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Edward Boyle BSc. MSc.
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Mar 2024
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About me
I am currently working as a Research Associate in the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences. Since Sep 2023 I have been a Digital Marketing Volunteer for SSAFA. In 2022 I worked as a Research Data Engineer at the National Library of Scotland. I also completed a Masters-level CPD course at the University of Edinburgh, Big Data Analytics in Health and Social Care, gaining a Distinction grade. In 2021 I completed a Masters-level CPD course at the University of Stirling, Data Analytics/Machine Learning, gaining a Distinction grade, and also a Masters-level CPD course at the University of Edinburgh, Health Data Science, also gaining a Distinction grade. During the lockdown period of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic I created a visualisation of data related to the pandemic, using D3, PHP and AWS technologies (see the links to the right). I also developed a mapping application for the University of Edinburgh Science, Technology and Innovation Studies research centre and LeithLate using Leaflet, MapBox, jQuery, JSON, Bootstrap and GitHub Pages technologies (see the links to the right). I also completed a Masters-level course at the University of Edinburgh, Data Visualisation for Professionals. Between January 2019 and July 2019 I worked as a research software engineer at the Centre for Design Informatics, University of Edinburgh, supporting researchers on a multi-institution project, working with personal informatics data (social media, life logging, tracking), social media APIs, D3.js visualisations, Node.js, Docker, Microsoft Azure, GitLab. I also spent some time mentoring Masters students. Between September 2017 and Dec 2018 I worked as a software engineer developing web-based e-learning applications at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, using the Grails framework. Technologies I used were: Java (GSP/Groovy/Spring/Hibernate/GORM), ASP.NET, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Subversion, AWS. I also worked at the University of Edinburgh School of Biological Sciences, developing and managing websites using Drupal 7 with a focus on GDPR and UX issues. I worked between Sep 2017 and Jul 2018 as a tutor at Manchester Metropolitan University on the UNIGIS UK remote learning MSc course, supporting and teaching students using the Moodle VLE and web-based interactive seminars, and marking assignments. The course content involved web-based GIS, QGIS, Leaflet, and PostGIS. Between June 2016 and June 2017 I worked as a software developer in the Library Digital Development Team at the University of Edinburgh. My main tasks were the development of a new website for the St Cecilia's Hall museum and technical development and support for the Scottish Digital Libraries Consortium, involving the DSpace institutional repository application. The technologies I used were: DSpace (Java/Tomcat/Maven/Ant/PostgreSQL/Solr/XSLT) and the IntelliJ IDEA IDE; CodeIgniter PHP framework (LAMP stack) and the PhpStorm IDE; GitHub; Atlassian JIRA; WordPress CMS. Between September 2014 and May 2017 I undertook a remote learning MSc course in Geographical Information Technologies with UNIGIS UK, working with ArcGIS (ArcPy), QGIS (PyQGIS), PostGIS, WMS/WFS and the Google Maps API. I was awarded the MSc (with Distinction). My dissertation involved the development of a web-based GIS tool exploring the potential of using PPGIS techniques, open data and FOSS to explore the concept of wild land in Scotland, and utilised GeoServer, WMS, OpenLayers, QGIS, OS OpenSpace, OS OpenData and Amazon Web Services. This dissertation won an award for best UNIGIS UK dissertation of 2017, and was nominated as the UK entrant for the 2017 UNIGIS International Academic Excellence Prize. The dissertation and the associated web tool, and also some personal notes about my experience of the course can be seen using the links to the right. In 2014 I also developed (and continue to maintain) the NPRANG website for the NHS, on a freelance basis, using Drupal 7 with the Bootstrap 3 theme. Between March 2013 and June 2016 I worked as a web developer at the College of Humanities & Social Science, University of Edinburgh. Technologies I worked with were: PHP (NetBeans & Eclipse IDE, Subversion & Git VCS), MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, JavaScript jQuery, Drupal 7 CMS (custom modules, features, OpenLayers mapping module), WordPress CMS, Squiz Matrix CMS, Twitter Bootstrap 3, Google Geocharts, MediaWiki. One of the Drupal-based mapping websites I built was used as a prototype technology demonstrator for the 'Tower Blocks - Our Blocks' research project, which has been featured on the BBC news website. Between October 2012 and Februrary 2013 I worked as a software developer at Heriot-Watt University, with SCHOLAR. Between Jan and Oct 2012 I worked on several IT projects on a freelance
basis: From Apr 2011 to Oct 2011 I worked as a web developer at the University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics & Archaeology. I built a PHP/MySQL-based staff profile system for the school, integrated with the University's Content Management System, which can be seen here. This system is also now in use by the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh From Jan 2011 to Mar 2011, I built two Drupal-based academic research websites on a freelance basis, in collaboration with engineering academics at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University: The UK-China Science Bridges (UC4G) project and the Community Organisation of Events in Communications, Mobile Computing and Networking (CommNet) research group. From Sep 2010 to Dec 2010 I was a full-time student for one semester at the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences, studying for an MSc in Geographical Information Science. From Aug 2009 to Aug 2010 I worked as a computing officer at the University of Edinburgh School of Engineering, where my main role was overhauling and redeveloping the School website with a new information architecture, new content and a migration to the Drupal Content Management System. From Aug 2007 to Aug 2009 I worked for the ERPem consortium as a project officer with responsibility for development of the ERPem website using the Drupal CMS.
From May 2002 to Aug 2007 I worked as a software engineer at Edina, a JISC national data centre based at the University of Edinburgh. I worked on Go-Geo! (an academic web portal of geospatial data resources), Gigateway (a governmental and commercial web portal of geospatial data resources, now discontinued) and GRADE (a web repository of academic geospatial data). From Feb 2002 to Apr 2002 I worked on software and database applications at the University of Edinburgh Finance Department, and between Jan 2000 and Jan 2002 I worked on building the websites for the SHEFC C&IT Programme and the SeSDL e-learning project. I have also previously worked for Edinburgh Napier University, Heriot-Watt University, a business called SolCom Systems, and the UK Benefits Agency. |
Contact details
Work email: edwardgboyle@hotmail.com Scottish Snowpatches satellite data tool 2024 NLS Jupyter Notebooks 2022 Pandemic data visualisation 2020
The dissertation is also available on the Figshare service at this DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5354011.v1 Postings from my personal blog about the MSc course: Useful Links
My personal website with my blog and all my hillwalking and travel photographs can be
found at: Work blog postings:
GIS-related postings from my personal blog (a lot of the content in these blog postings is taken from preliminary notes for a MSc dissertation idea):
A post on my personal blog about the latest scientific research into the question of recent glaciers in the Scottish mountains: Amazon book reviews |