Quadir Meeran

The role accounts for delivering inputs to urban planning and
infrastructure design through GIS and/or CAD data.
Typical functions are:
• Gather resources for GIS data analyze and extract inputs for planning and design team.
• Producing geometric calculations and outputs from gathered data as required for various design initiatives.
• Coordinating with CAD production teams, who work from multiple office locations, for design drawings at
various stages and implementing regional CAD standards for all disciplines.
• GIS and CAD data maintenance using ProjectWise as the centralized file management system.
Defining CAD methodologies, overseeing interoperability issues with other CAD formats and GIS.
• Responsible for generating Land Use plan, Road/Architectural/Utility layouts, sections & detail design
drawings as deliverables.
• Coordinating with client and local authority contacts for technical resources.
• Converting CAD files to GIS or efficiently extracting information from CAD sources to generate geo-spatial
data to create planning data, inputs (DTM) for hydrology analysis and infrastructure design criteria.
• Integrating urban planning and infrastructure design data into a consolidated GIS database.
• Assisting in the needs analysis for an EGIS implementation for the client.
• Geo database feature definition and QA.
To handle a team of about 30 CAD staff to deliver CAD/GIS
output for multi discipline engineering tasks.
Also the role required to investigate and conduct
research to locate and obtain existing databases; gather, analyze, and integrate special data and to determine how
best the information can be displayed using GIS. This role involved coordination with engineering staff to ensure
that the most accurate geographic data is made available to design consultants and other team members alike.
Due to economic downturn, the project was postponed and put on hold by the client.

Reporting to the Enterprise Services Manager, prime function is to conduct training sessions for professionals and to provide technical support for CAD/GIS domains. Trainings are based on Bentley/Autodesk Training Catalogs and followed through an interactive schedule. Summary of responsibilities are as follows;

• Handling MicroStation/AutoCAD training sessions for individuals and corporate groups.
• Preparing schedule of system infrastructure for CAD/planning software setup.
• Providing solutions for queries related to DWG/DGN interoperability, equivalent functional methodologies in AutoCAD/MicroStation and product demonstration.
• Identifying potential corporate clients for training and supporting technical side of marketing enquires.
• Guiding professionals for design drawing management, presentation & automation externally.
• Demonstrating Microstation features for corporate clients through seminars and presentations.
• Interacting with Autodesk & Bentley for licensing and troubleshooting product oriented operational issues.
• Installing & configuring Bentley products through ‘Bentley SELECT server' and Autodesk products in-house or at client site locations whenever necessary.
RECOGNITIONS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Corporate clients handled include Halcrow Middle East, PBworld, Besix Construct, EMAAR & Wade Adams Contracting.
Represented Cybertech at the ATC & Learning conference of Autodesk in Tunis, Tunisia in Oct 2007 and attended 3ds max Essentials Training given by Autodesk at the same venue.

Reporting to the CAD Manager, the main function is to prepare/update design drawings for highways, structures and various infrastructure design projects. Highlights of functions handled were:
• Proposing utility (Gas, Oil, Telephone, Electric & Water) diversions based upon survey data and verifying contractor’s drawings for approval. Interacting with respective authorities for utility data inputs whenever required and checking acquired inputs against survey for inconsistency.
• Identifying suitable corridor path using satellite images & survey information in order to ease long distance road design following predefined design criteria and client requirement.
• Collecting necessary inputs for the preparation of BOQs for tendering and verifying contractors’ final BOQ before award of contract.
• Preparing presentations for design proposals / infrastructure project study reports.
• Played a major role in the preparation of a presentation for the Muscat Municipality depicting future infrastructure development plans, which was presented at the ministerial level in Oman.
• Generated 3D renderings (visualizations using Microstation) for road interchanges, pier column designs, bridges and phases of road projects as and when required.
• Making drawings for road cross-sections, profiles, civil layouts, landscaping/irrigation, street /traffic lighting, MPOT schedules, Oil/Gas line protections and drainage arrangement.

Major Design Projects worked for:
- Design of Southern Expressway (54Km long, 12 ICs) - Al khoud Interchange (Signalized)
- Dualization & Realignment of Amerat-Quriyat Road - Al Mawaleh Interchange (Signalized)
- Design of Bawshar Interchange (signalized) - Design of Seeb Airport Interchange
- Design of Muscat City Centre Interchange - Design of Sohar Port Roads
- Design of Central Corridor - ‘The Wave’ Access Infrastructure

Looked after resource management, production schedule and client Coordination to facilitate successful implementation and completion of projects.
In charge for distribution of planned work, training subordinates for project activities and providing solutions to conversion division on project related queries.
Overlooked the Quality control procedures by leading a team of skilled professionals.
Lead the conversion team successfully to meet project schedules in the below mentioned projects.
Responsible for both graphical as well as external oracle data maintenance.

Preparing digitized AM/FM design data outputs for telephone projects of Saudi Telecom and Oman Telecom with the help of Intergraph FRAMME. Analyzing the functional requirements of the data structure for projects/designs, data clean up by means of MDL generated QC utilities and performing pre-defined acceptance tests on final data were the main aspects of the job.

Projects worked for
US WEST Communications:
Job was to do inventory of source material, analyzing and producing required raster/design outputs by initially preparing the vector data from original source documents using IRAS/B. All the project stages were monitored by a Quality control system complying with ISO standards.

STC (Saudi Telecom Company):
Work involved registration & conversion of the Moptt Paper Data to Design Data linked to Oracle RDBMS using Bentley Microstation after geo-referencing and later on migrating to Intergraph FRMME environment through customized MDL functions.

Responsible for the total Quality control management of electrical switching accessories produced as per standards set by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for electrical accessories. Ensuring that the products met these standards through pre-defined tests on samples and maintaining test reports were the prime aspects of the job. Submission of documents to BIS office and communicating with the concerned authorities to procure documents required for embossing the quality mark on products were also handled effectively.