Experience

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  Landcare Research

  • New Zealand
  • Research Services
  • 400 - 500 Employee

  • Research Associate, Informatics

    • Oct 2016 - Present

  • Snr Scientist

    • Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

    Sewing up loose ends in preparation for retirement and transition to Research Associate with Landcare Research. Co-authored a white paper for the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge on data infrastructure needs of the challenge.

  • Informatics Science Team Leader

    • Jan 2009 - Jun 2016

    I lead a multi-disciplinary team of >25 scientists, developers and technicians who imagineer the Computing and Informatics infrastructure for Landcare Research's science.

  • Geospatial Informatics Research Leader

    • Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

    I lead a team of a dozen GIS professionals who specialise in Natural Resource modelling, we are located at Landcare Research's Lincoln, Palmerston North and Hamilton sites and we manage one of NZ's larger holdings of geospatial data.I lead the SCENZ-Grid project, which is bringing the worlds of workflow and geospatial analysis together.

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  Open Geospatial Consortium

  • United States
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • co-chair Discrete Global Grid Systems SWG

    • Apr 2014 - Present

  • OGC co-convenor ISO/TC 211- OGC Joint Advisory Group (JAG)

    • Sep 2018 - Oct 2023

    OGC and ISO/TC 211 formally recognize each others complementary roles in creating spatial standards and are each members of the the other body. Within this context of close collaboration, the JAG has been established to ensure coordination between ISO/TC 211 and the OGC. The harmonization and alignment of specifications and standards from the OGC and ISO/TC 211 is therefore essential to facilitate the development of interoperable geospatial architectures, compliant software and domain data models.

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  Standards NZ ISO/TC211 International Review Group

  • Palmerston North, New Zealand

  • Lead ISO TC211 19170 - Geospatial Information - Discrete Global Grid Systems

    • Nov 2017 - Oct 2023
    • Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Standards NZ represents NZ's interests at ISO/TC211 Geographic information, and appoints specialists in appropriate disciplines and sectors to ensure NZ needs are met. I am Editor of ISO 19170-1:2021 Geographic information — Discrete Global Grid Systems Specifications — Part 1: Core Reference System and Operations, and Equal Area Earth Reference System which was published in May 2021. As editor of 19170-1, I pioneered the use of automated documentation techniques by extracting UML entity definitions directly from ISO/TC211 Harmonized UML Model into the standards document, and the use of Ribose's Metanorma and asciidoc to create a single source document for both ISO/TC211 19170-1 and it's OGC equivalent OGC AS 21 v2.0.

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  Victoria University of Wellington

  • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • GEOG315 Course Coordinator

    • Jul 2017 - Dec 2017
    • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    Standing in for Mairead de Roiste as Course Coordinator for GEOG315 Advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) while she is on maternity leave.

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  Landcare Research (NZ) Ltd

  • Palmerston North, NZ

  • Scientist

    • 1992 - Jan 2006
    • Palmerston North, NZ

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  DSIR Land and Soil Sciences

  • Aokautere, Palmerston North, NZ

  • Scientist

    • 1989 - 1992
    • Aokautere, Palmerston North, NZ

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  Soil Conservation Center

  • Aokautere, Palmerston North, NZ

  • Scientist

    • 1981 - 1989
    • Aokautere, Palmerston North, NZ

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  Computer Sciences Australia

  • Sydney & Adelaide, Australia

  • Programmer

    • 1978 - 1980
    • Sydney & Adelaide, Australia

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  Carter Observatory

  • Scientific Officer

    • 1975 - 1978