Chris Wray

 

Chris Wray is a registered Professional GISc practitioner with over 14 years experience in the GIS profession. He started his career as a Professional Land Surveyor with the City of Joburg (CoJ) survey section. While completing a post grad GIS honours, he was transferred to the newly formed City of Joburg Corporate GIS department in 2000. As the manager, and later Deputy Director, of the system administration and development section, Chris successfully implemented the following projects: various digital aerial photography and Lidar tenders (including 3d building models for Joburg CBDs), the integration of cadastral datasets into an enterprise ArcSDE database, and establishment of the CoJ Corporate GIS Intranet and Internet ArcIMS websites. The CoJ GIS website received an ESRI special achievement award and was later shortlisted for the Public Sector Innovation awards in 2006. In 2007 he joined SRK Consulting Engineers as a GIS manager and consultant. Various GIS environmental and engineering projects were project managed and GIS data quality, standards and procedures for SRK South Africa implemented. In 2009 he was appointed as the Senior Systems Analyst at the newly formed Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) to develop and research GIS within the Gauteng City-Region. Chris recently completed a MSc Engineering degree (with distinction) at Wits focusing on the development of a web 2.0 GIS g-government website for the GCRO. He is a member of GISSA (the Geo-Information Society of South Africa) and served on the GISSA Gauteng committee from 2006 - 2007.