ABDURAHMAN NEGASH
Senior GIS Consultant | Enterprise GIS & SDI Specialist | Geospatial Data & Remote Sensing Expert | Digital Cadastre & Land Administration Professional
Cadastre & Land Administration Manager at East Shoa Zone Land Office, Ethiopia
About
Experience
Cadastre & Land Administration Manager
East Shoa Zone Land Office · full time
Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Ethiopia
Key Responsibilities & Achievements 1. Manage enterprise digital cadastre operations covering 150,000+ parcels, maintaining approximately 98% spatial-data accuracy through integrated GIS and spatial database workflows. 2. Lead multidisciplinary GIS and surveying teams of 12+ professionals, improving institutional service-delivery efficiency by approximately 40% through workflow automation and process optimization. 3. Implement GeoServer-based Web GIS platforms and spatial dashboards, reducing land complaint-resolution timelines from 14 days to 5 days. 4. Manage land registration, parcel mutation, title verification, and cadastral updating workflows, supporting regulatory compliance and SDI-aligned land information management. 5. Apply GIS-based spatial analysis and geospatial evidence to support 200+ annual land disputes, with an 85% successful resolution rate. 6. Develop geospatial governance and interoperability frameworks and coordinate land-governance initiatives supporting digital land certification and tenure-security programs.
GIS & Land Surveying Engineer
East Shoa Zone Land Office, Ethiopia · full time
Mar 2013 – Mar 2022 · 9 yrs · Ethiopia
Key Responsibilities & Achievements 1. Conducted 500+ cadastral and engineering surveys using GNSS/RTK and Total Station technologies, achieving approximately 2 cm positional accuracy. 2. Developed and maintained digital cadastral databases supporting 120,000+ parcels using PostgreSQL/PostGIS. 3. Performed spatial analysis for urban expansion and land-suitability assessment covering 1,200+ hectares. 4. Applied Google Earth Engine and remote sensing workflows for land-use monitoring, environmental analysis and encroachment detection. 5. Automated geospatial processing using Python, ArcPy and GeoPandas, reducing processing time from approximately 3 days to 4 hours. 6. Produced thematic maps, spatial reports and decision-support outputs for planners, engineers, policymakers and development stakeholders.
Cadastral Surveyor & Geospatial Data Officer
Liben District Land Office, Ethiopia · full time
Mar 2009 – Mar 2013 · 4 yrs · Ethiopia
Key Responsibilities & Achievements 1. Executed cadastral surveying and parcel mapping for 8,500+ land parcels. 2. Developed GIS-based land-suitability models using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). 3. Managed spatial databases containing information for 15,000+ landowners. 4. Produced 200+ cadastral and thematic maps for land certification, registration, planning and dispute resolution. 5. Improved geospatial data quality from 72% to 96% through digitization, database optimization and GIS QA/QC. 6. Supported land certification and tenure-security programs for rural communities.
Geospatial Project Coordinator
Adulala Town Municipality, Ethiopia · full time
Oct 2008 – Mar 2009 · 5 mos · Ethiopia
Key Responsibilities & Achievements 1. Coordinated GIS-based urban parcel allocation and zoning-compliance assessments. 2. Implemented mobile GIS workflows for construction inspection and development monitoring. 3. Developed geospatial monitoring dashboards, reducing manual reporting workload by approximately 80%. 4. Coordinated urban land-permit and occupancy-certification workflows. 5. Reduced permit-processing time from approximately 60 days to 25 days. 6. Supported urban infrastructure planning and land-certification activities.
Skills & Endorsements
Education
MSc — Geoinformatics Engineering
Adama Science and Technology University, Ethiopia · Geoinformatics Engineering
Sep 2022 – Jun 2025
BSc — Civil Engineering
Harambe University, Ethiopia · Civil Engineering
Sep 2014 – Sep 2018