Consultancy

Selected Consultancies

Current

• Environment Public Authority, Kuwait.
  

  Member of a consultant team for the Environmental Monitoring Information System of Kuwait (eMISK) Project.  The project will establish, build and maintain a comprehensive geo-environmental database of Kuwait along with an enterprise level GIS system for access, update and analysis of the environmental data; my role is in developing the project’s spatial decision support capabilities.

Completed

• National Information Centre, Sana'a, Yemen.
  Member of a team that undertook feasibility studies into the establishment of a Decision-making Support Information Unit and Geographical Information Systems Unit in Yemen.  I worked as a subcontractor to Consultancy Solutions Limited (CSL, UK) partnered with GISCON Solutions (Germany).
• Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait.
  Project Consultant for the National Educational Atlas for Services and Infrastructure, State of Kuwait - Phase 1.  Undertook the initial user needs and systems analysis and produced a conceptual design for the Atlas, including its geodatabase. 
• Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA.
  Consulted on the conceptual design of the Network Analysis Module of ARC/INFO; designed and developed a prototype for the module's location-allocation modelling capabilities; assisted with the implementation of the commercial version of the module (released in version 7.0); and developed extensions to the module for future releases.

• Verdi Ryan Associates, Buffalo, NY.
  Consulted on the design and implementation of locational, demographic and consumer analyses for the reorganisation of existing, and the design of new, bank branch networks in the U.S.A. and other parts of the world.

• NYNEX Science and Technology, White Plains, NY.
  Consulted on the design and implementation of locational, demographic and consumer analyses for cellular telephone and cable television systems; the role of spatial decision support systems in the optimisation of telecommunications and cable television networks; and collaborative spatial decision-making environments and their relevance to NYNEX's network design activities. This work led to the award of a U.S. Patent.
  Details at: http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=US05963544__
  

• Imperial Cancer Research Fund (voluntary)
  Consulted on the design and implementation of a GIS and spatial analyses to support the Fund's retail activities and supervised an M.Sc. student who was carrying out much of the work for his project.