Joel Gordon - Team Leader

Joel has fifteen years experience working in IT in the forestry industry for SCION, joining from University in a software development role. Joel has a deep practical understanding of modern development practices and techniques, has special expertise at problem solving, and a professional interest in object oriented analysis and design, configuration management and object persistence.

His major achievements include; developing and maintaining a large stand based modelling system, ‘STANDPAK’, that has gained dominant market penetration in the New Zealand forestry industry, developing data capture system for permanent sample plotting. Joel is currently performing the systems architect role for the large, forest assessment, system, ’Cruiser’, after playing key roles in its development, including; assisting with designing the complex scientific growth modelling components, establishing development processes including build management, version control, workspace management etc., resolving the most complex development problems.

Joel has a BSc (Computer Science and Biology) (Waikato)