Management
Richard Barry has nine years of technical and project management experience with GIS and has an additional 10 years of experience in the natural resource and tourism industries. Richard has held management positions in two GIS consulting firms located in British Columbia and is now owner and GIS Analyst for Pacific GIS Consulting. Richard uses various GIS packages including workstation Arc/Info and ArcView, for environmental and land-use planning related projects. Some of this experience includes:
Regional and sub-regional land-use planning, landscape level biodiversity analysis and tourism/recreation modeling.
Experience with tactical level projects such as; traditional use studies, fisheries inventory, sediment source surveys, access management plans, forest development plans and watershed assessments.
Capture, editing, modeling, mapping and analysis of GIS data with ArcInfo, ArcView, IDRISI, Microstation and Terrasoft software packages.
Development of custom applications of Arc/Info and ArcView using SQL, VB, AML and Avenue programming languages.
Geographical systems are constantly evolving and the requirements and priorities of GIS clients tend to evolve as well. Richard’s experience with GIS project management makes him sensitive to the dynamic nature of GIS projects. Richard’s experience enables him to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical clients, enabling the client to see project requirements in the context of the system framework. Richard works with clients to achieve solutions that satisfy the changing needs of clients while meeting the operational and financial constraints of the GIS system or project.
Pacific GIS Consulting follows these principles for delivery of services:
1. Provide GIS services and products following accepted standards used within the GIS and digital mapping community.
2. Constantly evaluate the needs and capabilities of the client to ensure delivery of products and services is efficient, timely and sensitive to the clients’ resources.
3. Manage and deliver GIS products in an organized, clear and well-documented manner to ensure high quality, high value deliverables.
4. Follow up deliverables and project completion to ensure complete satisfaction.
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