Geoscience & Monitoring Consulting services
360° Energy and Environment Consultant
Project Management
Do you need to develop or improve a software solution but aren't sure where to start? Whether you need help in defining, the scope, planning the roadmap or coordinating delivery, I support you in turning ideas or needs into solutions your users value.
Problems
Many issues can arise during the development and delivery of a solution: unclear scope, shifting requirements, misalignment between business and technical teams, or a poor understanding of user needs. The result is often delays, extra costs and a solution that doesn't fully solve the problem.
Solution
Effective project management makes solution development and delivery more predictable and productive. I bring experience in managing and working with multidisciplinary teams. I create a shared understanding among stakeholders: users, designers, developers and testers.
Together we define the right scope, choose the most appropriate methodology and structure the work into clear phases. Each step in monitored and adjusted as needed to ensure feasibility, quality and value. This approach keeps everyone focused on objectives while using practical tools and proven best practices.
Portfolio
- Software development coordination
- Process digitalization - SME
- UX review and testing
- Technical documentation and delivery management
Objectives
Let’s start by analyzing and defining the objectives of your project. Together, we clarify the expected outcomes, identify the available resources and constraints, and establish clear acceptance criteria for project success.
By applying project management best practices, we define a solid project scope and align it with constraints such as time, budget and quality.
During the planning phase, we organize the steps, milestones and actions needed to progress efficiently. Throughout the project, we continuously realign efforts and results toward the final delivery.
Consulting support
• Meetings to describe needs and constraints, to explore options and solutions, to define objectives and plans
• Definition of project vision and team mission
• Analysis of activities and project objectives
• Preparation and research activities relative to options and objectives
• Report to summarize lessons learnt during our sessions
We support the design of testing strategies by defining objectives, scope, frequency, and success criteria. The right tools and methods are selected to assess system maturity, stability, and performance. This ensures testing activities are purposeful, efficient, and aligned with project and product goals.
Problems
Your solution development is ongoing, but you need to understand when it's ready for deployment. Are users’ feedback as positive as expected? Are stability issues being observed and reported?
Your development team is caught between fixing bugs and delivering new features - a common sign of missing test strategy alignment.
Solution
I help you maximize solution quality and development velocity by setting and executing the right testing strategy. A clear testing framework ensures consistent quality, faster go-to-market and sustained activity growth.
This approach is designed for technical teams who need to plan and perform testing activities to assess solution maturity, stability and performance. Testing solution is an ongoing practice for overall growth.
Portfolio
- Quality Monitoring Framework – Definition of system maturity, stability, and performance criteria, tailored to your project.
- Automated or Scripted Test Suite – Aligned with your acceptance criteria and integrated into your existing platform.
- Interactive Dashboard Setup – Visualization of quality metrics through Power BI, Grafana, or Google Data Studio dashboards.
- Acceptance Criteria Matrix – Structured document with key functions, test results, and validation thresholds.
- Collaboration & Support – Version-controlled documentation and scripts via GitHub, with periodic reviews.
- OSDU™ R3 Testing Guide - Testing Guidelines 2021
- OSDU™ R3 Testing Guide - API and Service Test Cases 2021
Objectives
The results of this service begin with the definition of testing objectives, including clear success criteria and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the developed solution.
Through continuous testing, supported by proper reporting and data analysis, your team gains the ability to prioritize technical tasks and strengthen the connection between operational activities and strategic decisions for an optimum solution.
Finally, the defined indicators enable ongoing monitoring of product development, providing over time the insight and confidence needed to deliver the required system and tools effectively.
Consulting support
• Meetings to assess needs, explore options and solutions, and define testing objectives with development team
• Analysis of the solution features and technical characteristics
• Review of acceptance criteria to ensure alignment with testing objectives.
• Preparation and setup of testing tools, test frequency and schedule
• Summary report consolidating lessons learned from consulting sessions
Monitoring Solution Quality
We help evaluate the quality of monitoring solutions across sensors, data acquisition, and processing workflows. Continuous assessment of stability, reliability, and performance enables early issue detection and informed decision-making. The focus is on building systems that deliver consistent and meaningful insights.
Problems
Your monitoring network is operational, and your acquisition and processing pipelines are running.
However, maintaining continuous control on data quality, sensor performance, and system stability takes time and coordination.
You may need to focus on other priorities while still ensuring that your monitoring solution continues to deliver reliable and validated measurement and information.
Common challenges include:
- Inconsistent or missing data from sensors or acquisition nodes.
- Difficulty in tracking long-term stability and system health.
- Limited visibility into the performance and maturity of the monitoring chain.
Solution
The solution is to implement a continuous quality monitoring framework for your geophysical or structural network.
This includes:
- Automatic or scheduled data quality checks (noise level, signal continuity, calibration consistency)
- Clear acceptance criteria and thresholds for data and system performance.
- Dashboards or reports summarizing daily or weekly network status, helping detect anomalies early.
The workflow is adapted to your existing tools - whether your system is based on seismic acquisition software, distributed sensing (DAS) or combined monitoring of soil and structures.
The objective is to provide a clear view of the system evolution in time, highlighting stability trends, alerting on degradation and documenting improvements.
By structuring your monitoring in this way, you ensure your system remains robust, validated and ready to support decision-making.
Portfolio
- Implemented data-quality frameworks for geophysical and structural monitoring networks, integrating automated checks on noise level, sensor uptime, and signal stability.
- Developed dashboards (Power BI or custom python apps) visualizing daily and long-term performance of acquisition systems and sensors.
- Enabled early detection of anomalies in soil- and structure-borne vibration, improving system maintenance and reliability.
- Validated network stability and calibration trends through statistical analysis and automatic reporting
- Delivered documentation and recommendation for improving system maturity and guiding further instrumentation of software upgrades.
Objectives
The goals of this service is to define the quality of the monitoring system with continuous quality checks and automated reporting feed into a shared dashboard, providing a clear overview of system health and evolution over time.
This ensures that the entire team from field to data analysts works with the same, validated view of monitoring performance.
Consulting support
• Meetings
To explore current method and tools used by development team. Agreement on how issues can be raised, reported and documented.
To define features to test and get available documentation
To review test scripts
To review acceptance criteria
• Analysis of solution features and acceptance criteria
• Setup of testing tools, frequency and schedule along with dashboard.
• Testing/Continuous Testing with dashboard updates
• Report to summarize lessons learnt during testing sessions
Documentation & Training
Clear documentation and effective training are essential for successful solution adoption and scalability. We support teams in creating structured user documentation, technical guidelines, and training materials. This facilitates knowledge sharing, smooth handover, and confident use of solutions across stakeholders.
Problems
Do you need to provide clear user documentation or training materials to optimize development and delivery performance? Lacking a technical writer for a specific phase of your project? Need onboarding materials to help users get started faster?
Solutions
I bring know-how in documenting solution interfaces and user workflows through documents, diagrams or videos, to help your users to get on board quickly.
User documentation evolves alongside solution design, development and improvement. It requires close communication with design and development teams to validate new features, identify issues early, and capture enhancement requirements efficiently.
Portfolio:
- Established consistent and aligned documentation frameworks from the design phase onward.
- Improves review and validation process through clear, traceable Figma "sources of truth".
- Enabled early detection of interface and data issues.
- Delivered user guides, how-to, reference and explanation documentations ready for handover and continuous update.
- Supported validated and reviewed solutions for smooth adoption and scaling.
Objectives
Provide the training material relevant for your team and users with some videos, documents or web sites. Deliver training sessions for effective user onboarding.
Consulting support
• Meetings to explore current solution features and user needs
• Preparation and setup of documentations
• Review of documentations
• Maintenance of documentations with solution update
• Delivering training sessions
Tender Submissions & Product Positioning
We support teams in delivering tender submissions while strengthening how technical solutions are positioned and valued. By combining geoscience expertise with product and market-oriented thinking, we translate capabilities into clear and competitive narratives. The result is proposals aligned with business needs.
Problems
Tender processes are often constrained by complex technical requirements, tight timelines, and uncertainty around feasibility and resource availability. Even strong technical solutions can be difficult to position clearly, making it challenging to demonstrate value, differentiation, and relevance to decision-makers. Without the right support, this can lead to missed opportunities, weak proposals, or high delivery risk.
Solution
GM Consulting provides expert review of tender materials with a geoscience, monitoring and product perspective. I help clarify requirements, assess feasibility and risks, and align resources and skills with tender expectations. By strengthening technical content, defining clear value propositions, and supporting cost and effort estimates, I enable timely, coherent, and competitive tender submission and product positioning.
Portfolio:
- Technical review and go/no-go assessment of tenders in passive monitoring for structural health monitoring, geothermal and energy storage projects.
- Support to monitoring and site characterization proposals for seismic, fibre-optic, and hybrid solutions.
- Definition and positioning of sensing and monitoring solutions for infrastructure and energy applications
- Writing of proposals and technical documentations.
Objectives
Provide the right level of support to deliver high-quality, competitive tender submissions on time, with clear product positioning and value propositions aligned with customer needs.
Consulting support
• Meetings to clarify tender objectives, timelines, and required documentation
• Analysis of tender documentation and available resource
• Update and structuring of required documentation
• Review and refinement of documents up to final submission .