Gregorio Urquia

Adaptable and persevering GIS professional, committed to adding value to the company,
sharing the professional and cultural knowledge adquired during more than 23 years of
experience with Geographic Information Systems and geodata, specifically:
• 18-year experience with ESRI software.
• 8-year experience with QGIS.
• 11-year experience training company staff in GIS.
Additionally, I have 12 years of divulgative experience as a podcaster.

[ 01/2007 – Current ] GIS Technician

Tragsatec
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
• Consulting and solutions for environmental projects, automation of thematic
cartography series, data analysis and layers, specially with ESRI software. Main
projects participated:
        • Alimentacion.es
        • National forest inventory III & IV.
        • National map of crops and resources.
        • Natural trails of Spain guide.
        • Plan to defend areas of high risk of forest fires on the La Palma Island.
        • Topographic map of La Rioja.
• 10-year experience training company staff in GIS, both ArcGiS Desktop and QGIS as.
• Representative in HABITATS consortium, to implement the EU directive about
Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE).
• Expert in NPIS Twining at Croatia, Nature Protection Information System through the
automation and portability of the inspection procedures.

[ 11/2005 – 01/2007 ] Cartographic Operator

Tragsatec
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Alphanumeric and geographic data processing, thematic cartography elaboration,
specially with ESRI software.

[ 06/2005 – 11/2005 ] Photography Interpretation Operator

Tragsatec
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Photography interpretation of nut trees for SIG Cascaras project through Dinamap
(corporative GIS).

[ 12/2002 – 12/2004 ] Photography Interpretation Operator

Tragsatec
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
Photography interpretation of land uses for SIGPAC project for the European Union
through Dinamap (corporative GIS).

[ 07/2010 – 08/2010 ] Internship

University of New Orleans
City: New Orleans
Country: United States
Geographic Information Systems learning cases.

[ 10/2009 – 07/2010 ] Master in International Trade Management

ESIC Business & Marketing School
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
NQF Level: ISCED 6
Logistics, Negotiation, Marketing. Final project: direct investment in Brazil to sell and
produce home automation (domotics) technology systems.

[ 10/1999 – 02/2006 ] Bachelor in Geography

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
NQF Level: ISCED 5
Spatial Planning, Geographical Information System.

[ 04/2015 – 05/2015 ] Digital Communication Strategy Course
ESIC Business & Marketing School
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
• Strategic planning of a communication plan
• Editorial content associated with my brand
• Web marketing: usability and SEO
• Creation of content production
• 2.0 content distribution and traffic generation to the web
• Management in social networks (community management)
• Email marketing
• Branded content metrics

[ 03/2015 – 03/2015 ] Social Media Camp: social media workshop

Social Media Camp Spain
City: Madrid
Country: Spain
• Objectives and strategic planning
• Management of digital communities
• Social media marketing and social ads
• Social analytics keys and reports
• Development of social media plan

[ 07/2007 – 07/2007 ] Remote sensing of the environment
Universidad de Verano de Teruel
City: Teruel
Country: Spain

[ 06/2005 – 06/2005 ] Strategic planning and urban marketing in Spain
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
City: Madrid
Country: Spain

[ 01/2007 – Current ] Courses and seminars

• 2008/2009 Advanced AutocadMap
• Web Analytics
• Map comprehension
• Concept and management
• Building information services GIS
• GvSIG course
• Exploring the VBA environment
• Training for trainers
• Python fudamentals (for ArcGIS 10)
• Geodatabase
• Geomatics free
• Managing lidar data using LAS data sets (for ArcGIS 10.1)
• Comprehensive raster management in my corporation
• Introduction to ArcGIS 9 Geostatistical Analyst
• ArcGIS customization with VBA
• Python scripting for map automation in ArcGIS 10
• Python scripting for geoprocessing workflows (for ArcGIS 10)
• Distributed information systems in corporate environments
• Basin analysis workshop
• Using lidar data in ArcGIS 10