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I am a computer software professional, with particular experience covering software products, digital mapping, GIS, cartography, charting, geospatial data and data models, location services, automated generalisation and data re-engineering techniques. I bridge the gap between the technologists and the users, having worked both in software development and in business development.
| I am sometimes (but not currently) available for work as a consultant or contractor. See the Hardy Systems page for details. |
From January 2008, I work as Business Development Consultant for Esri Europe, the European wing of Esri Inc, the world's major provider of software for mapping and GIS (Geographic Information Systems). My particular focus is national mapping, cartographic and cadastral agencies. Since June 2010, my employment transferred to Esri Global, but I continued working for Esri Europe as before.
At the end of 2006, I returned to England from the USA, and was employed by ESRI UK, the UK distributor for Esri Inc. However, 50% of my time was funded and tasked by Esri Inc (the parent US company) to continue to contribute to core software products.
From the end of December 2003 until the end of December 2006 I was in Redlands, California, working for Esri Inc., as Product Manager for Cartography. For much of the time, I also acted as Software Project Manager for a key software development project to engineer capabilities for 'cartographic representations' into the core of ArcGIS, for the ArcGIS 9.2 release. See a recent ArcNews article.
Between August and December 2003,I worked as a strategic consultant for ESRI UK, the UK agents for Esri Inc.
Until June 2003 (when the company was put into administration as insolvent),I worked for 28 years at Laser-Scan Ltd, a company on the Cambridge Science Park which produced world-leading software for mapping, charting, and geographic information handling. I started there in 1975 as a Junior Programmer, and eventually held jobs as Chief Programmer, then Product Manager, and then Principal Consultant. For more information on Laser-Scan, including a company history, see my Laser-Scan page. When I passed 25 years with Laser-Scan, I was given a presentation during a company gathering. Here is a photo of me in the crowd, and another receiving the presentation. In the early days at Laser-Scan, we had many VIP visitors. Here is me with Prince Philip, and others (Peter Woodsford and Martin Fulford) with Margaret Thatcher
I have published over 40 papers for conferences, workshops and journals (individual and joint authored) - see my paper index for downloads.
In the past, my interests have included:
| For a description of my Lachenal, Wheatstone, and Case concertinas see my concertina page. |
See my Easter Date page which uses my first Java program to calculate the date of Easter Sunday in any given year.
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