Wayne Davis

Completed mapping projects for ecology and bushfire planning using ArcGIS, including Spatial Mapping for Properties, Flora & Fauna Assessments, Biodiversity Stewardship Site Assessments, Bushfire Attack Level Reports, Bushfire Management Plans, Watercourse & Riparian Assessments, Arboriculture Impact Assessment Reports, Aboriginal Due Diligence Reports, Vegetation Management Plans and Weed Management Plans. Provided technical recommendations to aid in GIS process improvement. Used Python coding skills to complete automation projects including generate bulk vector contour shapefiles from 14,601 input raster elevation models (DEMs), create and initialise new GIS projects, report document scraping, synchronise attribute tables and various other routine GIS/mapping tasks. Created KNIME workflows and python scripts to automate in-house BioNET download and database refresh, and GPS captured data processing pipeline. Business benefits are significant reductions in production workloads.

Skills - ArcGIS Suite, Geodatabases, ArcPy, GDAL, Python Programming, GIS Analysis, Jupyter Notebooks, KNIME, ETL processes, Data Cleaning, Data Wrangling, Map production

Used ArcGIS to georeference aerial imagery and digitise historical map features. Provided technical recommendations to aid in GIS process improvements, which included proposal to use deep learning in Google Colab for topographic map feature/object recognition. Business benefit is for potential automation of historical map feature digitisation.

Skills - ArcGIS, Jupyter Notebooks, Python Programming, GIS Analysis

Large-scale data cleansing and tagging project requiring attention to detail with a focus on producing high-quality and accurate work.

Visit households to follow up with residents who have not successfully completed their Census. Promote Census participation and answer questions from public about Census.

Responsible for driving data rigour and modelling using advanced analytics to discover insights, make predictions and generate recommendations from student data. Important achievements were creating several geospatial demographics reports for schools, time series analysis and forecasting of student enrolments and regression analysis on cost to educate students. Other achievements included mapping attendance zones for across 500+ NSW Catholic Schools, creation of modifiable spatial filter using geospatial tools in Alteryx and geocoding student addresses using MapMarker.

Skills - machine learning, Arima time series, Python Programming, Tableau, MapInfo, Alteryx, regression and classification models, Spatial analysis and modelling, Databricks, Jupyter Notebook, Pandas, scikit-learn, data wrangling.

Responsible for safety, welfare, training and supervision of Green Army participants aged 17-24 on practical conservation projects. Completed four 6-month projects for NPWS, Ku-ring-gai and Central Coast councils. Delivered tangible benefits for the environment, including regenerating parks, rejuvenating shorelines and rivers, restoring native vegetation and protecting animal habitats. Scored 100% in an external safety audit by Ernst & Young.

Website operations, SEO, Adwords, Adsense, HTML, Javascript, Google Analytics.

Website operations, AWS, Magento, HTML, Manage Ebay listings and SEO. Made detailed proposal to automate competitor price checking. Made proposal for Facebook target audience marketing.

Senior CICS Cobol SQL Analyst / Programmer for an enterprise-scale application known as ASSIST. This was the CBA's branch and call centre Client-Server platform.

Skills: SDLC · Software Development · SQL · Business Analysis · Management · COBOL · Requirements Analysis · Databases · Requirements Gathering · Leadership · Analysis