Professional summary
Rod is a Software Engineer in the UKCEH Digital Research Group, where he collaborates with the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) to develop advanced metadata catalogues and data delivery systems. He specializes in creating and maintaining a multi-schema metadata catalogue that underpins the EIDC's operations. Additionally, Rod contributes to projects aimed at visualizing scientific datasets, designing high-performance websites to effectively showcase these datasets.
Rod co-leads the Digital Engineering team of developers, guiding them in the implementation of innovative solutions that align with the UKCEH Digital Strategy. This strategy aims to harness the power of environmental data and digital technologies to address major environmental challenges. The strategy focuses on developing holistic solutions, harnessing new technologies, building capacity, setting the agenda, delivering FAIR digital assets, and driving the future of modelling and monitoring.