Work experience

AREVA – Dec. 09 to now – Mongolia :

GIS manager
- GIS data management using MapInfo / ArcGIS
- Training and support for users
- Supervision of the computer graphics / GIS operator responsible for monitoring tenements
Designer and manager of databases
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS: designer of the spatial database used by AREVA in Mongolia for sampling, topographic data, license management, data logging. Triggers and various quality assurance functions designed in PL / pgSQL.
- Oracle: completion of QA / QC, data extractions for geologists, synchronization between databases
- Access, MySQL, SQLite: user support for various programs (DrillKing, Badge), databases used in software developed in the subsidiary
Software Developer
- Development in C# and VB.Net - Windows Forms & WPF - of the interfaces and utilities connected to the databases:
  - Geologists: complete management of sampling and other data, automated calculations, analysis, exports
  - Diagraphists: data logging control, automatic shifting of logging passes, automatic generation of logs using WellCAD automation and .Net, various utilities
  - Topographers: management of the data surveyed using differential GPS and their history, process control
  - Tenement manager: tenement management
- MapInfo modules developed in MapBasic for the specific needs of AREVA geologists in Mongolia: automatic layouts, etc..
- Scripts and utilities made in .Net, VBA macros, or VBS scripts
- GIS features incorporated using PostGIS and DotSpatial
Trainer and user support
- Topographers: training and support for the differential GPS, post-processing using Trimble Geomatics Office
- Geologists, diagraphists: training and support for ArcGIS/MapInfo
- General: general IT support, including Microsoft Office and VBA macros design
Languages used: French, English

References: On request

MesoAmerican Research Center – Feb. 09 to July 09 – University of California, Belize, Guatemala:

GIS manager
- Reorganization of the GIS files in an ArcGIS geodatabase after controls and corrections
- Establishment of a standard format for metadata
- Training and support for the other users of ArcGIS
Topographical surveys
- Surveys at El Pilar Archaeological Park
- Training and support for thr other project participants to carry out surveying with GPS and total station
- Advices to the project manager
Designer of a predictive model of distribution of population and land use
- Used ArcGIS ModelBuilder and ArcSDM extension for the calculations of probabilities and the propagation of sites
- Engineer thesis on the subject, and article in the journal of the French Agency of Topography
Languages used: English

References: Project manager, Doctor Anabel Ford ( ford@marc.ucsb.edu or her remarks about the work done for my engineer thesis: http://sebeto.fr/documents/references_sebastien_merlet.pdf )

Expert Land Surveyor office D. Desmet – Summer 2008 – Vendôme, France:

Land Surveyor Internship
- Field work with total stations and GPS for property delimitation
- Map conception using Autocad/Covadis
- Conception of manuals for better software use in the office, improvement of the geocodification
Languages used: French

References: Expert Land Surveyor, Dominique Desmet ( bureau41@axis-conseils.com, indicate that it's for Dominique Desmet)