Ben
Searle Spatial
Specialist
Email:
bensearle54@gmail.com
Education: Bachelor of Science in Geography
I
graduated from Canterbury University with a Bachelors Degree in Geography and
have spent the last 30+ years working in a range of operational and strategic
roles across a broad number of domains.
My experiences cover leadership roles in data management activities in
global marine science and meteorological programs; land administration roles,
mapping and spatial and business system development and project
management. Recent roles have covered
providing the direction for establishing a Statistical Spatial Framework at
agency, Federal Government, national and international levels. I am currently looking for a new challenge
where my strategic skills and technical knowledge can be applied to providing
innovative solutions for government or the private sector.
My
broad ranging experiences have given me skills to recognise common patterns in
business activities and provides an insight into how a location element can
provide added value to many business activities. I have developed a number of innovative
concepts and have operationalized many of these. For example: the development in the late
1980’s of a world first four dimensional information management system to
support complex oceanographic data; establishing an international program to
develop MarineXML; establishing online service delivery capabilities including
spatial components and linking these to web service enabled business
applications and integrated with document management systems: establishing a
framework to provide a common approach to spatially enabling statistical and
administrative data.
I
have worked in many operational roles such as providing products to inform
naval operations of environmental conditions relevant to their mission. At a strategic level, I have developed
national environmental data management policies; data management plans for global
ocean and atmospheric programs and influenced to direction of numerous national
and international marine and land related program.
I
have had direct responsibilities for major ICT development programs covering
sourcing funding, specification and tender development, tender evaluation and project
oversight.
My
skills, developed over many years in a number of different working
environments, enable me to recognise issues, blockages and find resolutions to
these to provide successful results. I
am able to bridge the communication gap between the language and understanding
used by senior business mangers and the technical community within spatial and
ICT fields. Being able to ‘translate’
between these communities has resulted in both understanding the requirements
and deliverables. Expectation management
is a key to this and recognising the approaches of both management and
technical domains has been a key to my success.
I am
seeking a opportunities in the private or government sectors where my
experience and knowledge can be leveraged to create innovative and effective
capabilities. My passion is to apply a
location context to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of business
activities and am seeking roles where my knowledge can be applied.
I am
happy to discuss any opportunities and also to provide a resume.
For
further information or to discuss any opportunities please contact me via my
email address.
