SrNo

Company/
Organisation

Duration

Position

GIS Experience

1

Sardar Sarovar
Narmada Nigam Ltd.
(SSNNL)

1980-1988

Assistant
Engineer

• Dam discretization of the US$ 4 billion Sardar Sarovar Project using Finite Element Method and geological mapping of the foundation of 1.25 kms long dam (one of the largest in India) for design & analysis of treatment of weak geological layers under the main dam.
• CAD digitization & engineering design and drawings for Sardar Sarovar project.

2

Data Point Computer Services

1989-1993

CEO

• Mapping, Digitization & GIS for projects for Dr C.R.Shah, Consultant
• Computer based MIS/ GIS model for Water Management for drinking water submitted to Technology Mission on drinking Water, Govt. of India
• Mapping of 400+ Oil Wells and various oil fields of Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Gandhar, Jambusar, Dahej, Nada and Jolwa. The feeder collector pipelines included W.I.Lines, Oil lines, Gas lines, Gas lift link, Water inlet, Effluent, installations like GGS, CPF, YC, EPS, etc.

3

Global Systems

1994-1997

CEO

• GIS database conversion for Power Distribution network of a leading Utility in Southern California
• Road network updation and digitization for some cities for a Telecom company in USA.
• GIS topology for sewerage network for a Florida

4

Sardar Sarovar Punarvasvat Agency (SSPA), Govt. of Gujarat

1997-1998

MIS/ GIS Advisor

• In association with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), he articulated and built a GIS based MIS for Resettlement & Rehabilitation of Project Affected Families due to submergence of villages of Sardar Sarovar Project. The project area covered 88000 sq.km. Of catchment area maps and about 120 downstream R&R (community) sites.

5

Mascon Multiservices Pvt. Ltd.

1999-2001

Vice President

• A 60 manmonth GIS project for Gas Authority of India’s (GAIL’s) 160 kms industrial gas pipeline network for the city of New Delhi. The project is first of its kind and is meant to serve as  a) GIS based Emergency Response System  & b) Operation & Maintenance System (O&M)
• Digital mapping for 1000 km oil pipeline network for land acquisition and compensation for Right of Use (ROU) and Right of Way (ROW) under PMP act for a large oil company. More than 50,000 Land records & Mass legal notifications to 25000 land owners.
• Soil mapping and bore logs for 75000 hectares of command area – Phase I of SSNNL
• Basemap creation for Vadodara District for use with Vehicle Tracking System as a Pilot Project for Police Commissioner Vadodara Rural.
• GPS based Vehicle Tracking System
• GIS mapping/ digitization of cable records covering Indore Telecom District which includes digitization, geocoding, customization and implementation of Telephone cable network for approximately 1,30,000 lines in Indore city (area=75 sqkms) for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL)
• GIS services for PY1 block at Pondicherry for preparing Development Plan by fixing optimum route of the gas pipeline route of 51 kms including all the data for Phase 1 upto Power at Cuddalore and encapsulating it in GIS system
• Preparation of updation / computerization (GIS compatible) of revenue records of GAIL HBJ Pipeline for Tehsil Agar, District Shajapur for a length of 6 kms
• Pilot project for Indore City Municipal Ward. 

6

Gujarat Ecology Commission, Govt. of Gujarat

2001-2003

GIS Advisor

• In association with ESRI (I), successfully steered a 75 manmonth World Bank funded project to create GIS based Web Enabled Gujarat’s Environment Database – the first and largest of its kind in India. The data was collected through in-depth study of specific components of Gujarat’s environment over a period of 5 years by some of the well-known Institutions of India including Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Operation Research Group (ORG), National Environmental Engineering Institute (NEERI), Centre for Environmental Planning & Technology (CEPT), Gujarat Ecology Society etc. The project included environmental mapping of Gujarat State (more than 300 maps with around 2000 attribute tables) + Maps of 26 districts, 274 talukas, & 18000+ villages of Gujarat State

7

Data Point Computer Services

CEO

2004-2007

• GIS based Cultural Resources Information System for Champaner - Pavagadh Heritage site for UNESCO designated World Heritage Site – appreciated by His Excellency The President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam. The project included database creation and digitization of 91 villages including about 25000 land parcel boundaries
• Provided 3D GIS terrain (DTM) and animation model with Quickbird – world’s highest resolution  commercially available satellite imagery, NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data and creating site contours for a 810 Million Omani Riyal (OR) Beach Development Infrastructure project (8 kms long) south of Muscat, for one of the largest Real Estate Companies in Oman
• GPS survey and Digital Mapping of about 5000 kms of HT/LT power utility network, indexing of approx. 500,000 consumers and 2 million poles and development of Data Power – a GIS software solution for power network optimization and T&D loss calculation software developed by Data Point under R-APDRP project of ADB comprising of AM/FM and handling of very large databases.
• Pilot project for GIS based Parking Place Finder for one county in London Burrough.
• GIS based Shoreline change detection study for shoreline near Surat on behalf of University of Cambridge through Gujarat Ecology Society (GES).
• GIS based model for identificationof probable zones for ground water propecting in Sasutan watershed.
• Pilot project for digitization of oil well logs for a NASDAQ listed company.
• Digital mapping of hundreds of toposheets and citywide digital mapping for utility companies.
• GIS Mapping of 1000 sq.km of city/ urban areas. Maps of 26 districts, 274 talukas & thousands of village boundaries
• Base map creation and superimposing power distribution network grid on the city base map for Vadodara city