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Planning and Enabling your Geospatial Journey

Bringing Value through Geospatial Technology

Our vision is to be a trusted geospatial partner, generating value for your organisation by aligning operations, technical solutions and cross-sector collaboration

Our mission is to bridge the gap between business requirement and geospatial technology through strategic leadership, technical expertise and collaborative data governance across ESRI ArcGIS solutions

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Meet Your Geospatial Consultant

My name is Jake Hechter

I have a passion for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data management and clear, well-designed IT systems and processes.  For the past 15 years, I have worked in technical and leadership roles in the geospatial industry specialising in ESRI's ArcGIS technology stack.

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I've led geospatial enterprise migrations, designed spatial data frameworks and guided cross-agency projects that improved internal operations and community outcomes

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I hold a MSc in Geography from The Univerisity of Auckland's School of th Environment and a MBA from the University of Otago.  My training has empowered me to combine technical know-how with a strategic approach

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I live in New Plymouth, NZ, where I enjoy the outdoors and geography on my doorstep at every opportunity.  I love exploring NZ's coastline, mountains and everything in between.

Geospatial Services

Geospatial Strategy

Build Location Intelligence

Bespoke geospatial strategy services focus on location intelligence help organisations optimise their resources and make informed decisions. Stratgey services include:

  • Aligning existing strategy to GIS outcomes 

  • GIS strategy authoring 

  • Current state and technical maturity assessment 

  • Coordination and alignment between technical and leadership outcomes 

  • Technical and governance road-mapping

  • GIS-specific organisational structure and job description design

Technical Documentation

Know and communicate your source of truth

GIS deployments are notoriously interconnected.  End-to-end documentation ensures that staff and leadership know their systems.  Documentation services include:

  • Technical solution documentation 

  • Process mapping 

  • Data dictionary creation and maintenance 

  • Geospatial product and service cataloguing 

Project Management and Support

Confidently upgrade your GIS environment

Geospatial product and service requirements change over time, as technological advancements bring exciting opportunity.  We can provide:

  • GIS-specific project management from design to deployment 

  • Cloud migration support 

  • Stakeholder management and engagement 

Data Integration and Automation

Optimising your processes

Automating key organisational workflows allows your team to focus less on mundane, repeatable tasks.  I strive to create and support clean, clear and well-documented GIS workflows and system integrations, including:

  • Documentation and improvement of existing integrations 

  • Identifying and designing integration solutions 

  • Building Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) solutions using FME software 

GIS Operational Support

Getting you across the line

Sometimes specialist GIS surge support is needed to get your organisation through a busy period of business-as-usual work, or to bridge the gap between a team member leaving and another coming on board.  Operational services include: 

  • ArcGIS Enterprise content creation and support 

  • ArcGIS Desktop analysis and data management

Why Choose Single Track Consulting

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A strategic approach to GIS technology and systems

GIS must meet an organisation's needs, and support its vision, whether in the public or private sector.  I know the importance of a well-crafted and clear strategy which the whole organisation can understand and support. I am passionate about aligning key requirements with GIS products, services and capabilities. 

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A deep understanding of the people, technology and processes needed for GIS success

In all of my leadership and operational roles, I know what it takes to support daily operations, streamline incident resolution, and ensure knowledge transfer when staff move to new roles.  GIS is interwoven into an organsation's systems, workflows and deliverables.  It is vital that GIS products, services and documentation are clear, complete, current and accessible to those who need it. 

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Experience in implementing and supporting successful GIS deployments

GIS projects are complex, and require careful planning and execution at every stage.  Through my experience through myriad GIS developments and system migrations, I know what is easy, what is difficult, what is fast, what is slow, what is cheap, and what is expensive.  I have learned the hard lessons so you don't have to.

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An intentional mix of technical and leadership experience,

Continuous improvement has driven me throughout my career in the geospatial industry.  I am committed to finding the best way forward, and that means staying curious and embracing technology and organisational change.  I will do what it takes to provide the best outcome for leadership, staff and customers. 

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