Muthukumaran M

Profile Summary
Accomplished GIS/Spatial Analytics expertise with excellent technology and people skills, keen on taking up challenging roles and look for new and innovative ideas, believes in teamwork and deliver the projects with quality and tangible end user Impact.

17+ years of work experience with 10+ years of experience at the management levels with focus on Project management and Implementation, Client Relations, Training, Risk Assessment, Web GIS Development Design, Application (Technical) Support, Database Administration, field operations in major GIS Verticals.

Handled different roles at the Lead level like Operation Management, Technical Support, Hiring, Training and Performance management / Improvements and Vendor Management etc.

Currently Based in Tamilnadu, India. Available to relocate.

Areas of Expertise
• Operations / Support Management
• Spatial analytics and data management
• Technology implementation
• Result – Driven Project Management
• GIS/System Integration
• Resource Management
• Client Relationships
• Executive Presentation and Negotiation
• Solution Design and Business Development
• Consulting, Research & Capacity building

Verticals
• Urban Infrastructures and Governance
• Urban Planning and Smart Cities
• Spatial Analytics / Data Analytics
• Navigation, Land Base & Field Survey
• Location Analytics
• Spatial BI and Reporting
• Navigation / Electrical Utility
• Disaster Response Management
• Web GIS Design and Implementation

Employment History

JANA URBAN SPACE FOUNDATION, BANGALORE, INDIA
Consultant GIS (Independent) September 2020 – September 2022

INFOSYS BPM LTD, HYDERABAD, INDIA
Sr. Manager Operations (Apple Maps), March 2020 – September 2020

JANA URBAN SPACE FOUNDATION, BANGALORE, INDIA
Manager GIS/Spatial Analytics December 2012 – February 2020

TTK MAPS, CHENNAI, INDIA
Executive – GIS Projects October 2007 – October 2012

CYBERTECH SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE, THANE, INIDA
Associate Consultant April 2006 – September 2007

CYBERTECH SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE, THANE, INDIA
Associate Consultant April 2006 – September 2007

IIT BOMBAY, MUMBAI, INDIA
Research Fellow August 2004 – October 2005

IIT BOMBAY & IIC TECHNOLOGY.INDIA
Intern; July 2003 – July 2004

 

Key Engagements – Projects
Urban Planning and Smart Cities Projects – Master Planning
GIS based Masterplan for 3-Towns in Tamilnadu as part of AMRUT scheme
including survey and vetting of base maps.

Spatial Mapping and Analysis for Integrated Master Plan (Spatial Development Plan) for Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan.

Smart City – Urban Roads
GIS Mapping and Analysis for Bangalore Smart City Proposal and execution.
Evaluation and Mock-up rating for Bilaspur Smart City Proposal by AIISG

Execution of Urban Roads project as per Tender S.U.R.E (Specifications for Urban Roads Execution) for Bangalore City Roads in Karnataka, India

Successfully completed the research project funded by Department of Science and Technology and Published a scientific research paper in “International Journal of Remote Sensing.”

Spatial Analytics/Data Analytics/ GIS PORTAL Development

Web PORTAL
Integrated web based Spatial Data Portal for Jana Small Finance Bank.
Data Insights
Spatial data insights and analytics services to derive the business strategies
around Customer segmentation, Growth opportunities, Branch planning, customer profiling etc., for MFI-NBFC Jana Small Finance Bank.
Testing
JIRA Core and Mantis BT tools-based development framework for portal
development, Testing and Code Archive.

Urban Governance and Infrastructure
Geo-Data for Navigation
Survey and Mapping of Road network and POI collection for Chennai, Bangalore
and Hyderabad cities.
Highway Survey and mapping to analyse the vehicle Maneuverability for heavy trucks for GE Auto, Chennai.

Utility/Infrastructure
Survey and GIS Mapping of Electrical Utility Network Assets and Consumer Indexing as part of RAPDRP for RMSI, Navayuga and ROLTA India Ltd in Tamilnadu, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, India.

Survey and GIS Mapping of Rural Electrical Network Assets in Andhra Pradesh, for Gemini Communications Ltd, Chennai.

Land management System
Mapping of Defense Land Records under Cantonments across India for Ministry of Defense – Estates

Security
Developed a web-based GIS platform for crime information analysis and management.

Asset management System
Mapping of field assets, Survey and database management for Tuticorin PORT,
Mangalore and Cochin Ports for L&T InfoTech and, TCS Cochin.

LiDAR
LiDAR data Classification, Cleansing and Noise removal and contour generation.

Research Projects
• Tectonics in relation with Seismology using Remote Sensing & GIS for Department of Science and Technology, India
• Identification of Groundwater Potential Zones for Artificial Recharge sites from IIT Bombay for PIDILITE Industries Ltd, Mumbai.
• Mapping of Groundwater potential zones in and around Tiruverumbur Block, Trichy as part of the Industrial training at Tamilnadu Water and Drainage Board (TWAD)

Publications
International Journal of Remote Sensing Vol. 27, Nos. 12–14, July 2006, 2371–2387: “Study of tectonics in relation to the seismic activity of the Dalvat area, Nasik District, Maharashtra, India using remote sensing and GIS techniques.” – JYOTI SARUP, M. MUTHUKUMARAN, NITIN MATHUR and V. PESHWA

Software Skills
GIS Applications – ESRI Suite of Products (ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise / Portal for ArcGIS and ArcGIS Collector)

BI Tools – Tableau and Qlik

Packages – MS-Office, Google Earth Pro, Quip

Project Management and Testing – JIRA Core, Bit Bucket, Mantis BT

Open-Source GIS Package – QGIS.

RDBMS – MS SQL Server 2012 –Query, Job Scheduling and Reports

Scripting – HTML5, CSS & Familiar with JavaScript

GPS Processing Tools – Garmin Map Source, ESRI ArcPAD

 

Education
M.Tech in Remote Sensing and Geo-informatics  – Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India. 2002-2003
Master of Science (Applied Geology) – Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, 2000-2002.
Bachelor of Science  – Bharathidasan University, Tamil Nadu, India, 1997-2000.
Internship at IIT Bombay, Mumbai 2003- Jan 2004.