< Grant_McKenzie : Resume />
geospatial.technologist()
Education
University of California Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA
Doctoral Program2010 - Present
The University of MelbourneMelbourne, AUS
Masters of Applied Science in GIS (by research)2007
- Recipient of the J H Mirams Memorial Research Scholarship ($10,000)
- Awarded the Google Doctoral Colloquium Award & Scholarship for promising research proposal at the 2007 Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2007).
- Research in the areas of Mobile Mapping, Spatial Visualization, Virtual modeling and Wayfinding Behavior.
- Department of Geomatics, Faculty of Engineering
British Columbia Institute of TechnologyVancouver, BC
Advanced Diploma in Geographic Information Systems2004
- Awarded Honors
- Design & Implementation of the Translink Mobile Bus Schedule Pilot Project allowing public transportation users to access bus schedule data and maps via their mobile phone. This project used ArcGIS Desktop 8.3, VisualBasic.NET, PHP, XML, Oracle DBMS, Apache & IIS.
- Trained with ESRI's ArcGIS suite of products. Education ranging from spatial analysis and data manipulation in ArcMap to Webmapping through ArcIMS and ArcSDE… all the way to customization in ArcScene using .NET & ArcObjects.
The University of British ColumbiaVancouver, BC
Bachelors of Arts, Geography2002
Industry Experience
Spatial Development International (SpatialDev.com)Seattle, WA
Founding Member / Geospatial Technologist2009 - Present
- Currently designing and developing numerous desktop, mobile and web based geospatial applications for a variety of clients.
- An extensive list of past and ongoing projects can be explored in my portfolio...
British Columbia Transportation Authority (BC Transit)Vancouver, BC
Consultant2009 - 2010
- Developed the BC Transit Bus Stop Management System. The system allows administrators to add, edit and delete bus stop locations and
attribute data. The public facing front-end allows users to access a plethora of information about a specific transit stop.
CH2M HILLSeattle, WA
Software Developer2007 - 2009
- Design and implementation of HarvestChoice.org's Spatial Data Portal. The portal allows users to search spatial metadata and download associated data in a variety of formats. It was built on a platform comprised of GeoServer 1.6, GeoNetwork 2.1, OpenLayers, PostGIS 8.3 and FME Server Beta using PHP5, JavaScript & XSLt on a RedHat Enterprise OS running Apache/Tomcat.
- Design and implementation of GeoEye's GeoFUSE. This project allows users to search GeoEye's image catalog based on their location of interest. It was built on a platform comprised of ESRI's ArcGISServer 9.3 REST interface, SQL Server 2005 and Google Maps API using C# .NET 3.5 and JavaScript/AJAX.
- Design and implementation of El Paso County's Parcel Mapping Portal. The project used ESRI's ArcGISServer 9.3 REST interface to serve data through SDE and compared ESRI's JavaScript API, Microsoft's Virtual Earth API and OpenLayers on a Windows Server 2003 machine running Apache.
- An extensive list of past projects can be explored in my portfolio...
Translink (Metro Vancouver Transportation Authority)Vancouver, BC
Geospatial consultant2009
- Generation of a collection of georeferenced images along the BC Parkway.
The University of MelbourneMelbourne, AUS
Research Assistant2007
- Wrote C++ Point-in-Polygon code for the "Spatial Information Exploration and Visualization Environment" (an immersive virtual environment developed at the University of Melbourne based on Torque Games Engine code). The code generated multi-point polygon objects populated with a range of random or structured vegetation types. This project involved coding, testing and debugging using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.
- Creation of mobile game GISnake. GISnake allows spatial enabled mobile users (GPS / GPRS / Wi-Fi enabled smartphones, PDAs & Laptops) to play the popular arcade game Snake in the real world. The project code included use of PHP/Mapscript, Google Maps API, Google Earth, PHP, XML, SVG, JavaScript & MySQL on an Apache webserver.
Grant McKenzie Online DesignVancouver, BC
Web Designer / Developer200 - 2007
- Website design through PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript/JSON, Adobe Flash, XML, XSLt, PostgreSQL & MySQL
- Sites Include: Kalem Photography (kalemphoto.com), Jentrance Photography (jentrance.com), Remember August (rememberaugust.com), Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Center (ubcsportsmedicine.ca).
Skills
Spatial Software
- ESRI ArcGIS Desktop Suite, uDig, QGIS
- GeoServer, MapServer, ArcGIS Server, MapNik
- OpenLayers, Google Maps API, Bing Maps API, ESRI JavaScript API, MapFish
- GeoWebCache, TileCache
- GeoNetwork
Languages & Frameworks
- PHP5
- Python
- Objective C
- C# & Visual Basic
- .NET 2.0 / 3.5
- JavaScript, JSON, AJAX, JQuery, Scriptaculous, mooTools
- Cocoa
- XML, XSLt, SVG
- HTML, CSS
- Adobe Flex
Databases
- Postgres (PostGIS)
- SQL Server (2008 / 2005)
- MySQL
Visualization Software
- Adobe Photoshop CS3 Suite
- AutoDesk 3D Studio Max
- POV-Ray
- ALICE
- Torque Games Engine
- GIMP
Operating Systems
- Microsoft Window XP/Vista/7
- Macintosh OS X
- Ubuntu & RedHat Linux