Charles Burnett
I'm a results-orientated application team lead with experience in strategic planning, management and implementation of projects and programs to support business transformation.
Trained as a physical geography and landscape ecology researcher, I bring a holistic, systems approach to my work. I have a passion for supporting and leading communities and communities of practice.
Awards
Awarded Summer 2020 BC Public Service' "Staff Award of Excellence Cultivating the Co-op Employee Experience" for my work with J Lambros on the CEED Project.
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Cedar Box - First Nations Stewardship Tools (2007-2018)
Project description: Cedar Box is Python/GeoDjango application for managing consultation, heritage, fieldwork and GIS data – all to support First Nations cultural revitalization and economic development.
Cedar was the only Indigenous community-based data management tool that fully integrated (1) rich TUS/TEK data management, (2) project proposals (Crown referrals) tracking and spatial analysis, and (3) interactive community maps for schools and Band offices.
Current Developers
You can find out more about Cedar features at Mighty Oaks.
History
Coding Cedar started in 2007 when Patrick Hayes and I built a consultation tracking tool built on top of Drupal CMS (Verion 5 and then quickly, 6). At the time it was called the ‘Community Information Systems’ (CIS). The first users were 2 First Nations near Prince Rupert BC and a Nation in the BC Northeast. By 2018, the system had gone through ~8 versions and 3 platforms, and was in use in over a dozen British Columbia Nations stewardship offices.
Features
Development App - Track and analyze project and permit applications, including Crown referrals
- Contacts Relationship Manager
- Rich per-Project information
- Geographic Information data uploads in several formats
- Spatial Analysis (Proximity Reports) versus any App layer
- Upload planning layer Shapefiles
- Email Harvesting (with Files)
- Team Discussion
- Tags and Project Groups
- To Do Tasks
- Desktop GIS Live-Link
Heritage App - Gather and manage traditional ecological knowledge
- Contacts Relationship Manager
- Manage Heritage Projects
- Manage Interviews
- Documents (Items) cataloging
- Dublin Core metadata fields on Items
- Researcher fields on Items
- Items: Collections and Tags
- Powerful search, full-text attachments search (and excerpts)
- Geographic Information data uploads in several formats
- Named Place database (list and map)
- Case Briefs
- Synopses
- Integrated Community Map
- Web Feature Service Layer ingest
Ecosystems App - Manage Ecosystem Projects, GIS layers and Species lists
- Contacts Relationship Manager
- Manage your Ecosystems GIS database (cataloging)
- Manage Species (animals list, plants list) database
- Upload key Ecosystem spatial layers for Proximity Reports
- Ecosystem integration into DevelopmentApp and HeritageApp