Florian Raber
Entrepreneur @ upcoming Startup, Information Technology and Services
Hi there! I'm Florian Raber, a tech enthusiast, entrepreneur & traveler - enjoying good life, Central Europe & photography!
Florian Raber's Bio:
Florian Raber's Experience:
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Geographic Analyst II at HERE
April 2015 - October 2016 | Metz, FrancePromoted in 2015, I'm deepening my involvement in the maintenance & expansion of the HERE navigation map, while sharpening skills in the field of Innovation (development & sharing of Best Practices, Innovation Ideas) and Community-building around the HERE Map Creator tool which allows end-users to contribute to our mapping effort. http://mapcreator.here.com
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Geographic Analyst I at HERE, a Nokia company
December 2013 - April 2015 | Metz, FranceI'm a GIS Analyst in charge of maintaining our HERE Map up-to-date with everyday changes in the road network, and expand it with new attributes. HERE is the leading location cloud, providing the map for 90% in-dash GPS devices, major websites (Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing, ...) and smartphone apps (Android, iOS, Windows Phone). Since the world changes on a daily basis, we strive to keep our leading Real-World Index up-to-date. Within this strategy, I'm involved with: • Sourcing: building strong bonds with national & municipal administrations to keep up with roadworks • Community-building: raising, training and managing communities of passionate amateur cartographers who wish to contribute to the best-in-class navigation map. • Geospatial analysis & GIS coding in the HERE mapping database • Quality: Quality-in-the-Line, QC & QQ, Agile & Lean management • Training: We're most trained team of cartographers in the world, and that involves daily on-the-job Learning as well as formal skill assessment every year.
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Research Engineer at GEOBIO Lab
January 2013 - October 2013 | Prague, Czech Republic• Field-monitoring & ecological assessment of the Krkonoše National Park (Czech Republic) in order to evaluate the ecosystemal invasion of the Norway Spruce (Picea albies) • Processed aerial imagery data through supervised & non-supervised classification (Exelis ENVI 5.0 + IDL) after preprocessing (PCI Geomatica 2012, GoldenSoftware Surfer 9). • Established management scenarios which the Managing Authority of the National Park used to adjust its ecological management style.
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Supervisor of Scientific Redaction at EUCOR - Network of the Upper Rhine Universities
September 2012 - December 2012 | Strasbourg, France• Directed the redaction process of the Conference Proceedings of the 5th Environmental Sciences Summer School of the EUCOR research network • Overviewed the work of the different contributors and aggregated their productions • Wrote several chapters of the aforementioned Proceedings
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Associate Researcher at Laboratoire GEODE UMR 5602 CNRS
April 2012 - December 2012 | Toulouse, France1st-year Master research thesis: “Quantifying the evolution of the Réart river delta (Pyrénées-Orientales, Southwestern France) since the end of the XVIIth century – Respective roles of the anthropic impacts & climatic evolution”
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Seminar organizer & Lecturer at Groupement SONATE - Université de Strasbourg
October 2012 - October 2012 | Strasbourg, France• Organized the annual seminar of the SONATE research group (Societies, Nature, Environments) of the University of Strasbourg (France) on the subject of "Resiliences - Resistances - Adaptations". • Held a conference entitled "Agricultural resilience of the Post-Little Ice Age societies in the Vosges mountain range : between the medieval demographic crisis & the anthropoclimatic crisis of the Little Ice Age"
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Assistant Project Manager (intern) at Center for Territorial Development, Litija, Slovenia
July 2011 - September 2011 | Litija, Slovenia• Created and filled a database of all the rural and natural sites worthy of the newly-created label "Heart of Slovenia - Srce Slovenije" promoting sustainable rural tourism
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Waiter at French Restaurant 'Le Cruchon'
February 2009 - May 2011 | Strasbourg, FranceWelcoming & attending guests, collecting orders. Advising & serving the wine.
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Trainee MEP Assistant at Permanent Representation of the UK to the Council of Europe
July 2008 - September 2008 | Strasbourg, France• Animated the Environmental Workshop at the Council of Europe Open Doors Day • Managed funds and created the event webpage: http://europa.eu/festivalofeurope • Produced a series of trilingual booklets (FR, EN, DE) presenting the event and the European Institution
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Assistant Translator at Council of Europe
July 2008 - August 2008 | Strasbourg, FranceUndertook translation work of booklets and web content for the Council of Europe, in French, English and German languages.
Florian Raber's Education:
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Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science
2013 – 2013Masters of Science (Erasmus)Concentration: Physical Geography & Geo-ecologyActivities: Erasmus language exchange club -
University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Geography & Urban Planning
2011 – 2013Masters of ScienceConcentration: Environmental Geography & GIS -
EUCOR - Network of the Upper Rhine Universities
2012 – 20125th Summer School in Environmental SciencesConcentration: Risk management related to extreme natural events, the case of floods -
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2011 – 2011Summer School in Management of Environmental ResourcesConcentration: Management of Environmental Resources -
Earth Sciences School & Observatory (EOST), Strasbourg, France
2008 – 2011Bachelor of ScienceConcentration: Earth & Environmental Science -
EUCOR - Network of the Upper Rhine Universities
2010 – 20104th Summer School in Environmental SciencesConcentration: Sustainable Land Management
Florian Raber's Interests & Activities:
technology, web, startup, entrepreneurship, gis, geography, environment, nature, travel, central europe, slovenia, balkans, food, gastronomy