Project Manager, Geospatial and GIS Systems Consultant
Al Ain Municipality - Town Planning Department (SDD)
Total years of experience :17 years, 6 Months
• Managed multiple strategic geospatial projects including Real Time Surveying System (RTSS) and LiDAR Mobile Mapping System (MMS) to improve surveying services delivery time; decreasing the needed time and effort by 90%
• Led Data Acquisition and Data Processing teams to deliver more than 15 town-planning municipal services; taking service quality and customer satisfaction to a world-class level
• Participated in the decision-making process in purchasing high-end technologies by composing RFPs and tenders and assessing technical and financial proposals; acquiring ideal cutting-edge technical solutions with the highest specs and lowest prices
• Represented Al Ain Municipality Geospatial Data Department in conferences, exhibitions, workshops, and meetings with the Department of Municipal Affairs (DMA) to share and exchange expertise; augmenting the cooperation among the department and its counterparts
• Improved the organizational process maps continuously, set the Key Performance Indices (KPIs) and trained the project team to meet the SMART objectives and goals of the organization.
• Manages multiple IT & GIS projects simultaneously from initiation to closure, by creating comprehensive project management plans and managing project scope, time, cost, quality, risk, HR, communication, and change; ensuring that all projects successfully meet their baselines
• Updates IT & GIS projects’ statuses, KPIs, issues, and other logs on the PMIS, and prepares statistical and status reports for senior management; keeping stakeholders informed about projects’ progress
• Manage and contribute to number of strategic projects in Abu Dhabi Emirate such as: Onwani (The New Addressing System), Abu Dhabi Government NOC program, Abu Dhabi electronic Land Management System, and Abu Dhabi new Real Estate and Land Surveying Law implementation ensuring high-quality project management approaches, innovative team integration, and best practices.
• Develops and improves department strategy and strategic plans by leveraging enterprise value chain; guaranteeing alignment and conformance to the strategic goals of Abu Dhabi Emirate
• Develops, updates, and improves corporate operational plans and strategic risk registers; assuring good resource allocation, well-distributed workload, and well-planned risk responses
• Improves, restructures, and unifies municipal business processes across Abu Dhabi emirate; promoting consistent quality-of-service across the three municipalities of the emirate
• Develops Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Requests for Information (RFIs), Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs), and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and evaluates technical and financial proposals; ensuring the acquisition of cutting-edge technical solutions with the highest specs and lowest cost, and guaranteeing reliable business services
• Classifies data types and assigns proper user access rights; assuring strict compliance to the information security policies of Abu Dhabi Government
• Conducted business needs analysis including but not limited to market surveys and benefit analysis for potential projects; ensuring their conformance to company’s strategic business plans
• Met with clients from different countries to conduct analysis, collect requirements, and obtain formal approval on deliverables’ specifications for given projects; guaranteeing mutual benefit on both the clients’ and company’s sides
• Managed multiple software projects to deliver high-end GPS Navigation, Imaging and Geospatial products in challenging timeframes; increasing client satisfaction and expanding business
• Managed all QC and QA procedures for geospatial projects; resulting in the delivery of high-quality bug-free software products that meet all clients’ quality expectations
• Recruited talented candidates through participating in the screening and interviewing process; increasing workforce by 80%
• Established GPS CORS (Continuously Operating Reference Stations) in projects with extremely poor resources and devised innovative solutions to overcome multiple seriously-threatening technical issues; ensuring the seamless delivery of quality products
• Trained all newly hired engineers on technical and non-technical skills; enhancing team capabilities by 50%
• Prepared and led onsite hands-on technical training and pilot testing for delivered products; ensuring that clients’ representatives are qualified to operate them, minimizing post-delivery issues
• Performed multiple technical duties that needed highly specialized training and skills, such as operating Airborne and Terrestrial Imaging Systems, LiDAR Systems, Real-Time Base-Map Updating Systems, etc.; increasing the accuracy of data processing results and the efficiency of mapping solutions
• Prototyped algorithms for geospatial data calibration software, resulting in producing software products that process exceptionally great data volume in timely fashion and with high performance
• Composed full product documentation from the design phase to the delivery phase, ensuring full project monitoring and control
• Participated in the QC/QA teams to test and verify different software products, ensuring the delivery of high-quality bug-free software products
• Produced statistical modeling for accuracy assessment of the geospatial sensors, ensuring the selection of equipment with optimum quality and accuracy using the previously allocated budget
• Managed and administrated company’s IT infrastructure and assets, ensuring the confidentiality and security of developed software products
• Designed electronic systems to produce and implement improved manufacturing processes; promoting equipment lifetime and performance and decreasing downtime of machines and equipment during breakdown
• Evaluated operational systems and recommend design modifications; eliminating causes for malfunctions or changes in system requirements
• Coordinated technicians and craftspeople; ensuring a healthy and productive working environment
• Performed numerical and visual inspection of the satellite subsystems; ensuring optimum performance
• Monitored and controlled satellite systems using Telemetry analysis and spacecraft commanding; ensuring proper operation of the satellite
• Applied the basics of Digital Communications, Satellite Communications, Satellite Broadcasting techniques, Satellite internal Architecture and Operation, and Orbitography while working in ground stations; ensuring proper configuration and operation of ground control station equipment
B.Sc. (Honors)