Charlotte Dawson
Manager Geospatial Services
New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlotte Dawson is a geospatial leader with nine years shaping location data strategy and products across New Zealand’s public and private sectors. Currently Manager Geospatial Services at Waka Kotahi, she previously led GIS teams at Stantec and owned topography products at Land Information New Zealand, combining technical stewardship with Agile product ownership. Her background spans hands-on cartography, geoinformatics training from ITC, and analytical roles that bridge data quality, standards and operational delivery. She excels at translating complex spatial requirements into pragmatic services and team practices that scale across national programmes. Known for blending technical depth with stakeholder-facing product skills, she brings a steady track record of improving how government and industry use location data. An attention to both map detail and organisational process means she’s as comfortable refining metadata as she is shaping delivery roadmaps.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Geography, Bachelor of Science, Geography at University of OtagoDiploma, Geoinformatics, Diploma, Geoinformatics at Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente
Github Skills (10)
postgresql-database9
database-schema8
database5
qgis5
survey4
postgis4
python2
reload2
effort2
plugin1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linz/nz-buildings
Jul 2017 - May 2019
:house: NZ Buildings | QGIS plugin and PostGIS database schema for building dataset management
Contributions:15 commits, 4 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 9 months
housepostgresql-databaseqgis-plugindatasetindependent-dataset
linz/nz-aerial-survey-indexes
May 2018 - Nov 2018
:globe_with_meridians: NZ Aerial Survey Indexes | PostGIS schema and documentation
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
globeindexespostgisaerialsurvey
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