محمد Irfan-Ullah

Work involves, liaising with KU’s GIS Team to confirm, coordinate, monitor and enforce the GIS data collection, organization into centralized Geo-database and documentation as per the coordination criteria through various stages of design, construction and closure of the project.
Role includes, overseeing and monitoring of contractor’s progress to ensure that data shall be capable of integrating, storing, editing, analyzing, sharing and displaying information for applications related to:
- Management of asset, space, security, building, transport, and procurement related activities.
- Identification of applications for maintenance and operation of utilities, infrastructure and facilities such as water, sewage, electricity, ventilation, fire-fighting, telecom, IT, vehicle, personal and similar networks.
- Conversion of shop drawings, As-built drawings, warrantees/guarantees, operation and maintenance manuals, assets, asset tagging, commissioning data into proper GIS formats.
- Analyze GIS data to prepare a suite of master plan information.
- Receive and disseminate GIS information to/from the project owners and to track and catalogue such information and associated changes.
- Prepare reports and guidelines to establish CAD and GIS standards.

Currently Deployed onsite to Manage a Prestigious Project related to Enterprise GIS Application Development and Deployment for the Kuwait Environment Public Authority (EPA). Managing the team of 10 onsite personnel and around 6 offsite personnel of RMSI and 10 EPA staff members to execute the project.

Incharge of the Eco-Informatics Centre and for Biodiversity Conservation Planning and Natural Resources with special referene to Water Resources and Landscape Ecology related GIS and Image Processing Works.

Technical Marketing and Support for a range of Earth Sciences related software products, including IDRISI32, Surfer, Grapher, Rockworks, Surpac Vision, Datamine, Geosoft's Oasis Montaj, Encom Discover, MapInfo etc.

In-charge of GIS & Remote Sensing Operations

Have worked as in-charge of GIS & Remote Sensing Operations, Drought Proofing Planning, Development of Village Level Natural Resource Information System, Mapping of Landuse / Landover using Remote Sensing/GIS/GPS using visual interpretation & digital image processing (supervised and unsupervised image classification), Planning & Executing Water Resource Management Strategies through Participatory Watershed Management. Have managed various projects from conceptualizing to preparing proposals, planning and management of field based implementation, writing reports and conducting post implementation monitoring.
Have used software like ErdasImagine8.3, ERMapper6.3, Idrisi32.2, Cartalinx1.2, MapInfo6.0, ArcView3.2 on Windows NT/2000 O/S. Possess extensive experience in spatial database generation, attribute linking, onscreen and tablet digitization, registration, rubber sheet stretching and geo-referencing of various maps using different map projections. Have performed spatial database analysis, multi-criteria evaluation and decision support analysis to address real world problems in the field of natural resource management and to carry out Environmental Impact Assessment/Environmental Management Planning.