Shahd Yousif, Senior GIS Engineer

Shahd Yousif

Senior GIS Engineer

Sudapet Co. Ltd

Location
Sudan - Khartoum
Education
Master's degree, Remote Sensing and GIS
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Senior GIS Engineer at Sudapet Co. Ltd
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • My current job since August 2011

Create maps and graphs, using GIS software and related equipment.
Meet with users to define data needs, project requirements, required outputs, or to develop applications.
Gather, analyze, and integrate spatial data from staff and determine how best the information can be displayed using GIS.
Compile geographic data from a variety of sources including censuses, field observation, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and existing maps
Analyze spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports.
Design and update database, applying additional knowledge of spatial feature representations.
Enter new map data through use of a digitizer or by direct input of coordinate information using the principles of cartography including coordinate systems, longitude, latitude, elevation, topography, and map scales.
Analyze geographic relationships among varying types of data. And prepare metadata and other documentation
Operate and maintain GIS system hardware, software, plotter, digitizer or color printer.
Move, copy, delete, and add files, drawings, and maps to output reports in hard copy or electronic transfer.
Do control the spatial data parameters and retrieve stored maps and present information to users and answer questions.
Quality Control (QC) the acquired data from different resources
Conduct user requirement studies, systems analysis, data analysis, data modeling, functional design of Geographic Information System (GIS) solutions, geodatabase design and planning and implementation of all other phases of a System Development Life Cycle in order to develop and maintain a Corporate Engineering and Topographic GIS Databaseز

Data Managment Assistant at Sudapet Co. Ltd
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • November 2010 to July 2011

working in support for data managment team and running the Data Centre in the company

RS & GIS Technician at Remote Sensing Authority - National Centre for Research
  • Sudan
  • October 2005 to October 2010

• Participating in Research projects running in the authority targeting natural resources monitoring, disaster management and RS and GIS techniques.
• Participating in Technical projects which executed in partnership between the authority and governmental and non-governmental agencies (Ministries, FAO, IFAD …).
• Teaching Remote Sensing and GIS concepts and software in the training courses held by the authority.
• Training participants in projects held by the authority in RS and GIS data models, processes and techniques.
• Data Management (data integrating, data display, data reporting, data modelling and data documentation)

Education

Master's degree, Remote Sensing and GIS
  • at Sudan Academy for Science
  • April 2009

• Scholarship awarded from the National Centre for Research. • A program about using RS and GIS in different applications. • Three semesters with partial research about using RS & GIS in flood Management in Kassala city. • The program was taught in English. • The applications studied were: agriculture and precision farming, water resources management, geosciences, sustainable development, forestry and forest fire management, land cover and land use monitoring, spatial database building and web GIS, disaster management, environmental studding and EIA • The final degree was calculated as a percentage from the accumulated summation

Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science
  • at University of Khartoum
  • July 2005

Honors degree

High school or equivalent, Hihg School
  • at Fatima Bint Elkhattab
  • May 1999

Specialties & Skills

System Analysis
Project Management
Data Management
Remote Sensing
programming
Teaching
Spatial Data manipulation
Digital Image Processing
project management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
German
Beginner

Memberships

the Space Generation Advisory Council
  • National Point of Contact
  • December 2010
TED
  • TED Translator
  • January 2013

Training and Certifications

Geological and geophysical data digital conversion solutions (Training)
Training Institute:
Geoenergy Petroleum Services
Date Attended:
September 2011
ArcGIS server Administration, ArcObject Programming and ArcGIS server application developing (Training)
Training Institute:
CNPC Beijing Richfit Information & Technology Co. Ltd.
Date Attended:
May 2011
Risk assesment and hazard identification (Training)
Training Institute:
Quality Consultants
Date Attended:
June 2012
Applications of remote sesning in Agriculture and forestry (Training)
Training Institute:
Future university
Date Attended:
January 2012
PMP preparatory course (Training)
Training Institute:
Axon Institute
Date Attended:
February 2013
Environmental statistics, Water accounts and ESIS (Training)
Training Institute:
Economic and social commission foe western Asia
Date Attended:
October 2010
Statistical indicators for environmental policies in sub-sahara Africa (Training)
Training Institute:
InWent, Capacity Building International – Germany
Date Attended:
November 2009