Purushotham Raju Devaraju, Technical Lead - GIS

Purushotham Raju Devaraju

Technical Lead - GIS

Microcenter

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Master's degree, Remote Sensing & Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Experience
19 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 9 Months

Technical Lead - GIS at Microcenter
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • My current job since January 2011

Presently working on project entitled "Outsourcing of Field Survey Operations for GIS Project" for Electricity and Water Authority, Bahrain.

Responsibilities include

1. 13 Field survey teams co-ordination of open trench utility survey.

2. On field QA/QC of surveyed data.

3. QA/QC, data model preparation, data management.

4. Presently holds the position of Project leader.

Training and service marketing of ESRI suite applications, data & Services

Proposal writing, responses to RFP's, Rerquirement studies.

Utility survey planning, Digital image processing (Satellite data), Application development.

Understands the GIS usage and its applications in Middle Eastern countries.

GIS Analyst at Ridings Consulting Engineers / Microcenter
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • September 2009 to December 2010

Database design, enterprise data management, data migration and Survey co-ordination.

GIS Consultant at Consulting / Freelancing
  • India
  • October 2008 to August 2009

GIS database (Schema) development using ArcGIS data model and MS Visio.

To convert and upload the surveyed data into a pre-defined GIS format (ESRI geodatabase) compatible with the GIS system under development of the client. The survey output was for existing network utilities (both underground as well as above the ground) using the latest instrumentation and underground detection technology.

GIS Analyst / Administrator at Fugro Peninsular
  • Qatar - Doha
  • July 2008 to September 2008

updating topographic database
surveying and mapping of all utility systems within the QP refinery at Mesaieed, Qatar.
Building geometric networks, and uploading all the data to ArcSDE servers and configuring to use with ArcFM network analysis.

GIS Technician / Analyst at Fugro MAPS
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • July 2005 to June 2008

spatial data compilation, manipulation, editing, quality evaluation/ control techniques, spatial modeling, Interoperability-data management, geo-spatial analysis, geoprocessing, spatial data integration, geodatabase creation, geometric networks and network datasets.

monitoring project status, thereby ensuring compliance with quality, time parameters specified, and completion within specified deadlines.

Contributing to technical knowledge, skills & applying the same to ensure the smooth functioning.

Monitoring GIS system utilisation and recommending appropriate revisions to processes & procedures.

Responsible for development of metadata, data catalogues and quality assurance of data.

Project Associate at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
  • India
  • July 2004 to June 2005

updating and creation of digital database of all facilities available at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Education

Master's degree, Remote Sensing & Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
  • at Centre for Remote Sensing, Bharathidasan University
  • November 2003

79.46% "Hydrogeomorphological studies in parts of Trichy and Salem districts to identify the Ground water prospective zones using Remote Sensing data". “Assessment of Groundwater potential zones & Artificial Recharge zones and Mapping of Groundwater Vulnerability using remote sensing, GIS & DRASTIC model”.

Master's degree, Geology
  • at Sri Venkateswara University
  • May 2002

76.75%

Bachelor's degree, Geology
  • at Sri Venkateswara University
  • April 2000

63.3%

Specialties & Skills

Geomarketing
Utility Survey
GIS applications
Business Awareness
Cartography
MapInfo
Geomedia
City Engine
Microstation
ArcGIS Pro
Auto CAD

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Beginner
Telugu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

Indian Society of Remote Sensing
  • Member
  • August 2005
Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • October 2013
PMI Arabian Gulf Chapter
  • Member
  • October 2013

Training and Certifications

35 hours mandatory coaching for PMP certificate examination (Training)
Training Institute:
PMCC India Pvt. Ltd
Date Attended:
September 2013
Duration:
35 hours
Collecting and Editing Data Using ArcPad 10 Web Course (Training)
Training Institute:
ESRI Online
Date Attended:
August 2011
Duration:
24 hours
Introduction to Data Reviewer Web Course (Training)
Training Institute:
ESRI Online
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
18 hours