Why Geovolve?

Geovolve is an independent New Zealand-based company focused on improving the geospatial capability and maturity of organisations through improvements in:

  • Project Delivery and Change Management
  • Business and Data Management Processes
  • Geospatial Advisory and Support

Geovolve's expertise is focused on organisations that manage assets in the Utilities, Government and Private sectors.

We pride ourselves on the ability to deliver technology components as simply as possible while identifying business and data improvements that provide the greatest business benefit and broaden the use of geospatial functions.

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Services

  • Project Delivery

    Geovolve provides project management and change management expertise to assist businesses implement new and upgrade existing technology, and develop new technical and business functions.

  • Business Process Analysis

    Geovolve can assist with documenting your current- and future-state business and data management processes to identify insights and assist with business cases and project scoping.

  • Geospatial Advisory

    With over 25yrs experience in the geospatial sector, Geovolve knows how to keep things simple while considering your business functions, technology and commercial requirements.

Projects

The following are examples of recent projects undertaken for differing market segments:

  • Utilities

    On behalf of Cyient Ltd, delivered an ESRI Utility Network implementation for Waipa Networks Ltd.

    Geospatial operations support, including python scripting and advisory to support asset management system integration for Aurora Energy Ltd.

    Partnered with Seamless to develop source-destination data mapping for a migration to the ESRI Utility Network data model for Buller Electricity.

    Working with Leva Advisory, provided business process analysis for Vodafone NZ.

  • Government

    Project managed and provided consultancy for development of roadmap for Canterbury Civil Defense and Emergency Management.

    Using the LINQ software platform, documented processes and developed commercial impacts for a business case to migrate raster datasets to cloud infrastructure for Environment Canterbury.

    Working with Deloitte NZ and Orbica Ltd, provided BA and PM expertise to document high-level census information requirements for Statistics NZ.

  • Private

    Partnering with eiQ Ltd, provide advice to support strategic direction of geospatial technology for an environmental consultancy.

    Geospatial advice and software development for a private startup related to the car racing industry.

    Geospatial support and consulting services to support a recreational consultancy firm.

About

Geovolve is represented by Justin Fail. Justin is an IT/Data/GIS professional with over 25 years of both local and international work experience across multiple business segments.

He is focused on improving people skills and business processes via consulting, designing, and managing the implementation of IT projects with a geospatial component. Justin has extensive experience across both vendor-specific (eg. ESRI, Intergraph) and open-source platforms which allow him to deliver pragmatic solutions that best align with customer strategic and information management strategies.

His skills are best applied to organisations that need to implement and understand their business information via spatial and asset information management technologies.

Memberships

  • Member of Institute of IT Professionals NZ (MIITP), 2020+
  • International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), 2016

Training

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner, 2021
  • Dale Carnegie Management Styles, 2019
  • Investment Logic Mapping (ILM), 2017
  • Better Business Case Practitioner, 2016
  • Prince2 Foundation, 2012
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