying and tracking animal spores, conducting field sampling techniques and gathering information on remote regions through liaising.

Bsc, Biogeographical Studies

Activities and Societies: Programme Representative for Life Sciences, Member of the London's Royal Entomological Society First Class with.

A'Levels: Geography B; B, Sociology; Theatre Studies