Qaisar Nadeem, GIS Consultant

Qaisar Nadeem

GIS Consultant

Al-Moammar Information Systems (MIS)

Location
Saudi Arabia - Medina
Education
Master's degree, Geographical Information Systems
Experience
24 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 7 Months

GIS Consultant at Al-Moammar Information Systems (MIS)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2012

Configuration and Administration of ArcFM UT for client sites.
• Geodatabase management for client sites.
• Project coordination for Highly Available System designs.
• Provide advanced technical and/or operational expertise to GIS team
• Technical Inputs in GIS related projects.
• Electrical asset data updates and cleansing.
• Maintain accuracy of spatial data
• Prepare Standards for Project Digital Data
• Prepare a GIS implementation plan
• Create the GIS database for Communities Active Projects

SDE Administrator / GIS Analyst at Development Commission of Madinah Munawara
  • Saudi Arabia - Medina
  • February 2011 to November 2012

Development Commission of Medina Munawara (DCOM) is newly formulated public organization responsible for planning and development activities in the holy city of Medina Munawara Saudi Arabia. DCOM’s GIS section has started to develop its strategic roadmap and has been developing its infrastructure. It has acquired state of the art modern technologies to run its information infrastructure. The enterprise Geodatabase of DCOM runs on Oracle 10g, SDE 9.3.1 on SUN Solaris operating system
Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities include;
 GIS database designing, and organization need assessment.
 Manage and maintaining structures for GIS database storage.
 Geodatabase management tasks such as creating user activities reports, user rights management, inclusion and deletion of GIS data to enterprise repository.
 Customization of ArcSDE configuration.
 Day to Day GIS analysis for other departments.
 GIS Data update, including spatial data quality, topology and attributes.
 Convert AutoCAD drawings to GIS format.

GIS Consultant at High Commission for the Development of Riyadh
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2003 to January 2011

ArRiyadh Development Authority (ADA) is an apex public body responsible for all City and Regional planning activities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ADA maintains an enormous GIS and Remote Sensing warehouse and is connected with many internal and external public and private sector organizations for geospatial data and solutions. Equipped with modern technologies ADA enjoys state of the art information infrastructure. We at ADA have our enterprise Geodatabase on Oracle 10g, 11g and ArcSDE 9.2 & ArcSDE9.3.1.
Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities include;
 Geodatabase management tasks such creating user activities reports, user rights management, inclusion and deletion of spatial data to enterprise repository.
 GIS database schema design and implementation.
 Customization of SDE configuration.
Oracle Database Administration
 In house GIS projects management.
 Providing professional consultancy services for GIS based projects.
 Technical inputs in design and implementation of spatial analyses for urban planning.
 Consultancy for geospatial data quality evaluation (position accuracy, metadata) and documentation.
 Design and Implementation of Web based GIS systems
 Supervision of data building processes.
 Technical services for Satellite image processing, such as ortho-rectification, mosaicing and image enhancements.
 Land Use / Land Cover change detection using satellite data.
 Creation of digital fly through.
 VBA customization in existing ArcGIS.
 Advices and troubleshooting to GIS staff.
 Import Active Projects’ plans and as built drawing into the GIS system and build its associated attributes
 Work with Property Management to implement GIS on operational assets.

 Manage the GIS system within the Communities.
 Provide CAD support to Planning & Design as required for in-house studies

GIS Manager at Integrated Petroleum Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2003 to September 2003

Integrated Petroleum Consultants (IPC) is one of the leading consulting firms in Pakistan. It provides consultancy in various aspects of oil and gas exploration. IPC has its presence in major cities of Pakistan with headquarters in Islamabad. Services of the company range from geophysical surveys, geological studies, rig operations, gravity & magnetic surveys, HSE and GIS & remote sensing consultancies.
Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities included;
 GIS laboratory and GIS data management.
 Installation and management of Oracle database and ArcSDE.
 Creation and maintenance of organization GIS data.
 Data Conversion from CAD to GIS.
 Preparation of geospatial data and services for geological and geophysical studies.
 Recruitment of GIS staff.
 Project proposals, progress and technical report writings.
 Management / Supervision of GIS services provided by the company.
 Technical presentations and meetings with clients.
 Technical help to the GIS staff.
 Modeling and maintenance of Geodatabase.
 Ecological analyses for Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) department.
 Field survey design and coordination using GPS.
 Field data manipulation and integration with other Geodatabase.
 Digital Terrain Modeling (DTMs)
 Design and supervision of application development.
 Awareness raising about GIS to promote GIS benefits.
 Prepare data acquisition, update and maintenance plans.
 Suprvise the team's weekly targets progress.
 Managing project costs
 Prepare RFP’s for engagement of specialist providers as required.
 Use GIS to interpret, question and analyze master plans.
 Train concerned team members on using the GIS View applications.

GIS Analyst at World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • December 2000 to January 2003

WWF is Pakistan's largest nature conservation organization. WWF works for the protection of wildlife, environment, water, forest and other natural resources in Pakistan. Having headquarters in Lahore, WWF is networked with its regional offices in all provincial and regional capitals and projects office across the country. Its projects range from conservation of Mangrove forest at coast of Arabian Sea to habitat mapping of moist temperate forest in western Himalayan mountain ranges and dry temperate forests in the Karakorum and Hindu Kush mountain ranges in the northern part of Pakistan.
Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities included;
 Preparation of Wildlife distribution maps.
 Biodiversity hot spot analyses.
 Supervision of geographic data collection team.
 Cleaning (removal of topological errors) and processing of digitized geospatial data.
Develop Metadata for the spatial data set
 Satellite image processing and archiving.
 Preparing and conducting on-job trainings to different partner organizations.
 Conducting GPS field verification surveys for GIS data.
 Integration of digital elevation models (DEM) and satellite images.
 Writing technical reports for projects.
 Coordination with regional and field offices for GIS projects.
 Conducting environmental impact assessments (EIA) for human activities in ecologically sensitive areas.
 Customization of GIS software and Developing tools for transferring GIS data.

Remote Sensing Specialist at Universal Computing Systems (Pvt.) Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 1999 to November 2000

Universal Computing Systems (UCS) is an IT consulting firm that provides consultancy to various government and private organizations to build the IT infrastructures, application developments, environmental studies and geospatial application services.
Responsibilities:
Main responsibilities included;
 Satellite Image processing, including Image Geocoding, Classification and Image mosacing, resolution Merging and color enhancements.
 Preparing Digital Elevation Models (DEM)
 Composing maps according to requirement of end users.
 Preparation, compilation and composition of proposals and reports for RS Projects.
 Providing the advice to SRS/ GIS personals on the use of ER- Mapper

Education

Master's degree, Geographical Information Systems
  • at Lund University
  • April 2009

Web Based GIS, Geographical Database modeling, GIS in environmental Planning, GIS in physical planning, GIS implementation in an organization. GIS in Resource Planning. Thesis: Best Living Neighborhood in the city (A GIS Based multi-criteria evaluation of ArRiyadh city.)

Master's degree, Satellite Remote Sensing
  • at University of the Punjab, Pakistan
  • September 1999

Thesis: Appraisal of Surface Salinity and water logging in agricultural Areas of Punjab Pakistan, using satellite data.

Specialties & Skills

ERDAS Imagine
ER Mapper
GIS database management (SDE & Oracle).
Erdas Imagine
Satellite Image Processing
Web GIS(Asp Map)
metadata
ArcFM UT
ArcGIS 10

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL® V3 Foundation Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
January 2010