Jan Ducnuigeen
Geospatial Specialist
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Ducnuigeen is a geospatial specialist with a Masters in GIS from Penn State and over a decade of applied experience in land and water resources, geospatial database management, and open-source GIS application development. Based in Wellington, he brings eight years with Land Information New Zealand and a long background delivering sole-analyst geospatial solutions for government and consultancy clients, including a decade-plus role supporting watershed science and decision support in the Potomac River Basin. He builds practical tools—self-taught QGIS and web mapping systems backed by PostgreSQL/PostGIS—to translate complex environmental monitoring and planning data into actionable maps and visualisations. A Society for Conservation GIS member who has presented at national water resources conferences, he also has hands-on field experience in biological monitoring and international conservation projects in Ethiopia and Argentina. Notably, he combines technical depth in both open-source and ArcGIS ecosystems with IT network administration skills that help deploy and maintain robust geospatial services.
8 years of coding experience
Masters Geographic Information Systems, Masters Geographic Information Systems at Penn State UniversityB.A. Biology, B.A. Biology at Franklin & Marshall College
Github Skills (53)
postgresql-database10
qgis9
tms9
wps9
geotools9
openstreetmap9
wcs9
data-management9
gdal9
database-schema9
gis9
wms9
system-information9
shapefile9
spatial9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
linz/nz-river-names
Aug 2019 - Aug 2023
:droplet: NZ River Names | Schema and data dictionary for pilot NZ River Name Polygons and NZ River Name Lines datasets
Contributions:10 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years
dictionarypolygonsriverlinesdroplet
linz/nz-aerial-survey-indexes
May 2018 - Aug 2023
:globe_with_meridians: NZ Aerial Survey Indexes | PostGIS schema and documentation
Contributions:8 PRs, 30 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 3 months
globeindexespostgisaerialsurvey
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