Nishad Wijesekara

Senior GIS Consultant at FortisAlberta
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(386) 825-5501
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, CA

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Shashank Gupta

Nishad would be an asset to any team. As a team member/leader/mentor, Nishad earns my highest recommendation. From Technology stand-point, He is a perfect resouce with a blend of innovations in new technologies and extensive expertise with an exisiting technologies. He just works amazing and a well process oriented personality.

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Experience

    • Canada
    • Utilities
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior GIS Consultant
      • Apr 2021 - Present

    • France
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Technical Consultant
      • Aug 2017 - Apr 2021

      Software Development, Requirement refinement on Jira, Research and Development, Prototyping, Build Framework API for Desktop, Web teams, and Provide InnovationArcGIS 10.6, ArcGIS Pro 2.6, ArcGIS Pro SDK, MVVM, Oracle 12c, SQL Developer, Oracle Developer Tools, NHibernate, Entity Framework, Devart Entity Developer, ORM modelling, C#.Net, Jira, Git, Within an agile methodology“OneGeo” Convergence Global project Software Development, Requirement refinement on Jira, Research and Development, Prototyping, Build Framework API for Desktop, Web teams, and Provide InnovationArcGIS 10.6, ArcGIS Pro 2.6, ArcGIS Pro SDK, MVVM, Oracle 12c, SQL Developer, Oracle Developer Tools, NHibernate, Entity Framework, Devart Entity Developer, ORM modelling, C#.Net, Jira, Git, Within an agile methodology“OneGeo” Convergence Global project

    • Canada
    • Utilities
    • 400 - 500 Employee
    • Senior GIS Consultant
      • Jan 2014 - Aug 2017

      Business Analysis, System development, design/problem analysis Solution Design, Web based GIS system, Windows Applications, Console Application development.ArcGIS Server, ArcGIS Desktop, ArcObjects 10.0/10.3, ArcGIS Silverlight API 3.2/3.3, ArcGIS Javascript API using Dojo, Dijits, Python, ArcSDE, SQL Server 2012 SP2, FME Desktop/Workbench 2014, Windows 2012 Server, C#.Net, ArcObjects/Python based ESRI Addins/Tools (10.3.1), TFS, Visual Studio 2013, Python, AJAX, Within an agile methodology“GIS Upgrade from 10.0 to 10.3.1, SQL Server from 2008 R2 to 2012 SP2, Windows Server from 2008 R2 to 2012 for all GIS based web systems, GIS Services, GIS Servers, Windows Applications and Integrated service applications” • Investigation, Identify and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks and provide optimized solutions.“System Integration for data and information exchange” • Solution Design and Development“System automation and optimization” • All manual processes were automated, such as GIS Service Monitoring, data processing and update.• Existing process, data engine, data search/update optimization.“Generic Secured Web based gateways for the Silverlight based GIS Web” • Solution design and implementation“System Statistical Monitoring” • Ajax based continuous (hits over time) and instantaneous/summarized statistical counts of application hits and application errors • Solution/Framework design and Implementation“Change Replication/Analysis/Detection/Reporting” • Solution Design and Implementation

    • Senior GIS Consultant/Developer/Specialist/Business Analyst/Project Cordinator
      • Nov 2012 - Aug 2017

      Currently working at AltaLink as an onsite senior GIS Consultant.Business Analysis, Consultation, System development, design/problem analysis of web based GIS systems, Non-GIS Software systems. Project coordination, project development, and customer support.Skills used:Programming:ArcObjects, ArcGIS desktop and server, ArcSDE, Postgres, C#.net, VBA, SQL Server, Python, Oracle, SQL Server, Toad, PLSQL, PostgreSQL, WPF, Microsoft Expression Studio/Blend, Sharepoint, Android metro app development, Java on android, VMWare, Oracle VM Virtualbox, Genymotion, Windows server 2003, 2008 R2 installation, configuration, management. Visual Studio integrated with VSS. Within an agile methodology.Networking:Windows 2008, 2012 clustering, SQL Server Fail-over clustering, Load balancing, FME Server configuration, Management.

    • Canada
    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Researcher
      • Sep 2006 - Nov 2012

      IDL, VBA in Excel, Hydrological/GIS Modelling/Analysis using ArcGIS, C#.Net• Presentations at international conferences.• Collaboration with Alberta Environment, Government of Alberta – Meetings, project implementation, proposals, progress reports, and final report preparation.• System design, modelling new system integration• Provide consultancy to research level GIS modelling approaches• User interface design and integration ideas• Lead the research projects with the coordination with collaborators• Publish articles in research journals

    • Information Technology & Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Project Manager/GIS system designer, developer/Remote sensing & GIS specialist.
      • Feb 2004 - Aug 2006

      - Undertook systems analysis, software design and construction, object oriented analysis and design, database design and development for GIS software systems, e-commerce portals, distributed systems, and mobile applications.- Managed projects and human resources to fulfill a variety of bespoke software development projects for both offshore and onshore clients.Skills:C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Application development and System Programming using Visual C++ 6.0/7.0, VB, VBA, VB.Net, C#.Net, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, SOAP, XML, XSL Transformation, Action scripts, Index Server APIs, Fusion charts, GIS with ESRI Products and Tools, SQL Server (Data Modelling, Data Integration etc), PHP, mysql, Apache- Supported the promotion and sales of IKONOS satellite imagery

    • Software Engineer
      • 2001 - 2003

      PHP, mysql, Apache, Arcview, Avenue scripting PHP, mysql, Apache, Arcview, Avenue scripting

    • Senior Researcher
      • 2001 - 2003

      Numerical modeller, model design and development, C/ C++ Numerical modeller, model design and development, C/ C++

    • Software Engineer
      • Jan 2002 - May 2002

      “Data Acquisition Device” Programming and InterfacingDevice Programming with Multi I/O Device Interface Cards, visual basic “Data Acquisition Device” Programming and InterfacingDevice Programming with Multi I/O Device Interface Cards, visual basic

Education

  • University of Calgary
    Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geomatics Engineering
    2006 - 2012

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