Project Manager / Hydrologist
Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultants
Total years of experience :4 years, 10 Months
Zuhair Fayez Partnership Consultants (ZFP), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Project Manager / Hydrologist, 2010 - to date
♦ Hydrologist, Storm Water Drainage Masterplan Project for Riyadh, KSA
♦ Storm Water Drainage Design for IT center premises of Saudi Arabian Airlines- Jeddah, KSA
♦ Storm Water Drainage Design for King Khalid University -Abha, KSA
♦ Hydrologist, Storm Water Drainage Design for Military Medical Complex-Riyadh, KSA
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Civil Engineer, Sri Lanka Land Reclamation & Development Corporation (SLLRDC)
♦ Established rating curves for Colombo city storm water drainage canal system
♦ Designed flood gates for Beira Lake sea outfall in Colombo
♦ Designed a rainfall and river flow gauging network for Kalu Ganga basin
Research Officer, International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
♦ Developed a distributed rainfall-runoff model for the Walawe River Basin in Sri Lanka, using SWAT
♦ Estimated river flows in ungauged basins using regional flow duration curves in Southern Sri Lanka
♦ Estimated rainfall based drought indices for India, Pakistan and Iran
♦ Developed software for disaggregation of monthly rainfall data in to daily using station statistics
♦ Developed a Smallholder Model Tool Kit software for land and water management
Graduate Research Assistant, Utah State University (USU)
♦ Reviewed basin water allocation with the use of simulation and optimization techniques
♦ Developed a priority based optimization model for water allocation in Walawe river basin in Sri Lanka using WEAP
♦ Evaluated the socio-economic and environmental impacts of priority based water allocation
♦ Compared priority based water allocation with a market based water allocation in Walawe river basin with the use of WEAP and AQUARIUS models
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Part Time IT Lecturer
Skills Lanka Private Ltd., Colombo, Sri Lanka
Developed curriculum for the following undergraduate courses including instruction, grading and preparing tests: ♦ Systems Analysis and Design
♦ Visual Basic Programming
♦ Introduction to JAVA Programming
♦ Database Management
TECHNICAL SKILLS
♦ Programming: Visual Basic, VBA, Java, VB script, Java script, ASP, MATLAB, Mathcad
♦ Client -Server Technologies and Data Base Management Systems: MS SQL server
♦ Systems engineering Software: STELLA, VENSIM, SIMULINK
♦ Optimization Software / Languages: LINGO, GAMS
♦ GIS Software:ARC View, ARC GIS /ARC HYDRO TOOLS
♦ Hydrologic Modeling Software:HEC HMS, HEC RAS, HEC Res Sim, SWAT, WMS, PCSWMM
♦ Water Allocation Software:WEAP, REALM, AQUARIUS
♦ Desktop Graphics Software:Photoshop, Corel Draw
Sri Lanka Land Reclamation & Development Corporation (SLLRDC), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Civil Engineer (Research & Design Division), 1999 - 2001
♦ Storm water drainage design and land reclamation in Godagama, Galle, and Horana town development projects
♦ Design of flood gates at Beira Lake sea outfall in Colombo, Sri Lanka
♦ Member of the team for drainage studies of Colombo-Katunaike expressway and Southern Highway Project in Sri Lanka
♦ Leader of local counterpart team for storm water drainage master plan for Western Province (JICA funded) project
♦ Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering (2010) Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA
♦ Bachelor in Information Technology - 2nd class upper division (2004) University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
♦ M.Sc., Civil Engineering - Honors (1996) Peoples' Friendship University, Moscow, Russia
♦ B.Sc., Civil Engineering (1993) Peoples' Friendship University, Moscow, Russia