William Jones, President
Bill is currently the Geomatics Analyst at exp Architects Inc. in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Mr. Jones has over 20 years consulting experience using Spatial Data Processing Technologies on projects spanning numerous application sectors including: agriculture, municipal infrastructure, geological mapping/mineral exploration, landuse/landcover mapping, environmental assessment, planning, marine habitat mapping, and terrain analysis. Mr. Jones has experience in the design, development, and implementation of geospatial solutions for both the public and private sectors and has been involved in significant international project work. A graduate of St. Francis Xavier University (B.Sc. Major in Geology and Biology) Mr. Jones continued his specialization in Geomatics Technologies at the Centre of Geographic Sciences in Nova Scotia.
Jeff McKenna,
Vice President
Jeff is currently the director of
Gateway Geomatics, an innovative company located in Lunenburg, who focus on helping organizations publish their spatial information to interactive maps on the Internet. Jeff is also currently on the Board of Directors of OSGeo, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. A longtime MapServer user and contributor, Jeff sits on the MapServer Project Steering Committee.
Colin MacDonald, Past President
Colin is currently the Program Coordinator for the GeoNOVA Secretariat, responsible for leading corporate initiatives in geomatics for the Province of Nova Scotia. Prior to working with GeoNOVA, Mr. MacDonald was the GIS Coordinator for the Ontario Provincial Police where he was responsible for building a provincial civic address system to be used in emergency response. Mr. MacDonald has also worked with ESRI Canada and managed a geomatics firm in South America. He obtained a BSc. in Geology from Acadia University in 1991 and graduated from the College of Geographic Sciences in 1993 with a Certificate in Geographic Information Systems.
Executive Director:
David Keefe
David has been our Executive Director since December 2010 and manages the day to day operations of the association. Prior to his appointment, David worked in the private sector for 1.5 years and prior to that was employed for 40+ years in the public sector which included program coordinator with the GeoNova Secretariat. In 2000 David was awarded an Honourary Diploma from the Board of Governors of the Nova Scotia Community College.
Directors:
Laura Beazley
Laura works for the Province of Nova Scotia as a Program Coordinator for Geographic Information Services. She manages the NS Geographic Names Program and the GIS Service Desk (in development). Prior to joining government, she was the General Manager of the Champlain Institute, a consortium of maritime geomatics companies who worked together to create business opportunities in the United States. With 17 years of geomatics industry experience, locally and abroad, she has dabbled in many areas including: remote sensing data acquisition and analysis, hydrographic database development, coastal zone mapping, property mapping, technical writing, business development and client service.
Paul Boudreau
Mr. Paul Boudreau is a long time employee of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He presently works in the Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee (ACZISC) Secretariat at Dalhousie University as the project manager for the Coastal and Ocean Information Network Atlantic (
COINAtlantic).
David MacLean
Dave is currently
a GIS Faculty member instructing at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS – Nova Scotia Community College) primarily in the Advanced Geographic Sciences programme. Before 2001, he was in private industry and government at Industrial Forestry Service Ltd – Spatial Mapping Ltd. in Prince George, BC; at the Centre of GIS in Doha, Qatar; and at J.D. Irving, Limited (Woodlands Division) in Saint John, NB. He has a Scientific Computer Programming Diploma from COGS (then NSLSI), a B.Eng. (Mech.) from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, and a B.Sc. (Math) from Acadia University. His interests include large-database management, programming, data presentation and promotion of Geomatics technologies.
Eric Melanson
Eric Melanson is currently a Regional Director for
ESRI Canada Limited, with responsibility for leading the sale and support of ESRI based technology solutions in the Atlantic region. A graduate of Acadia with a B.Sc. majoring in Biology and Geology, he also holds a Diploma from the Centre of Geographic Sciences and a Certificate in Management from the Canadian Institute of Management. Mr. Melanson has been working as a professional in the geomatics industry for over 20 years and has been proudly helping to build and support the geomatics industry in Atlantic Canada for most of it.
Wayne Renaud
Wayne is
a retired Canadian Forces senior Naval Officer with a BSc in Computer Science and Physics, a MSc in Physics, a Master's Certificate in Project Management and completing an Advanced Diploma in GIS applications, who is currently employed at the Hydrographic Services Office in Halifax NS. He has over 26 years of experience in maritime operations, strategic, operational and tactical planning, maritime operational research and development, Project Management, and the varied applications of ESRI ArcGIS in the maritime operational environment.
Chris Turner
Chris is currently the CEO of
Spatial Energistics Group, and has a
a combined 19 years of national and international experience in managing and facilitating large complex GIS, IT, and Business Change Management projects. He is a people-oriented degreed professional with expertise in formal project management methodologies. He also has extensive experience with software engineering processes for data collection, data integration, application development, and "policy and governance" as they apply to enterprise-wide GIS/IT initiatives.
