John Thyne
Position
GIS Manager, Computing: Software Support
Qualifications
B.A. (Cant.)
Contact Details
Room:606
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 x7953
Fax: +64 3 364 2907
john.thyne@canterbury.ac.nz
Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand
Services
Computer Section
- Overall responsibility for computer section systems, staff, and budget.
- Computer purchases (capital expenditure).
- Geography computer lab access and bookings.
- IT workroom bookings and class folders.
- Backup for other staff.
- web content
- GPS downloads, base station files, and export to GIS.
- password updates
- staff IT account balances
- live network ports
- student print accounting
Geographic Information Systems
- Software licensing and maintenance.
- ESRI ArcGIS and Workstation (for UC Campus)
- LEICA ERDAS Imagine
- Trimble Pathfinder Office and Terrasync
- ENVI
- SAS, SPSS & Statistica
- Surfer/& Didger
- Data acquisition and maintenance.
- ESRI Virtual Campus Subscription Administrator.
- Lab creation and testing.
- Geocoding…
General Computer Help
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Digitising, scanning, printing…
- Optical character recognition (OCR)
Other responsibilities
- Budget and Resource Committee
- Building Warden for the Geography Staff Block
- Department Safety Officer
- NZ ESRI User Group Committee