Melissa Smith

GIS Technician at City of Cape Town
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(386) 825-5501
Location
City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, ZA

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Experience

    • South Africa
    • Government Administration
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • GIS Technician
      • Jun 2013 - Present

      Ensuring the provision of a support service to Head Office and Districts with a mapping Service. Creating and updating spatial information products in digital format for distribution. Analyzing data and producing graphic and tabular reports. Performing data queries and derive spatial statistics to support Management with decision making. Distributing and collating data between district offices for Projects. Instituting Standards, data integrity and quality of GIS Mapping Products for the Departments GIS. Liaising with District Offices regarding availability of GIS information. Serving on project management teams. Advising line management on project progress and work quality. Making recommendations to line management for interventions as required. Keeping abreast of current technology and software by attending GIS courses, seminars and conducting research on the internet. Data Capture/Verification Assisting with city wide data acquisition, capturing and verification Assist with Ad-hoc special data capturing requests Maintain a standard database of spatial information, supported by complete metadata Analyze data for Department and other stakeholders, in order to ensure the availability of quality data. Technical Admin Contributing to the administering GIS technical resources by, Conducting GIS software and hardware audits. Maintaining database of GIS software, hardware and peripherals. Liaising with IS&T regarding software needs. Contributing to the formulation of the division’s performance targets. Conducting research to keep abreast on the latest GIS trends and technology. Providing a technical support service at Assisting with Coordinating Marketing and GIS and Awareness by, Developing a GIS marketing plan. Evaluating the effectiveness of marketing initiatives. Identifying and embarking on marketing opportunities. Creating GIS awareness at schools and other institutions. Producing marketing material for GIS events. Show less

    • Travel Arrangements
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Frontline Receptionist & PA
      • Nov 2012 - May 2013

      Frontline reception and PA to Manager & CEO Frontline reception and PA to Manager & CEO

    • Book and Periodical Publishing
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Data Capturer
      • Jan 2012 - Oct 2012

      Data Capturing, Research & Verification of Client data base Data Capturing, Research & Verification of Client data base

Education

  • University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika
    Bachelor of Arts (BA), Human Social Sciences
    2016 - 2020
  • Mondale secondary school
    Secondary Education and Teaching
    1999 - 2005

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