Anne Girardin

Auditing of the Mongolian National Land Information System and finding solutions for improvement

Business Development oriented towards Land Management and Geomarketing, methodologies requiring advanced Geographical Information Management Systems and proper Addressing Systems implementation;

Design of a Conceptual Data Model supporting the implementation of the Provincial Infrastructure Management Support System (PIMSS), a nationwide monitoring and evaluation project supporting decision making for the ANDS program; and

Training of AIMS employees and external counterparts to land survey and Geomatic activities: street addressing, cadastral mapping, geomarketing.

Emerging Markets Group – business expert promoting social and economic development around the world
USAID Land Titling and Economic Restructuring Project in Afghanistan (LTERA)

Responsibilities:

Design of a Land Information System supporting Land Policy and Legislation, Land Formalization, and Land Registration for the country of Afghanistan, in partnership with the Afghanistan Geodesy and Cartography Head Office (AGCHO), the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Urban Development and the Municipalities;

Definition of land information standards and implementation of data quality control procedures to ensure accuracy and consistency between data produced;

Development of a prototype project aiming at testing the land registration system in urban settlements;

Training of governmental employees to Land Survey, GIS, and Cadastral Mapping.

Arkane Foncier, French Chartered Land Surveyors' Firm specialized in digital mapping and urban development

Responsibilities:

May to December 2007
City Planning Department, Kabul Municipality, Afghanistan
- Design of a Pilot Urban Land Information System for the City of Kabul, in partnership with Kabul Municipality, the Afghan Post, the Ministry of Information and Culture, the USAID Land Titling and Economic Restructuring Project in Afghanistan (LTERA) and UN-HABITAT;
- Development of house and street addressing standards for Afghan cities.
- Development and implementation of data quality control procedures to check the accuracy and consistency of spatial data produced.
- Setup of a GIS production unit at the City Planning of Kabul for mapping streets and land parcels in 17 districts of Kabul City;
- Training of eight (8) municipal engineers in Land Survey, GIS, and Street and House Coding; and
- Implementation of the pilot project in Kabul's district no. 4 with a team of ten (10) Land Survey Engineers (including 4 women), ten (10) Social Surveyors, twenty (20) assistants.

July 2006 to April 2007
Main Office, Montlhery, France
- Provision of survey and mapping services to various local government offices and customers. Such services included the survey of cadastral parcels, production of digital elevation models, detailed street mapping, survey of sewage disposals, etc.; and
- Assistance to land development projects including provision of topographical and engineering data to support allotment operations, road design, as well as water and power supply facility planning.

10 months, 16 countries, 24 border crossings, 11,000 pictures, 30,000 miles (48000 km) , too many dollars spent, a couple of marriage proposals, a few brake downs, plenty of beautiful sceneries and wonderful people met along the road!

Tele Atlas (subsidiary of TomTom) – world leader in digital navigation mapping
Menlo Park, CA, USA

Responsibilities:

Mars 2004 to May 2005: Database Quality Project Manager
- Project manager within the Database Operation Project Management team of TeleAtlas
- Responsible for the quality of TeleAtlas native database. This database features comprehensive North-American street, address, census, and postal data for a variety of geographic applications (e.g. MultiNet) as well as an extensive list of attributes such as landmarks, point of interests (POI), and land use features;
- Negotiation, prioritization and redefinition of customer quality requirements into process goals;
- Definition of database quality check procedures to comply with TeleAtlas' customer quality requirements, detect violations of quality criteria, provide corrective measures and generally speaking improve the overall quality of TeleAtlas navigation data produced; and
- Implementation of database quality check procedures in TeleAtlas production centers of Hyderabad and Delhi in India and in the European office of Gent, Belgium.

May 2002 to Mars 2004: Process Engineer
- Process Engineer within the Research and Development Department;
- Audit and optimization of data production processes with a view to shorten data release time-to-market.

D2L Betali – Chartered Land Surveyors in Rennes (France)

Responsibilities:
- Geo-marketing consultant seconded by SCP Debost-Lechaux-Le Moigne to Orange Netherlands (8 months) and to Orange Sweden (8 months). Integration and analysis of socio-demographic data and locations of customers into a Geographical Information System (GIS) in order to help Orange develop its business strategy for the deployment of its Mobile telephony networks (2G and 3G), including the location of its points of sales and customer service.
- Realization of topographical and land tenure surveys throughout the French region of Brittany as a support to land transactions, land allotment operations, and infrastructure development projects.

Location
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Santa Elena, Cayo District, Belize

Responsibilities:
- Implementation of a Conceptual Data Model based on topography, hydrography, soils, vegetation and known ancient settlements in order to analyze undiscovered Maya sites and protect the endangered Maya Forest.
- Population of the initial group of geographical layers necessary to the first analyses by data collection and field work at El Pilar archeological site.
- Experimentation of the system by GIS analyses of the locally collected data in order to extend the research to the Belize River Area.