Senior Sector Specialist
Resume:
Resume of
Md. JAFAR IQBAL
Arambag Residential Area
Mirpur 7, Dhaka.
Contact No: +880**********
Email: ac3lz3@r.postjobfree.com
Key highlights:
Application of Geographic information science and remote sensing analysis and mapping of environmental phenomenon and related research is my core expertise. I have more than four year professional experiences on environmental phenomenon and environment related researches, projects and programs. Through my professional carrier I had lead data collection, data management, analysis and GIS mapping in several researches and development projects in. The short list of my skills includes; GIS and Remote Sensing software (ArcGIS 10.3, QGIS, Google Earth, and ERDAS Imagine etc.), Online mapping (AGO and cartodB), Data analysis software (MS Excel, SPSS, Stata) graphic software (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Corel draw)
Educational Profile
Exam Title
Subject/group
Institution Name
Result
Passing Year
M.Sc.
Geography and Environment
Jahangirnagar University
Savar, Dhaka
CGPA 3.58 in the scale of 4
2012
B.Sc. Honors
Geography & Environment
Jahangirnagar University,
Savar, Dhaka
CGPA 3.45 in the scale of 4
2011
HSC
Science
Govt. KC College, Jhenaidah.
GPA 3.70 in the scale of 5
2006
SSC
Science
BAF Shaheen School and College, Jessore.
GPA 4.50 in the scale of 5
2004
Professional Experience
Currently working as Senior Sector Specialist (Technical) at Disaster Management and Climate Change Programme, BRAC from 01 March 2016.
Main Duties:
Coordinate and analyze emergency situation; lead the damage and need assessment of community through data collection, data analysis and GIS mapping for all types of disasters.
Lead data collection, analysis and management of extreme weather, hazards and disasters for early warning and projection.
Humanitarian response related data collection, analysis, management and GIS mapping for reporting.
Applications of GIS and remote sensing in disaster and climate risk and vulnerability mapping with the focus on socio economic vulnerability.
Coordinate community based climate induced disaster risk assessment and humanitarian response with the modern technologies (IVR, GIS, Remote sensing, Mobile money base relief, E-voucher)
Coordinate BRAC’s project beneficiary and research data collection, analysis and management for report preparation.
Food security and nutrition data analysis during humanitarian crisis.
Lead project and research GIS data preparation, analysis and management of BRAC’s regular programme and projects.
Represent BRAC in different UN clusters as core analyst and actively participate in different UN lead analysis.
Liaise with local government to plan resource and responsibility distribution for emergencies e.g.; manmade or natural disaster.
Worked as Sector Specialist at Disaster Management and Climate Change Programme, BRAC from 01 December 2015 to 28 February 2017.
Main Duties:
Collect data for daily weather forecast and generate warning reports to forecasting any natural hazards
Assist to develop training modules for disaster preparedness training.
Assist in analyzing emergency situation; damage and need assessment of community through data collection, data analysis and GIS mapping for all types of disasters.
Assist in BRAC’s project beneficiary and research data collection, analysis and management for report preparation.
Humanitarian response project related data collection, analysis, management and mapping for reporting.
Applications of GIS and remote sensing for GIS data collection, analysis and mapping for assessing disaster and climate risk.
Support management to make suitable decisions against identified risks based on relevant (e.g. damage and need assessment, food security, nutrition etc) data analysis and mapping.
Humanitarian response project related data collection, analysis, management and mapping for reporting.
Lead project and research GIS data preparation, analysis and management of BRAC’s regular programme and projects.
Liaise with local government to plan resource and responsibility distribution for emergencies.
Project management and programme activities at BRAC
Coordinate data collection, analysis and GIS mapping for different humanitarian response (Rohingya response, Cyclone Roanu, Supporting Arson Affected Shantal Community in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha-2016, Haor Flood Response 2017) and disaster risk reduction programme of BRAC including urban disaster.
Working as Project leader of Riverbank Erosion Prediction and Dissemination of prediction Results to the Community and Local Level Stakeholders project of BRAC DMCC by collaborating with CEGIS from in 2016 and 2017.
Main Duties:
Application of Remote sensing and GIS technology to predict the river bank erosion.
Project design, plan and lead the BRAC DMCC project team.
Manage, coordinate and implement the project in two study fields.
Flag hoisting in field according to the risk areas and risk mapping.
Disseminating the prediction result through public consultations, distributing leaflet and maps and marking the erosion vulnerable settlements in the selected plot sites.
Arrange awareness campaign and provide Risk map to the community through UDMC.
Worked as Research Assistant and GIS Analyst in National Atlas of Bangladesh Programme by Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, from 01 June 2013 to 30 November 2015.
Main Duties:
Plan and Research on the national phenomenon on diversified topics (e.g.; demographic, physical agricultural, economic, climate, culture, education, urbanization, land use, land cover etc.) for GIS data preparation, management and mapping
Research on diversified sectors phenomenon of Bangladesh for illustration with analyzed data and maps.
Manage national level geo-spatial components and database of the Programme.
Using of excel and SPSS for data analysis and interpretation.
Train and support junior GIS officer and field officers for implement data collection and work plan.
Maintain and manage the database by coordination with Junior GIS officers
Reports on Programme update and details to GIS Experts, Chief Cartographer, Programme Coordinator and Programme Director.
Coordinate with national level government offices (BBS, BMD, SRDI, SoB, SPARSO and other relevant offices) for sector wise data base preparation and mapping.
Application of ArcGIS, MS Excel, SPSS and Google Earth software to maintain database, and mapping.
Worked as Field Investigator (contractual) in the project on “Situational Analysis of Selected Slum of Dhaka City by Centre for Urban Studies and Save the Children, Bangladesh” from December 08, 2013 February 12, 2014.
Main Duties:
Plan, prepare and monitor the data collection to report writing
Research, Monitoring and Documentation poor community.
Qualitative and quantitative data collection, analysis and management.
Vulnerability and risk mapping of the slum community against identified risks.
Application of ArcGIS, MS Excel, SPSS and Google Earth software to maintain database and mapping.
Completed “OGNI GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS” (selected as listed Book in renowned English medium school in Bangladesh) as Researcher and Cartographer from 01 July 2011 to May 31, 2013; published by Nabarun Publication, Banglabazar, Dhaka.
Main Duties:
Research, design and developing concept for maps and map contents for a complete Atlas.
National and world level GIS database preparation, analysis and management for mapping.
Application of ArcGIS, ERDAS Imagine, MS Excel, SPSS, VB Component and Google Earth software to maintain database.
Train and support junior GIS officer for implement data collection and data preparation for GIS.
Maintain the coordination with Junior GIS officers and Chief Cartographer.
Monitor and evaluate the programme activity/update in order to reporting to supervisor.
Coordinate with national level government offices (BBS, BMD, SRDI, SoB, SPARSO and other relevant offices) for sector wise data base preparation and mapping.
Member and Analyst in different NGO/INGO cluster:
National Working Group member of JNA Bangladesh. Worked as Joint need assessment (JNA) representative of BRAC and actively participated as Analysis Team Member at JNA 1st Phase for cyclone Roanu on 26 May 2016, Monsoon Flood 2016 and Haor Flash Flood 2017 under HCTT.
Represents BRAC in Bangladesh Food security cluster of UN as Core technical working group member and Cash Working Group of OXFAM in Bangladesh.
Successfully completed and Certified as Analyst of Integrated Food Insecurity Phase Classification (IPC), FAOBD. Participated in Acute Food insecurity analysis in November 2016 and 2nd Round Chronic Analysis Workshop in December 2015 of FAOBD at Bangladesh.
Enlisted GIS Corps volunteers and Accomplished Testing the GeoTag X platform as URISA GIS Corps Volunteer in the GIS Corps GeoTag X Yemen Project by United Nations Institute for Training and Research’s (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications.
Training/Workshop/Certification
Completed "Data Analysis Using SPSS & R Course-2013" under Institute of Information Technology, Jahangirnagar University. May 2013 to August 2013
Completed of Esri’s Spatial Analysis MOOC "Going Places with Spatial Analysis (License UC-4NVI7Q64)", from 26 August 2014 to 03 December 2014, offered by ESRI in Collaboration with UDEMY.
Completed an seven Week MOOC course on "Introduction to Geospatial Technology Using QGIS (CN-1681-INTRO-QGIS)" February 2015 to April 2015, offered by the Geo Academy at del Mar College and Canvas Network at https://www.canvas.net/dashboard/completed
Successfully completed and passed Esri’s Spatial Analysis MOOC The Location Advantage Online Course (UC-UXK35I4A) at https://esri.udemy.com from May 2015 to June 2015.
Successfully completed a twelve Week MOOC course on "Disasters and Ecosystems: Resilience in a Changing Climate"(ensured position in top 50 among 12000 participants) offered by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Cologne University of Applied Science at https://iversity.org. from 12 January 2015 to 30 April 2015,
Successfully completed and passed “Introductory e-Course Climate Change” offered by United Nations Climate Change Learn in April 2015 at http://unccelearn.org/.
Successfully completed and passed Introduction to Geographic Information System (GIS) e-Course offered by University of West Florida: Geographic Information System Online from 18 May to 30 June,2015 at Canvas Network at https://learn.canvas.net/courses/625
Participated and completed the exam in ARSET training- “NASA Remote Sensing Observations for Flood Management”, held 08 June to 29 June 2015, available at http://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/disasters/webinars.
Successfully completed and passed "Estimating GHG Emissions and Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use with EX-ACT"(Facilitated) at Open Learning Campus, World Bank Group from 02 November 2015 to 13 November 2015. http://einstitute.worldbank.org/ei
Successfully completed and passed Introduction to Disaster Risk Management (Facilitated) course on Open Learning Campus, World Bank Group; from 26 January 2016 to 23 February 2016; available at https://olc.worldbank.org/content/introduction-disaster-risk-management-facilitated
Successfully completed the training course on Basic Statistical Computing with Stata, Facilitated by James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University and ICDDRB from 10 January to 11 January 2017 at Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Successfully completed online course on Overview of the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System, Facilitated by ARSET-NASA” from 14 February to 21 February 2017 available at https://arset.gsfc.nasa.gov/disasters/webinars/GDACS17 .
Publications in Journal
1.Iqbal, M. J., Shobnam, M. and Mahmud, K. H., 2013, Risk Assessment of a Coastal Community through Risk Mapping, "Bhugal PatriKa" (A Journal of Geography in Bangla), Department of Geography and Environment, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Vol. 31 / June 2013. ISSN 1027-8567.
2.Shobnam, M., Iqbal, M. J., Mahmud, K. H.; 2013; “Spatial Distribution of Solar Energy in Determining the Solar Power System: A Geographical Study on Bangladesh” (Article in Bengali Language), Samaj Biggan Samikkha”; Volume-1 Journal of Social Science, Jahangirnagar University, Savar Dhaka, Bangladesh.
3.Iqbal, M. J., Diba K.N., Nazneen S.; "Situation Analysis And Recommendations For Water, Sanitation And Hygiene of Mohammadpur Geneva Camp"; 2014, CUS Bulletin, Centre For Urban Studies, Dhaka. Available at: http://cusdhaka.org
Publication- Books
1Iqbal, M. J and Mahmud, K. H., 2012, Community Based Risk Assessment: Hazard and Disaster Risk Mapping by Using GIS, Lambert Academic Publication, and Germany. ISBN: 978-3-659-26784-0; available at: Amazon.com, Google Books and More Books.com.
2Mahmud, K. H. and Iqbal, M. J. (Co-Author); 2013; “OGNI GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS”; Nabarun Publication, Banglabazar, Dhaka. ISBN : 978-***-****-77-8.
Publications- Others
1.Iqbal, M. J and Asikunnaby 2014, CUS Records: "Split of Dhaka City Corporation: A Geographical Description and Mapping of Dhaka North and South City Corporation"; CUS Bulletin67, Centre For Urban Studies, Dhaka. Available at: http://cusdhaka.org
Computer Skills (skilled and Experienced)
Office and analysis : Ms Word, Ms Excel, Ms Power Point, Ms publisher and SPSS
Graphics Software : All Cs Version Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
Mapping Software : ArcGIS10.3, QGIS 2.13, ERDAS Imagine 2014, Google Earth Pro
Webpage : Word Press
Language Skill
Bengali : Fluent in reading, writing, speaking and listening as a mother tongue.
English : IELTS Score 6.5: Reading-6.4; Listening 7.5; Speaking 6.5 and Writing 6.00.
Professinal Membership, Accounts and important Link
linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/iqbaljafar
Academia.edu : https://juinv.academia.edu/jafariqbal
CartoDB : https://jafar867.cartodb.com
References
1.Professor Nazrul Islam
Chairman
Centre for Urban Studies, Dhaka
And
Former UGC Chairman, Bangladesh
Cell No: +880**********(offc)
E-mail: ac3lz3@r.postjobfree.com
2.Md. Moyen Uddin Ahmmed
Programme Manager
Disaster management and Climate Change Programme BRAC
Cell: +88-017********
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