Robin Burchfield

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About Robin Burchfield

Highly experienced, pragmatic and conscientious geospatial and data consultant with 20+ years hands-on industry exposure.Track record of successful project delivery, BaU management, business requirement gathering and stakeholder engagement. ITIL certified and has led the full project cycle to design and deliver enterprise wide spatial and data solutions. Has worked on projects using both the PRINCE2 and Agile Scrum frameworks.Vast experience of designing and delivering solutions that provide clear business value plus the management, transformation, analysis and presentation of data. Has been responsible for maintaining large corporate spatial data libraries and gazetteers, sourcing both new data and technologies, and of technically supporting end users and consumers across disparate organisations.Has abundant hands-on experience of conducting spatial analysis from multiple sources of data, plus the output of high-quality cartographic display. Recent projects have extended this experience into the realm of data analytics, modelling, ETL data migration and transformation, plus data quality validation and cleansing. Always communicates clearly to customers, business stakeholders and senior management alike, respecting their varied levels of technical understanding and required depth of detail. Robin has typically worked collaboratively within small teams and is accomplished at building and maintaining naturally healthy and trusted professional relationships. In recognition of his GIS competence, experience and knowledge, Robin has been awarded Chartered Geographer(GIS) status by the Royal Geographic Society.As an individual who has previously worked as an independent contractor, Robin has a wide breadth of exposure across different sectors, including:• Military, Environment, Police, Water & Gas utilities,Transport, Asset MgmtTechnical Skills • Geospatial products, such as: ESRI ArcGIS product suite, MapInfo, Hexagon Geospatial, QGIS, GeoServer• Field data capture with GeoField• FME and PL SQL for data ETL processes, data validation and cleansing – Robin is a Certified FME Professional• Data modelling in SparxEA using UML• Geospatial data including Ordnance Survey• Databases, including Oracle Spatial, SQL Server Spatial, PostGIS & SQL scripting• Atlassian project management tools (JIRA & Confluence)• Geospatial analysis and cartographic outputRobin has gained a wide breadth of knowledge and experience that enables his core GIS skill set to be flexibly and seamlessly applied into varying business need scenarios.