GIS Manager
AECOM
Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months
Full time, located within the AECOM Office at King Khaled International Airport as the GIS Manager on the Airport Expansion Project.
General Activities:
• Provide geographic information system management including surveying, proposed and existing utility layouts and interface.
• Principle coordinator between Airport Stakeholders and the Client/AECOM Project Teams
• Provides interface with external agencies
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
• Creating and maintaining the necessary GIS database and model.
• Supervise AECOM / contractor teams that produce / compile geographical data using specialist computer systems.
• Develop and establish operating policies for GIS for the program.
• Providing technical and project management support as well as interact with project managers on items including survey and utility management that are impacted by the capture, storage, processing and dissemination of information.
• Coordinating GIS-related activities with contractors.
• Acting as liaison with related external organizations such as Riyadh Survey departments, MOMRA, KKIA engineering and others providing or receiving information relevant to the program and projects.
• Coordinates interface activities with all related parties through all project phases including design phases, engineering, purchasing, constructing and trial operations.
• Gives consultancy and advice regarding Stakeholder engagement, protocols and cultural issues
• Assist client in any aspect relating to public relations and communication objectives such as providing Arabic/English translations, drawings, images, etc.. that support presentations offered by authority to governmental and foreign officials, VIPs and other related parties.
• Assist client in upcoming media releases about the project.
• Assists client in organizing VIP site visits.
• Reviewing and updating technical specifications for creating a comprehensive base map for KKIA/GACA starting from the data capture issues passing through data processing and cartographic standards for map creation ending with QC/QA standards.
• Reviewing and considering all the technical conditions for building the base map until linking the map data layers to GACA GIS services and the suggested geodatabase architecture.
• Update and maintain KKIA’s Urban Planning and Location Base Mapping including the compilation of utility, telecom, TOPO and existing and future development maps.
Working as an assistant professor at the college of Art, King Saud University, teaching subjects like Cartography, GIS applications, Spatial Analysis within GIS, and Remote Sensing (as a part time job).
I worked as a Geographical Information Systems Engineer; my responsibilities included:
Technical support engineer
GIS specialist
- Data acquisition
- Modelling, and
- Analysing
Generating database for 3D simulation
Integrating DEM data and satellite images for mission planning
I developed a wide range of skills through my experience at Alsalam Aircraft Co. I was responsible for overseeing spatial information projects within a team of six so time management and accuracy assurance were key requirements.
I worked as a Common Mapping Production System (CMPS) Administrator. This system provides all the mapping, charting, geodesy and imagery (MCG&I) data required as inputs for the mission planning system (AFMSS). I have dealt with many applications of remote sensing and GIS such as; the production of DEM from ether topographic maps or satellite images, Arial and satellite images interpretation, and the production of Arc Digital Raster Imagery (ADRI) from spot 10m resolution images. As a result of this work experience I became very interested in Remote Sensing and took the opportunity to gain a wide range of experience in different Remote Sensing and GIS applications.
I worked as an Intergraph Analytical stereo-plotter Operator. I served as a team member in the creation of a database from a compilation of planimetric details and digital elevation models from aerial photography and satellite imagery.
Analysis and Visualization of Digital Elevation Models (DEM) for hydrological modelling and catchment management applications. In general, the thesis is about the whole issues of assessing the “fitness for purpose” of elevation data and the need for people doing GIS work to be more aware of data error and uncertainty issues than they often are.
Modules covered include: GIS Spatial Information Sciences Earth Observation and Remote Sensing Research Design and Methods Geographic Visualization Programming Plus a master’s dissertation.
Field survey. Cartography. Remote Sensing. Cadastral. Astronomy. Geodesy. GIS. GPS B.Sc. in surveying engineering, 3.10/5 (good)
