I passed my registration exams (and other news)

I know it’s already a month into the new year, and I haven’t been active on the blog for a while, but that’s mostly because I had nothing to post. However, that will all be changing because in January I returned to Aurecon. This time around, I’m fulfilling a technology expert role within the Asset Management team, so I’ll be designing and driving our technology strategy going forward. I’ve got a few interesting things lined up, particularly around spatial data warehouses and ontologies, so I’ll be posting about it alot here while I work through my ideas.

I also got my SAGC exam results today – 100% for Paper A and 96% for Paper F, so once the fees are paid, I will be registered as a Geomatics Technologist. When I’m finished with my BscHons next year, I’ll be able to upgrade to Practitioner as I’m just short of the academic requirement.

Speaking of Hons, I just registered for the 2nd (final) year, and am currently studying for 3 exams next week. To be honest, it has been painful studying, simply because many of the concepts we have discussed are outdated and having been in industry now for almost 6 years, it is irritating to have to study these things. I’m just pushing through to get that piece of paper. Hopefully I get a good research topic for the project (or can convince one of the supervisors to take me with my own topic). I’ll worry about that after the exams.

I’ll probably be able to return to my normal posting schedule in March. I just thought it was about time I post something.

Aaaaand now I’m thinking about how much I miss Community. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie

Settling into my new job :)

I rather abruptly put the blog on hiatus, seeing as my last post was on my second last day of work at Aurecon. I started my new job as a GIS Analyst at Vodacom on 15th January, and I’ve only gotten around to posting now because I have a bunch of other things going on, and I didn’t want to write something about the job before I had something worthwhile to write.

So this post is just to say hi, and I hope that the New Year has been treating everyone well so far. I will be keeping the blog going, except that it won’t be ESRI focussed anymore since I am no longer in an ESRI environment 😛

I will write a post soon about the new direction I will be taking the blog in.