GIS Specialist- Quality Assurance and Migration (pdx, or)

GIS QUALITY ASSURANCE AND MIGRATION SERVICES.

CSS may support for a contract  with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Natural Resource Data Stewards to research user requirements, to conduct quality assurance and quality control on corporate GIS databases, to document and test the BLM suite of GIS/GIS software tools, using Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) and Trimble COTS desktop software as well as ESRI ArcPad10 and emerging mobile softwares on multiple operating systems. Services are also needed to research and write curriculum and train nationally on GIS systems as a live instructor, through internet courses or through self-study courses.

The employee shall perform the following:

• Testing programs on mobile GIS units and coordinating User Acceptance Testing;

• Working with field users and leads to document system requirements according to BLM standards.
• Working with Data Stewards to conduct quality assurance, quality control and secure annual approvals from data stewards.
• Facilitating and Preparing for team meetings with presentations, scheduling and documenting minutes.
• Documenting schema, requirements, workflows, processes, results and user guides
• Working with Data Stewards and GIS technical staff to migrate disparate data systems on an ongoing basis.
• Working as a facilitator with  a regional or national team to refine system
• Writing curriculum, installation guides and Computer Systems Operation guides
• Teaching courses through the Internet, through self-study recorded sessions and live instruction with small groups of up to 24 persons.
• Setting up classrooms and pilot equipment with network access, loading software, loading training data and preparing hardware.
• Evaluating the system and serve the business to ensure functional use of the system for field going staff.
• Acting as technical support liaison for users.
• Assisting to create GIS products for use on mobile devices (i.e. topographicmaps, aerial photos, geodatabases, export files) or administrative uses.
• Assisting to track licenses and order new hardware and software through the BLM purchasing and asset procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
• Specific skills in GIS using ESRI current version software on an enterprise system utilizing multiple versions on a Citrix farm
• Skills and experience in using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) for ArcGIS to migrate disparate datasets.
• Good writing skills for technical documents such as software requirements, user guides and configuration management documents.
• Enterprise ArcSDE editing
• Experience in the ESRI ArcGIS version 10.x suite of software
• Experience teaching users in GIS.
• Experience interviewing users to assess and document data or system needs.
• Experience in designing and editing geodatabases with related tables to a state or national standard.
• Experience in natural resources field data collection, especially invasive species, treatments or range vegetation corporate databases.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in the use of ArcPad or Trimble mobile GIS softwares

How to Apply:  Please visit www.CSS-Dynamac.com to apply online directly https://jobs-consolidatedsafety.icims.com/jobs/1541/gis-specialist–mobile-gis-training-and-documentation/job.

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