Christopher Blackstock

Background

About Christopher Blackstock

Strategic spatial leader with over 18 years’ experience driving business innovation and value, through the delivery of technical, strategic and collaborative spatial services, solutions and programs. Proven experience building strategic and collaborative client partnerships and teams dedicated to addressing critical corporate and industry challenges. Highly skilled problem solver with extensive and wide ranging spatial technical experience, combined with the unique ability to effectively engage, build trust and navigate organisational, industry, technology and political landscapes. Career highlights: • Led multiple strategic engagements that resulted in client approval of transformational multi-year corporate programs scoped up to $10M. • Led and supported many spatial strategy and governance engagements across multiple sectors, including federal, provincial and municipal governments, academia, natural resources, agriculture, environment, infrastructure and transportation. • Project managed multiple projects, often concurrently, across private, public and academic landscapes. • Provided strategic leadership, technical direction and advice on enterprise and national level GIS and information management initiatives and coordinating horizontally and vertically across organizations and IT. • Extensive consulting experience leading planning engagements, facilitating workshops, requirements gathering sessions, requirements analysis, and documentation of recommendations and designs. • Designed, implemented and maintained two corporate Spatial Data Infrastructure platforms, driving rapid growth in both organizations’ spatial capacity, capability, value and adoption. • Extensive experience developing custom and out-of-the-box web mapping, field data collection, data management and integrated information management programs and solutions. • Led and operated in high-pressure and high-performing teams during emergency management situations such as fires, floods and HAZMAT emergencies.