Khalid El-Hussiny

• Maintained up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and emerging technologies, ensuring the delivery of cutting-edge solutions to clients.
• Contributed to successful project outcomes by conducting thorough spatial analyses, producing insightful maps, and generating useful reports.
• Increased client satisfaction by delivering timely and accurate geospatial analyses, supporting informed decision-making processes.
• Provided technical support to clients for software troubleshooting, data processing, and analysis ensuring smooth project execution.
• Reduced processing time significantly by optimizing spatial database performance through indexing techniques.
• Assisted clients in defining their geospatial needs, translating requirements into actionable project plans.
• Streamlined workflows by automating repetitive tasks using Python scripting techniques.
• Optimized GIS data quality by implementing comprehensive data validation and verification procedures.
• Evaluated new software packages, assessing suitability for integration into existing workflows based on functionality, ease-of-use, scalability, cost-effectiveness among other factors.
• Implemented best practices in cartographic design principles to produce visually appealing map products that enhanced user comprehension of spatial data.

Responsible for RAK Police Integration project providing playing different roles as deliver manager, quality controller and senior Technical Consultant.

Represent iSpatialTec in all technical and business-related meetings for the RAK police project.

Review iSpatialTec proposal and adapt them as necessary to meet RFP requirements covering the technology innovations sections.

Manage business development and senior level Pre-Sales activities for iSpatialTec.

Responsible for NOC technical implementation supervision and building the Abu Dhabi NOC program Operations department.

Define roles and responsibilities of the NOC operations team and hire the resources.

Manage the NOC solution tendering process, management solution implementation, and vendor management.

Coordinate with stakeholders and define common NOC business processes.

Study the spatial and non-spatial data required for executing the NOC program.

Managing the NOC program's technical infrastructure setup and defining the operational processes to manage the technical infrastructure.

Responsible for building IT services capacity for GPCGIS.

Define the strategy to build and enhance the IT services capabilities by establishing partnership with other technology service providers.

Involved in the business development activities of the organization and supporting for strengthen the organizational growth and development.

Design and implement ADSDI operations model.

Involved in project budget planning, successfully built ADSDI technical operations team, ADSDI clearing house, ADSDI geoportal solutions, spatial services, and technical infrastructure.

Defined ITMS and ITIL processes (SOPs) and successfully implemented ADSDI service desk system.

Coordinate with ADSDI entities, and building data-sharing mechanism, and conduct GIS awareness programs.

Managing the data clearing house, data inventory, assessment, QA/QC, and portal publishing.

Supervise the consultant selection process, including the tendering part.

Help is the staff recruiting process to ensure that only highly skilled staff members are appointed.

Perform the day-to-day activities for managing the staff members.

Identify training needs and create training plans and/or development plans.

Supervise a GIS team of more than 5 members.

Managing the overall software development efforts in order to build a companywide GIS Enterprise system.

Set the overall strategy for the GIS department.

Supervise the consultant selection process, including the tendering part.

Help in the staff recruiting process to ensure that only highly skilled staff members are appointed.

Perform the day-to-day activities for managing the staff members.

Identify training needs and create training plans and/or development plans.

Supervise a GIS team of more than 30 members.

Responsible for implementing GIS applications, project management, budget planning, resource planning, business analysis, requirement analysis, and vendor management.

Supervise a team of 12 members of developers, technical writers, and designers of mixed culture.

Successfully implemented GIS system ePipe, eLIS, Geodetic Manager, Pipeline Routing, Power Facilities Management, and Utilities Facilities Management.

Received an award in ESRI User Conference for the ePipe application.

Reviewing the current system's points of weakness and providing the necessary consulting services to overcome any encountered problems.

Developing AutoLisp and MDL routines in order to smooth the process of switching from AutoCAD to MicroStation environments.

Providing consulting help to build and implement a new GIS system.

As the above-mentioned duties are being performed excellently, I have been offered a new service work order by Saudi ARAMCO management, which will end in September 1998.

Preparing the cartographic standards to be utilized in the typographical maps submitted by the subcontractors. Thus, to ensure high-quality data collection and preparation that is suitable for GIS applications of municipalities.

Providing the technical support needed to maintain the proper utilization of hardware/software resources to enable the GIS team members to perform their tasks smoothly and efficiently. Preparing the layering guides needed to control the digital GIS maps, either for GIS applications for municipalities or infrastructure utilities.

Preparing future plans to enhance the department's performance in terms of quality and speed, and investigating the latest technology solutions available to serve the GIS field.

Developing AutoLisp and ADS routines to serve the production automation process. Distributing the GIS team assignments and duties among the team members.

The above-mentioned duties have been excellently performed in the Engineering Information System project for King Faisal Air Base in Tabuk, where I have been one of the GIS engineers behind the project's success. Coming from an engineering background, I have been able to support the engineering department by providing the computer solutions needed to interpret the engineers' requirements.

Due to that excellent performance, I have been offered the GIS department head position for the King Fahd Air Base Information Systems project in Taif. ADE or AutoCAD data Extension was the primary GIS package used throughout the project life in conjunction with Oracle as the database engine. A great part of the success achieved was actually due to AutoLisp programs, which I wrote to overcome the ADE drawbacks and enhance the overall performance, quality, and speed.

The GIS system implemented in the Air Bases stores all of the infrastructure utilities engineering drawings of the Sewage system, Water and Storm Water, Electricity, Telecommunication, and GAS in the Oracle database.

Participating in the development of 'THIS' or 'Team Hospital Information System'. An integrated relational database application written for 'HP 3000/70' mini-computers using the 'IMAGE' database environment and Power House.

Participating in the development of the Arabic version of 'THIS'.

Participating in the development of 'OASIS,' an electronic archival system on IBM PCs using 'C'.

Preparing the course material for the training department and offering proper training for the following courses:

• Computer-aided Design and Drafting.
• AutoCAD Basics and Fundamentals.
• Advanced AutoCAD.