Mr Jake Sales CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: GI Consultant Employer: Maps4Planners Memo: Jake's academic background lies in both geography and conservation which he used to great effect managing a challenging conservation project for the Wilderness Foundation UK on farmland in the heart of rural Essex. Prior to this, Jake was a Senior GIS Consultant at Roger Tym & Partners for almost 6 years. In this role, he worked on over 200 projects around the UK helping plan for housing, employment, retail, energy and the environment. A major achievement of Jake's was the creation of a custom GIS tool for a major energy supplier to assess the cumulative environmental impacts of a 50km of proposed power lines (Consenting Risk Model). The tool found the optimum route with least environmental damage. In addition to this work, Jake teaches GIS to MSc and MA students at Writtle College; helping them to apply mapping and analysis to landscape architecture and design. Jake also owns his own GIS consultancy offering mapping and GIS analysis to planning consultants. He has a small client group who he works closely with on a range of projects.