Our senior consultants counts amongst the most experienced in the GIS market and are recognised nationally and internationally. Our consultants have been involved in the implementation of spatial solutions for over ten years.
The Company’s Technical personnel, who are all experts in their fields, work closely with each other to ensure best-output and personal growth.
The levels of expertise include the following:
+ GIS Professionals
The following is required for this level of expertise:
- Effective communication with fellow IT staff and with users of information systems, in the form of& written and verbal communication
- Strategic planning with client that include short, medium and long-term goals in line with the client's mandate
- Facilitation of workshops with clients
- Planning, specification writing, interviews with the client, technical proposals to the client, analysis of results and writing of the final report to the client
- Personnel management, logistics and financial management
- Use and proficiency of modern technology is essential
- Project management - This includes project planning, costing, determination of work procedures, resource allocation, project control, progress monitoring and reporting.
- Knowledge of Oracle spatial databases in order to promote the working and integration of such databases
- Autodesk/Munsys knowledge in order to promote the utilisation of such products/applications
+ GIS Technologist/Senior/Junior Developer
The following is required for this level of expertise:
- Must be able to work with different data models designing feature classifications and definitions design of symbology types, styles and colour.
- Spatial analysis - This includes cartographic modelling, topological, buffer and Boolean type analysis for vector data.
- Project management - This includes project planning, costing, determination of work procedures,resource allocation, project control, progress monitoring and reporting.
- An understanding of different types of computer systems and the use of computer technology in business
- Describe the different computers systems and associated hardware and network configurations; and investigate (sometimes under supervision) its use within organisations.
- The ability to identify different problem solving techniques, and when and how to apply them
- Computer architecture, networking and operating systems concepts, as well a s different data storage methods.
- An understanding of Computer Programming Principles by producing program segments explaining variousprogramming principles.
- Working effectively as a team member within a development project environment, taking part in team activities and understanding different roles within different support teams.
- Knowledg of the techniques & skills needed to understand fundamental programming principles by creating a computer program that combines the assessed outcomes in funda mental programming.
- Standard operating system skills; working in a networked environment with centralised servers and printers; working with GIS software and databases.
- Data manipulation - This includes data processing; transformations; spatial datacleaning; data editing; attribute data cleaning; basic data classification; capture and metadata maintenance; map projections and re-projections; working with database files; performing queries; data integration merging, splitting and aggregations.
- Extensive knowledge of Oracle spatial databases in order to design and structure tables effectively as well as developing and executing basic and advanced SQL scripts.
- Extensive knowledge of Autodesk/Munsys products/applications
+ GIS Technicians
The following is required for this level of expertise:
- Must be able to work with different data models; designing feature classifications and definitions, desig of symbology types, styles and colour.
- An understanding of different types of computer systems and the use of computer technology in business
- Working effectively as a team member within a development project environment, taking part in team activities and understanding different roles within different support teams.
- Knowledge of the techniques & skills needed to understand fundamental programming principles by creating a computer program that combines the assessed outcomes in funda mental programming.
- Standard operating system skills; working in a networked environment with centralised servers and printers; working with GIS software and databases.
- Data manipulation: This includes data processing; transformations; spatial data cleaning; data editing; attribute data cleaning; basic data classification; capture and metadata maintenance; map projections and re-projections; working with database files; performing queries; data integration merging, splitting and aggregations.
- Knowledge of Oracle spatial databases in order to design and structure tables effectively as well as developing and executing basic SQL scripts.
- Extensive knowledge of Autodesk/Munsys products/applications
+ GIS Operators/GIS Data Capturers
The following is required for this level of expertise:
- Data collection and capture - This includes digitising from map compilation or ortho-images; data capture from co-ordinates or general plans as well as the related attribute information.
- Data manipulation - This includes data processing; spatial data cleaning; data editing; attribute data cleaning; basic data classification and capture.
- Basic understanding/knowledge of Oracle in order to capture spatial and attribute information and posting it to the database.
- Basic understanding/ knowledge Autodesk/Munsys products/applications to capture data
+ Project Manager
The most important activity is in planning, detailed, systematic, team-involved plans that will ensure the foundation of
project success.
When events conspire to change the plan, the project manager must update the project plan. Planning and re-planning is a
reoccurringstask.
We ensure that professional standa rds and best practices are built into our project plans.
Not only do these models typically support quality, they help to minimise rework. When time or budget pressures seem to
encourage taking short cuts, we identify and defend the best project life cycle for the job.
The project manager and project team creates a tangible picture of the finished deliverables in the minds of everyone
involved so that all effort is focused in the same direction. Avoid vague descriptions at all costs; spell it out;
picture it, prototype it, and make sure everyone agrees to it.
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