Pascal Cyr

Background

About Pascal Cyr

14 years of GIS and data management experience • 3 years of soil survey experience in Manitoba and Nova Scotia • 3 years of research experience in the Northern Boreal forest of Manitoba • 3 years of teaching university soil classification and land use laboratories Achievements: • Contributed to the development of 6 provincial databases and GIS data sets • Contributed to City of Yorkton geodatabase development and asset management • Created software programs to populate database fields and perform quality control Specialized skills: • Accounting (Bedford, Quicken) • Computer programming (Basic, DOS, dBase, Pascal, AML, SAS, Python) • Database management (dBase, Fox Pro, Access, geo-databases, SQL Server) and relational database design • Digital terrain modeling and 3D visualisation (3D Analyst, Surfer, GS+) • Geographic Information Systems • Web mapping • Geo-processing, geo-statistics (GS+) • GPS and topographic data collection (Trimble, Garmin, Sokia) • Laboratory analyses (chemical and physical) • Remote sensing • Air-photo interpretation • Image classification • Soils and landscapes (sampling, classification, management, interpretation, analysis) • Teaching (soil classification, computer skills, GIS, GPS, survey equipment) • Topographic surveys (rod and level, Sokia Total Station, differential GPS) • Statistics (StatView, SAS, ANOVA) General skills: • Operated small and medium sized tractors, farm equipment, front end loaders • Organized data, documents, equipment, information, merchandise and supplies • Quality control, quality assurance • Supervised small groups (work crews, volunteers, summer students, and technicians). • Bilingual (French and English)