MGL Team

Robert Barr OBE | Chairman | r.barr@peartrees.com

• Director of the Manchester Regional Research Laboratory and Senior Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems, School of Geography, University of Manchester
• Chairman (2001) of the Association for Geographic Information
• Member of the Social Exclusion Unit's Policy Action Team 18 'Better Information' and Chair of the Geographical Referencing Working Group
• Member of the United Kingdom Standard Geographic Base Project Board and Quality Assurance Team
• Regular contributor to GIS Europe and GI News in addition to numerous academic publications
• Almost 30 years experience in the automated handling of geographic information
• International experience including presenting invited keynote lecture at the US Department of Justice Crime Mapping Research Conference 1999 and Harkness Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara 1992-93
• Responsible for the GIS module on the University of Manchester Henry Fielding Centre's MA in Criminal Intelligence Analysis

Interests

• Social Information Systems (Ph.D.1992)
• Strategic re-use of service information
• Visualisation of social and spatial information, analysis and presentation of information
• Geo-data policy
• Spatial Privacy
• Spatial analysis of social and related data

David Butler | Consultant Director | David_Butler@manchestergeomatics.com

• Sociologist and town planner by training
• 30 years experience in local government
• Over 20 years as head of a research and information team in Manchester City Council, managing all aspects of a busy group, including recruitment, training, resource management and client negotiations
• In-depth knowledge of the measurement and analysis of social change and related information sources. A veteran of 4 population censuses
• Long experience of working with users to extract strategic information from systems which collect data about service delivery
• Wide range experience of multi-agency working

Interests

• Analysis and interpretation of social patterns and social change and the implications for policy
• Community-oriented research - assisting groups to assemble their own views, through the collection, analysis and presentation of information
• Community profiles which synthesise qualitative and quantitative information

James Cadoux-Hudson | Non Executive Director | jacadoux@btinternet.com

• Operations Director and co-founder of Landmark Information Group Ltd 1994-2004 and Director PointX Ltd 2001-2004
• 30 years plus experience in handling of geographic information both in UK and abroad and working for commercial and government bodies
• Actively involved in a number of mapping ventures such as Cassini and myhousehistory
• Chartered Surveyor

Interests

• Using Current and Historic mapping to produce commercial products
• Using geographic data to inform policy and provide solutions
• Using geographic data to provide solutions in the increasingly important ‘green’ area

Edgar Scrase | Managing Director | ed_scrase@manchestergeomatics.com

• Manages a busy team of GIS developers and GI analysts
• Eight years experience delivering spatial & temporal information over the Internet using .NET, Silverlight & SVG using interactive data driven spatially enabled web applications
• Standardisation, cleansing and matching of address based & related spatial information and associated cross-referencing
• Designing and optimising databases in MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle
• Expertise with GIS, particularly MapInfo and ArcGIS

Interests

• Making clients happy
• Improving decision making by modelling and mapping changes in spatial information
• Visualising multidimensional data
• Biking

Fay Davies | Business Director | fay_davies@manchestergeomatics.com

• 12 years experience working in spatial and remote sensing, both in the UK and overseas
• Previous roles include:
• Consultant for phase I of the Joined up Geography Test Bed Project, Manchester Geomatics Ltd
• Product Management, technical marketing (GPS/GIS software), Trimble Navigation NZ Ltd
• Remote sensing/GIS/LIDAR data analyst, National Centre for Environmental Data and Surveillance (NCEDS), Environment Agency
• Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne (climate change environmental archaeology)
• In depth knowledge of GIS systems; spatial data capture and analysis; remote sensing and Global Positioning Systems

Interests

• Joined-up Geography
• Applied GIS
• Strategic data management
• Location-based services

Barry Porter | Finance Director | BarryPorter2003@yahoo.co.uk

• 15 years experience managing company finances in various PLCs
• 12 years experience operating as senior internal auditor in a quoted company
• 5 years working in practice
• 4 years experience running own consultancy business

Interests

• Assisting small companies to grow and ensuring that the financial systems and procedures are kept to the appropriate standards
• Fishing

Steve Senior | Technical Consultant | SSenior@manchestergeomatics.com

• ArcGIS Power User
• Five years experience developing software solutions for public and private sector
• Expertise with C++, .NET (C#, ASP) & Java languages
• Design, development and implementation of mobile applications

Interests

• Skydiving, snowboarding, and other gravity related activities

Desmond Fitzgerald | Senior Applications Developer | Desmond.Fitzgerald@manchestergeomatics.com

• Five years experience researching, designing and developing software across a wide range of industrial and academic projects. Most recently developing spatial data analysis applications
• Successful past projects include traditional applications, web applications, web services, middleware, database systems, DSP components and system test solutions
• Expertise in .NET and Java platforms

Interests

• Data management & data integration
• Digital signal processing
• Audio programming languages, particularly SuperCollider
• Electronic & acoustic music composition and performance

Masroor Hussain | Geodata Analyst | masroor_hussain@manchestergeomatics.com

• Seven years of professional experience in the application of remote sensing and geographic information systems, as well as software development and consultancy
• Currently undertaking PhD: "GIS automation using Data Mining and Machine Learning tools"

Interests

• Standardisation,Geo-Spatial Data Mining and knowledge discovery
• Web based dissemination of GIS

Rebecca Hewitt | Geodata Consultant | rebecca_hewitt@manchestergeomatics.com

• Two years professional experience managing, analysing and modelling consumer habits for a vast array of both public and private sector retailers and services
• In-depth knowledge of location-based analysis and applications
• Expertise with applying and customising GIS programmes including ArcGIS, MapInfo and Micromarketer to meet specific client needs
• Previous employment includes GIS Project Manager for ASDA

Interests

• Geodemographic classification, analysing and modelling public characteristics and behaviours
• Pilates, Swimming

Jakub Gulewski | Geodata officer / Junior web developer | Jakub_Gulewski@manchestergeomatics.com

• Two years experience working with spatial information
• Using MapInfo to manage, cleanse and analyse address based datasets