As a young professional, I am still relatively new to the industry, graduating from Geomatics at RMIT in 2005. My undergraduate project ‘Modelling Bushfire Risk in the Dandenong Ranges’ won a multiple awards including the Undergraduate Student Victorian Spatial Excellence award. I have worked across Victoria from Traralgon to Bendigo to Mildura as a bushfire GIS specialist and have been deployed as a bushfire mapping officer during active fire seasons to Tasmania, NSW and every corner of Victoria. I am currently employed as a Fire Behaviour Analyst for the East Central area of Victoria using spatial technologies to work to reduce the risk of bushfire to life, properties, ecology and other assets by determining the best locations for fuel management and other works.