Curriculum Vitae

Name Yvo Weidmann

Date of Birth July 18, 1973

Nationality Swiss

Civil Status Single

Current Position Independent Software and Geomatic Engineer

Key Qualifications GIS-Analysis, Software Development, Database Design

Country Experience India, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, USA

Education

2005 – 2007 Master of Advanced Studies, Software Engineering;

Engineering and Information Technology, Bern University of Ap-

plied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland

2001 – 2004 BSc in Engineering, degree course in Geomatics;

Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Applied Science of Ba-

sel, Muttenz, Switzerland

1999 University of Indiana, USA, Summer school; Human Impact and

Global Change, focus on GIS and remote sensing

1989 – 1992 ETH Zurich; Apprenticeship as laboratory assistant with special

academic courses for a baccalaureate diploma

Professional Career

Since 8.2009 GeoIdee; Dushanbe, Tajikistan / Berne, Switzerland

GIS and software Engineer, Consultant

2006 – 7.2009

Since 7.2009 contractor

WaterGisWeb Ltd.; Berne, Switzerland

Software Engineer and Project Leader

2005 MFB-GeoConsulting PLC; Messen, Switzerland

Geomatic Engineer

2000 – 2001 Dr. H. Jäckli Ltd.; Zurich, Switzerland

GIS Project Supervision

1998 – 1999 Sociedad para el estudio de los recursos bioticos de Oaxaca;

Oaxaca, Mexiko

GIS Project Supervision

1992 – 1998 Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

(Eawag); Dübendorf, Switzerland

Technical staff at the Department of Environmental Physics

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Languages

Mother tongue German

Other languages Self-assessment

European level Understanding Speaking Writing

Listening Reading Interaction Production

English C2 C2 C1 C1 C1

French C2 C1 C1 C2 B2

Spanish C1 B2 B2 B2 B1

Russian A2 A2 A2 A2 A1

Computer skills and competences

• Microsoft Windows operating system (utilization, configuration, networking and main-

tenance)

• Office software: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• GIS and Remote Sensing software packages: ArcGIS environment, Quantum GIS,

gvSIG, ERDAS Imagine, Leica Photogrammetric Suite

• Database systems: MS-Access, PostgreSQL and PostGIS

• Programming languages: C#, Python, VB and VB.Net, UML

• Programming environment and tools: Visual Studio Professional, Eclipse environment,

Enterprise Architect, Subversion and Concurrent Versioning System

Groups and Associations

• Swiss Society of Cartography (SGK)

• Professional Group for Geomatics of the Swiss Engineering (STV)

• ESRI User Forum Switzerland

• QGIS User Group Switzerland

• Swiss National Speleological Society (SGH)

Awards

• Swiss Mountain Water Award for the project of the WaterGisWeb AG Area-wide GIS

based identification of potential sites of small hydro power plants (2008)

• Swiss Engineering Award for outstanding final degree in Geomatic Engineering (2005)

Hobbies and interests

Caving

More than 20 years of experience in active cave exploration. Organization and participation

in numerous expeditions in Switzerland, Mexico, Russia, India, Cuba, China and in Oman. Fo-

cus on mapping and GIS data recording of karst areas and their cave systems. Organization

of workshops in cave cartography. Authoring and lecturing of publications on cave related

GIS and cartography.

Backcountry skiing and climbing

Skiing and climbing in the Alps since more than 20 years. Especially during three years in Tajiki-

stan. Due to lack of detailed maps, intensive mapping of backcountry skiing routes in the His-

sar-Range including GIS-based map printing. Snow and avalanche studies.

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Reference Projects

2012 Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Thematic Map Production for Natural Resource Management in

Southern Tajikistan; Developing of mapping workflow; Database

review; Training of local staff; Requirement analysis; Production of

map series for land-cover and pasture management over 35

watersheds.

2011 - 2012 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo), Bern, Switzerland

Developing of ArcMap extension for administration and editing

of the Swiss national boundaries; Review and consulting of

geodatabase system; Design and coding of C# application;

Technical project management.

2011 - 2012 Safe Drinking Water Project, USAid, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Consulting for usage of GIS for Safe Drinking Water projects in

Tajikistan; Teaching of GIS for internship students of the Tajik

Technical University.

2010 Association Milal-Inter, Khorog, Tajikistan

Ges. Technischer Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Consulting and elaboration of a concept for an information sys-

tem for private investors in the Pamirs; Evaluation of framework

for classification of the economical potential; Evaluation of sys-

tem layout, software frameworks and implementations.

2010 Muttoni & Beffa SA, Faido, Switzerland

Consulting in the field of geodata, coordinate transformation

and projections in Tajikistan. Creating of digital terrain model for

rock fall modelling in the area of the campus of the University of

Central Asia (UCA) in Khorog.

2009 - 2012 GeoIdee, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Compilation and (geo-)processing of a seamless map cover of

Tajikistan based on Soviet topographical maps; Capturing and

transliteration of 1:50 000 map sheet names of Soviet topog-

raphical maps as base for map series with ArcMap using

DataDrivenPages; Research on coordinate systems and trans-

formations used in Central Asia.

2009 - 2010 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Bern, Switzerland

Conceptual study and developing of an ArcGIS extension for the

transformation of the linear events of the ecomorphological da-

tabase of FOEN.

2009 - 2010 Ernst Basler & Partner Ltd., Zollikon, Switzerland

Ministry of Energy and Industry, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Country-wide evaluation of the potential for Small Scale Hydro-

power Stations; Establishing GIS and Database system; Coordina-

tion between Switzerland and Tajikistan; Conduction Geo-

analysis.

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2008 - 2010 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Bern, Switzerland

Country-wide modelling and data processing of hydro-electrical

potential; extending existing software and databases from ongo-

ing research projects; integrating research data from the Univer-

sity Bern into the modelling.

2008 - 2010 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland Federal Office for the Envi-

ronment (FOEN), Bern, Switzerland

Design and developing a Web GIS tool for country-wide repre-

sentation of watersheds along river systems and analysing the

hydrological regime type, land cover and land use based on

existing GIS data.

2007 - 2009 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

Office for Waste and Water (AWA), Bern, Switzerland

Modelling and software development for the hydro-electrical

potential of Canton Bern, considering the different aspects of

land use and protection of rivers and streams; cartographical

representation of the results, development of GIS tools for model-

ling and analysis of hydro-electric potential.

2007 - 2008 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

sol-E suisse, Bern, Switzerland

Development of methodology and software for Area-wide GIS

based identification of potential sites of small hydro power

plants, developing of a database system for potential sites, car-

tographical representation of residual flow reach, modelling of

stability of potential sites regarding change of discharge.

since 2006 WaterGisWeb Ltd., Berne, Switzerland

Canton of Bern, Aargau and Graubünden, Switzerland

Design and Development of GIS tools in the field of land use

planning, river systems and road infrastructure.

2005 MFB-GeoConsulting, Messen, Switzerland

Customer service and support in the field of digital photogram-

metry and remote sensing, organization and leading of seminars

in Switzerland and Spain. Projects in the field of 3D landscape

modelling.

2000 – 2001 Dr. H. Jäckli Ltd., Zurich, Switzerland

Maintenance of the office GIS system; Projects: Design of the

geodatabase for groundwater mapping in Thurgau, digital car-

tography and offset printing, 3D modelling of the railway tunnel

Zurich-Thalwil, spatial modelling of contaminated sites.

1998 – 1999 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago,

USA

World Wide Fund For Nature, Oaxaca, Mexico

Classification of Landsat satellite imagery, GIS-based analysis of

vegetation zones, design and generation of a climate database

for the state of Oaxaca, fieldwork for the generation of a re-

gional GIS database.

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1992 – 1998 Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (HSK), Villigen, Switzerland

Characterization of radio nuclides from nuclear power stations in

aquatic systems; technical design, construction and mainte-

nance of the monitoring system.

Publications

2011 Natural Hazard Risk Maps for Public Use in Rural Areas in the

Northern Tajikistan; Yvo Weidmann, Davlatbek Davlatov, Dr. Peter

Thominski, Fifth Annual Central Asia GIS Conference GISCA 2011

2011 Preparing Small-Scale Hydropower Projects for Private Sector Par-

ticipation in Tajikistan; Yvo Weidmann, Cliff Hammer, Fifth Annual

Central Asia GIS Conference GISCA 2011

2008 Python and Geoprocessing with Eclipse and PyDev; Yvo Weid-

mann, ESRI User Forum Switzerland

2005 Glacier hazard assessment in mountains using satellite optical

data; Andreas Kääb, Christian Huggel, Samuel Guex, Frank Paul,

Nadine Salzmann, Kostia Schmutz, Demian Schneider and Yvo

Weidmann, EARSeL Proceedings, Vol. 4, No. 1, 79-93