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2008- : creation of
the widely used open-access website, www.spatialanalysisonline.com
and associated book and e-book.
2001-2008: Academic
research and lecturing. In this connection am associated with the
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA
), the Department of Civil, Environmental
and Geomatic Engineering at UCL (Teaching Fellow) and and the
Department of Geography at UCL (Honorary Senior Research Fellow). I teach the
Spatial Analysis in GIS module of the MSc GIS programme. I also act as a
reviewer on a number of academic journals, including Computer Aided Civil and
Infrastructure Engineering (CACIE), Environment and Planning Series B , Annals of the
Association of American Geographers (AAAG), Cartographica
and Computers,
Environment and Urban Systems.
1979-2001: Managing
Director of telecommunications consultancy and computer systems businesses in
association with Richard Clark and Dr Bill Bain. These were developments of
the original consultancy operation, focusing latterly on real-time financial
information systems (e.g. Proquote, www.proquote.net).
Following the sale of the main business to a public quoted company IS Solutions plc in April 2000
re-established links with UCL and continued commercial activities on a
part-time base as a non-Executive Director of IS Solutions and as an
independent consultant. Recently have also become involved with the
Prince's Trust Charity (http://www.princes-trust.org.uk/)
as a business mentor and in this capacity have supported three start-up
businesses.
1974-9:
Researcher, Communications Studies Group (CSG), University
College London (UCL) - a unit
specialising in optimal network design and video- and audio-conferencing. CSG
subsequently became a commercial telecommunications consultancy,
Communications Studies and Planning Ltd (CS&P, 1976 onwards). In 1979
left CS&P and established an independent consultancy in collaboration
with the image coding expert, Richard Clark (http://www.elysium.ltd.uk).
Books: 2007/8 Geospatial Analysis 2006 Maths for the Mystified
Resources: Publications (and
corrections!) - Distance Transform models - VORTAL models (Variationally Optimised Rapidly
expanding Random Trees), PhD thesis - Chapters
and complete document Academic inks
Academic qualifications: Mathematics
(BSc), Geography (BSc,
MA, PhD)
Associations: FRGS (current),
FRSS (past), FIoD (past), MoMRS (past)
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