Paul Skeen
Geospatial Officer
Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Skeen is a Geospatial Officer with a decade of hands-on GIS experience across Australian government and conservation agencies, currently supporting planning and environmental outcomes at the NSW Department of Planning and Environment. He combines practical field and bush-crew roots with advanced spatial data skills—ArcGIS, SQL, cartography and Visual Basic—underpinned by a Graduate Certificate in GIS and a Bachelor in Conservation Ecology. Paul has moved from on-the-ground ecological roles into data management and geospatial program delivery, bringing a pragmatic understanding of how spatial analysis informs policy and land management. He’s comfortable building reproducible GIS workflows and managing datasets for conservation and regional planning, often bridging technical teams and operational stakeholders. Based in Tumut, NSW, he brings local landscape knowledge that complements his technical toolkit and informs more actionable spatial solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Environmental Sciences (Conservation Ecology), Bachelor of Environmental Sciences (Conservation Ecology) at Deakin UniversityGraduate Certificate in GIS, GIs, Graduate Certificate in GIS, GIs at Curtin University
Github Skills (47)
osgeo10
qgis10
python9
coordinates9
wkt8
data-collection8
ttk7
arcpy7
maps6
utm6
gis6
openlayers6
parser6
text-based6
javascript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
skeenp/QGIS3-getWKT
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
QGIS plugin that permits you to see the WKT of a geometry
Contributions:4 releases, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 9 months
qgis-pluginqgiswktpermitsgeometry
skeenp/coparse
Oct 2018 - Mar 2025
Coordinate parser for use in Node JS which parses coordinates in DD. DM, DMS and UTM coordinates, returning a standardised DD json object.
Contributions:1 release, 6 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 5 months
node-jsutmjavascriptdmsnodejs
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