GIS Lead

CV for GIS Expert

Dr. Pahala Kumar

GIS Expert.

My Experience in brief:

Work experienced on GIS, CAD, Land-Survey, Bathymetric-Survey, Geotechnical /Geophysical Survey Coordination, Topographic & Asbuilt Survey Review, Survey Monitoring of Assets/Structures, Work Permits review, Land Survey Boundary Demarcation, Landuse-LandCover Mapping using Satellite Image/Site Survey/Drone mapping, Digital processing & classification landcover/landuse. Land Lease Plots/Building allocation, managing and monitoring land lease through GIS Geodatabase Web-map Services and its linked Oracle Database. Creating Geodatabase - Developing user need webmaps services - publishing it through ArcGIS Portal and managing ArcGIS Server and Portal. Geoprocessing and Analyzing the geodatabase to prepare and publish maps as per user required map for their strategic decision making purpose. Providing GIS Training to users. Section Heading, mentoring & supervising all the works of GIS, CAD and Survey Teams for timely ArcGIS web-maps and desktop extensions geospatial analysis maps services to client’s technical requests.

Mobile No.: +91-904******* Email: ad5uwq@r.postjobfree.com

EXPERIENCE

Title

Company

From

To

GIS Consultant

ABG Trading Company

Oct.2021

Dec.2022

GIS Package Lead

Salam Technology, Hamad Port Project Doha, Qatar.

Aug.2020

Sep.2021

Engineering Services Lead GIS/CAD/Survey

Qatar Petroleum (QP), Industrial Cities RLIC, MIC & DCA.

Jun.2015

Jan.2020

AutoCAD and Land Survey Coordinator

Qatar Petroleum (QP), RLIC.

Apr.2013

Jun.2015

GIS Coordinator

Qatar Petroleum (QP), RLIC.

Dec.2004

Apr.2013

Consultant GIS

MAPS Geosystems, Gulf Computers, UAE.

Sep.2003

Dec.2004

Head Marketing and Technical Support GIS

Speck Systems, Hyderabad, India.

Feb.2003

Sep.2003

Freelance Consultant GIS

T.Nagar, Chennai, India.

Jan 2002

Jan.2003

Project Manager GIS

HOPE Technologies – New Delhi

May.2001

Dec.2001

Senior GIS Analyst / Coordinator

State Security Investigation (SSI) MOI, Doha, Qatar.

Dec.1997

Mar.2001

Systems Executive GIS

Larsen & Toubro (L&T Limited) Infotech, Bombay

Mar.1995

Nov.1997

Research Scientist, GIS projects

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.

Jan.1993

Mar.1995

Sr. Research Assistant, GIS projects

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

Feb.1989

Jan.1993

Consultant Geophysical Groundwater Prospecting

Mysore District, India

Apr.1988

Feb.1989

Qualifications

Institute

Year

Ph. D –GIS

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India

August, 1996

M.Tech – Applied Geology (Remote Sensing Specialization)

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

March, 1988

M.Sc. Geology

University of Mysore, India.

July, 1985

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

Languages (Read, Write, Spoken)

Countries Worked

(On GIS Projects)

Virudhunagar, Tamil Nadu. India.

02-01-1959

Tamil (native read, write, speaking)

English (read, write, Speaking)

Hindi (Speaking. Read, write)

Kannada (Speaking)

India (IIT Bombay, L&T ITL Bombay, Hope Technology New Delhi, Speck Systems Hydrabad)

Qatar (MOI GIS Qatar, Qatar Energy IT GIS)

UAE ( MAPs Geosystems, Sharjah, Gulf Computers GIS Abu Dhabi)

SKILL

GIS: For Developing Geodatabase and ArcGIS Enterprise Applications using ArcGIS Desktop, ArcSDE, Arctools, ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, Spatial Analyst, 3D Analyst, ArcScene, Geoprocessing, ArcGIS Portal, ArcGIS Server ADMIN, Safe FME, Quantum QGIS, MapInfo Pro. CAD to GIS Conversion, Geodatabase design, develop, admin, maintain and migration.

Publishing and Administering ESRI ArcGIS Portal Web Map Services and GIS System integration to IBMS, IRMS, ISMS, EAMS,VMS, VTMS.

Experience in GIS & Workflow process software lifecycle, user need studies, feasibility, estimation, design, geoprocessing workflows, implementation, integration, acceptance testing, clients approvals, clients satisfaction and invoicing for stage wise deliverables. Providing hands-on training on ESRI GIS ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Portal.

CAD: For Drafting Drawings and CAD to GIS Data Conversion: AutoCAD, MAP 3D, Revit MapGuide, Civil3D, Reviewing BIM and Revit technical submissions, Microstation CAD, GeoMedia professional.

Languages: ArcObjects, ArcPython, ESRI JavaScript, React JS, HTML5, MapObjects, AML, ArcAvenue, Visual Basic, VB.Net, C, Fortran, Turbo Pascal, AutoLisp, Java, Visual Studio, ASP.NET Web API, MVC, C#, JSON, and JQuery, Agile project development methods. Power Bi Data Analytics.

Satellite Image Analysis: GRAM, ER-Mapper, ERDAS, ILWIS, DIPIX, IDRISI, ArcGIS Image object tools, Raster Grid modeling/analysis.

Remote Sensing (bands-visual, thermal, infra red ): Landsat MSS, TM, SPOT, IRS, Ikonas, Geoeye, Air borne Surveys, SARadar, Lidar.

Bathymetric Lidar data View and Analysis using Fledermaus

Survey Analysis: Land Survey, Geotechnical Survey, Geophysical Survey, Trimble GPS Survey, Bathymetric Survey.

GIS Consultant and GIS Package Lead, Salam Technology, Doha, Qatar.

Worked as GIS Package Lead and GIS Consultant for Salam Technology’s Hamad Port Project NPP0067 GIS Integration, completed, implemented and trained the users for operational use of GIS. The project works involved GIS Integration with other business systems. Managing ArcGIS Servers, Managing ArcGIS Portal, Managing ArcSDE Geodatabase and File Geodatabases. Updating Geodatabase feature classes as per geodatabase design schema using various asbuilt projects drawings of Hamad Port Infrastructure Projects submitted by various contracters, coordination through project management committee PMC and Hamad Port Project HPP steering committee. Created a user need New GIS Web Map Services for Hamad Port GIS user departments and to other GIS integrated business systems such as ISMS, IRMS, VMS, IBMS, VTMS, EAMS, Remote access to Indoor & Outdoor CCTV Camera locations in Vidsys Camera Management Systems through Webmap GIS applications. The work also involved convertion of of thousands of asset layout drawings, floor plan drawings and survey data into ArcSde Geodatabase and File Geodatabase, coorecting coordinates by georeferencing & geoprocessing methods. Validating GIS Integration for PMC-HPP approvals through various Inspection Reports. Provided ArcGIS Enterprise Trainings to Mwani GIS users. Succesfully implemented Hamad Port GIS Portal Integration for portwide use of various GIS web map application services.

Work Experiences at Qatar Petroleum Industrial Cities (RLIC, MIC, Dukhan)

15 years of accountable and responsible experience in Qatar Petroleum working as Section Head for CAD / GIS / Land Survey and Asset Tag numbering Engineering Services of Industrial Cities. Reporting to Manager Industrial Cities Engineering Department Ras Laffan, provided technical supports to over 300+ QP and Endusers EPC Contract projects through engineering services CAD, GIS, Asbuilt/Topo Land Survey and Asset Tagging (during Dec-2004 to Jan-2020).

Hands-on developed Raslaffan Industrial City RLC GIS from scratch & succesfully implemented for GIS Map services, geodatabase updates, map analysis, Map production works and extended the supports for further development of MIC GIS and Dukhan GIS.

Hands on experience in preparing various Cartographic Quality GIS Maps for Industrial Cities, updating ArcSDE Geodatabase from land survey, project asbuilt CAD drawings and land lease approval documents.

Developing, updating, monitoring ArcGIS Applications for RLIC, Autherising RLC GIS maps, continual updation of ArcSDE Geodatabase. Applying various Geoprocessing workflow arctools for map overlay analysis, data conversion, coordinate transformation, data interpolation, contour preparation, land development cut-fill volume estimation, etc

Provided Technical supports to QP Raslaffan Port Infrastructure for all its as-built asset information needs through CAD Drawings Drafting Services, GIS Geodatabase development, Port Specific Maps developments, Bathymetric Survey Support coordination, Bathymentric data analysis, bathymetric contour preparation and Bathymetric Chart updation supports.

Provided industrial cities CAD/Survey/GIS Data support services as per endusers requests by Qatargas, Rasgas, Oryx GTL, Shell GTL, Dolphin Energey, Barzan Laffan Refinery, QChem, QAPCO, Gasal, Qatalum etc.

Admin and managing ArcSDE GIS Geodatabase updates & File Geodatabase updates, Geodatabase Edit, Reconsilation, GIS maps for Land Lease Allocations, Geoprocessing, Remote sensing image analysis, Aerial Survey/Mapping projects, Bathymetric Survey reports review and analysis,

Supporting all QP IC Departments/Endusers/Contractors on Survey / CAD / GIS Eng. Services requirements and ensuring the work delivery within the KPI.

Geo-referenced varius types of vector & raster geographical data, geoprocessed, analysed and interpreted for user required information mapping. Have carriedout out CAD to GIS conversion of more then 300 infrastructure projects asbuilt drawings as per specifications and geodatabase requirements.

Developing and using GIS Map application for Land Management and using LIMS land plots and land corridors request review approval process.

Prepared numerous Cartographic maps for visualising oil and gas fields in Ras Laffan, Dukhan and MIC. Updated Raslaffan area offshore cartographic charts for IHO Chart publications.

Analysing project AFC/Asbuilt Project Drawing submission from various contractors and converting into Geodatabase Feature Classs for Roads, Buildings, Pipelines, Cables, etc. as per QP geodatabase standards.

Coordinated in the development of ArcGIS Portal for Industrial City map viewers, Groundwater well environmental monitoring and Emergency Response Management ERM.

Coordinated for off-plot QP-Enduser’s projects/contractors (civil, roads, buildings, mechanical, electrical, pipeline, fire and gas, instrumentaion, pcr/moc, urban and real estate landuse planners, safety, work permits etc.) and provided their specific required technical services.

Coordinated and provided supports in the development of QP Geotechnical Bore Hole information GIS Development SAGIS.

Coordinated for Regular Survey Monitoring of RLC Pipe Line support structures and Port Berth Structures, registered and anlysed survey monitoring data for early identification and preventive maintenance of structures in RLC.

Conducting RTK-GPS/Total Station topographical surveys at various sites coordinating with Land Survey crews, Reviewing Aerial Survey mapping projects, Reviewing Satellite Image products, Mapping projects, Bathymetric Survey reports review and analysis, updating asbuilt consolidated cad drawings and GIS Geodatabase feature classes.

Involved in all QP on-plot, off-plot projects and Endusers Off-plot projects Engineering Services support requirements for timely and accurately provisioning CAD/GIS/Survey/Tagging Data/Information through the QP RLC Infrastructure Manager project support during RLC-Port Expansion and successful completion of QP LNG 77 mpta off-plot projects.

Managing and monitoring the landuse and land lease plots through the inhouse developed GIS and Land Lease allocation workflow system.

Reviewing for the QP approval of Projects Utility Corridor Crossings, Roads and Micro Tunneling activities at RLC, MIC and Dukhan.

Reviewing and endorsing of project contractors technical report submittals such as CAD & BIM drawings, Utility/pipe Corridors crossings, Survey Reports, Geotechnical Reports.

Conceptual Planning drawings proposals, Work Permit and Excavation Permit reviews. Major Endusers utility right of way corridors/plots survey drawing reviews, project laydown location and signboard review for approval.

Provided Technical Supports and coordination to various engineering services requirements for oil and gas infrastructure Projects, Development Planning and Operations at various sites in QP’s 3 Industrial Cities RLC, MIC and Dukhan.

Reviewing request for land in industrial cities, allocating land plots and right of way corridors as per city’s master plan, utility/pipe corridor plan and associated guidelines.

Involving and supporting the development of various Procedures, Guildlines, QP Standards, Workflow for Industrial Cities Development and Planning, Technical supports. Supporting the development of QP Engineering Services inter departmental IP procedures and standards.

GIS Consultant, MAPS Geosystems and Gulf Computers, UAE.

Project Execution for various clients using ArcGIS, 3D GIS, ArcScene, ArcView 8, ArcEditor, ArcSDE, GeoDatabases, Prompt Server, Prompt Info etc.Creating Geodatabase Schemas, Migration of ArcInfo data to ArcSDE Geodatabase. Updating of ArcInfo Coverages using latest image data.Technical Proposals and cost estimation for Tender responses.Facility Management System for Etisalat’s Inside Infrastructure using AutodeskMap, MapGuide and Geomap.

HEAD Technical Support and Marketing, Speck Systems Limited, Hyderabad.

Marketing, Sales & Technical support to various ongoing GIS Data & Software Services Projects.

GIS Project Management, Technical Proposal writing for Tenders, Work and Cost estimation, Liaison for work contracts.

Projects Bided successfully:

Ground Water Artificial Recharge Site selection using Remote Sensing, Geological Data, and GIS for 130 Sub-catchments areas in water starved Chhattisgarh State, India.

Land Parcel mapping and land ownership application development for Daman State.

Electrical Power network mapping and development of utility GIS for power transmission and distribution using GIS.

GIS - Analyst / Coordinator. SSI, MOI, Doha - Qatar.

Conducted user need GIS studies with various Dept. divisions for GIS usage. GIS - Division setup and installing ESRI products. Development of Customized Map Display, Plotting and Query information system using ArcView and Avenue, Developer 2000. Development of customized Map Display and Query information system using VB and MapObjects, Sql, ODBC, ADO.

Development of Building Information System for Security.Software used Arcinfo 7.0, 8.0, Arcview, Autocad 2000, MS Access. Preparing Crime & Incident mapping GIS for active/repeat and historic incident analysis by Security Officers. Coordination with C-GIS, MME, Asghal, Kahramaa, Q-Tel, Planning and Land & Building Records Departments. Prepared quick indoor/out layout maps for SSI-MOI Departments for their engaging/monitoring the public major events in Qatar, for security purposes. Coordinated for all GIS Maps for planning & security support needs during the OIC-2000 Conference held in Doha.

GIS Systems Executive, Larsen and Toubro Infotech, Bombay, India.

Arcinfo GIS Installation, Application Development, CAD to GIS Conversion, Cable CAD GIS Training etc.

Projects:

1.Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC ) GIS Consultancy project.

2.BELL Canada AM / FM / GIS Telephony project.

Research Scientist, IIT Bombay, India.

Forest and Environment Monitoring using Remote Sensing and GIS:

Sponsor Ministry of Forest and Environment, New Delhi

Role: Research Scientist

Objective: Developing GIS for forest and environmental monitoring of Goa and Bailadila region, using satellite imagery and ground collected data.

Multilevel data integration using GIS:

Sponsor: Rajasthan State Mines And Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

ROLE: Senior Research Assistant

Objective: Integration of mineral exploration data, Remote sensing data and statistical data analysis to demarcate ‘Sulphide Mineralized zones' in Rajasthan State, India.

Professional Membership: SPE-Society for Petroleum Engineers, Permanent Member no. 3265888, since 2006.

Participating in SPE Qatar and SPWLA Qatar, Technical Presentations and discussions.

From QP Delegated to IPTC 2009 and presented a technical paper on RLC GIS.

From QP Delegated to IPTC 2014 participation.

QP-GIS 2012, Best Exhibitor Award at the Middle East Geospatial Forum held on April 03-04 at the Qatar National Convention Center. The Award was given for the outstanding display of GIS Maps and Demonstration of live GIS Applications at QP's Stand.

QP-GIS 2008, Special Achievement in GIS Award by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). The award was in recognition of outstanding achievements in utilization of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Certification of Recognition “LR2 Refinery Project” in recognition of valuable contribution towards Engineering Documents Review and Processing for e-CPW approvals towards project site activities. Supported through the Engineering Services as CEL/21 functional works at QP RLC.

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