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Education

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

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

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

Languages & Frameworks

Databases

Visualization Software

Operating Systems