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Advisory Board
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Member
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Position
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Contact
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Mr.
Paul Harcombe
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Chief
Surveyor, NSW Land & Property Management Authority, Sydney
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Paul.Harcombe@lpma.nsw.gov.au
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Mr.
Ed Garvin
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Omnilink
Pty Ltd, Sydney
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edg@omnilink.com.au
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Mr. Mark Gordon
(Chair of the Advisory Board)
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Survey
Services Manager, Roads & Traffic Authority, Sydney
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mark_gordon@rta.nsw.gov.au
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Ms.
Veronica Bondarew
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Executive
Officer, Association of Consulting Surveyors (NSW), Sydney
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admin@acsnsw.com.au
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Mr.
John Minehan
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President,
Institution of Surveyors (NSW), Sydney
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isnsw@surveyors.org.au
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Mr.
Brian Nicholls
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General
Manager, AAM, Wollongong
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b.nicholls@aamgroup.com
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Mr.
Stewart Hay
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Private
Consultant, Sydney
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stewart.hay@onesphere.com.au
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Mr.
Dan Paull
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CEO,
PSMA Australia Ltd, Canberra
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dan.paull@psma.com.au
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Mr.
Martin Nix
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Private
Consultant, Sydney
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martinjnix@gmail.com
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Mr.
Neil Bennett
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Director
of Information Services, NSW Dept of Environment & Climate Change
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Neil.Bennett@environment.nsw.gov.au
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Mark Thomas Gordon graduated from the University of New
South Wales with First Class Honours in Surveying in 1977 and was registered
as a land surveyor on 25 September 1978. Mark is currently the
Manager, Surveying of the NSW Roads & Traffic Authority (RTA).
In 2000 Mark was awarded the Halloran Prize of the NSW Institution of
Surveyors for professionalism, leadership and meritorious service to
Surveying. He was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Surveyors
Australia in March 2003.
Mark was elected Chairman of the NSW Surveying & Mapping Industry
Council in July 1999 and consequently became a member of the UNSW School
of Surveying & SIS Advisory Board. He was nominated as Chairman
of the Advisory Board in 2007. He is also a member of the
University of Newcastle Surveying Course Advisory Committee. In
2002 Mark was elected a member of NSW Board of Surveyors and is now a
member of the succeeding Board of Surveying & Spatial
Information. Mark conducts the annual Board examinations in urban
cadastral surveying.
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Paul Harcombe is the Chief Surveyor, Land &
Property Management Authority NSW. Paul is also Chairman of the NSW
Survey & Mapping Managers Forum and a Member of the NSW Survey &
Mapping Industry Council. His primary responsibilities include management
of the State Survey System, implementation of the NSW Spatial Information
Strategy and statutory functions involving approximately 70 staff across
NSW. He holds a Bachelor in Surveying from UNSW, and a Master of
Geomatics from the University of Melbourne.
Paul is also the Deputy President of the NSW Board of Surveying and
Spatial Information which regulates land and mining surveying activities
and advises Government on Spatial Information matters. He is also
Deputy Chair of the Geographical Names Board of NSW. Other positions held
include Chairman of the Intergovernmental Committee for Surveying &
Mapping (ICSM), and recently appointed a member of the University of NSW
Dean of Engineering Advisory Committee. Paul has been a member of the
UNSW School of Surveying & SIS Advisory Board since 2003.
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Ed Garvin is Managing Director of OMNILINK Pty Limited,
an information systems consulting company specialising in spatial
information, and Partner of Garvin Morgan & Co., Consulting Surveyors
& Planners. He holds tertiary qualifications in Surveying and Urban
Studies, an MBA, and he is a Registered Surveyor in NSW and ACT. His
experience is over 37 years in the Surveying, Spatial and Engineering
professions including service with National Mapping, Lands, Land Titles,
Landcom, building sites in London and a number of private practices
covering surveying, mapping, engineering design, construction
supervision, project management, application design and consulting, and
he has established and run two businesses in these disciplines for over
20 years.
He is currently Chairman of Consulting Surveyors NSW, a Director of
the Australian Spatial Information Business Association (currently
Treasurer) and part-time lecturer to final year Surveying and SIS
students at the University of NSW in Project Management. Ed is a
former Chairman of the Cumberland Group, a former Chairman of the
Institution of Surveyors CPD Sub-Committee, a Past President of his
Rotary Club and is passionate about his family, his profession, business,
the Wallabies, skiing and the environment. He has a special
interest in Information Management.
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Stewart Hay is the General Manager of the Spatial
Sciences Institute, which is the industry association for all Spatial
Professionals, and is the Chair of the NSW Spatial Sciences Institute.
Prior to this he managed the NSW Rural Fire Services GIS team which was
the largest emergency services GIS team in Australia. He has over 14
years experience designing, developing and implementing GIS solutions for
organisations across Australia. During this time he has supported
organisations involved with Environmental Management, Utilities,
Emergency Services and all tiers of Government.
Stewart Hay graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Multidisciplinary
Science) from the Curtin University of Technology, where he specialised
in GIS and Environmental Science. He has also completed an MBA with UNSW.
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Dan is the Chief Executive of PSMA Australia Limited,
an unlisted public company limited by shares and owned by the State,
Territory and Australian governments. PSMA was formed in 1993 as a
joint venture between the nine mapping agencies of the state and
territory and Australian Governments, in response to an Australian Bureau
of Statistics tender for mapping services for the 1996 Census. In
June 2001, PSMA Australia completed the transition from unincorporated
joint venture to unlisted public company limited by shares and registered
under the Corporations Act. Dan was instrumental in managing the
transition from government consortium to public company and has grown the
Company from a staff of 1 to a small team of 16 professionals, based in
Canberra, Australia.
Dan graduated with a Bachelor of Surveying (Hons) from UNSW, and
commenced his career as a cadastral surveyor in a rural practice. He then
moved into a large national engineering firm where his experience
included the management of large scale topographic surveys for
longitudinal infrastructure projects, large construction and engineering
surveys, GPS photo-control and geodetic positioning, GIS infrastructure
management, specialist defence surveys, GPS control networks and network
analysis and adjustment. Dan has more recently been focused on the
management of spatial data, the challenges of coordinating the assembly
of national datasets from multiple disparate sources and managing the
associated complex network of relationships with suppliers and
clients. He is the author of many scientific papers, reports and reviews,
and is currently completing his MBA (Executive) at the Australian
Graduate School for Management.
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Brian Nicholls graduated with a Bachelor of Surveying
(Hons) from UNSW, as well as an MBA. Brian is the General manager of the
company AAM, and has outstanding design and implementation skills in
leading edge, high technology survey, mapping and GIS applications.
Specialist areas include aerial photography and Airborne Laser Scanning,
digital photogrammetry and image processing.
Complementing his technology skills, Brian has highly developed
strategic and general management skills. Brian’s role within AAM involves
combining technology and business skills in order to develop innovative
new business approaches for spatial data capture and processing. Brian’s
career success to date has been founded on an absolute commitment to
client satisfaction.
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Martin Nix was until 2009 Senior Vice President of the
Mining and Agriculture business unit of Leica Geosystems which provides machine
monitoring and site management solutions for mining and farm applications
whereby GNSS technologies are combined with communication systems and
application software.
Prior to returning to Australia in 2006, he held senior executive
roles located in Leica Geosystems headquarters in Switzerland. As Senior
Vice President he led a group of businesses and start-ups including the
GNSS Reference Networks business, Construction Machine Automation
business and Lasers and Levels business. Previously, as Chief Business
Development Officer, he was responsible for the overall marketing,
technology management and strategic planning and a member of the
corporate team while Leica Geosystems was a public company on the Swiss
Stock Exchange. Between 1998 and 2001, he was the President of the
Americas Region for Leica Geosystems, relocating to Atlanta, USA.
He held technical sales and general management positions with the company
in Australia before moving to Switzerland in 1993 where he held product
and marketing management positions and then as Vice President of
Strategic Marketing for Leica Geosystems from1996 to 1998. In 2009
he left Leica Geosystems and now works as a private consultant.
Martin holds a Bachelor of Surveying and a Master of Surveying Science
(GIS) from the University of New South Wales. He obtained Survey
Registration in 1982. He was a Steering Board member of the School of
Geomatic Engineering, University College of London, from 2002 to
2005. He contributes to the profession via papers and presentations
at various conferences and holds several board positions.
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Neil Bennett is the Director Information Sciences with
the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water. Managing a
professional staff of about 70, Neil leads the spatial science activities
within the Department including agency-wide information management
coordination; managing key state-wide natural resource and environment
databases such as threatened species, vegetation and
soil/landscape; monitoring state-wide vegetation clearing utilising
medium and high-resolution spatial imagery; and provision of spatial
products and services. Neil is Chair of the Remote Sensing Sub-Committee,
within the NSW Natural Resource and Environment Cluster of agencies,
which recently developed the NSW Spatial Imagery Strategy.
As Project Director of the highly successful Community Access to
Natural Resource Information (CANRI) Program, Neil has been instrumental
in promoting a systematic approach to the management of spatial
information within NSW government.
Neil
graduated with a Bachelor of Surveying from the UNSW in 1976 and gained
Registration as a Land Surveyor in 1978 and was appointed Principal
Surveyor of the former NSW Department of Water Resources in 1989. Neil
returned to the UNSW and completed a Master of Engineering Sciences
(Geomatics) in 1996.
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