Vijay Datadin Email & Phone Number

Georgetown, GY

Executive accountable for IT Infrastructure, Client Services, E-Business and GIS.

Guyana

Created GIS unit. Began institutional use of GIS technology including QGIS desktop for managing data on utility network assets, network condition, and customers. Successfully prototyped smartphone-based field data capture system using Open Data Kit (ODK) on Google Cloud.

MapAction volunteers work in disaster zones supporting humanitarian missions with frequently updated situation maps. Volunteers train continually. Field teams deploy fast with pre-arranged logistic, pre-mission and in-mission support, and work with Standard Operating Procedures to produce useful information in difficult circumstances.

GIS professional with strong skills in project management and client relationship management. Administrative and technical experience in Information Systems analysis, design and establishment, team building, training, delivery of services, recruitment and management of consultants and preparation of donor project proposals and reports. Over 10 years.

Lectured and examined ENV 5202 – Geographical Information Systems, Faculty of Earth & Environmental Sciences (FEES). A 4-credit course in the MSc in Environmental Management. Taught using Open Source GIS software.

Guyana

Internationally recruited expert to assist with advising on Land Use policy, remote sensing and quantification of greenhouse gas emissions/ sinks, and to collate rainfall, soil, socioeconomic and watershed data and provide analysis and GIS support.

Internationally recruited long term expert to establish a GIS at the Guyana Works Services Group (Ministry of Public Works & Communications) integrating sea defences condition, high resolution satellite imagery and other data.

Kabul, Afghanistan

Worked remotely with personnel in Washington D.C. and Kabul, Afghanistan. Tested methodology of using GPS-enabled cameras to monitor remote locations (water management projects) and produce GIS datasets. Demonstrated same to team in Washington D.C.. Delivered training in Kabul to about 25 personnel from FAO Kabul and Afghanistan Ministry of Energy & Water.

Castries, St. Lucia

Internationally recruited long term expert to establish a GIS at the Saint Lucia Forestry Department integrating flora and fauna biodiversity inventory, forestry inventory, land survey and IKONOS and LandSat data. Helped plan surveys as well as map progress, on-site and remotely, on a weekly basis.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Provided GIS mapping for daily operational support, reporting and planning for the humanitarian operation following hurricanes Faye, Gustav, Hanna and Ike for UN OCHA, Red Cross, other UN Agencies and Missions, NGOs and the Haitian Directorate of Civil Protection.

Auchenskeoch, Trinidad And Tobago

Responsible for development and management of a GIS for a Marine Protected Area of the south-western shore of Tobago, and the surrounding coastal zone/ watersheds. Integrated high-resolution satellite imagery, underwater survey and other data.

Georgetown, Guyana

Responsible for development and management of a GIS for a multi-purpose 3,700 sq. kilometre rain forest protected area.

Responsible for research in GIS and Remote Sensing. Developed research project based on assessment of organization’s strategic needs; formed GIS research team with researchers based in Los Angeles (NASA CalTech JPL) and Puerto Rico (USDA FS IITF) and successfully completed GIS project; developed new dataset on understorey forest flooding in the 3,700 km2.

Developed and installed the GIS for managing the 3,700 km2 Iwokrama Forest