MGL Team

Dr. 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

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

Dr. 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

• Seven years experience developing software solutions for public and private sector.
• Expertise with C++, .NET (C#, ASP) & Java languages.
• Architectural design and implementation of complex bespoke GIS web applications.
• Integration of open-source mapping interfaces (including Google/Windows Live/Openspace map API's).
• Design, development and implementation of mobile web 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

Dr. Masroor Hussain | Geodata Analyst / Applications Developer | masroor_hussain@manchestergeomatics.com

• Eight years of professional experience in the application of remote sensing and geographic information systems, as well as software development and consultancy.
• Expertise in programming using ESRI map objects and .NET application development using spatial databases.
• PhD: "Automated Land Use Classification and Change Monitoring" - A data mining approach.

Interests

• Spatial analysis using very large datasets.
• Address matching, standardisation and quality assurance.
• Pattern analysis using spatial data mining and knowledge discovery techniques.

Daniel Bennett | Application Developer | dan@manchestergeomatics.com

• Three years professional experience creating desktop, mobile and web based applications for navigation using gazetteers, mapping and GPS
• Specialising in .NET technologies ( C#, ASP ) and MySQL

Interests

• 3D representations of digital mapping
• Stereo Photography (3D illusion using two photographs)
• Mountain Boarding