cityspatial

DANBI LEE

Hi! I'm a Product Manager with international experience working at the intersection of product, geospatial technology, data acquisition, geo-UGC, content management and operations, for both B2B (web) and B2C (web, mobile) products.

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I'm passionate about building products that impact the way we design, build, or experience the real world around us!

2007 - Urban Planning

I started my career in urban planning, design, and policy analysis where I honed my skills in urban design, graphic design, stakeholder engagement, visioning, and planning policy development for cities across Canada.

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2011 - Geomatics Engineering

Inspired by the power of GIS in planning I embarked on a new path to become a geomatics engineer, with a focus on remote sensing techniques in cities. I wanted to use data to see and study the cities we were transforming in a digital way.

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2016 - Geospatial Analysis

I joined Arup as a senior GIS Analyst to lead GIS projects and build digital products for major urban infrastructure projects. Here I developed expertise in product ownership, product management, UX research, UI design, and data strategies. 

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2019 - Product Management

Eager for new adventures, I moved over to Niantic as a Product Manager for its geodata platform. Here, I work cross-functionally with an incredibly nimble team to deliver an ecosystem of products to collect and serve the geospatial data that fuels games like Pokémon GO, Ingress, and Pikmin Bloom.

Education

MSc. Geomatics (with Distinction)  

Delft University of Technology 

Sept 2011 - Dec 2013

 

Certificate in Applied Digital Cartography and GIS

Ryerson University 

Sept 2009 – Dec 2010 

 

BSc. Environmental Sciences 

Natural Resources Management (with Honours) 

University of Guelph

Sept 2002 – June 2006

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Expertise

Product management, project management, ideation, visioning, roadmapping, stakeholder engagement, public consultation, design workshop facilitation, UX research, UI design, digital and data strategy, Agile; geomatics, GIS, spatial analysis, image analysis, remote sensing, spatial data collection; planning policy, strategy, strategic design, urban design, communications, branding, graphic design.

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APPS, software, languages

MASTER: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint (iOS and Windows), 

 

EXPERT: PCI Geomatica, Quantum GIS, ArcGIS, FME, Fulcrum Mobile Mapping, Asana, Ally

 

PROFICIENT: ProjectWise, Leaflet, SQL, Python, HTML, XML, MATLAB, Idrisi Selva, image classification algorithms (in Python), Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Periscope

 

COMPETENT: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Azure, FME, SharePoint, ProjectWise, AutoDesk ReCap, Leaflet, SQL

 

English (mother tongue)

Korean (second language)

Spanish (basic, elementary)

Dutch (basic, elementary)