Richelle Spry

Experience

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  Redland City Council

  Oct 2005 - Jan 2006

  GIS Officer

  GIS contractor responsible for investigating the backlog of Maintenance and Construction works of the Council’s Stormwater Pipeline and Manhole Network, and updating the information within ArcGIS and Maximo (Asset Management) systems.

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  RTA

  Nov 2006 - Jan 2010

  Spatial Database Management Officer

  Leading GIS database creation and management role of data for Restricted Access Vehicles,  Intelligent Access Program projects, and the initial establishment of the Environment Road Corridors project. Provided support for the Department of Lands Data Exchange program, through the update of road network data.

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  Parsons Brinckerhoff

  Feb 2010 - Jun 2015

  Senior Geospatial Consultant

  Provide high level GIS consulting services to clients, and on-site support/position fulfillment.Includes local and enterprise GIS review/implementation, programming, data management, geoprocessing, and mapping tasks.

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  Queensland Motorways

  Nov 2010 - Jan 2012

  Geospatial Consultant [Part-Time Contract from PB]

  On-site GIS support (part time, three days a week) for the capture and management of QML assets and integration with the internal asset management system, Maximo. Information was captured through a review of As-Constructed drawings, video and site visits. Provide technical expertise for GIS related technologies and data management principles.

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  Unity Water

  Feb 2012 - Oct 2012

  GIS Test Specialist & Consultant [Contact from PB]

  Focused on testing the ArcFM implementation and Enterprise GIS integration within the Parsons Brinckerhoff GIS development team, as well as to provide GIS business analysis for data manipulation, and python (arcpy) scripting of business processes. Also provided support for internal web map services, including creating and publishing services, coding in JavaScript on ESRI API (minor) and HTML coding. Analysed and reported on cadastre realignment methodologies in ArcGIS and FME software suites, for application on client data, before preforming the process. Show less

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  RTA

  Nov 2012 - Feb 2014

  Business Partner - Senior GIS Consultant [PSC from PB]

  GIS Manager for the $4.9 billion Woolgoolga to Ballina (W2B) upgrade project and assist with Oxley Highway to Kempsey and Warrell Creek to Nambucca Heads projects.Responsible for developing geospatial data management standards and (ISO based) metadata standards both internally and externally for Northern RMS Major projects; development and delivery of basic GIS training for project staff; consolidation and daily management of project data; development and awarding of GIS proposals; providing technical experience for GIS and web environments; providing cartographic representations for project managers; liaising with various disciplines for data acquisition, manipulation, update and management for use and delivery to specific stakeholders; administration of mobile data and software for the W2B project, ensuring information was accessible by project managers on demand; and producing progress reports of the management of GIS in Northern Major Project unit to project managers as required. Show less

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  Geoscience Australia

  Jul 2015 - now

  Providing accomplished Leadership and Direction for Digital Experience of Geoscience Australia's internal and external digital products and their users. The Digital Experience Section focuses on providing user focused services in support of scientists and science for government, industry, emergency management, and the public, and includes:- Service Experience Team- Customer Digital Experience Team (a.k.a the Flying Hellfish DevOps/NoOps team)- Employee Digital Services Team𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 | 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 & 𝘋𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭 | 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻• Managing section work planning, resourcing and budgets of three teams, with over 15 professional technical and management staff. Establishing and maintaining business relationships, to ensure ongoing high quality support by the Digital Experience teams.• Mentoring and guiding mangers in their professional development, and in ensuring organisational and digital strategy aligned delivery by their teams.• Representing section and branch in related committees and executive groups, such as Design Authority, Senior Leadership Team meetings and planning, etc.𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲• Driving cross agency/department collaborations, in building out and scaling support of Human Centred Design/User Experience.𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲• Working with well established and highly regarded NoOps team and manager, to ensure continued business relationships, delivery and support. • Guiding collaborative and supportive change management with new and growing Service Experience capability, to ensure successful alignment of user/customer experience and development outcomes.𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗲 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀• Mentoring and supporting new manager in work management, team creation, business processes and professional development. Show less Building Geoscience Australia's User Analytics and Digital Services Experience capability, at enterprise.Leading the development and enhancement of user analytics data in Geoscience Australia to support evidence based decision making. Lifting the capability to a whole of organisation view, away from bespoke and isolated areas of maturity and implementation. This was fundamental in improving annual reporting, benefits realisation and understanding the value Geoscience Australia products and services provide to our customers.• Drove the development of the Enterprise Measurement Strategy. Creating multi-year program plan to uplift enterprise customer/user analytics both strategically and technically.• Utilising long established relationships and reputation for delivery, to bring in new business area and deliver new measurement capability for user focused benefits realisation.• Consolidated and uplifted Google Analytics management of over 40 properties. Establishing and leading professional development support in the establishment of consistent reporting within Google Analytics, for decision ready information and to met government reporting requirements.• Established team to deliver customer/user analytics to the organisation, and provided advice on user analytics to system and product owners with Geoscience Australia. Show less Manager (Assistant Director) of Geoscience Australia's Enterprise GIS team. Managing the Enterprise GIS team for Geoscience Australia, covering Esri, FME and OpenSource (GeoServer) technologies, and supporting full cloud ICT infrastructure.• Responsible for the operational delivery, management, and support of the organisation wide deployment, licensing and use, of Esri (Desktops, Servers, Databases, Online), FME (Servers, Online), GeoServer, ENVI, etc. Through direct management of GIS Administration/Support, and GIS Technology (SysOps/InfraOps) teams.• Provide advanced strategic and operational SME advice for geospatial technologies and information management to internal and external stakeholders.• Regular vendor liaison and management for GA. Representing agency geospatial needs and use in Enterprise License Agreements (ELA), and in vendor business engagement and programs.• Devised and led the delivery of GA’s Enterprise GIS Capability Report, engaging and guiding professional services, and a SME and liaison for key internal stakeholders and their needs.• RTF development, engagement and management of professional services, for the delivery of an Enterprise FME Server POC in the cloud.• Increased team performance and collaboration, through improved task management practices using both Agile and ITIL methodologies, applied using Jira workflows, automations, and integrations. Show less Leading the delivery of national Community Safety science based digital products for Australia Climate Services (ACS), to support Emergency Management and Recovery agencies.• Management of $3.3M National Information Products workstream (ACS priority work).• Representing GA with stakeholders (EMA & NRRA) and partners (CSIRO, ABS, BOM) for reporting and collaboration activities. Leading direct stakeholder engagement activities with Emergency Management Australia (EMA).• Manage cross organizational teams for delivery: direct management of a Project Manager, Business Analysts and guiding work of professional services, data analysts, scientists and software developer teams.• Directed project prioritisation, reporting, science code uplift, spatial data and product delivery, etc. through agile methods and tools, within a fast-paced CI/CD delivery environment. Delivering: o National Hazard Impact & Risk Service - live Tropical Cyclone Impacts geospatial web service – AWS services (API’s, RDS, Lambda, etc.), custom science code, geoserver. o GA Natural Spatial Resource Hub prototype – ESRI AGOL & Hub o Various Exposure and Hazard data services – ESRI ArcServer & Geoserver• Creating, assessing and awarding of geospatial tenders and conducting contractor recruitment, via the DTA digital marketplace. Show less Providing support to the Hazards, Risks and Infrastructure section for digital delivery of community safety science. • Coordinated the design, development and delivery of the Earthquakes Scenario Selection tool, between software developers and scientists. Assisting with Tropical Cyclone Scenario Selection Tool (https://portal.ga.gov.au/persona/hazards).• Organised and delivered online workshops between GA and stakeholders, utilising online tools such as Miro for user requirements (state, federal, industry) and product development planning.• Developed project proposal and delivered a digital product maturity matrix for assessments of a products: Technology, Metadata, Documentation, Validation, Discoverability & Usability, User Focus & Utility and Lifecycle Management.Agile Program Delivery support for Positioning Australia Program (NPP) in Positioning Australia Branch.• Uplift of dated project plans, risk register and implementation of agile ceremonies and artefacts, breaking down previous silos through improved cross program collaborations.• Collaborated and delivered first high-level solution architecture on behalf of the Program Management Office Show less Digital Science (Business) Relationship Manager | Assistant/DirectorIn my role as a Digital Science (business) Relationship Manager, I was key in guiding and managing the delivery of over 115 products and services across multiple divisions as a $5.6M program. I applied my technical acumen and savvy to help link clients with the best development teams and SME’s, to deliver user needs. • Management of $5.6M Digital Science Work Program for 4-8 Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT) with 50 staff, covering over 115 products and services across 4 divisions. Including program scheduling and budgeting. Delivering under budget ($300,000+).• Support and manage Digital Science Product Delivery, promoting and advising on development teams skills and capabilities.• Development of year program increment (PI) and sprint cycles• Manage 3-5 Technical Business Analysts and Agile Support Staff (JIRA & management of PI activities)• Facilitate weekly Scrum of Scrums, taking it from minimal adhoc attendance to weekly full participation by Iteration Managers (or rep), Security, Contracts, Directors and CIO.• Cloud security, summarised concerns with Secure Administration within cloud environments for ACSC• Director for 2-3 months of 18-20 staff (being runner-up to successful applicant)Qualifications: Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner, ScrumMaster (CSM)Science Support | Scientific Computing Section | Digital Science and Information Branch | Corporate Division Show less Australian Exposure Information Platform (AEIP): Full stack design, development, deployment and management of AEIP system comprised of a website, API, and web mapping application.• Development of web application and custom widget, using ArcGIS WebApp Builder (Developer). • Creation and management of API and associated documentation (swagger) within AWS.• Management of AWS account, including S3, IAM, CloudFront, Simple Notification Services, PostgresSQL Database, API Keys, Route53, etc.• Creation of FME workflows, setting error/success processing and responses back to API via lambda (node.js). API testing using postman and UAT.• Staged product release.• Created system diagrams, documentation, presented AEIP at EMSINA Developer Workshop and assisted the launch at AFAC2018.• Developed and management of landing website (WIX), including forum and user management.Enterprise Template: Applied enterprise web mapping template to ArcGIS WebApp Builder (Developer) for wider agency use. Deployed and managed within Bitbucket using GIT, with how-to documentation.ESRI Development:• Custom ArcGIS WebApp Builder (Developer) SDK widgets and 2D/3D templates (HTML, CSS, JavaScript Dojo/Bootstrap).• Test deployments of ArcServer, Portal for ArcGIS AMI's within AWS.• Trial development of ArcGIS Hub sites, via ArcGIS Online developer account.• Usability testing for ArcGIS Insights for exposure data analyticsProvide technical leadership, innovation and delivery of location information data and products.Performance Rating: SuperiorBuilt Environment & Exposure | Environmental Geoscience Division | National Location Information Branch Show less

  • Director Digital Experience (a/g)

    May 2024 - now

  • Service Experience Manager

    Feb 2023 - Apr 2024

  • Enterprise GIS Manager

    Nov 2021 - Feb 2023

  • Assistant Director (a/g) - Digital Mapping Australia

    Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

  • Activity Lead & Director (a/g) - National Information Products

    Dec 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Digital Delivery Manager - Community Safety

    Jul 2020 - Dec 2020

  • Digital Science (Business) Relationship Manager

    Nov 2018 - Jun 2020

  • Senior Geospatial Specialist/Advisor

    Jul 2017 - Nov 2018

  • Team Leader – Foundation Products and Services

    Jan 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Data Scientist

    Jul 2015 - Jan 2016