Latest Contributions by RichardWatkinson1

I have just checked in on the Geonet community before we switch to the new platform, apologies for not being as active as I should. Congratulations to all of you on your success, leading the GIS way. I recently retired as a UK based chartered accountant. I had 25 years advising SMEs, and 17 years providing assurance services to the local public sector, including local councils, the police and the NHS. I have been a fan of GIS since I first came across it in 1991, through my work leading an industry/education partnership, connecting schools with businesses, to help young people identify work experience opportunities. Given the global disruption resulting from the pandemic, there is a massive need for world class intelligence sharing of new career openings that, I believe, GIS has the potential to deliver. I would be very interested in finding out if there is any way that I might more effectively join your collaborative activities to share the GIS gospel more widely. See you "on the other side!" ... View more

Hi Kathy I am a new member of the ESRI community, based in the UK. I am a 62 year old recently retired chartered accountant. I posted a request in GeoNet, the other day, looking for anyone who may already be running a GIS community mapping faith based organisations around the world. I recognise that I am only a small part of the network that you hope to collaborate with...but I thought that we might "virtually" search the ESRI GeoNet community together, if that would be helpful. I spent the last 17 years auditing local government, police and our NHS, and there are a number of potential areas of overlap of interest in the subjects that you are interested in. I hope that this might be of interest, and good luck with your endeavours! ... View more