Barbara Swies
Bentleigh East,Vic.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
Work History
Asset Data and GIS officer
Wyndham City Council
- I am maintaining and monitoring both AMIS and GIS to a high level ensuring asset data integrity
- I am undertaking asset data entry and analysis of data.
Senior GIS Officer
Moonee Valley City Council
08.2023 - 10.2023
- I was undertaking complex spatial editing analysis and map creation, or to perform such tasks on behalf of various business units for internal or external use
- I was responsible for the management and ongoing maintenance of Council GIS database
- I was responsible for the maintenance of the State Digital MapBase in accordance with the agreement between Council and the State Government whereby I reconcile the Council Rate
Asst Information Analyst
Parks Victoria
01.2022 - 08.2023
- My main job was to provide spatial knowledge to business units to identify information gaps and work with the Manager Spatial Information Services to provide information required to support Parks Victoria’s delivery of park management services
- I was updating spatial information ArcGIS and metadata Maximo Asset Data with data from multiple sources, including external agencies
- I continuously improved the document Parks Victoria’s spatial data management processes and practices
- Under management guidance I’ve led the creation of new datasets
- As directed by management, I undertook spatial analysis utilizing Parks Victoria’s spatial systems to provide quality data and information to assist decision making
- I provided cartographic and mapping services, including management of the service request queue as required by Asset Data & Information Officer
- I provided user support for spatial systems and spatial data usage
- I was helping Users every day in creating assets in EZMaxMobile, Field maps (Collector) on Mobile and Users working in Office on Asset Editing Application
- For All GIS analyses I was using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Map and Maximo Asset Database.
Senior Spatial Analyst
Port Phillip Council
05.2021 - 12.2021
- My main responsibility was maintenance and creation of Assets Data in CI Technology One and QGIS from As-Constructed plans and ADAC plans
- I was involved in the Transformation and Migration of Data to a new business opted solution
- Ensure the quality and integrity of asset and spatial data were maintained with a high level of attention to detail and spatial accuracy
- I was providing spatial analysis and mapping using QGIS and I was delivering quality data to CI Technology One data base and GIS
- With the new CI Technology One version I was involved with testing development version and integration with GIS.
Asset Audit Data Analyst
Greater Dandenong City Council
12.2020 - 05.2021
- The primary function of my role is to analyse the data collected by Asset Audit Data Collection Crews
- I am performing data analysis on data to detect inaccurate, incomplete, or incorrect data
- Then the data are migrated to Assetic Database in the cloud and then to GIS
- In this role I used FME Feature Manipulation Engine, QGIS, IntraMaps and SQL to match and convert newly Collection of data from FULCRUM to existing data in GIS
- Over 90,000 newly created assets have to be cleaned, converted, matched, validated and loaded to Assetic database.
Urban Research Analyst
DELWP
09.2019 - 09.2020
- Using ArcGIS, I was undertaking a visual assessment of identified residential developments and updating the database with the dwelling change
- This data set is required to create the Housing Development Data, an important data source for monitoring housing and land use across Metropolitan Melbourne
- In this role I was able to use my GIS and SQL skills to automate parts of the process, improving the accuracy and speed of the data collection
- It was very challenging idea.
Asset and Geospatial Systems Officer
Yarra City Council
01.2005 - 01.2019
- I was responsible for the maintenance of the State Digital MapBase in accordance with the agreement between Council and the State Government whereby I reconcile the Council Rate/Property database (Proclaim) with the VicMap Mapbase
- My main duties were to analyse clean and reconcile council databases and provide correct information to all council customers
- I was identifying and researching discrepancies between map base property attribute data and council’s Rates/Property database
- Other duties include spatial data capture, loading of new spatial data sets and the maintenance and enhancement of existing spatial data sets in relation to Council’s assets
- The GIS platform used at Yarra is Geomedia by Hexagon also WEB application WEBMAP
- I was creating new maps and new themes in Council GIS Website
- I participate in the development for manipulation and maintenance of the built form 3D model
- I was involved in creation new 3 D website for Council in Cesium Geospatial 3D Mapping and Virtual Globe Platform using html and java script programming.
Asset Information Specialist
Melbourne Water
01.1988 - 01.2005
- During my time at Melbourne Water where I was responsible for capturing and maintaining accurate GIS information on Melbourne Water Assets (Drainage, Water and Sewer) in GIS (MapInfo) and Hansen database systems
- This was to ensure efficient operation of assets, accurate information of future asset planning where risks were managed to agreed levels and improved business processes
- Over the last five years in MW, I was doing validation and rectification of MW assets information.
Education
01.2022
01.2020
01.2019
01.2018
01.2016
01.2015
01.2014
01.2005
01.2002
01.1998
01.1998
01.1997
01.1996
01.1995
Skills
- Engineering Skills
- Information Technology Skills
- Analytical skill
- Auditing skills
- Customer service skill
- Knowledge of GIS skills
- Depth knowledge of SQL skills
- Knowledge of Asset Management
- Basic programming HTML and java
References
- Andrew Carpenter, Manager Business Support | Facilities & Asset Management | Infrastructure, (03) 8427 3442, 0428 585 550, andrew.carpenter@parks.vic.gov.au
- Tonima Ghose, Coordinator Asset Mangement, 0427612991, Tinima.Ghose@wyndham.vic.gov.au
Timeline
Senior GIS Officer
Moonee Valley City Council
08.2023 - 10.2023
Asst Information Analyst
Parks Victoria
01.2022 - 08.2023
Senior Spatial Analyst
Port Phillip Council
05.2021 - 12.2021
Asset Audit Data Analyst
Greater Dandenong City Council
12.2020 - 05.2021
Urban Research Analyst
DELWP
09.2019 - 09.2020
Asset and Geospatial Systems Officer
Yarra City Council
01.2005 - 01.2019
Asset Information Specialist
Melbourne Water
01.1988 - 01.2005
Asset Data and GIS officer
Wyndham City Council
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