Mr Philip M Francis CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Technical Consultant Employer: Informed Solutions Memo: FRANCIS, Phil It was through a number of surveying jobs that Phil developed an interest in GIS and then undertook an MSc in GIS at Edinburgh University. He is currently a Technical Consultant for Informed Solutions, a firm of spatial information consultants in Manchester, working on projects for government departments as well as for the oil and gas sectors. He has worked on various important surveillance projects since 1998, including being part of the crew that carried out the first multibeam survey to map the bottom of the Aleutian trench. Phil has been an highly active member of the Association of Geographic Information for the past three years and has been involved in many GIS related events since 2002.