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Shaimaa Ahmed

Located in worcester, MA (US)
Work Category:
Science
Work Experience
  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2007
    redlands, CA (US)
    ESRI
    Summer intern
    Quality Assurance -testing ArcGIS, ArcIMS , ArcSDE and ARC server
  • Jun 2001 - Aug 2005
    cairo-egypt, united states
    Egyptian Ministry of Health and population
    GIS specialist
    GIS Specialist, USAID-Health Sector Reform Program Egypt.
    Utilized ArcGIS to create decision support maps for healthcare planning in Upper and Lower Egypt and to identify Emergency healthcare locations in three governorates.

    Participated and Helped in grant proposal writing Healthy Egyptians 2010 which was fruitful and successful in extending its duration through allocating more fund. This was for GIS component for Environmental health and Emergency departments .

    Developed GIS application for Environmental Health department using VBA.& ArcGIS

    Participated in master plan project for three district in Qena and Suez.

    Collected GPS points for the entire Qena .

    Demonstrated GIS application for Egyptian Ministry of health and Population to illustrate the importance, capabilities of GIS in healthcare
  • Sep 1999 - Sep 2000
    cairo-egypt, united states
    University Research Corporation-National Center for Health and Population. Egypt.
    GIS Engineer

    Created maps using MapInfo for Executive Information System (EIS) and Healthy Mother- Healthy Child(HMHC).

    Conducted GIS fundamentals training using ArcView for Physicians.

    Draw Engineering drawings for the National Center for Health and Population
Education
  • 2008 - present
    Clark University
    Master's - Geographic Information Sciences
    courses attended

    Mastering ARCGIS
    Digital Image Processing
    Landscape Ecology

    Seminar in GIS for development and environment
    Time Series Analysis Diretcted study
    Environmnetal Justice Directed study
    GIS application in Environmnetal Justice Directed study

    Internship
    Statistics
    Grant writting
    Advanced topics in Remote sensing

    Advanced topics in GIS
    Organizational Communication
    Public Speaking
    Database Management

    Projects:
    develope risk map for lyme disease
    create database for environmental justice project
    study disease clusters in Worcester using geoda and arcGIS 9.2
  • 2001 - 2003
    American University in Cairo
    No Degree - Environmental Engineering
    Proffessional diploma in Environmental Engineering

    Introduction to Environmental systems
    Environmental Impact Assesement
  • 2000 - 2001
    Information Technology Institte
    No Degree - Geographic Information Systems
    Scholarship from Egyptian governement to obtain a diploma in Geographic Information Systems. www.iti.gov.eg
  • 1993 - 1999
    Faculty of Engineering- Ain Shams University
    Bachelor's - Urban design and town planning
    I had sudied urban design, town planning and architecture for four years. my graduation project was Marine design.
    I studied landscap architecture, architecture design, Architecture theories, Architectre history, Islamic architctre and environmental control.