Mrs Shona Frost CGeog (GIS)

Biography

Occupation: Information Systems Group Lear Employer: Staffordshire CC Memo: Shona began her career in geography or more specifically, cartography by training as a cartographer with the Ministry of Defence. After several years experience and gaining her BTec in Cartography and Surveying, she joined the Ministry of Agriculture where she helped to introduce computers into another manual cartographic environment. Her skills focussed by involvement in the Foot and Mouth outbreak in 2001, Shona joined Staffordshire County Council as an Information Systems Officer in 2003. Her work involved all things land based including rights of way, landscape analysis and plant disease monitoring. From 2005, she has managed a small team of GIS specialists and added Corporate GIS Officer to her job title in 2009. She continues to support colleagues both internal and external to the County Council in using Geography and GIS to understand the issues challenging Staffordshire.