Naveed Badel Joins Astun Technology

1st September 2009 - Naveed Badel has joined Astun Technology as Senior GIS Consultant. He will play a lead roll in delivering the company’s growing range of web based data integration and publishing solutions to local authorities.

Badel gained a GIS degree from Kingston University and then worked for a number of local authorities. During that time he developed his skills focussing on gazetteer development and maintenance, GIS deployment and training, data capture and management. Latterly Badel worked for gazetteer management specialists Aligned Assets who serve over 90 local authorities with their software solutions. Whilst there he delivered many data management and business change projects and became a highly skilled Prince 2 practitioner.

“Naveed joins us with a wealth of experience having worked on both sides of the fence, firstly as a customer working within local authorities and then as a software supplier, often in a Prince 2 project management role, said Mike Saunt, Managing Director of Astun Technology. “Naveed is an ideal project lead to have on our team now that our iShare platform has an expanding role within the core Local Authority GIS/LLPG space. Local Authorities are having to make significant cuts as a result of the budgetary constraints handed down to them by Government and are looking for further efficiencies and savings. Our corporate web based GIS and associated solutions are being taken up by both new and existing local authority customers as they move to cut the costs of their legacy systems. Naveed’s experience will be invaluable in ensuring that our solutions continue to provide significant cost-benefit and a win-win for all concerned,” continued Saunt.

Notes for Editors

Astun Technology's iShare data integration and publishing platform enables public sector organisations such as Local Authorities and the Police to make the most of their own data, extracting it, transforming it and publishing it both internally and externally. It can serve call centres via systems integration and citizens via the web with a rich mix of information and maps while delivering real savings through avoidable contact and transactional services. iShare also provides a direct communications channel to citizens that subscribe to its automated 'My Alerts' service. Easily configured and completely automated iShare is a unique mix of the Astun's own purpose built modules and the best Open Source components. In use with over twenty five authorities the award winning iShare platform continues to evolve to meet growing e-services needs. 

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