Mr Rollo Home CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Senior Procuct Manager, 3D Employer: Ordnance Survey Memo: Rollo has been an enthusiast of Geography since his youth, inspired initially by the landscape while traipsing over his native Dartmoor. From these sojourns, an interest in expeditionary travel developed. With the experiences gained from the British Schools Exploring Society (Yukon 1990), he worked as a member of a number of independent (some even RGS-IBG registered) climbing expeditions to mountain regions of, Norway (1991), Iceland (1992), Svalbard (1993, 1999), Pakistan (2001), Greenland (2003), Finland (2004) and Morocco (2005). It was a natural decision for Rollo to read Geography at Queen Mary College, University of London (BA). However it was subsequently while studying at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) that he was first introduced to GIS. Upon graduation he undertook an MSc in GIS at the University of Edinburgh, and has worked in the GI sector ever since. He has been fortunate to have worked on GI applications around the world and in a range of sectors for both large corporations (Halcrow Group Ltd, COWI A/S) and a small start-up (the Austrian based CityGRID GmbH), and more recently as the Senior Product Manager, 3D for Ordnance Survey. Rollo has been involved with the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) for a number of years, (re)establishing the #AGI_NG and working on the GeoCommunity and W3G conferences. He established and continues to coordinate the #Geo_SW group. He presents a personal (if somewhat infrequent) slant on 'all things GIS' at his blog #SpatialNeeds (www.rollo-home.co.uk).