David Cooley
Operations Coordinator
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cooley is an operations and IT professional with 11+ years of experience delivering technical leadership, process improvements, and customer-focused support across corporate and community organizations. He has led teams, managed multi-site infrastructure and budgets, and successfully rolled out Office 365, SharePoint and Teams to thousands of users to maintain services during COVID-19, while also designing a database system to streamline grant management. Currently coordinating operations and fleet scheduling for a community transport service in Sydney, he pairs hands-on driver and rostering oversight with IT-informed process control. An active open-source contributor, David also works on R spatial tooling—helping refine geometry handling in the widely used sf package—showing a practical blend of systems operations and backend development. Colleagues rely on him for steady project delivery, vendor management, and pragmatic improvements that reduce costs and boost service reliability.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Electronics Certificate, Electronics Certificate at Sydney TafeYear 10 Certificate, Year 10 Certificate at Narrabeen High School
English
Github Skills (8)
spatial-data-analysis10
r10
geos9
r-package9
proj9
gdal9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
r-spatial/sf
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Simple Features for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 18 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on implementing and refining functionalities related to handling "m" and "z" ranges within the `sf` package. Their work included creating and modifying methods for calculating and representing these ranges for various geometry types, as well as updating the print methods for correct formatting. They addressed specific issues related to the representation of geometry attributes and implemented supporting backend changes.
r-packagespatialgeosrstatsgdal
SymbolixAU/googlePolylines
Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
R package for encoding objects using Google's Polyline Encoding Algorithm
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years
r-packageencodingpolylinegeospatialgis
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