Areej Sabrah, GIS Specialist

Areej Sabrah

GIS Specialist

WFP

Location
Jordan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineer (Surveying and Geomatics)
Experience
8 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 4 Months

GIS Specialist at WFP
  • Jordan - Amman
  • My current job since April 2022

• Supporting the deployment and maintenance of the PRISM platform for real-time impact and situation monitoring.
• prioritizing datasets for inclusion in PRISM, building a geospatial data repository for socio-economic vulnerability indicators, maintaining spatial databases.
• archive of all NCSCM geographical data and advising on new GIS solutions in support of newly identified crisis and risk management needs.
• liaising with external stakeholders, collecting, and validating new data, and organizing field trips for GIS planning phase.
• Use Remote sensing techniques and
• Google Earth engine to implement drought and earthquake analyses within an early warning platform PRISM.
• Combine GIS, remote sensing, field data, and assessment work to operationalize the flood hazard model project with partners.
• Field traveled to Indonesia for South-South cooperation.
• Generate maps by visualizing the data to deduce spatial trends, Mapping indicators based on the type of data analysis.

GIS Officer at Blumont
  • Jordan - Mafraq
  • May 2017 to April 2022

• Supervise three teams in Zaatari Camp abd Mafraq.
• Provide technical GIS capacity building to RefuGIS team members of all levels.
• Manage RefuGIS projects and oversee geospatial data management activities.
• Designs intake forms and data collection tools for the field.
• Blumon’s focal point in UNHCR.
• Building Floods simulation models, using ArcGIS pro, QGIS ( SAGA terrain analysis - hydrology and channel tools) and Hec-ras software.
• Producing reports, thematic assessment reports for our studies.
• Create maps, layouts, templates, and reports with ESRI ArcGIS products.
• Ordering Satellite imagery that meets the required resolution date sensor and the budget.

GIS Engineer at Khalid Saadeh Engineering Consulting Office
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2016 to June 2017

- Quantity surveying for procure and check the quantity and quality of construction materials.
- Read architectural drawings to adjust it by Auto Cad and have an appreciation of construction processes.
- Estimate quantities and cost of materials, equipment, and labor to determine project feasibility.
- Test soils and materials to determine the adequacy and strength of foundations, concrete, asphalt, or steel..

Education

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineer (Surveying and Geomatics)
  • at Al-Balqa Applied University
  • January 2016

Surveying and Geomatics engineer with thorough knowledge about GIS, Remote sensing techniques, systems and standards and GPS work, seeks a challenging role as a Geographic information system engineer with a leading organization.

Specialties & Skills

Quantity Surveying
Remote Sensing
AutoCAD
GIS applications
GRAPHIC DESIGN
ILLUSTRATOR
MICROSOFT OFFICE
PROGRESS
MICROSOFT EXCEL
SCHEDULING
DATA ANALYSIS
xls surveys
Google earth Engine
power BI

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Russian
Expert

Training and Certifications

Humanitarian Information Management (Training)
Training Institute:
IMMAP