About
I am a Chartered Geographer with over 20 years’ experience of working with GIS across the public and private sector. I am a past Chair of the Association for Geographic Information and have a deep knowledge of applying GIS to the engineering, environment, flood risk and health sectors.
Preferences
- Location: South West England
- Availability: daytime, evening, in person and online
- Key stage: KS4 and KS5
- Themes: GIS
Current or most recent role
I am the Global GIS Platform Director for Arcadis, a world leading company delivering intelligence-driven sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. My day job involves providing a secure, high performing GIS platform to Arcadis’ global community of 6,000 GIS users.
Previous experience
In 2018 I presented via RICS to postgrad GIS students at Leicester University. In the same year I also presented a session on working with maps, using ESRI ArcGIS Online, to early years students at my son's school.
Why I want to become a professional ambassador
I would like to inspire and empower young people to develop expertise in geospatial technology by showing how it can be applied to address many of the issues facing society today.
Types of activities
- Talking about current job and career pathway
- Talking about what geographical skills I use at work and how geography is used in the 'real world'
- Inspiring young people to choose geography
- Classroom based activities or working with small groups of students to talk about career options
- Supporting a geography club or eco club
- Supporting fieldwork and opportunities outside the classroom