Curriculum Vitae

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Name

Jesper Kruse Nielsen

Address

19 Capel Place, North Melbourne, 3051 VIC

Phone / E-mail

+61 (03) 94 86 22 02 / jesper [{at}] krusedulle.net

Date Of Birth

Towards the end of 1973.

Nationality

Danish (EU). Full work permit for Australia and temporary resident status until Aug 2007 (457 Temporary Resident Visa)

Languages

English, Danish + basic German and French

Education

M.Sc. in GIS, Surveying, Planning and Land Management (Cand. Geom)

1993 – 1999, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Cartography, GIS and Digital Mapping

1998, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Training Courses

ITIL Service Management Awareness Training

2004, DSE, Melbourne, Australia

Advanced ArcSDE Administration for SQL Server

2001, ESRI UK, Aylesbury, United Kingdom

MapBasic Programming

2001, MapInfo UK, Windsor, United Kingdom

Key Skills

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

  • ESRI (ArcGIS, ArcInfo, ArcIMS, ArcView, ArcSDE, MapObjects, ArcObjects), MapInfo, FME, MoxiMedia IMF, MapPoint, ER Mapper – Image Web Server.
  • Best practise development, administration and support of ESRI desktop and server applications.
  • Strong understanding of ISO and OGC Standards in the Geospatial area including but not restricted to WMS, WFS and GML.
  • Geospatial RDBMS specification, design, development and tuning.
  • Data handling of GIS, CAD, GPS data capture, vector, raster and metadata from multiple sources.
  • Spatial analysis – interpolation, map algebra, grid-based filtering, classification, advanced spatial modelling, integration and visualisation techniques.

Project Management

  • Application development team leading; project planning and coordination; Microsoft Project; PRINCE2.

Web and Application Development

  • RAD techniques; SDLC; OOAD; Structured Analysis and Design.
  • Java/J2EE; Visual Basic; ActiveX & COM; Perl; Avenue; AML; PHP; SQL.
  • HTML / XHTML; JavaScript; ASP / VBScript; JSP; XML & XSLT, CSS.

Database

  • SQL Tuning; SQL Server; Oracle; OLEDB & ODBC; JDBC; Oracle Spatial, ArcSDE, MySQL.

System Administration

  • System administration experience on Windows NT4/2000/XP/2003; and Linux.
  • Good operational experience of IIS, Apache, Tomcat.
  • Good high level understanding of TCP/IP LAN/WAN networking.
  • WSH / Perl / Commandline Batch and system scripting.

Professional Experience

A brief overview of past employment and projects undertaken in these positions. All positions where fulltime unless noted.

Team Lead ~ Spatial Services

2006 –
Shared Service Centre – Department of Infrastructure
Melbourne, Australia

  • Managing a team of two undertaking operational administration, development and support of DSE/DPI shared Internet mapping capability (MapShare).
  • Changed focus towards future directions for spatial services in the departments.
  • Aid developers, businesses and other ITS teams with architecture and platform specific issues.

Projects:

  • Upgrading all components of the underlying technology stack for the departments Internet mapping capability.
  • Moving towards OGC, W3C compliant service structures.

Systems Manager ~ Internet Mapping/SDE/database

2003 – 2006
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Melbourne, Australia

  • Operational administration, development and support of DSE/DPI shared Internet mapping capability (MapShare).
  • Documenting system development, procedures and user requirements.
  • Develop and maintain web mapping application development standards.
  • Develop/Run/Document monitoring, administrative, change management and QA processes.
  • Identification and remedy of root causes to performance problems.
  • Aid developers, businesses and other ITS teams with architecture and platform specific issues.

Projects:

  • Developed ArcIMS monitoring with integrated autorecovery, incident logging and alert functionality. This allows recovery of service in most scenarios including outside normal supported business hours, better background to identify root cause etc. The process has meant a significant increase in overall system availability.
  • Switching departmental web mapping platform from custom ArcIMS HTML viewer to Moximedia’s J2EE IMF platform. This involved building additional shared generic functionality into the new IMF platform. A role that involved specifying the requirements and to some degree the solution. As well as gathering supports and funds from internal business units within DSE/DPI.
  • Performing seamless hardware upgrade of all application servers. This was an end to end replacement of existing servers with new hardware and a venture to rebuild the platform from the bottom up documenting all steps involved.

Associate ~ GIS/database/web – developer/consultant role

2000 – 2003
GeoBusiness Solutions Ltd.
Wendover, UK

  • Application design of everything from standalone desktop systems or customisations to scalable multi server applications, including design of supporting databases.
  • Application development and customisation, for delivery in a web browser environment using web mapping technology, as standalone applications or as customisations within existing GIS software packages.
  • Design, development, implementation, tuning and administration of geospatial RDBMS.
  • Company wide IT System Administration (including DBA role).

Projects:

  • Post Office Network Reinvention Model (NRM): Full project lifecycle for the development of intranet-based web mapping front-end to the NRM Gravity Model and geospatial database design & implementation using ESRI ArcIMS, ArcSDE and ArcGIS technologies. Also responsible for the overall technical architecture and design of supporting databases.
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Full project lifecycle for the development of a standalone mapping and analysis application build on ESRI MapObjects allowing sophisticated display and query of sales data in order to expose parallel import. Designed the application and supporting databases.
  • DTZ Property Europe: Developed a VB reporting tool allowing quick interrogation of large datasets held in MS Access based on a generic database model allowing the application to be utilised on different geographies in different countries.
  • Internal development on website and Intranet using ASP and SQL Server.

Spatial Data Librarian, Department for Development and Planning

1999 – 2000
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

  • Enable campus wide sharing of the departments large spatial data assets.
  • Set up and maintain metadata on the data held.
  • Transform and translate data to uniform spatial reference system.
  • Develop routines for easy data extraction for student and research projects.

Research Assistant (FORTRIN)

1998 – 1999
DTU
Lyngby, Denmark

  • Development of a prototype for registering route-determined road–pricing utilising real–time mobile Global Positioning Systems (GPS) integrated with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. The prototype was developed in ArcView using Avenue.

Research Assistant (EU –IRDSS)

1997 – 1998
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

  • Lead the development of an ArcView Prototype Application for presenting a Geographic Information System (GIS) on the Internet. Development of this application required a thorough understanding of Client and Server Applications as well as data structure and GIS functionality. This prototype application looked at a fiscal planning and development application.
  • This project was a participant in a European Union research program called IRDSS (Inter Regional Development Support System).

System Administrator (Linux and NT) – part time

1997 – 1999
Aalborg University
Aalborg, Denmark

  • In charge of several NT and Linux machines running a variety of server software including IIS, Apache, Samba, ftpd, MS Proxy.
  • Installed and added new services as well as setting up specifications for new machines and install them.
  • Making everything run smoothly on Intranet as well as the Internet using an ethernet TCP/IP network.

Additional profile

Publications

Publications prepared for peer review magazines or conferences:

  • “Using cooperative approaches to support greater use of spatial information” Spatial Sciences Institute Biennial Conference in Melbourne – Australia, September 2005.
  • “GPS og GIS til kørselsafgift” Nordic GIS Conference in Kolding – Denmark, October 1999.
  • “Interactive Maps on the Internet” Landinspektøren – Danish Journal for mapping and Land-use, Nr. 1-98.
  • “Web Based Browsing of Spatial Data” 12th ESRI European User Conference 1997. Copenhagen.

Interests

Current Affairs, Computers & Internet, Books, Architecture & Design, Travel, Contemporary art and all kinds of outdoor recreation activities. I enjoy trekking, anything involving a pushbike, watersports and skiing.

Strengths

My strengths include my ability to resourcefully apply my skills to solve the tasks at hand. I am quick to grasp new concepts and enjoy the challenge of the unknown. I am able to work effectively in both a group and alone and pride myself on achieving work that is of a high standard.

Career Profile

Previous employers have commented on my excellent understanding of Geographic Information Systems. Particularly data organisation, database design and manipulation, graphical output and my ability to approach complex issues. Further more my very high level of computer literacy across multiple disciplines has provided efficient solutions for the problems presented.

Referees

Most recent employer and client referees available upon request.