Olivier Lambert

Olivier Lambert

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  • About me

    Geospatial Data Engineer | 20+ Years of Experience Turning Data into Insights | Passionate About Maps, Trends & Data Quality

  • Education

    • Crunch Analytics

      2019 - 2019
      Data Science for Analysts
    • Muziekschool Gentbrugge

      2004 - 2009
      Piano
    • Académie de musique de Watermael-Boitsfort

      2000 - 2003
      Piano
    • Technofutur 3

      1999 - 1999
      Powerbuilder and Oracle databases
    • Athénée Royal d'Ottignies

      1992 - 1993
      Rhétorique Science
    • New Trier Township High School Winnetka

      1989 - 1992
      Freshman, Sophomore, Junior
    • Université libre de Bruxelles

      1993 - 1997
      Master Geography Grande distinction

      • Master thesis: Contribution to the study of buried ice from the Dry Valleys in Antartica• Orientation: physical geography

  • Experience

    • Université Libre de Bruxelles

      Jan 1998 - Dec 1998
      Research Worker

      Research worker in glaciology at the Earth Science and Environment Department• Crystal and chemical analysis of samples of basal ice from glaciers of Antartica• Data processing of resulting data (using Delta Graph,…)

    • Atos Origin

      Mar 1999 - Mar 2002
      Product/Application Specialist

      Product/Application Specialist• Development and maintenance of business intelligence and decision-making solutions at the General Secretariat of the European Commission as well as in private sector• Business Objects trainer

    • ESRI Belux

      Jun 2002 - Oct 2004

      • Follow-up and management of GIS projects at the European Commission and Belgian Defense (Army) • Analysis of customer needs and preparation of tenders involving ESRI and ERDAS solutions.• Follow-up of GIS projects• Information sessions and product demos • General management and administrative tasks • Member of the GIS Technical Support team• Providing technical support to customers on the phone or by email • Testing of workarounds, bug reporting and background research for solving problems• GIS trainings given to customers

      • Account and Project Manager

        Sept 2003 - Oct 2004
      • GIS Engineer

        Jun 2002 - Aug 2003
    • Tele Atlas

      Oct 2004 - Jan 2009

      • Manage a set of data validation projects within the Product Validation team. Responsibilities include steering the project, delegating tasks and reporting on the overall status. These activities involve validating standard TeleAtlas digital products (MultiNet,...) as well as new content products (2D/3D City Maps, Logistics,...).• Translate requests for product validation coming from internal customers (Product Management and Program Management) into feasibility studies and work instructions for Product Analysts. • Accept or refuse requests based on technical aspects.• Acquire or develop the necessary software tools to validate the Standard Product in all his formats from customer perspective• Validate specific topics or issues on the European Standard Product for Top5 to Top10 customers and report shortcomings towards Project Management.• Study product specifications topics and work out a methodology. Show less

      • Senior Product Analyst

        Jan 2008 - Jan 2009
      • Product Analyst

        Oct 2004 - Dec 2007
    • TomTom

      Jan 2009 - now

      • Creating geospatial visualization products from satellite Earth Monitoring data• Automation of process flows for Digital Elevation Model creation• Automated change detection• Working on automation for digital map updates• Data source preparation, standardisation, and ingestion into core map databases• Process design creation for map visualisation layers (water, land use and land cover)• Raster data vectorization and generalization• Designing and developing workflows for measuring data quality on large Point of Interest (POI) databases. Show less

      • Geospatial Data Engineer IV

        Jun 2024 - now
      • Expert Process Engineer

        Nov 2022 - May 2024
      • Expert GIS Engineer

        Apr 2015 - Nov 2022
      • Senior GIS Engineer

        Jan 2009 - Apr 2015
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified FME Professional

      Safe Software
      Jul 2022