Director of the Ovi Places Registry at Nokia, responsible for leading the strategy and resources of the Places Registry, part of Nokia's Location group in Berlin. Leading a team of directs including Software Architects, Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Partner Relationship management and Quality Assurance. The Ovi Places Registry is building the dominant global platform of validated and rich Place and Points Of Interest, underpinning Nokia's Location strategy on the mobile device, on the web and through developer APIs. Ovi Places enables products that connect people and places in a personalized manner by providing the best contextual platform and enables people to easily find the places they are looking for and to facilitate discovery of new ones.
GeoVation is about helping communities address their unmet needs through the application of geographic data, skills and expertise. GeoVation runs challenges to address specific needs within communities, which may be satisfied in part through the use of geography. GeoVation is a place where communities, innovative thinkers, geographic data, skills and expertise can get together for the benefit of communities and their needs. The GeoVation community consists of developers, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs data providers, civil society, commercials, community groups, geohackers, map lovers, social enterprise start ups, data providers, education and government.
Supported by the Association for Geographic Information, w3gconf is a free, one day conference, themed on the "3 W's of Geo". Large in scope but intimate in scale, w3gconf is targeted firmly at the geographic community at large, from the geographic professional, be they GIS or Web 2.0 to the latent geographer who's heard about this thing called "location" and wants to know more. w3gconf will take place in the Holiday Inn, Stratford upon Avon, on the 28th. September 2010.
Director of Engineering, responsible for leading the strategy, resources and products of the GeoInformatics group of Yahoo! Geo Technologies with a team of directs including Engineering and Data management, software engineers, data production engineers and QA engineers. Instrumental in delivering the public availability of the GeoPlanet, GeoPlanet Data and Placemaker platforms. Working closely with colleagues in the US, in Spain and in India to implement internal and public facing geo technology products which allow geotagging of content to a range of granularities, provide the means and incentives for users to locate themselves, to match users to geolocated content and to geo-enrich structured and unstructured content. Responsible for geo technology products to enable geotargeting initiatives within the company, to support public facing geo initiatives such as geotagging support for Flickr.com, the underlying geo engine for the Fire Eagle location broker and the GeoPlanet geo-referencing platform. Passionate about the applications, scope and impact of today's location enabled devices and applications, has spoken and presented at a wide range of events including #geomob, the British Computer Society, State of the Map, Where 2.0 and location themed mashup* events.
GeoVation is about helping communities address their unmet needs through the application of geographic data, skills and expertise. GeoVation runs challenges to address specific needs within communities, which may be satisfied in part through the use of geography. GeoVation is a place where communities, innovative thinkers, geographic data, skills and expertise can get together for the benefit of communities and their needs. The GeoVation community consists of developers, entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs data providers, civil society, commercials, community groups, geohackers, map lovers, social enterprise start ups, data providers, education and government.
Leading the UK Geo Technology group for Yahoo! with a team of directs including Engineering and Data management, software engineers, data production engineers and QA engineers. Working closely with colleagues in the US and in India to implement internal and public facing geo technology products which allow geotagging of content to a range of granularities, provide the means and incentives for users to locate themselves and to match users to geolocated content. Responsible for geo technology products to enable geotargeting initiatives within the company, to support public facing geo initiatives such as geotagging support for Flickr.com, the underlying geo engine for the Fire Eagle location broker and the GeoPlanet geo-referencing platform.
Snr. Engineering Manager for Y! Geo; building geo enabled platforms and destinations that are the most relevent and most adopted by the community. Y! Geo's technology allows the building of location aware platforms that enable the detection, analysis, tagging and expansion of user's interests and locations.
Engineering Manager for Geo Location Targeting; building location aware technology platforms that enable the detection, analysis, tagging and expansion of user's interests and locations.
Product owner for the Places Registry and responsible for overall Places strategy for Search, Places, Data & Analytics, part of Nokia's Location & Commerce business unit. Places stream lead for strategic partnership negotiations and deals, including Places stream lead for the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft. Also responsible for evangelising the Search and Places components of Nokia's Location Platform, across Nokia branded web properties, mobile applications and developer APIs.
One of the founding member of the team of organisers bringing the free barcamp style of WhereCamp to London and to Europe
The UK Location User Group is an advisory body, reporting to the UK Location Council. Its purpose is to ensure that the implementation of the UK Location Strategy and the INSPIRE Directive through the UK Location Programme are driven by user needs and priorities and that benefits are gained by a wide range of stakeholders across the UK.
The mission of the Points of Interest Working Group, is to develop technical specifications for the representation of "Points of Interest" information on the Web.
Supported by the Association for Geographic Information, w3gconf is a free, one day conference. Now in its second year, the theme for 2011 is "Because There's More To Geo Than Just Maps And Check-Ins". Large in scope but intimate in scale, w3gconf is targeted firmly at the geographic community at large, from the geographic professional, be they GIS or Web 2.0 to the latent geographer who's heard about this thing called "location" and wants to know more. w3gconf will take place in the East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottinham University, on the 20th. September 2011.
The AGI is the UK umbrella organisation for geographical information. Currently comprising 17 individuals, all Council members are nominated/elected for a three-year term, with a third of the Council positions available for nomination/election each year. Key areas of Council responsibility: Sets AGI policy Ensures that the AGI performs its legally responsible duties Ensures that the AGI is appropriately financially managed Ensures that the AGI is adequately resourced Ensures that it is kept informed of developments in the UK Regions and Europe that will have an impact on AGI policy Actively supports the promotion of the AGI Maintains the AGI constitution Supports portfolios for membership development, European topics, and the AGI Annual Conference and Exhibition.
Coffee, coding, reading and being at home with my family.
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