Nathan Lafont

SIGiste ambitieux

Profile

Rigorous and applied, competent teamworker yet autonomous I am able to take initiaves. Own a valid car driving licence.

Contacts

Adress

9 boulevard de Stasbourg
34000 Montpellier, France

Languages

French native
English advanced
Chinese beginner

Hobbies

Longboard dancing
Rock climbing
Origami

Nathan Lafont

GIS technician
9 boulevard de Stasbourg
34000 Montpellier, France

Work Experience

  • Research assistant (intern) | Norsk Polarinstitutt

    2024 - 3 months

    - Establish and Script (Python) a method to automaticaly process Savalbard tide-water glaciers front position changige-rate
    - Explain methodical choices to an expert audience.

    Referee 1 -- Geir Moholdt : geir.moholdt@npolar.no
    Referee 2 -- Jack Kohler : jack.kohler@npolar.no

  • Cartographer | UMR 6282 BGS Unity (Biogéosciences)

    2023 - 2 months

    - Update a building layer of Guadeloupe by photo-interpretation of historical aerial catches.
    - Trained ArcGIS and ArcGIS Online skills.

    Referee -- Jean-Christophe Foltête : jean-christophe.foltete@univ-fcomte.fr

  • Project manager (intern) | Echenoz-la-Méline Municipality

    2022 - 2 months

    - Inventoriate and promote town's heritage through trail creation.
    - Develop tools (webmap, leaflets and roadbook) to make this work accessible to general public.
    - Full internship report here.

Education

  • BEng in Geography

    2022 - 2024

    Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon
    - Environnemental and social geography.
    - Urban planning.
    - Statistics for GIS.
    - Geomatics : ArcGIS and QGIS.
    - Learning ingeniering aspect through CMI (Ingeniering Master Curriculum).

    Referee -- François Pierre-Tourneux : françois.tourneux@univ-fcomte.fr

  • BSc in informatic sciences (uncomplete)

    2019 - 2022

    Université de Nantes, Nantes
    - Software developpement and optimization.
    - Informatic project monitoring.
    - Languages learned : Java, C, C++.

Skills

  • QGIS
  • ArcGIS
  • LibreOffice and Microsoft
  • Python - R
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript
  • Java