Abraham Maluba

Experience

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  Dept of Surveys and Mapping

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  Principal Land Surveyor
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  Chelmsford Borough Council,Goverment Local Authority

  Apr 2004 - Sept 2004

  GIS Local Land & Property Gazetteer Consultant

  • Anomaly Resolution on Local Land and Property Gazetteer (Rejects from Intelligent Addressing)• Use of Word-Hopewisers (Comma delimited, duplicated property files), Use of CAPS/GMS (Uniform 7)• Database Updates (Ms Excel) on merged property App.Xreferences (i.e. CMFR-Council Tax, CMFB-Non Domestic Rates, Address Points-CMFA from Ordnance Survey)• Updates on COMINO s/w for merged properties• Use of Arc-GIS’ Arc reader & ArcMap, to verify data and remove redundancies/discrepancies• Database merging and Linking between National Land and Property Gazetteer and Electoral register; use of eXpress package Show less

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  Kweneng Land Board,Government Department

  Jan 2005 - Oct 2006

  Assistant Land Surveyor

  • GIS & Remote Sensing projects support (analysis and interpretation of spatial data for assessment of squatters).• Carries out cadastral land surveys, Assement and production of models for borrow pits in support for surface rights (sand mining), production of 3Dimensional models and surface analysis in support of physical planning.

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  Kgatleng Land Board,Government Land Authority

  Nov 2006 - Jan 2007

  Land Surveyor II

  • Supporting Land allocation by demarcating land parcels. Supervises and conducts field surveys (Geoidal densification of survey reference marks).• GIS training to technicians for general plans data capture and topology validation hence integrating with allocation registers .Liaises with Department of surveys and mapping for cadastral survey examination and approvals.

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  Department of Town and Regional Planning,Government Department

  Feb 2007 - Nov 2010

  • GIS datasets validation and integrity assurance. MS Exchange and ArcGIS Server administration. Supporting physical planners on spatial planning.• Projects coordination, overseeing regional office’s projects including project management of various projects. Supporting GIS & Remote Sensing projects as assigned by the Regional Principal Physical Planner. Supervises Cartographers, Technicians and Artisans. GIS staff induction and development. • Production of development plans (GIS mapping), carrying out land use surveys, Technical support to clients (Data dissemination: - maps, charts and planning reports). • Spatial validation of legacy data against current data positions, Digitizing & geo-referencing of historical maps. Cataloguing of Historical legacy maps, plans & cadastral sheets. Validating historical data against current database using scanned paper maps.

  • Senior Cartographer

    Feb 2008 - Nov 2010

  • Cartographer

    Feb 2007 - Jan 2008
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  Department of Town and Regional Planning,Botswana Government Department

  Dec 2010 - May 2014

  Manager:Principal Cartographer

  • • Physical planning spatial database manager, QAQC of GIS datasets produced for Development plans. Provision of technical reports and set mapping standards. • Divisional budgeting and long term planning. Best practice governance (work programs and schedules for projects).Prepares Divisional monthly reports for Departmental Performance Improvement Committee.

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  Dept .of Surveys and Mapping

  Nov 2014 - now

  Survey Project Manager

  Continuous Operating Reference System (CORS) Manager. Geodesy Specialist (Satellite Based Positioning)

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  University of Nottingham

  Sept 2016 - Dec 2017

  Graduate Student

  Satellite Based PositioningEngineering and Deformation SurveySpatial Decision MakingGeospatial TechnologiesMapping for Engineering survey and GISThesis:Multi GNSS,A positional solution for low latitude regions under unfavourable ionospheric conditions