Team

Charles Burnett

Team Lead
Owner
Email: 
charles@geomemes.com
Mobile Phone: 
1 (250) 8586277

Charles is a professional geographer with experience in forest ecology, GIS/mapping and community engagement. He has provided creative, innovative and community-based solutions to land and marine management since starting MapsWest Geoscience in January 2005 (GeoMemes purchased MapsWest in 2009).

Charles' background includes an MSc in Geography (Victoria), and a PhD in Resource Management & Conservation (Turku, Finland). Charles is a member of the Society for Conservation GIS. Charles has a particular interest in helping communities create spatial representations (maps) of their assets and visions.

See Charles' full CV at web.uvic.ca/~cburnett

Greg Sebastian

Programmer
Email: 
greg@geomemes.com

Greg was our 2010 summer intern, and has stayed on as an employee. He studies part-time with Prof. Yvonne Coady at UVic Computer Science. He rocks PHP/Drupal!

Patrick Hayes

Owner
Advisory Board
Mentor
Email: 
patrick@geomemes.com

Patrick specializes in developing web technologies and providing true-cost economic analysis. Patrick bridges the technical divide, providing innovative solutions using cutting edge web technologies including web mapping and web database tools. Patrick is also our database and programming expert.

Interns and Associates

 

Nedjo Rogers

Associate
Mentor

Nedjo has a masters degree in geography (thesis focused on place, nature, and revolution) and over twenty years of experience working with social and environmental NGOs. He has helped numerous large and small non-profits harness Drupal to serve their missions. Nedjo has a company called http://chocolatelilyweb.ca.

Dan Howard

Programmer
Associate
Office Phone: 
(250) 5906277

Dan is a Victoria-based Drupal programmer.

Hugh Stimson

Programmer
Associate
GIS and Spatial Modelling

Ecology, community engagement, Drupal code, photography

Neskie Manuel

Programmer
Associate

Code, broadcasting, linguistics, juggling

Theresa Fingler

Associate
GIS and Modeller
Email: 
tfingler@uvic.ca

Theresa Fingler is a geographic information systems (GIS) analyst with a degree from the University of Victoria, Geography Department. Prior to working with GeoMemes, she led GIS research projects in cell phone use while driving (data collection, databases, GIS analysis), and community assets mapping (databases, digitizing and cartography).

Cell Phone Research:
ICBC Study Final Report (1.7 MB)
Click here to view a Poster (3 MB).

Lana Taves

Associate
Planner
Email: 
lana@geomemes.com
Office Phone: 
1 (250) 5906277

Lana is a geographer and planner who has worked with several First Nations clients. She has recently bee the lead of a safe travel to schools project for the Ministry.

Jay Rastogi

Associate
Email: 
ecoforestry@gmail.com

Ecology, ecoforestry, community engagement, teaching, sustainable systems thinking