Mr. Gavan Thomas
Canberra,ACT
Summary
Gavan is a degree qualified geospatial consultant who specialises in developing and delivering enterprise geospatial solutions to both government and commercial businesses. Gavan has over twenty years of professional practice in the development and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial data analytics for Australia’s natural resources, asset management, forestry, geosciences, biosecurity, defence, agriculture, and social welfare sectors. He is currently based in Canberra.
Gavan has over ten years lead experience in the development of enterprise geospatial solutions into medium-large corporate IT business systems. He has the knowledge, experience and drive to deliver innovative products and services for his clients in the areas of spatial analytics, solutions architecture, data engineering, data modelling, web services, machine learning, and data governance.
Gavan possesses over ten years’ experience in managing medium to large multi-year technical and ICT projects up to AU $40M, with five years as a technical leader for multidisciplinary R&D teams. Gavan has formal training and practice in the PRINCE2 project management methodology.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead
KPMG AU
Canberra, ACT
11.2021 - 12.2023
- Provide specialist technical leadership in developing the Land Geospatial Center (LGC).
- Develop technical roadmaps for future LGC capabilities with machine learning, digital twin, automation, and big data analytics.
- Maintain networks with key LGC stakeholders, vendors, Defence staff, and service delivery agencies.
- Develop project plans, technical briefs, technical reports, and presentations.
- Assisted in the design and development of application architecture components.
- Created detailed project plans with timelines, deliverables, and resources needed.
- Provided technical guidance on development projects as well as implementation of new technologies.
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy and Water
07.2022 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: https://www.dcceew.gov.au/
- Configuration of ArcGIS Online, Hub application in pre-production.
- Execute content migration tasks from the old FED to the new departmental ArcGIS Online Hub site.
- Translate and synchronize metadata elements between ISO 19115:2015 and pre-2015 schemas with XSL.
- Conduct an inventory of spatial layers and associated metadata, and flag schema changes.
- Liaison and coordination of Hub content with federated catalogs (e.g., data.gov.au).
- Provided technical assistance in the creation of custom GIS web mapping applications.
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
09.2021 - 06.2022
- Company Overview: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity
- Geospatial data governance for biosecurity, developing enterprise geospatial platforms for analytics in-house and on-cloud; support and adopt biosecurity risk models with geoprocessing capabilities and mapping outputs (web, Power BI reporting within Biosecurity Analytics Centre apps)
- Working with other geospatial specialists in the Department to develop tools for visualising and extracting information to inform decision-making (esp
- Internal biosecurity intelligence reporting)
- Promote adoption of geospatial technology and methods throughout the Department
- Https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity
Consulting GIS Analyst (Part Time)
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
03.2021 - 05.2021
- Company Overview: https://www.delwp.vic.gov.au/
- Develop web map applications using bushfire risk modelling outputs, to support the development of bushfire risk communication products
- Integrate spatial risk products from cloud-based bushfire risk modelling architecture into GeoServer Web Map Services, hosted on AWS EC2, using S3 storage
- Liaise with other business units to streamline spatial data gathering processes and integration between systems that input data into bushfire risk modelling
- Https://www.delwp.vic.gov.au/
Consulting GIS Specialist (Full Time)
Defence Security & Estate Group
05.2013 - 10.2020
- Company Overview: https://www.defence.gov.au/about/who-we-are/organisation-structure/security-and-estate-group
- Providing technical leadership for configuration and deployment of GEMS web services
- Creation of geospatial data models, business processes, ETL, and data migration to SAP platform
- Design, manage and maintain GEMS geospatial data libraries, metadata and enterprise geodatabases
- Evaluation of GEMS blueprint architectures, infrastructure, web services and workflow integration
- Geospatial systems configuration (SAP-ESRI), testing and readiness for User Acceptance Testing
- Independent professional advice and evaluation of external geospatial contractor services
- Deployment of quality assured geospatial web and data services for the GEMS SAP-ESRI platform
- Documentation of GEMS geospatial services, standards, governance, SOPs, and spatial tools
- Https://www.defence.gov.au/about/who-we-are/organisation-structure/security-and-estate-group
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Social Services
11.2015 - 12.2016
- Company Overview: https://www.dss.gov.au/
- Geospatial SME providing application support for configuration and deployment of address quality web services, e.g
- Geocoding, reverse geocoding, address matching with IQ Office and GNAF data
- Update, test and release address quality web services to Production Windows midrange servers
- Maintenance, support, fault management and documentation (SOPs) of address quality systems
- Provide service integration support to departmental BI users (Cognos, Power BI)
- Https://www.dss.gov.au/
Education
Master of Data Science -
Griffith University
Brisbane, QLD01-2026
Bachelor of Applied Science - Environmental Science
University of Canberra
01.1996
Skills
- GIS software expertise
- Global Mapper
- Spatial data management
- Geospatial metadata management
- Geospatial data integration
- LiDAR processing
- System administration
- Power BI tools
- Python programming
- Hadoop ecosystem
- R programming
- Data wrangling
- Deep learning
- ETL development
- Metadata management
- Data quality assurance
- Machine learning
- Data modeling
- Data pipeline design
- Data governance
- NoSQL databases
- Big data processing
- Azure proficiency
- GIS project management
- Geodatabase development
- Terrain analysis
- GIS programming
- Aerial imagery
- Modeling
- Data management
- Remote sensing
- Network analysis
- ArcGIS
- Satellite imagery
- LiDAR analysis
- Geoprocessing automation
Security - Clearance
Negative Vetting Level 1 (CS467154)
Professional Referees
Mr. Matt Moncrieff
Head of Major Projects
Calytrix Technologies Pty Ltd
301 Canberra Avenue Fyshwick ACT 2609
matt.moncrieff@calytrix.com, +61 419 029 833
Mr. Jamie Burns
Partner, Technology Advisory
KPMG Australia
Level 9, Constitution Avenue Canberra ACT 2601
jamieburns@kpmg.com.au, +61 402 326 265
Skills
ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise Server, Portal for ArcGIS, JavaScript API, CSS, JSON/BSON, REST, QGIS, Global Mapper, GDAL, Geo Server, Geo Networks, IBM Cognos 11, MS Power BI, FME Workbench, Azure Data Factory, MS SSIS, Python, R, Azure Synapse, ERDAS Imagine, ENVI + IDL, Terra Tools, JCATS, SQL Server (2019 - 22), Oracle (12g - 19c), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop, MS Windows Server, SUSE, RHEL, Solaris, Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Databricks
Recent training
- Terra Tools rev. 5.8, Bohemia Interactive Simulations, Newcastle AU, 2024
- Microsoft Training: DP-203 (Azure Data Engineering), DP-100 (Azure Data Science), 2024
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3, System Administration 1 (RH124), 2024
Successfullycompletedprojects
- JP9711-1, Core Simulation Capability, HQ JOC, Department of Defence, 2024
- L1771-2, Land Geospatial Centre, Army HQ, Department of Defence, 2021-2023
- Biosecurity Systems Modelling Program, Department of Agriculture, 2021-2022
- Forest Fire Risk Assessment 2.0, VIC DELWP, 2021
- Garrison and Estate Management System (GEMS), Department of Defence, 2013-2020
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 03/01/68
Current Occupation
Terrain Developer
Calytrix Technologies https://www.calytrix.com
Joint Collective Training Branch (J7), HQ Joint Operations Command, Department of Defence, ACT
Build, test and deploy geospatial terrain simulations for the Joint Force Training Centre
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Climate Change, Environment, Energy and Water
07.2022 - 11.2022
Technical Lead
KPMG AU
11.2021 - 12.2023
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment
09.2021 - 06.2022
Consulting GIS Analyst (Part Time)
Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
03.2021 - 05.2021
Consulting GIS Specialist (Part Time)
Department of Social Services
11.2015 - 12.2016
Consulting GIS Specialist (Full Time)
Defence Security & Estate Group
05.2013 - 10.2020
Bachelor of Applied Science - Environmental Science
University of Canberra
Master of Data Science -
Griffith University
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