Geoinformatics Engineering

GIE-Works, the Geoinformatics Engineer works! Meetings with technicians, researchers and managers on Geoinformatics opportunities and jobs

Dear students, we are glad to announce that the second Meeting of GIEWorks will be held in June, 7th, from 12:45 to 13:45 in Campus Leonardo, Room N1.2. We will meet Dr. Eng. Diego Gonzales Ferreiro, from United Nations Global Service Centre, and Dr. Marco Mozzon, from HxGN Smartnet, Hexagon Geosystems.

Diego Gonzales Ferreiro will give the speech Geospatial Support in the UN.

Diego Gonzalez Ferreiro is currently the Acting Chief of the Data and Visualization Unit at the United Nations Global service Centre (UNGSC) based in Brindisi, Italy. He manages a team of GIS professionals delivering geospatial services and products to end users at United Nations Peacekeeping and Political missions. For the last ten years, he has worked as a GIS Officer in various UN missions, such as Somalia, Kenya and DR Congo. Previously he worked in a environmental consultancy in Madrid, Spain, where he studied. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and a Masters degree in Geodesy and Cartography.

Marco Mozzon will give the speech titled From the past to the future, being flexible worth.

Marco’s journey in precision surveying world with GPS (GNSS) and positioning services started more than eighteen years ago after many other working experience and a degree in Geology. During this exciting journey he learned and put into practices about informatics, IT, developing solutions as product and project manager, industrial processes and commercial matters oriented to customer satisfaction. He has been responsible for many projects and solutions in Geodesy, Surveying and Industry segment. From 2012 he is the commercial and technical responsible for the development and distribution of the wider RTK service in the world (HxGN SmartNet, EMEA branch) with the role of Product Manager.