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Passionate about building new markets and opportunities for geospatial technology, in 2010, I founded Sparkgeo because geospatial is changing everything.
I have an academic background in engineering and remote sensing, with a recent postgraduate diploma in strategy and innovation from Oxford. Now, my team and I create cross-cutting geospatial solutions for clients from across the globe. We work with some of the biggest brands in technology, agriculture, automotive and aerospace, building cutting-edge geospatial platforms and modernizing legacy systems.
I chair the Hubspace, which supports technology entrepreneurs in Northern BC, and advise Cultivation Capital's Geospatial fund.
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Great white paper from our partners Arlula on hyperspectral!
Great white paper from our partners Arlula on hyperspectral!
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A couple takeaways from FOSS4G North America in St. Louis: 1. The arch is much bigger than I thought. 2. This is a fantastically generous and…
A couple takeaways from FOSS4G North America in St. Louis: 1. The arch is much bigger than I thought. 2. This is a fantastically generous and…
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Great discussions about #SpatialFinance hosted by The Post Building, GEO261, Greater St Louis Inc., Bloomberg, Sparkgeo - Geospatial Consulting &…
Great discussions about #SpatialFinance hosted by The Post Building, GEO261, Greater St Louis Inc., Bloomberg, Sparkgeo - Geospatial Consulting &…
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Activities and Societies: Lairig Club
Remote Sensing | GIS Analysis | Cartography | Spatial Statistics
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Activities and Societies: Lairig Mountaineering Club, President 2000
Research Assistant, 2000: research into Viterbi convolutional encoding - decoding routines.
Civil Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | Electrical Engineering | Electronic Engineering | Math | Physics | C++ | Microcontrollers -
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Licenses & Certifications
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Google Earth Outreach Developer
Google Earth Outreach (http://www.google.com/earth/outreach/resources/developers.html)
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KML Qualified
Google
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JS Maps API Qualified
Google
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Volunteer Experience
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Founding Board Member
Innovation Central Society
- Present 13 years 1 month
Science and Technology
Building technology capacity in Prince George, BC.
Innovation happens all around us, Innovation Central helps innovators in North-Central British Columbia get the support they need to take their ideas to market.
Technology Startups Prince George | Business Support | Technology Meetups | Engineering | Innovation -
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Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
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Humbled to join the Oxford MBA elective, Smart Space: Building the Next Space Age as a full engagement auditor.
Publications
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Geospatial Analytics Will Eat The World, And You Won't Even Know It
Forbes.com
Geospatial analytics are creeping into our commercial business processes; making geospatial technology much more valuable, but much less obvious.
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Mapping downhill skiing’s environmental impact: evaluating the potential of remote sensing in Scotland
Scottish Natural Heritage
Cadell, W. M., Matthews, K. B., (Sept 2005).
This is a chapter from book which is the result of Scottish Natural Heritage’s “Nature and People” conference, 2002.Other authors -
Reducing the cost of multi-spectral remote sensing: combining near-infrared video imagery with colour aerial photography
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Patents
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MAP ANALYTICS FOR INTERACTIVE WEB-BASED MAPS
US 14/620,479
Projects
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Maptiks, Map Analytics
Maptiks is an analytics layer for web maps. For too long we have left the success of our maps to guesswork. At Sparkgeo we decided to start instrumenting our maps so we had a better understanding of how our maps are used. We track user activities, performance and conduct A/B tests on particular elements. We have decided to start building better maps, you should too!
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Over the Horizon Consumption Map (WCS)
Economic activity influences nature, sometimes dramatically. But where? And how much? This application shows a demonstration of a new analysis of "over-the-horizon consumption" that tries to find out.
Sparkgeo.com was asked by the Wildlife Conservation Society with the support of Google's Outreach Team and Tides.org to turn this concept into a production application. We used a combination of geographic web technology including Google Maps, Google Maps Engine, PostGIS, GDAL and even a…Economic activity influences nature, sometimes dramatically. But where? And how much? This application shows a demonstration of a new analysis of "over-the-horizon consumption" that tries to find out.
Sparkgeo.com was asked by the Wildlife Conservation Society with the support of Google's Outreach Team and Tides.org to turn this concept into a production application. We used a combination of geographic web technology including Google Maps, Google Maps Engine, PostGIS, GDAL and even a little ArcGIS!Other creatorsSee project -
Startup Prince George
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Startup PG is a grassroots driven group in Prince George dedicated to creating more entrepreneurs and innovators in Northern, BC. We are not an organization, non-profit or business. We are a group of volunteers that partner with organizations to organize and lead a number of events throughout the year that bring together entrepreneurs, developers, designers, creators, artists and changemakers in a fun and social way.
Currently our flagship event is our monthly drinks at the Copper Pig…Startup PG is a grassroots driven group in Prince George dedicated to creating more entrepreneurs and innovators in Northern, BC. We are not an organization, non-profit or business. We are a group of volunteers that partner with organizations to organize and lead a number of events throughout the year that bring together entrepreneurs, developers, designers, creators, artists and changemakers in a fun and social way.
Currently our flagship event is our monthly drinks at the Copper Pig. It is free to attend. Just come on by the last Tuesday of every month at 7pm. Hope to see you there.
Currently, our other major events:
Startup Weekend (54hr Business Incubator/game) in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation
PG Hacks (Hackathon) in partnership with various sponsors
Creative Entrepreneur Mixer (Maker Lab) in partnership with Two Rivers Gallery
Mentor 2 Mentor Event in partnership with various organizations.
Connect with us and get involved!
If you’re on Twitter, we use the following hashtags: #swprincegeorge , #startupdrinkspg, #startuppg, #PGhacksOther creatorsSee project -
PlaceSpeak
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Bringing democracy to your home. PlaceSpeak allows citizens to connect with projects happening in their backyards. Claim your Place. Speak your mind.
Google Maps | geoDjango | Python | GDAL | OGR | PostGIS | Technology Leadership | Community Engagement | SAAS Business | Technology Start Up | Web Development | Spatial Analysis | OAuth2Other creatorsSee project -
MammothTrails.org
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I was brought into a great team to help 'put Mammoth Lakes' trails on the web'. The Mammoth Lakes Trails & Public Access foundation have helped to build an astonishing trail system. Everyone should go there, and they should go to http://www.mammothtrails.org to plan their trip!
Google Maps | TileMill | PostGIS | Django | QR Codes | Responsive Web | Geolocation | Node.jsOther creatorsSee project -
ecoReserve.org
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Saving the rainforest one pixel at a time! EcoReserve's goal is to enable people to actively help save the rainforest by securing the future of a parcel of land the size of their living room.
Google Maps | PHP | Javascript | HTML | CSS | Remote Sensing | Tropical Mapping | Ajax | Technology Start Up | Non-Profit | Forestry | REDD | Carbon | Remote GIS TeamsOther creatorsSee project
Honors & Awards
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Technology & Industry Newsmaker of the Year
Northern British Columbia Business & Technology Awards
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Top 40 under 40
Prince George Chamber of Commerce
Quite embarrassing really (I don't do accolades well).
I was voted as one of Prince George's "Top 40 professionals under 40". They say it was for building a geo technology business in a rural town, helping out with mentoring youth biz people and helping to nurture a new innovation society in town.
But I think it might just have been my Scottish accent...
Organizations
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StartUpDrinksPG
co-founder
- PresentWe decided that technology and business people should meet and have drinks. They've done it elsewhere, why not PG too? So we did, and now we have 30+/- people meeting at 7pm on the last Tuesday of every month at Nancy O's. You can be there too! No fees, no sponsorship, just a few drinks, some technology and a smidge of business.
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Innovation Central Society
Vice Chair
- PresentThe central region of BC was lacking a science council. In conjunction with key organisations in PG, we built one. We acquired an executive director in September of 2012 and the organisation is rolling! Congratulations Prince George & Northern Interior, we are back on BC's technology map!
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