Robert Waterman Email & Phone Number

Denver Metropolitan Area

Responsible for overseeing a portfolio of activities while reinforcing a collaborative business environment among core Software Development, Sales, and Marketing teams. Blending technical knowledge and management experience to coordinate the curation and publication of foundational online content and information products.

Greater Denver Area

Program Management on GeoDigital’s Utility Corridor, Road Corridor, and Urban Mapping programs✔ Responsible for the planning, execution and continuous improvement of vendor-based national and international remote sensing projects, including, but not limited to, vendor sourcing, contract set-up and execution, vendor relationship management, management of cost, quality, schedule performance, and client coordination.

Planning Lead on Microsoft’s global 3D mapping program✔ Responsible for key components of imagery acquisition modeling and planning.✔ Pioneered an innovative value based Area of Interest definition process leveraging GIS analytics and data conflation techniques.Program Lead on Microsoft’s ‘Global Ortho’ program✔ Accountable for software development and data production including milestone planning, change management, release management, quality assurance, quality control, and product delivery.✔ Spearheaded the creation of a shared, cloud based, QA/QC toolset. Resulted in a 5x increase in product throughput, enabling the customer to validate and move product to market and Microsoft to recognize revenue.✔ Direct and regular customer engagement and relationship management including project status reporting, invoicing, requirements, solutions, contractual obligations and negotiations.Program Lead on Microsoft’s global satellite mapping program✔ Accountable for software development and geospatial production activities including milestone planning, change management, release management, quality assurance, quality control, and product acceptance.✔ Drove the implementation of repeatable processes for product planning, quality acceptance, and coverage accounting.✔ Directly managed relations with the data provider including contractual amendments and clarifying quality and coverage specifications for improved content quality.Leader on various geospatial initiatives and programs✔ Defined, developed, maintained, and streamlined workflows, information systems, and software solutions for geospatial products including DSM and DTM, 3D cities, Bird’s Eye®, Traditional and True Ortho products.✔ Led software engineering projects for both internal content production and public facing mapping applications.✔ Provided software developer support on various tasks and projects to streamline and automate processes.✔ Managed and mentored technical staff members.

✔ Responsible for planning, developing, and implementing a geospatial database and production tracking system.✔ Directed the planning, development, and implementation of manual and automated, local and global, elevation modeling solutions.✔ Directed the planning, development, and implementation of manual and automated aerial orthomosaic solutions.✔ Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, managing, and mentoring technical staff members.

✔ Led the planning, development, and implementation of manual and automated orthomosaic solutions for Yahoo! Maps content production.✔ Responsible for interviewing, hiring, training, managing, and mentoring production staff members.

✔ Led the development, implementation, and execution of manual and automated orthomosaic solutions.✔ Led the planning, development, implementation, and execution of global elevation modeling solutions.✔ Developed various software and scripting automation solutions for geospatial production.✔ Executed photogrammetric production processes including aerial triangulation elevation model compilation.

✔ Responsible for training, managing, and mentoring technical staff members.✔ Streamlined and executed on various processes including ground control point extraction, aerial triangulation, and orthomosaic production.

Forest Management/Forest Resources Management

Forestry