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matsmith83

Experience Level: 3 Years
Location: London, UK
Last Updated: August 29, 2012

Experience

EDUCATION

2009 - Present

PhD ‘3D Interactive Technology and the Museum Visitor Experience’, Kingston University

Supervisors: Professor Nigel Walford (Kingston), Paul Honey (Kingston), Doctor Robert Symmons (Fishbourne Roman Palace Museum)

3D visualisation of Fishbourne Palace Museum, primarily using GIS, Autodesk Maya, and gaming software. This PhD explores these various technologies’ abilities to enhance the museum visitor experience.

2006 - 2008

MA ‘Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics’, University of Birmingham

2001 - 2004

BSc (Hons) ‘Archaeology’ (2:1), Bournemouth University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2009 - Present

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Kingston University

Preparation and delivery of workshop/practical based teaching to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Subjects are primarily GIS based, but have also included statistics, databases, and remote sensing. Also, general technical support and teaching assistance are provided as needed.

WORK EXPERIENCE

2008

Photogrammetrist,COWI Mapping UK Ltd

Editing of aerial photography to provide a complete and seamless mosaic.

2005 - 2006

GIS Technician, Central Networks

Updating of the Central Networks GIS (Smallworld) to reflect changes made in the electrical infrastructure of a portion of the UK.

General Information

TECHNICAL SKILLS

GIS

ESRI ArcGIS suite, GRASS, MapInfo

Visualisation

Autodesk Maya, 3DSMAX, Google SketchUp, Photoshop, GIMP, Crytek CryENGINE, Unity

Remote Sensing

Erdas Imagine

Surveying

Leica Differential GPS. Also made use of handheld GPS, Total Stations and EDMs.

Database

Microsoft Access, IBM SSPS/PASW

Misc

Microsoft Office Suite, Apache OpenOffice

CONFERENCES

April 2011

VIA (Visualisation in Archaeology), University of Southampton

Organisation and co-chairing of session on ‘Engaging with the Virtual World? Approaches to Using Computer Games to Represent Heritage’ with Keith Challis of the University of Birmingham.

November 2010

Euromed 2010, Digital Heritage, Cyprus

Poster and 15 minute presentation describing PhD project.

December 2010 TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group), University of Bristol

Poster describing PhD project.