Our Consultants
Our consultants are highly qualified geostatisticians familiarized to your business and help you to gain time and efficiency whatever your issue level is.
Our consultants have a great experience in geostatistics applied to different fields and are fully committed to supporting your company. They regularly contribute to international industry and academic conferences and journals and have been responsible for implementation of many significant technical advances over the past 20 years.
Dr Nicolas JEANNEE, Consulting & Training Manager - Senior Consultant
Nicolas joined Geovariances in 2001, after graduating from university with a diploma of education, a master in statistics and several years at the Centre de Géostatistique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris. He obtained his PhD in 2001 on geostatistical characterization of soil contamination. Since joining Geovariances, he supervised numerous consulting and training activities mainly for environmental and Oil & Gas industry companies.
Dr Jacques DERAISME, Scientific Adviser - Principal Consultant
Jacques is a cofounder of Geovariances, and presently Scientific Adviser & Principal Consultant. After graduating as a Mining Engineer (Ecole des Mines de Nancy, 1969) he worked from 1972 to 1986 at the Centre de Géostatistique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris where his research activities focused on stochastic and mining simulations, and from where, in 1978, he obtained his PhD. Jacques has worked for Geovariances since 1986 and conducted many geostatistical studies for mining and oil companies. He has led numerous training sessions in applied geostatistics.
Frédéric RAMBERT, Technical Support Manager, Consultant
Frédéric is a geologist engineer who has been working in the field of geostatistics for more than 20 years. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy - France in 1984 in the Geophysics section, and then worked more than two years in the Centre de Géostatistique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris where he also obtained a degree in Geostatistics. He worked one year in a consulting company in Sydney, applying geostatistics in the Australian Mining industry, before joining Geovariances in 1988. Frédéric has been involved in software development, customer training and software support, as well as software sale. He also worked on several projects for Oceanography and Oil & Gas companies, and is currently Manager of the support activities at Geovariances.
James POCOE, Senior Consultant, Resources
James is a geologist from Australia with experience in mining, evaluation and exploration projects. James completed the CFSG mining geostatistics course at Centre de Géostatistique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris in June 2009. James brings to Geovariances substantial site-based, hands-on mining industry experience in uranium, gold, base metals and iron ore. His strengths are in ore body interpretation and modelling, geostatistical analysis, estimation, model validation and resource reporting. James has a sound working knowledge of the JORC code and familiarity with other national reporting standards.
Javier MIRANDA, Senior Consultant, Resources
Javier is a geologist who has been working in the mining industry for the last 5 year. He graduated from the National University of Colombia - Bogota in 2002 with empasis in Oil & Gas. Then joined in the EAFIT University where he worked as researcher in geostatistical studies focusing in natural processes modelling until 2004. Then he worked for 5 years in BHPBilliton as exploration geologist, applying geostatistics for resource estimations in several projects.
Ophélie LEMARCHAND, Consultant, Environmental
Ophélie joined Geovariances in 2007 after graduating from university with a master in mathematical engineering and a speciality in statistics. She spent 8 months in a French association for Air Quality Monitoring where she worked on ozone pollution automatic mapping.
Ophélie is mainly involved in environmental consulting projects and trainings. She also takes part in the Isatis Technical Support and documentation.
Matthieu BOURGES, Consultant, Oil & Gas
Matthieu is a geologist engineer graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy - France where he get specialized in Hydrodynamics and Reservoir Engineering (sedimentology, hydrodynamics, geotechnics). He joined Geovariances in 2007. Matthieu is mainly involved in Oil & Gas consulting projects and trainings. He also contributes to the Isatis Technical Support and documentation.
Yvon DESNOYERS, Consultant, Environmental
Yvon Desnoyers joined Geovariances in 2008 as a member of the consulting and training team, after graduating from the Ecole des Mines de Nancy with a diploma of engineer. He is currently working on a PhD thesis at the Centre de Géostatistique de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris dedicated to geostatistical characterization of radiological contaminations in nuclear facilities in partnership with the French Atomic Energy Commission CEA.
Claire FAUCHEUX, Consultant, Environmental
Claire joined Geovariances in 2010. Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Rennes – France with a diploma of agronomic engineering and a speciality in applied statistics, she spent two years and a half within the Geostatistical team of Mines ParisTech as a research assistant. At Geovariances, Claire is mainly involved in Environmental consulting projects and trainings and also takes part in the Isatis technical support and documentation.
Laurent WAGNER, Consultant, Software Product Engineer
Laurent is a geologist engineer graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie de Nancy - France where he get specialized in geomodelling and software development. In 2009 he joined Geovariances to get involved in the development of Isatis: users’ requests, software specfications and quality tests. He is also in charge of the documentation and contributes to consulting projects, trainings and Isatis technical support.
Julien ATTIOGBE, Consultant, Software Developer
Julien is a software engineer who has been working for the French Atomic Energy Commission CEA since 2004, to develop software solutions dedicated to soil radiological characterization (Kartotrak). At CEA, he worked in partnership with Geovariances on geostatistical aspects and was involved in many radiological studies. He joined Geovariances in January 2009.
Julien contributes both to consulting projects and software development.
