Hi, I’m Roger Brackin. director and principal consultant for 20-20 Geospatial Ltd. I have over 30 years experience in complex system design and implementation often at the cutting edge of technology, over the last 15 I guess focusing heavily on spatial data infrastructure (SDI). I have particular interest and expertise in the following general areas of technology and implementation. There’s quite a few, but you pick up quite a few interests in 40 years.
● Spatial Data Infrastructure – Concepts and Practical Implementation
● Mission Critical System Design in a range of fields, Weather/Environment, Undersea, Defence, Civil Resilience
● Enterprise Architecture (Reference Model – Open Distributed Processing, RM-ODP), TOGAF and Archimate.
● Unified Modelling Language application (Data modelling/system specification)
● Geospatial Data, structure, quality, formats and optimisation.
● Metadata Profiles and Generation, Geospatial Data Cataloging
● Geospatial data federation, harmonisation, fusion and mediation.
● Application of ISO Based Data Modelling/Model Driven Architectures
● Open Standards principles and practice (Particularly Geospatial)
● Ontology Modelling and Application in Geospatial Applications
● Scrum based project management (Software Development)
● Service Oriented Architecture/Web Service Design/Development
● Loosely coupled system design/Microservices
● Containerisation/Cloud Systems Design, Security Models.
● Geospatial Integration with Sensor Web/IOT Technologies
● Innovation and Technology Futures/Horizon Scanning Approaches
I’ve got degrees in Electronics (BSc Kent University), and Computer Science (BSc, London University) and Geography (PHD) from Nottingham University. I am an Honary Assistant Proffessor at Nottingham University with a particular interest in disruptive technology progression. I have been an active member of a number of open standards communities and working groups including the Open Geospatial Consortium, and currently advise governments and major industrual organisations in the UK, Middle East and Caribbean. Happy to discuss new opportunities for UK and international projects.