Join us in giving a warm welcome to Matt Staton and Rob Hooley, the newest members of the Agilysis team. Matt is stepping into the role of Head of Consultancy, while Rob joins us as GIS Manager.
Matt developed his road safety career through 15 years working in Cambridgeshire where he progressed from Road Safety Officer to heading up the service, delivering up to 200 projects per year across road safety, structures and local highways improvements. He then became the road safety partnership delivery manager for the Vision Zero Partnership in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Before joining Agilysis, Matt spent two years with National Highways as their Head of Road User Safety Delivery, overseeing the company’s compliance activities, commercial vehicle incident prevention and support work for its regional teams.
Matt has a broad knowledge base that spans many aspects of the road safety industry and how they interact. This is particularly relevant in developing and coordinating partnership working and supporting policymakers. He has specific expertise in system thinking and applying system-based approaches in road safety management and collision investigation. Matt brings a focus on turning research evidence into good practice with an emphasis on delivery outcomes and how these can be evaluated and shared with others. He has a good understanding of the practical Constraints facing highway authorities and ways to try and overcome them.
Rob is a seasoned GIS Developer and Technical Specialist with decades of experience with Geospatial projects across Local and Central Government, Utilities and Infrastructure sectors.
A specialist in technical innovation, systems migration, configuring, optimising and fixing systems Rob brings strong skills in automating workflows and consuming and manipulating data. He is an experienced in technical problem solving and GIS automation, as well as delivering technical solutions, datasets, audits and reports.
Skilled in automating ArcGIS with arcpy, Rob specialises in automated service publishing and updating of ArcGIS Enterprise content using the ArcGIS API for Python. He also has an in-depth knowledge of customising the Sweet for ArcGIS product using Arcade scripts. Rob has an excellent knowledge of Geospatial technology and very strong relational database skills.
As we welcome new colleagues, we are humbled by the talent and dedication of our growing team. Each new addition brings fresh perspectives, expertise, and a shared passion for improving road safety.
