Ahmed El-Mekawy

Kuwait Integrated Petroleum Industries Company, KIPIC

• Servant leader to GIS team.
• Design KIPIC infrastructure geodatabase.
• Designed standardized protocols for data collection, creating cohesive database input guidelines to streamline intelligence retrieval and exploitation
• Coordinate between in-house development team and data management team in KIPIC.
• Coordinate meetings with KIPIC stakeholders to get their requirements and feedback.
• QC GIS team deliverables before publishing in GeoFM web app.
• Participated in team meetings, staff meetings and planning sessions to gather information, share status updates and support project milestone completion

TomTom - Points of interest in Kuwait:

• QC data after collected from field and after located into map.
• Attend technical meetings with client to gather requirements and get feedback about deliverable data.

KM Automation Phase II - ITS:

• System analysis of current GIS duties in KM Survey and Field departments

In-House Projects/Duties:

• Participate in preparing company bidding technical documentation for tenders.
• Visit customers and present company services and products
• Manage. pilot projects for KNPC, PART

• Give technical sessions in Kuwait GIS UC 2016, and 2017
• Requirement gathering and system analysis for
• Ooredoo® telecom company – Kuwait;
• Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAF) – Kuwait.
• Participate in developing Kuwait Finder® Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), – Kuwait.

• Analyze PAI workflow and optimize use of GIS in all departments.
• Design and maintain geodatabases structures;.
• Technical documentations and reporting about progress of project.
• Quality control geodatabase and identify errors in current databases.
• Identify needed thematic maps to be published in Portal for ArcGIS.
• Link between PAI and development department in Openware in issues related to custom applications (ISS, Public Client, and Mobile Inspection).
• Train PAI stuff over using ArcGIS Desktop and Portal for ArcGIS.
• Minimize parcel's errors in PAI databases to less than 1%.

• Provide technical consultancy / advises in software engineering techniques.
• Maintain successful interactions with client stakeholders, third party companies' integration (such as OpenSpirit), and other internal related project teams.
• Ensure of and contribute in delivering of high-quality services;.
• Analyze the GIS usage needed by Exploration & Production teams to integrate between different sectors.
• Lead discussion with client during requirement gathering and analysis, transform operational needs into technical requirement specifications.
• Utilize Esri software and extensions, in Oil and Gas sector.
• Apply Esri standard data models in all WJO divisions.
• Analyze integration between GIS with other solutions such as Petrel, Digital Oil Field, and OpenSpirit.
• Data analysis, capture, editing and integration including metadata production.
• Lead and contribute to project and functional-level activities such as meetings, conferences (inside and outside WJO), and presentations.
• Manage multi-functional team including developers, testers, and data manipulators.
• Design and maintain geodatabases structures.
• Prepare custom ArcGIS training materials that suit petroleum engineer needs; and.
• Train client to use essential and advanced tool that they use daily.
• Analyze business needs and develop system and service requirements.
• Design and develop core GIS functionalities of Incident Management System.

• Analyze business needs and develop system and service requirements.
• Design and develop core GIS functionalities of Incident Management System.

• Moderate and create Esri NeA GIS library to be used for in-house development.
• GIS consultancy services for technical support team and development team to solve sophisticated GIS and geometry Geoprocessing technical problems.
• Develop technical solutions to complex GIS problems which face teams in different projects.
• Document requirements and solutions in traceable, standard format.
• Prepare training schedule for client and choose needed courses.
• On job training for clients over solutions developed by Esri NeA.
• Set with clients for analyze their system, workflow and data.
• Develop cadastral information systems that used for land registration.

Projects

Land Administration

• Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) – Egypt.
• Ministry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) – Egypt.
• Department of Surveys and Mapping – Botswana.
• Directorate of Survey and Mapping – Namibia.

Urban Planning

• Jeddah Municipality – Saudi Arabia.
• Makkah Municipality – Saudi Arabia.

Real Estate

• Limitless® Co. – UAE.

Security & Defense

• Civil Defense of Fayoum – Egypt.
• Ministry of Interior – Bahrain.

Infrastructure & Facilities

• General Organization for Industrialization (GOFI) – Egypt.
• Public Authority for Covered Drainage Projects - Egypt.
• Makkah Municipality – Saudi Arabia.

• Design and develop data entry application for data management team.
• Develop different ArcGIS tools for clients to analyze geographic data.
• Generate statistical reports for clients.

• Lead development team.
• Write technical documentations and proposal.
• Analyze and develop easy-to use GIS application for different customers.
• Meet with customers to show capability of GIS functions.

• Developing stand-alone GIS application used by distributors and decision makers using MapObjects with VB 6 and ArcObjects with VBA.
• Manage analysis and development of accounts.
• Quality controller over field survey data collected, geodatabases created and maps produced.
• Train more than ten non-IT oriented users to use ArcGIS for more than 1000 hours.
• On-site client support.
• Technical Support for ArcGIS and Maptitude toolkits.
• Developing internal office solutions, that auto generate statistical reports.

• Assist in developing Lectura website for educational purpose and E-learning in behalf of Ministry of Education.

• Implementing electrical, electromagnetic and ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys investigating underground water and archeological potentials.
• Academic research.