Nithin Kumar PMP, Lead GIS Engineer

Nithin Kumar PMP

Lead GIS Engineer

Emirates Fire and Rescue Company

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Remote Sensing and GIS
Experience
20 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 5 Months

Lead GIS Engineer at Emirates Fire and Rescue Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since July 2011

• Managing the Enterprise based GIS ( ArcGIS ) system as part of a comprehensive public safety application integration strategy
• Supervision of GIS integration with public safety applications which provides decision makers with spatial awareness of risks and exposures associated with an incident as well as the incident's scale and magnitude
• Preparation of Strategic maps and building plans for tactical operations
• Designing and implementing organisation-wide GIS standards, policies and procedures and conducting trainings
• Development of automatic vehicle location (AVL) system used in conjunction with Incident mapping in order to help the dispatcher to know which unit is closest for incident response
• Response time analysis using street network spatial analysis
• Developing training scenarios based on likely events identified through the vulnerability assessment using GIS

Senior Geomatics Engineer at Halcrow (CH2M HILL)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2008 to September 2010

Managed crew of 120 field surveyors and support technicians and all technical aspects of GIS/survey projects including regional and international projects - Topographic map preparation for master plan development and map analysis using GIS ( ESRI ArcGIS )
- Team leader for survey using latest technology known as 3D laser scanning technology
- Involved throughout the project cycle, coordinating and managing the final execution of the project and project costs
- Designs and conducts training programs for surveyors and Coordinates training materials
- Responsible for tracking the project against the schedule. Also tracking the budget and phase review objectives
- Provides overall strategy and technical solutions as warranted for project challenges
- Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors progress of project

Technical Support Engineer at Sigma Enterprises LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2006 to July 2008

• Trained the surveyors in latest GPS/Total station Equipment’s
• Prepared technical training manuals, which was used extensively throughout the Company
• Identified nonperforming product areas and developed recommendations for their discontinuation
• Conducted product demos & given technical support for all the surveying products
• Training the professionals in 12D design software
• Implemented a training program for major construction companies to increase customer levels of satisfaction. Efforts were rewarded by an increase in repeat customer traffic
• Installing and establishing Machine control systems

Assistant Manager - Geospatial Survey at KEC International LTD
  • India - Mumbai
  • November 2005 to November 2006

• Management of all the transmission line survey works going on in different parts of the world
• Analysing spatial data and spotting of towers using ArcGIS and PLS CAD.
• Converting GPS/Total station data into CAD/GIS environment and preparing maps
• Training the surveyors in latest GPS/Total station Equipment’s
• Providing technical support, assisted with tender stage and preliminary solution proposals

RESEARCH ENGINEER / FACULTY at KARUNYA DEEMED UNIVERSITY
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2003 to November 2005

• Responsible for the supervision and management of GPS/GIS projects
• Training the undergraduate/post graduate students on the GPS, GIS, Autodesk Architectural Desktop and Land Desktop, Total Station Surveying
• Preparing maps by interpreting images and Analysing spatial data
• Play a pivotal role in the development of all training materials and curriculum

Education

Master's degree, Remote Sensing and GIS
  • at Anna University
  • December 2003

GIS(Geographic Information System), Application of GIS in different fields, Remote sensing, Photogrammetry, GPS, Cartography, Image Processing, ArcGIS, ERDAS imagine

Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Govt college of Engineering , Kannur
  • December 1998

All core Civil Engineering subjects

Specialties & Skills

Geoprocessing
Programming
Project Management
GIS analysis
Geospatial
Geoprocessing scripts
AutoCAD
Civil 3D

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2017
Valid Until:
May 2020
GIS training Program on Introduction to ArcGIS - ESRI India (Certificate)
Integrated Management System Internal Auditor (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001)- (Training)
Training Institute:
NBIZ Infosol
GIS training Program on Working with Spatial Analyst - ESRI India (Certificate)
3D Laser scanning and Robotic Total station (Training)
Training Institute:
Trimble Survey Division
Integrated Management System Awareness (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001)- (Training)
Training Institute:
NBIZ Infosol
GIS training on Digitisation and Data conversion - (Training)
Training Institute:
CED, Thiruvananthapuram, India
PMP Training: 35 contact hours for accruing PMP certification (Training)
Training Institute:
Cambridge Institute

Hobbies

  • Reading Books