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| | In reverse chronology: Recent Moves- Business Development Mgr.-Oil&Gas, OpenWare, Kuwait, current
- Sales Director at Interactive Net Mapping, UK, 2009-2011
- Business Process Consultant at Agip KCO,
Milan (Atyrau) 2009
- Celebrating 30 years professional membership at the AAPG
- Interim GIS Manager at NCOC in Paris and Milan early 2009
- Business Associate at GeoSolveIT in greater London, 2008
- Celebrating 20 years of GIS! See the original 1987-8 papers
- Sales Director at Petris in London in 2006 - 2007
- Attended PESGB DM2007 and ESRI 2008 PUG meetings
- Presented at EAGE 2006 pre-conference GIS Workshop
- Marketing Manager at ESRI in CA, USA in 2000 - 2006
- Senior Consultant at Landmark in CDN and USA in 1994 - 2000
Web Changes- Posted Google Page Rank on home page
- Posted a review of Super VPN Services below
- Collection of my Dad's slides on Flickr
- Selected poetry on Southbank Centre GPS map
- New sample maps with custom symbology
- Started a dynamic blog to replace this website
- Started sharing professional news on Twitter
- Added my newest talks and papers to SlideShare
- Linked Map to Text: Where in the world was Andrew?
- Co-authored new articles in industrial trade magazine
- On-going new poems posted on the old poetry page
- The original home page dating from Jul'96 retired here
- Banner pictures: Texas Gulf coast (09/04), see more here:
Super VPN Services
This service provider offers free (conditions apply) or cheap ($4 per month) Virtual Private Network service wherever you may be in the world.
Why VPN?
By offering a virtual i.p. address in Europe or the Americas, you can watch local TV shows and cinema rentals, which are geographically restricted for copyright reasons. It's a 21st century version the old DVD disc locks, that you couldn't play a US disc on a European player and vice-versa. The thing is that if you are a national of one of those countries, it is perfectly legal to use and/or rent a private i.p. address: you are not escaping any laws or displaying any criminal intent by presenting yourself in your home country, are you?
Why Super VPN?
There are many providers out there, anyone can Google any number of them. But some are more reliable than others. Would you want an i.p. managed by someone from a country embargoed by the US Department of Justice? Of course not! And would you rely on a network that may or may not be up, never mind provide reliable throughput? There are already enough challenges at home, not to go looking for them abroad! Last but not least, you cannot know who's on the other end of the line, unless you use a reputable service provider...
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Presentations
2011 | | Oilelefant on Slideshare |
Moved to David Lloyd's Slideshare page when leaving them
2010 | | FindingPetroleum/Digital Energy Journal |
Better Metadata for GIS, scan and original (enter: 27 in PDF bottom page counter)
2010 | | PPDM, User Group Meeting, London |
Web 1-2-3 for Petroleum, presentation and agenda
2010 | |
Finding Petroleum, January Conference, London |
Web 1-2-3 for Petroleum, presentation and agenda 2009 | | Andrew Zolnai Blog, ongoing |
A blog on GIS and the Web in Petroleum Geosciences, continuing topics below for example here 2008 | | Global Capital Magazine, Technical Focus, October 2008 |
Taking advantage of geography to maximise decision making and performance, reprint 2006 | | European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Vienna |
Sharing Geospatial Data and Applications, invited presentation and paper 2006 | | Public Petroleum Data Model meeting, Houston |
ESRI Data Modeling for Petroleum, presentation from PPDM website 2005 | | Geospatial Information and Technical Association, Houston |
Standards and Metadata - Part IV, draft presentation and paper 2005 | | Joint Petroleum / Pipeline Data Modelling, Houston |
Standards and Metadata - Part III, presentation from APDM website 2002 - 2004 | | Various data modelling |
Standards and Metadata (Parts I - II), presentations goes to ESRI(Canada) website 2004 | | Geological Society of America meeting |
Geological Data Models and Cordilleran Geology, draft manuscript was on ESRI website 2003 | | Mentoring mining and petroleum students |
GIS for Subsurface Modelling, draft manuscript was on ESRI website 2003 - 2005 | | Touch Oil and Gas magazine |
Geographic Information - the Technological Advantage, paper Enterprise Systems from the Ground UP, paper all go to TO&G website Critical Activities Coordinated across the Enterprise, paper 2002 | | ESRI ArcUser, October-December 2002 |
The Second Revolution (with Jim Baumann), article Unocal reduces risk, cycle time in Brazilian bid round, paper Beyond GIS/GPS - trends in spatial data handling, paper CN 30: Continental Wrench-Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Habitat, G. Zolnai, contributor The GISt of Map Databases, paper 1987 | | MGUS'87 "Emerging Concepts" |
New Microcomputer Database System for Maps, paper Peer-reviewed
papers in Structural Geology |
