Mrs Vida Williams CGeog (GIS)

Biography

‘Vida Williams is a Principal GIS Analyst for the design and engineering firm Jacobs. In this role Vida oversees the GIS team operations across five offices in the south of the UK, providing technical expertise and also team leadership. Vida is currently the GIS lead for a major ‘Development Consent Order’ to replace an aviation fuel pipeline from Southampton to Heathrow for the client Esso. Working on this multi-disciplinary project Vida leads a team of 6 GIS staff to ensure a robust and innovative common data environment to aid project progression. Web-apps, ArcGIS Collector, Story Maps, SDE and Portal, spatial and 3D analysis are all implemented on this and other projects. Vida promotes geography and GIS outside the workplace through involvement in STEM activities, guiding work experience students and interns, and in particular through membership of an ‘Active Travel’ action group at a local school where Vida has used GIS to create walk and cycle time maps and to create an online travel questionnaire. Vida is a member of the RGS and ESRI GeoMentor programme. Prior to her position at Jacobs Vida worked at Steer transport consultancy and at Transport for London, using GIS for strategic planning work, and earlier in her career Vida was a GIS Consultant for Arup and worked as a Transport Planner for Mott MacDonald. She has an MA in Geography from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Geographic Information Science from the University of London.’