Meng Li
Senior Manager (Since 2025) Manager (2021-2024), Gis Platforms @City of Vancouver
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Manager (Since 2025) Manager (2021-2024), Gis Platforms @City of Vancouver
Vancouver, BC, CA
manage a team of GIS system analyst, developers, geospatial analysts and system specialists for developing and maintaining the City\'s GIS platforms (GIS back-end data and server infrastructure). The GIS platforms team plays transformational and foundational roles in supporting the Branch for delivering GIS Products (e.g. VanMap) and Services (government as a service provider), as well as empowering city staff and business for self-service GIS solutions (government as a platform), which has been my belief and vision for future municipal GIS operations models- as project owner, successfully managed and implemented the data migration and ArcGIS infrastructure upgrades & stabilization 2 key goals of the 5.5 year Roadmap project of Phase 32•••••21
EDUCATION
City of Vancouver CityLearn and URISA courses
Leadership, Management and Technical Training
Ghent University, Belgium
Ph.D. in Geography, Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques
Xinjiang University
B.Sc. in geography, Major in Physical Geography
Xinjiang University
M.Sc. in geography, Modelling and spatial analysis
SKILLS
ABOUT MENG LI
GIS manager and professional at the City of Vancouver with a solid track record of the City’s enterprise GIS system implementation and support as evidenced by the City\'s well-received, longest-lasting, and award-wining VanMap systems (as the original developer, architect and manager; including City Service Award for Cannabis Store app and Goad’s 1912 Fire Insurance Plan Historical Layer projects) and Open Data Initiative (as technical lead, won Innovation Award in 2011). Very passionate and knowledgeable about GIS and its municipal applications; proven competencies in IT/GIS technologies, project and IT service management (ITIL). Visionary and results-oriented leader demonstrated in strategic thinking, enterprise architecture design, business driven GIS services provision and modern business-enabled platform management, as well as team management. Internationally educated professional having a PhD in geography and GIS applications from Gent University (Belgium), and M.S. and B.S. degrees in geography from China. Advocate and volunteer actively participating in and contributing to immigrant integration initiatives.
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