Consultant and Project Management
Abu Dhabi Municipality – Government of Abu Dhabi
Total years of experience :26 years, 3 Months
Highlights:
• Hand-selected as Consultant for high-end municipal projects including Al Tawajeed Al Balady addressing project, Municipal Spatial Service infrastructure (MSSI) project, property GIS projects, etc.
• Supported development of the municipality's strategic plan, aided in transforming cultures and driving large scale change spanning across Ministries.
• Instrumental in fostering Corporate Excellence and change leadership initiatives contributing to the organization’s future success.
Key Responsibilities:
• Proffering strategic consultancy on Tawajed Al Balady project, supporting the Center Manager on achieving the vision, goals, values and projects.
• Establishing and implementing strategic and operational plans for the Department of Corporate Excellence.
• Tracking performance indicators and KPI of the Department and providing all data, information and related documents.
• Department's annual budgeting and planning process owner, provided expert advice to senior management to ensure that budgets are on target & 100% aligned to the strategic direction of the company.
• Owning all activities and resources for Corporate excellence. Serving as a Trusted Advisor/Expert to internal business partners.
• Serving as a Corporate Excellence Leader, monitoring activities, objectives, goals and programs of Institutional Excellence.
• Generating reports on overall performance of the Corporate Excellence Department as well as divisions within the Department and submitting them to the Executive Director for Strategic Planning and Performance Management.
• Guarantying availability of resources for enhanced performance of all tasks of the Department of Excellence.
• Organizing training programs for staff, empowering them to learn and embrace positive change.
• Documenting Municipal policies and procedures and supervising their implementation, evaluation, updating, development and sustainability.
• Implementing awareness and capacity building plans for quality, excellence and risk management and supervise their implementation at the departmental and municipal levels.
• Supporting achievement of the Organizational vision, values, goals and culture in personal behavior, actions and decision-making.
Highlights:
• Instrumental in managing data systems and applications addressing and guidance of spatial and geographical names and addressing in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
• Successfully managed Addressing and Geographic Names project in Abu Dhabi Emirates.
• Elected Member and Official Secretary for Several Committees:
- the MDSS handover project (Mosque development support system);
- Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Framework Plan (Utilities and Infrastructure) handover
- the eLMS (Electronic Land Management System) handover committee.
• Played active role in various strategic initiatives on Abu Dhabi Emirate’s level including the AD Award for Excellence in Government Performance, the Municipal System Knowledge Management project and the reporting on Sustainability.
Key Responsibilities:
• Commanded development, implementation and maintenance of a centralized database of geographic names in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, facilitated proposing and adopting all types of geographical names.
• Provided vision and thought leadership for GIS Business Process Implementation and Improvement, enforced compliance with business process; unification of business process in the municipal system; automation of business process.
• Successfully created an addressing system with a unified and automated business process within the municipal system.
• Supervising, monitoring and advising on GIS System, improvement opportunities and performance management.
• Hand-selected to manage Municipal Spatial Service infrastructure (MSSI) project, municipal spatial database consolidation, geospatial web application/specifications in compliance with international standards.
• Steering the next phase of reform- monitoring and managing performance in accordance with the goals and objectives of DMA&T.
• Established guidelines, policies and procedures for Geographical Names and addressing system and periodic review of the system, policies and procedures and update it, enforced compliance with the municipal system.
• Acted as checker for GIS team procedures and outputs to deliverables. Superintended and mentored staff, ensured that all tasks are in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Department of Municipal Affairs and Transport.
• Partnering with Human Resources Administration and Division in Talent Planning & Development, comprehended critical staff learning needs and navigated and recommended trainings solutions.
• Successfully established AD-Net for the 3 municipalities and DMA while coordinating mega eNOC Project (electronic non objection certificate) between the DMA and the Municipal System.
Profile Summary
• Earned a reputation for excellent project management, technology leadership, communication, interpersonal and people management skills.
• Mastered evolving GIS solutions, steered articulation of technology vision for the future, harnessed its strengths to revolutionize services delivered by Ministries across the UAE.
• Employed exponential transformational leadership traits to drive Corporate excellence.
• Recognized expert in GIS Business Process Implementation/ Improvement and Geospatial discipline.
• Privileged to work on biggest and most ambitious Geographic technology programs. Endeavored to develop redeemable GIS asset for the organization.
• Operational Performance Developer, entrusted to drive the era of transformation and steer digital change and innovation.
• Evangelist and ambassador for innovation and transformation.
Highlights:
• Co-managed and coordinated Addressing and Geographic Names project in Abu Dhabi Emirate (ADAGS).
• Developed a strategy management geographical names (strategic objectives, initiatives, priorities, projects, key performance indicators). Developed guidelines, policies and procedures for Geographical Names system and periodic review of the system, policies and procedures and update it.
• Audited and monitored the performance of municipalities in regards to the application of the addressing scheme and geographical names.
• Reported and developed proposals for geographical names after review and compliance to standards with the relevant sub-committees.
• Superintended staff of the Department of Geographical Names, an evolving, dynamic team, operating within an environment of continuous improvement to achieve projects objectives.
Highlights:
• GIS Framework (Municipal Spatial Service infrastructure _MSSI) Project Manager. Established and consolidated one municipal spatial database with geospatial web application, developed different spatial specifications for the municipalities and ensure dcompliance of the municipalities with the standards.
• Project Manager for AD-Net Project/ DMA. Established AD-Net for the 3 municipalities and DMA.
• Committee Member and DMA coordinator of eNOC. eNOC Tender Evaluation Committee Member, develop the evaluation criteria and evaluate tenders and proposals.
• Committee Member and MDSS system and workflow enhancements.
• Committee Member and Committee Coordinator (Secretary) for eLMS (Electronic Land Management System) handover committee.
• Committee Member in Abu Dhabi Excellence Award in DMA.
• Champion and Committee Member for knowledge management project.
• Champion and Committee Member for Intranet Project.
• Member of IT Strategy Committee in DMA.
• Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) working group team member.
• Member on DMA Sustainability Working Group and Sustainability Report.
• Organize GIS workshops (Data Integration Strategy and Common Geo-reference in Abu Dhabi Emirate Based on WGS-84).
• Preparation and coordination for Abu Dhabi Emirate Basemap Standards and Specifications Manual.
• eLMS (Electronic Land Management System) project.
• Managed Archiving System within the 3 Municipalities.
Highlights:
• Handled GIS data editing and map production and coordinated the Wildlife Census Project.
• Delivered quality, health, safety and environment (QHSE) activities while serving as EAD Ambassador in national, regional and international forums.
Key Responsibilities:
• Key Projects to Credit: the AD Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI); the SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) and the AD Water Master Plan and Database Project.
• Administered the Soil Atlas and preparation of spatial data (Vector/ Raster) projects.
• Played a pivotal role in Oryx Release project and tracking.
• Part of Strategic Project of water - underground waters and wells project.
• Environment, Safe and Health Project Member and Internal Auditor.
• Terrestrial Inspections Support.
Key Responsibilities:
• Supervised Digital Image Registration (Geometrical Correction), preparation of spatial data (Vector/ Raster) and the GIS data editing and map production.
• Owned responsibility for database administration, backup operation and data improvement activities.
Awards
• Bestowed with Excellence Award for Best Technical Project 2017
• Accredited with "GIS Excellence Award" GISWORX, Dubai, March 2011.
• DMA Certificate of Appreciation for exceptional performance in 2009-2013 strategic Initiative: "Implement the Land Property Management & Database Systems (eLMS)", "Review and Implementation of geospatial data framework", August 2009, as well as "Establish a consultative forum between municipal management & industry bodies to improve municipal procurement", March 2009.
• Bestowed with first prize for best poster presentation “Applied Single GPS Point Statistical Analysis to Geometric Correction of Digital Satellite Imager” Map Middle East Dubai 23-25 April 2005.
Extra Curricular Activities
• Delegate and Participant, Forum Best Practices in the field of Municipal Work 2014-2015
• Delegate and Participant, GITEX, Dubai, 2015
• Delegate, Abu Dhabi Cityscape 2009, 2014
• Participant on National Committee on Geographical Names Conference, Jordan 2013
• Delegate and Participant, GISWORX, Dubai 2008 - 2015
• Participant, GIS Day 2008, 2009
• Participant, Map Middle East 2007, 2008
• Delegate, Environment Conference and Exhibition 2007
• Participant, Map Middle East 2005, 2006
• Delegate, ESRI Middle East User Conference 2004
Thesis: submitted to the United Arab Emirates University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master’s degree of Science in Remote Sensing and GIS covered “A Multi- Criteria GIS Based System for Landfill Site Selection in Abu Dhabi City” Publications: • Applied Single GPS Point Statistical Analysis to Geometric Correction of Digital Satellite Imager, Map Middle East 23-25 April 2005. • International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and spatial information science, Volume XXXIX-B2, 2012, XXII ISPRS congress, 25 August -01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia (Scientific paper) • The Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System, A GIS-BASED MULTI-CRITERIA EVALUATION SYSTEM FOR SELECTION OF LANDFILL SITES: a case study from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Article) Events: • Attend the World Government Summit, 2019 • EFQM Annual Forum and Award Ceremony, BILBAO, Spain, Oct 2010
Graduation Project - Dubai E-Government Online Security Evaluation System, UAE University