Quality Control Technician

SIMON P. MCMULLEN

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PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

Seeking challenging opportunities to apply skills and experience as a GIS Utility Mapping Technician

or AutoCAD Technician/Drafter.

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

Secured Network Solutions, Chesapeake, Virginia 9/01/12 – 01/17/13

GIS Subject Matter Expert

The SNS project involved creating a bespoke geodatabase that would incorporate data recorded by a

Trimble GeoXH 6000 handheld unit. This data consisted of VDOT RFiD Tag coordinates (lat/long). This

data was then transferred to TriGlobal DataView v1.3. This software used GPS/GNSS base stations to

accurately locate the positions of the lines walked by the operators of the Trimble unit. The transformed

data was then to be geocoded in relation to start/end address locations (addresses within 500 meters of the

start end points of each line) I was in the process of creating the necessary address feature class when the

Company lost its contract with AECOM, that Company being VDOT’s principle partner in the project.

Period of experience in geocoding, 4 months.

Beaver Coal Company, Limited, Beckley, West Virginia 5/01/2012 - 8/21/2012

CADD/GIS Specialist

Create geodatabase. Replicate and geo-reference existing paper based records for coal seam management.

Beaver coal company had paper based data holdings stretching back two hundred years. My

t ask was to locate, geocode and incorporate within a bespoke Geodatabase, which I was

commissioned to create in whole as Beaver Coal had absolutely no experience with GIS at

t hat t ime, the lat/long coordinates of each start and end point that formed a complete

t raverse, which itself constituted a part of surveyed lines forming complete, legal tax plats.

Since time was a severe constraint on my work I did this in the simplest way I knew how: I

created feature classes for the lat/long points and for the lines that would link them. I then

created a relationship class between points and lines allowing for simple updates to the tax

p lats if and when they should occur. Period of experience in geocoding, 3 months.

Contract completed.

Engineering & Environment Inc., Virginia Beach, VA. 1/11/10 – 10/11/11

CADD/GIS Specialist

Utilization of ArcGIS v10 and ArcCatalog in the creation of file and personal geodatabases, and in the

creation of feature datasets, feature classes, relationship classes, feature linked annotation; creation of

domains and use of subtypes, use of Model Builder. Creation, maintenance, and publication of stand-

alone MXD documents in relation to waste water utility networks to US Dept. of Defense standards.

Ongoing use of ‘To Geodatabase Tool’ in conversion of CAD documents .

Timmons Group/Richmond Department of Public Utilities, Richmond, VA

12/09-9/10

Mapping Tech/GIS 3

Editing attributes of gas, electrical and storm sewer networks for the city of Richmond using

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ArcMap 9.3, ArcCatalogue, legacy AutoCAD files and paper records; searching electronic and

paper records to resolve questions of connectivity; quality control, georeferencing, interrogation of

pre-existing record formats, data mining, and resolution of conflicting data types. Conversion of

CAD data using the ‘To Geodatabase Tool’, one year’s experience.

Mansai Corp/Richmond Department of Public Utilities, Richmond VA

4/08-12/09

GIS/Drafting Tech 2

• Editing attributes of gas, electrical and storm sewer networks for the city of Richmond using

ArcMap 9.3, ArcCatalog, legacy AutoCAD files and paper records; searching electronic and paper

records to resolve questions of connectivity; quality control, georeferencing, interrogation of pre-

existing record formats, data mining, and resolution of conflicting data types. Ongoing use of ‘To

Geodatabase Tool’ in conversion of CAD documents.

Astyra Corp-Timmons Group Richmond, VA

5/07 11/07

GIS Tech 2 Updating VDOT geographical centerline data using ArcFM, Arc Catalogue, and AutoCad

2007. Project terminated early due to Timmons’ loss of contract with VDOT.

Corestaff-Dominion/Virginia Power-Richmond, VA

11/06–4/07

Drafting/Design Technician – Contractor

Assigned to Dominion/Virginia Power Street Light Design and Maintenance Department to minimize

delays between customer orders and production/billing schedule. Met with clients on-site to discuss

client needs, created initial sketches using AutoCad and corrected/updated existing drawings.

Coordinated efforts between the engineering, design, construction, and billing departments in order to

deliver product in a more timely manner.

• Eliminated delays and redundancies in production process, increasing efficiency.

• Corrected redundant elements in the design process, resulting in increased client satisfaction.

• Ongoing use of ‘To Geodatabase Tool’ in conversion of CAD documents.

Hudson Global Resources – Dominion/Virginia Power-Richmond, VA 9/04 - 5/06

GIS Systems Maintenance Technician - Contractor

Assigned to Dominion Virginia Power/Power System Maintenance Department to update, verify and

digitize outdated geographical utility, streetlight, and joint-use pole data to determine pole location,

maintenance history, ownership and number of installed devices to improve billing practices with

municipalities and other commercial interests, i.e., telecommunications services. Extensively utilized

ArcInfo, ArcCatalog, ArcViewer, ArcFM, Excel, Access, and VA Power’s proprietary Pole and Streetlight

Survey Loader Software.

• Selected to train GIS technicians assigned to the project due to established knowledge base and

performance level.

• Recognized by client for intelligent design of job processes, effective team leadership, careful

attention to detail, and productivity.

• In addition, in relation to all periods of employment by Dominion Virginia Power, I used software

developed in-house by Dominion Virginia power to locate power t ransmission poles by

l ati tude and longitude. These coordinates where then matched by lat/long to nearest

k nown locations held in DVP’s GIS tables. These tables consisted of a feature class held

w ithin DVP’s networked GIS suite.

• Fur ther examples of geocoding work: In the UK while working for East Midlands

E lectric, PLC. – Interpolation of substation street address with GE SmallWorld

equivalent of ‘Manage Address Locators” list in ERSI. This also included a subset of

each premise linked directly to each substation. Period of experience covered: 16

months.

• A similar period of experience was obtained in the U K while working for TRANSCO,

P LC, which was at the time the sole agency responsible for t ransporting natural gas to

households and businesses in the U K. I used the OSMT system (Ordinance Survey

M apping Tool). This system is now entirely defunct and has been retired. However the

general principles involved were no different than they are today: use of lat/long

coordinates and tables to map locations onto tables of addresses. Period of experience

approximately 18 months.

• Ongoing use of ‘To Geodatabase Tool’ in conversion of CAD documents.

EDUCATION

MA – Political Philosophy, University of Hull, Hull, West Yorkshire, England 7/93

• Dissertation received Distinction

BA – Applied Social Sciences, University of Lincolnshire, Hull, West Yorkshire, England 7/91

• Graduated with Honors (equivalent to 4.0 GPA).

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

AutoCAD 2006 Boot Camp, NetCom Information Technology, New York, NY, 8/06

GE Small World GIS Software Suite Training, East Midlands Electricity Company 9/98

CERTIFICATES

City & Guilds Certificate, Computer Aided Drafting and Design, Two Dimensional – Level 3, Portland

College,

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England 11/01

City & Guilds Certificate, Three-Dimensional Design and Solid Modeling – Levels 2 & 3, Portland

College,

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England 5/02 & 3/02

SOFTWARE EXPERTISE

Geographical Information Systems (GIS): GE Small World, ArcGIS v9.3, v9.3.1, v10, v10.1

ArcCatalog, Model Builder. Use of Geocoding toolsets, use of To Geodatabase toolsets.

Total expe4rience of geocoding toolset: 4 years and 8 months (approx.).

Total experience of conversion toolset: 5 years and 6 months (approx.).

Use of GE SmallWorld involved the digitization of substations and their internals; digitization of high

voltage transmission towers; creation and digitization of low voltage schematics of the entire network;

geo-referencing of externally sourced imagery; digitization of commercial and industrial connectivity.

Further Information.

Milestones and Deliverables: I have worked as a Journeyman Contractor for

twenty years. At every stage of my career, whether working on Data Capture Units

for East Midlands Electricity, or DPls (digitized pipe lengths) for Transco, UK, or

for any of the Company’s for which I have worked in the USA, I have a verifiable

history of accurate and timely delivery, and of meeting every milestone, which

those company’s have seen fit to set.

I am capable of working to any measurable tolerance given. In the UK this meant

working to a measured tolerance of less than 0.5mm measured separation between

cable runs.

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