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:

• Geographic Analyst II at HERE

  April 2015 - October 2016 | Metz, France

  Promoted 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

• Geographic Analyst I at HERE, a Nokia company

  December 2013 - April 2015 | Metz, France

  I'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.

• 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.

• 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

• Associate Researcher at Laboratoire GEODE UMR 5602 CNRS

  April 2012 - December 2012 | Toulouse, France

  1st-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”

• 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"

• 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

• Waiter at French Restaurant 'Le Cruchon'

  February 2009 - May 2011 | Strasbourg, France

  Welcoming & attending guests, collecting orders. Advising & serving the wine.

• 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

• Assistant Translator at Council of Europe

  July 2008 - August 2008 | Strasbourg, France

  Undertook translation work of booklets and web content for the Council of Europe, in French, English and German languages.

Florian Raber's Education:

• Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science

  2013 – 2013
  Masters of Science (Erasmus)
  Concentration: Physical Geography & Geo-ecology
  Activities: Erasmus language exchange club

• University of Strasbourg, Faculty of Geography & Urban Planning

  2011 – 2013
  Masters of Science
  Concentration: Environmental Geography & GIS

• EUCOR - Network of the Upper Rhine Universities

  2012 – 2012
  5th Summer School in Environmental Sciences
  Concentration: Risk management related to extreme natural events, the case of floods

• University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

  2011 – 2011
  Summer School in Management of Environmental Resources
  Concentration: Management of Environmental Resources

• Earth Sciences School & Observatory (EOST), Strasbourg, France

  2008 – 2011
  Bachelor of Science
  Concentration: Earth & Environmental Science

• EUCOR - Network of the Upper Rhine Universities

  2010 – 2010
  4th Summer School in Environmental Sciences
  Concentration: Sustainable Land Management

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