Rajesh Kumar Dhinwa is currently a GIS Analyst at Cairn India Ltd, an oil and gas exploration company based in India. He has over 6 years of experience in GIS, CAD, and mapping roles in industries including telecom, utilities, and oil and gas. His responsibilities include supporting geospatial mapping needs, seismic data quality control, prospect mapping, well planning, and providing geomatics support across various teams. He has expertise in GIS software such as ArcGIS and skills in remote sensing, geodatabases, and integrating spatial data.

1. Rajesh Kumar Dhinwa
E-mail: dhinwa.raj@gmail.com, Mobile: +91 8527298378
Summary:
Currently working as a GIS Analyst in the Exploration Department with Cairn India Ltd. Cairn
India is an independent Oil & Gas, Exploration & Production Company in Indian Subcontinent,
having its corporate office in Gurgaon, (Delhi NCR). A total of 6+years of working experience,
which includes 2 years in Telecom and land base sector, 2 years in utility mapping sector and last
2+year in Oil & Gas - E&P sector with the capacity of CAD, GIS & Mapping specialist.
Skills:
 Excellent understanding of GIS & Geodetic concepts.
 Sound Knowledge of GIS theory, application and Geo-database formats.
 Very good knowledge of Coordinate reference system (CRS) & Datum transformation.
 Well experienced in (spatial) vector data handling on ESRI Platform.
 Expert knowledge on various types of Geodatabases (FGDB, Personal Geodatabase & ArcSDE
Geodatabase) and GIS data management.
 Sound knowledge of ArcGIS Server & ArcGIS Map service concepts.
 Practical knowledge of Geospatial Data conversion tools viz. FME, Exprodat Team GIS Plug-
in, Petrel Plug-in, Open spirit connector,
 Very good concept of remote sensing and related data handling knowledge in ERDAS imagine
application environment including various types of Image classification.
 Well acquainted with seismic navigation & well data type, that is being used within a typical
E&P environment.
 Very good Integration knowledge of Geospatial Data with Industry standard Google earth
platform for visualization by larger audience in the organization.
 Independent problem solving skills as well as ability to work in a team environment
WORK EXPERIENCE
Company History: Employed with Cairn India Limited, An Independent Oil& Gas Exploration &
Production Company, listed on Bombay Stock Exchange. The Company is operating in India for
more than a Decade having various Hydrocarbon License blocks in India (Rajasthan/Andhra
Pradesh / Gujarat), Sri Lanka and South Africa.
Auguest-2013 - To date Cairn India Limited GIS Analyst
 Responsible to support the Geospatial Mapping requirement of the Exploration team.
 Job responsibility include, helping the geophysics operation team on Seismic acquisition
(both 2D & 3D) Planning on ArcGIS.
 Post-acquisition, carryout QC of navigation data.
 Building Leads & Prospect Maps in ArcGIS, taking inputs from Petrel Models from Asset
Geoscientists, for planning, quick decision-making & Management viewing.

2.  Facilitating exploration team on Planning & optimization of exploration well sites, post
approval from asset. Planning includes surface optimization in terms of Land acquisition
planning, drill site layout planning to site construction & capturing the exact cellar
coordinate.
 Designing Drill site Layout in coordination with Drilling & Project (Civil) Team in ArcGIS
environment, integrating high-resolution satellite image.
 Extensive use of Satellite Image and Toposheet for pre survey and planning
 Maintaining land survey documentation and map support for various environmental & other
statutory clearance
 Geomatics support provided to other cross-functional team such as Drilling, Land, HSE and
Project teams on continuous basis.
November 2011-Auguest 2013 IL&FS Environmental Infrastructure & Services Ltd. Jr. Executive
 Strong GIS mapping experience with the ability to produce maps of Contributing in GIS data
creation, editing, map generation, feasibility pre-survey and final survey.
 Contributing in spatial data management (both cultural and satellite image data)
 Preparation of prospect and location specific maps and cross functional support to Land,
Environmental and Project teams.
 Developing and implementing web applications.
 Helping in administration of the entire GIS vector & Raster Dataset, maintenance of SDE
server.
 Handling GPS device and CAD survey maps.
 Create DEM, Land use land cover, Mosaic, Classification (Supervised and unsupervised),
Subset and all type of raster data handling in ERDAS Imagine.
 Remote sensing related all work done in ERDAS Imagine.
March 2010 – October 2011 RMSI Private Limited Supervisor
 Responsible for setting up GIS projects in all the ongoing on RAPDRP survey projects, to
ensure contractors send the daily progress report, with additional GIS dataset for
management viewing at corporate office.
 Responsible for GIS data creation, Maintains & analysis pertaining to Land survey and
consumer collection through GPS and producing meaningful GIS Maps for various
management presentations.
 Responsible for carrying out QC of all contractors supplied drawings both is GIS & CAD
format. Extraction of meaning full layers from CAD files to integrate into GIS.
 GIS data model development for standardizing database.
 Creating and maintaining GIS & Technical drawing office database
 Organized and prepared other documentation related to GIS
 Prepared hard copies of collected data like maps, drawings, sketches
 Generate and provide both hard and soft copy maps to team requirements
 Helped junior Engineer to solve their design related problem
Software Application Knowledge
Geo-Technical: Expert Knowledge on ArcGIS 10.2,Spatial Analyst, Arc Scene 10.2, Map info,
ERDAS Imagine, AutoCAD 2014,Plotter Administration,
Overview knowledge on Arc SDE, Arc GIS Server, ArcGIS Silverlight viewer, Omni3D 2013 ( A
Geophysical seismic acquisition planning application) , Petrel & Petrosys ( Geoscience
subsurface Modeling Applications).
Graphics: Freehand MX, Adobe Products: Adobe Professional, Adobe PhotoShop.

3. ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS
2003 Secondary from Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan with 64%
2005 Senior Secondary from Board of Secondary Education Rajasthan with 68%
2008 B.A. in Geography from University of Rajasthan with 63%
2010 M.sc in Remote Sensing and GIS from Maharishi Dayanand SaraSwati University, Ajmer
With 62%
PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
Participate In “National conference on Geometrics and Impact of Climate Change with Specific
Reference to Mountain Ecosystem & Annual Convention of INDIAN SOCIETY OF GEOMATICS”.
Participate In ”EDUSAT” Basics course on “Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System
and Global Positioning System” organized by IIRS, Dehradun at M.D.S. University, Ajmer,
During 2008.
Life membership of “INDIAN SOCIETY OF GEOMATICS”
Participate In “National conference Geospatial Technologies for Utilities & Infrastructure of
FICCI”.
SOFT SKILL
Defensive driving, Basic HSE Training, First Aid, Presentation skill, Communication skill.
Achievements
Got Technical Excellence Award by RMSI WAYZ for proficiency in all technical aspects
PERSONAL DETAILS
Address for Communication: 204, pataliya Johad, Sonthali, Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan)
Date of Birth : November 05th
1987
Nationality : Indian
Marital Status : Single
Passport Number : K6625691
Language status : Hindi, English
REFERENCE
Sudhir Kumar Mathur Satyajit Dash
Principal Geologist (GIS)
Deputy General Manager GIS Team Leader
Exploration Department Subsurface Data Management Function
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