Data Management

Lucky Mncube

* ******* ***** (Aliwal Street) Human Settlements Department

Durban

4001

Tel 078-***-****/ 031-***-****

E-mail ************@*****.***

Driving licence Code 8, clean

Personal Information

ID Number: 750**********

Date of Birth: 24 August 1975

Years of experience: 16 yrs.

Gender: Male

Race: African

Disability: No

Alternative Contact: 078*******

Current location: Durban CBD

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Career Summary

I have qualified with my B-Tech surveying. I have also done Certificates in GIS with esriSA, project management

with Regenesys. started to be in Survey field in 1999, and diverged to GIS in 2004, where I was employed by

Ethekwini Municipality; Been involved with GIS for the town planning department; moved to GIPO, in Ethekwini as

well, did projects like street renaming projects, was driving the project for a year, and went to Environmental

Management and climate change department, for the Ethekwnini working as a Senior GIS Officer managing

environmental servitudes by doing audits on them. I am currently with Human settlements department working as

an Assistant Manager GIS, managing Human settlements housing projects, by doing some fields work, and

advising town planners on Survey matters and GIS matters when they deal with external stakeholders who are

contracted by the department to carry their housing services. I believe I cannot just make a good candidate looking

at my experience of 15years, I believe to myself that I can make a good worker as well, since i have worked with

different kind of people of different cultures.

Experience

Assistant Manager GIS

Department of Human Settlements

Apr 2012 Present

Duties & Responsibilities: Managing GIS data for the department; doing some analysis using Aerial

photos; running models to speed up the capturing processes, mentoring interns in the

section.compiling user-friendly GIS manual for the department. Doing map production; doing field

work using hand held GIS device, to define project boundaries and doing beneficial admin and

mapping.

Senior GIS Officer

Ethekwini

Feb 2008 Apr 2012

Duties & Responsibilities: * Develops and manages the Geographic Information System and related

databases of the Environmental Management Department by : Identifying and reviewing, together with

Deputy Head : Environmental Management, and the managers of the Development Assessment;

Policy Co-ordination and Implementation; Biodiversity Planning and Special Projects functions the

data and information needs of the Department. ; * Undertakes data preparation, management and

capture for the Geographical Information System (GIS) of the Environmental Management

Department by: preparing all data for GIS capture, integrating data sets from internal and external GIS

offices; verifying and amending captured data In order to ensure an accurate and regularly updated

data base. * providing base plans and basic information analysis from various GIS data sets; coding

and capturing various spatial planning project information on GIS ; * Providing guidance on hardware

and software needs and budgetary requirements within the Department by : keeping abreast of latest

technology developments ; researching and interrogating new methods for environmental monitoring

GIS Technician

Ethekwini Municipality

Feb 2007 Feb 2008

Duties & Responsibilities: Geographical Information System, EThekwini Municipality * Perform street

address allocations, capture and maintenance and preparation of notifications. ; * Capture and

maintain up to date records street centre line datasets. Maintain related attribute information for the

above datasets. Conduct site inspections and investigations to resolve conflicting information Perform

manual checks where appropriate on source data. Prepare error reports and resolution of all

anomalies. Read and interpret hardcopy documents to maintain GIS databases ; * Perform

manipulation, conversion or translation of data to usable formats to ensure compatibility of data.

Manipulate existing data sets to create new data sets. Import tabular data to create new GIS data sets

Prepare relevant data sets as per requirements. Ensure that received data conforms to departmental

standards. ; * Perform technical and spatial analysis on digital and hardcopy information ; *

Preparation of base plans to convey information. Perform basic spatial analysis / queries Production

of customized cartographic maps to convey information * Extraction and creation of both spatial and

non-spatial data in various digital formats, for GIS data interrogation to produce quality GIS outputs as

per user requirements

Senior Survey Technician

Land Affairs (Surveyor General)

Jan 1999 Apr 2003

Duties & Responsibilities: * I managed cadastral data, for the continuous map of KZN, which includes

capturing of Servitudes, Evens, Town Allotment, farms and their text etc. Compile and maintain

relevant office and personal production records. I trained new staff in the section, showing them the

methods to apply when calculating both horizontal and vertically curves and so forth, using Regis

package Worked under pressure in a fast moving and often stressful environment. ; * I was also

involved in the RLCC projects since 2000. I was extracting data from our data and creating maps for

the claims, and helping project facilitators with their investigations in our office, then due to the load of

work or claims that were needed to be mapped, I was then appointed to assist in defining boundaries

between traditional Authorities, by going out to the field to meet with different communities and define

boundaries according to their knowledge of their land. Map the area using hand help GPS, Provide list

of properties, to Land Claim, provide digital map, and also provide the ownership of land according to

the affected properties in each and every claim and calculating the extent per each affected property

and the extent for the whole claim. And also create the database for the Claims using MS Access.

Pupil Survey Technician

the Dept of Local Government

Jun 1998 Dec 1998

Duties & Responsibilities: * In I voluntarily work as a Pupil Survey Technician for six months for the

Dept of Local Government in Ulundi. My duty was to capture and manage the data supplied by field

technicians using Ally Cad.

Pupil Survey Technician

Nelson Mei Land Surveyors

Apr 1997 Apr 1997

Duties & Responsibilities: I was involve in the project that was conducted in Umlazi H for beacon

relocations Under the supervision of a professional land surveyor

Education

B-Tech Land Surveying,

Durban University of Technology

2009

Project Management Certificate

Project Management Certificate,

Regenesys College

2004

National Diploma

Diploma

National Diploma land Surveying,

Mangosuthu University of Technology

1997

Zulu

Zulu (C), English (E) Maths (D) Biology (D), Geography (E), Afrikaans (F)

Ndlovana High School

1994

Language

Skills

Geographic Information Systems

Level: Advanced

Experience: 15 years or more

web publishing

Level: Basic

managed cadastral data

Level: Intermediate

Experience: 15 years or more

manage the data

Level: Basic

Experience: 15 years or more

data preparation

Level: Advanced

Experience: 10 years or more

basic information analysis

Level: Advanced

Experience: 10 years or more

basic GISc skills

Level: Basic

Undertake spatial analysis

Level: intermediate

Requirements Analysis

Level: Basic

Provide geographical support

Level: Advance

Perform technical and spatial analysis

Level: Basic

Experience: 1 year or less

Object Oriented Database

Level: Basic

Microsoft Access

Level: Intermediate

Experience: 10 years or more

Identify gap analysis

Level: Basic

Global Positioning System

Level: Intermediate

Experience: 10 years or more

Development planning

Level: Intermediate

Experience: 10 years or more

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