Dr. Engr. Umaru Garba Wali Tel: +250 08877174 Email: ugwas@yahoo.co.
CURRICULUM VITAE
A. Personal Data Family name: Other names: Sex: Marital status: Date and place of birth: Nationality: Permanent home address: #69 Sultan Bello Road Sokoto, Nigeria.
Wali Umaru Garba Male Single 2nd June 1965, Silame Nigerian, Sokoto State Current Address: National University of Rwanda Faculty of Applied Sciences Department of Civil Engineering BP 117, Butare. Telephone: +250-08877174 E-mail: ugwas@yahoo.com,
ugarbawali@nur.ac.rw
B. Key • • • • • • Qualifications Hydraulics and Engineering Hydrology Water Supply and Urban Drainages (Sanitary Engineering) Irrigation, Drainage and Land Development GIS and Hydrological Modelling Rainwater Harvesting Agricultural Mechanisation
C. Courses Lectured • Hydraulics • Hydrology • Fluid Mechanics • Water Supply Systems • Urban and Highway Drainages; • Irrigation and Drainage Systems • Sanitary Engineering; • Research and Communication Methods. D. Thesis Supervision • 11 MSc Thesis • On going PhD E. Membership in Professional Societies • Individual member International Association of Hydraulics Engineering (IAHR) No I8584 January 2002 • Associate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineering (NSE) No 0154 • Member WaterNet through Faculty of Applied Sciences NUR • Member Rwanda Rainwater Harvesting Association (RRWH) • Member of the Southern and East Africa Water Harvesting Network (SearNet)
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Member Nile Basin Capacity Building Network (NBCBN) on River Engineering (Rwanda Node)
Languages Language Hausa English Russian Arabic French F. Education Date 1998-2002 Institution Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering (MSUEE), Moscow. Russian Federation Byelorussian Agricultural Academy (BBA), Gorki, Belarus Qualification obtained Ph.D in Technical Sciences (Hydraulics and Engineering Hydrology). Speaking Excellent Good Good Very little Learning Reading Excellent Good Good Fair Learning Writing Excellent Good Good Fair Learning
1990-1995
MSc, in Technical Sciences: Hydromelioration (Irrigation, Drainage and Land Development) and Water Supply. Certificate of Computer Operation Certificate of Russian Language
1985-1987
College of Agriculture and animal Sciences, Zuru, Kebbi State, Nigeria Government Science Secondary School Yabo Silame Town Primary School
Ordinary National Diploma (OND) in Agricultural Mechanization General Certificate of Education (Ordinary Level) Certificate of Primary Education
1979-1984 1972-1979
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G. Courses Attended Year 2008 Course Cartography & Mapping with ArcGIS (Basics) Statistics and Statistical Computing with SAS Groundwater Exploration and Monitoring 2 days Proposal Appraisal training Water Resources Assessment in Sub-Sahara Africa: Prediction in Ungauged and Data scarce Basins 2007 GIS Publication Flood and Drought Monitoring in African Trans-boundary water Basins Using RS and GIS 2006 Scientific Writing Building Geodatabase ArcSDE Administration for SQL Server GIS and Hydrologic Modelling in support of water resources management 12 hours training on Cartography, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler training 2005 Refresher course on GeoInformatics for hydrological Modelling Technical AID corps Orientation Course for Volunteer Service Introduction to GIS Commander’s Basic Course (CBC-01/96) Organisers and place CGIS-NUR, and ESRI, Kigali Office, Telecom House, Kacyiru, Kigali, August 11-15, 2008; Faculty of Agriculture, NUR Huye 28 July – 08 August 2008 UNESCO-IHE Delft The Netherland 07-25 April 2008 National University of Rwanda 5-6/02/2008 WaterNet and University of Dar er Salaam, at Dar er Salaam 21-25/01/08
CGIS-NUR, and ESRI, Huye- Rwanda 16- 20 July 2007 KNUST and ITC, kumasi Ghana 15-26 Oct. 2007 Faculty of Agriculture, NUR Huye 19-23 2007 CGIS-NUR, Rwanda Development Gateway Group and ESRI, Huye- Rwanda 15-19 May 2006 and 22-26 May 2006 U.S. Geological Survey Famine Early Warning System Network, Kigali-Rwanda 17-22 July 2006 CGIS/NUR, Huye, Rwanda June-July 2006 ITALY-FAO Trust Fund information, Product for Nile Basin Water Resources Management, Entebe, Uganda23-27 January 2006 GCIS-NUR/ITC/IHE, Butare Rwanda3-14 Oct. 2005 Directorate of Technical Aid Corps, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria2 – 18 Dec. 2003 Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering, Moscow, Russia Federal Road safety Commission of Nigeria (FRSC), Black Gold NYSC CAMP Kaduna. March to May 1996
2003 2000 1996
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H. Employment Records • • • • • • National University of Rwanda, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Senior Lecturer, from 14 January 2005 to date; Federal Road safety Commission of Nigeria (FRSC), Adamawa Sector Command Yola, Senior Route Commander, Head of Administration and finance, Information Processing Centre (SH IPC) Yola From April 1996- Dec. 2004; Federal Road safety Commission of Nigeria (FRSC), Jigawa Sector Command Dutse, Senior Route Commander, Sector Head of Information Processing Centre (SH IPC) Dutse From April 1996- Dec. 2004; Federal Road safety Commission of Nigeria (FRSC) Zamfara Sector Command, Route Commander, Sector Head of Motor Vehicle Administration (SH MVA) From April 1996- Dec. 2004; Sokoto Agricultural Development Project (SADP), Agricultural Officer Feb. – April, 1996; Sokoto Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (SARDA) Technical Officer (ATO) March 1988 – Jan. 1996.
I. Experiences • • • • • • • • • Water work system design including: Intakes, Pumping stations, reservoirs, overhead tanks, network and distribution system; Borehole design, construction, operation and Maintenance; Dam design, constructions and maintenance; Irrigation Schemes, Design, Construction, Operation and Maintenance; Urban Drainage and sanitary sewer design, construction and maintenance; Rainwater Harvesting, for drinking, outdoor activities and agricultural purposes: Including demand and supply estimation, conveyance system, storage and quality issues; Water Measurement Structures; GIS and Hydrological modelling Curricular development
J. Skills • Computer: MS Windows Operational Systems, MS Office (WORDS, EXCEL, ACCESS, POWER POINT, FrontPage, and Publishers), Programming (Basic, Visual Basic, Pascal, SAS), Internet and WEB site design, RS & GIS (ArcGIS & ILWIS), Hydrological modelling (Duflow, Winflume and CROPWAT), AutoCAD; Many other Soft ware and Utility packages; Capable of learning Software independently Water Measurement: Design, Construction, installation, operation and calibration of water measurement structures (Flumes and Weirs), Using Acoustic Doppler Current Propeller (ADCP), Using RS and GIS in water measurement, Research: Planning, designing and conducting research in areas of Hydrology, Hydraulics, Irrigation and Drainages, water supply, urban drainages and Rainwater Harvesting; Writing Proposal and Research Reports Project Management: Work in many projects and have acquire skills of project management from planning to execution Water works Design, Construction, Operation, Maintenance and Monitoring: source selection, intake work, treatment plant, storage and pumping, transportation, distribution, wastewater (domestic and storm) collection and disposal
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K. Publications • Wali U.G., Phillipov E.G. (DSc.), Chavtaraev B.A., Galikov D.V. and Shvagla S.Y. “Review analysis of method of hydraulic calculation of hydraulic structures”. All Russian Scientific Institute of Hydrotechnics and Reclamation. Moscow, Russia, 2001. 36p. • Wali U.G., Phillipov E.G. (DSc.), Chavtaraev B.A., “Hydrometric Parabolic Flumes for inter-farm irrigation systems”. Problems of Reclamation CSTI MelioVodinform No 2 Moscow, Russia, 2002. pp24-30. • Wali U.G., Phillipov E.G. (DSc.). “ Discharge capacity of free flow hydrometric parabolic flumes for trapezoidal channel”. Environmental Engineering of Agricultural territory. Scientific Technical Conference. Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. April 2001. pp 81-83. • Wali U.G., Phillipov E.G. (DSc.). “ Submerge flow through hydrometric parabolic flumes for trapezoidal channel”. Environmental Engineering of Agricultural territory. Scientific Technical Conference. Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. April 2001. pp 82-83.
• Wali U.G., Phillipov E.G. (DSc.). “Experimental Research of flow regime of hydraulic
jumps in hydrometric parabolic flumes”. Environmental Engineering of Agricultural territory. Scientific Technical Conference. Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. April 2001. pp 83-84.
• Umaru Garba Wali and Innocent Nhapi. Soil erosion and environmental degradation in Rwanda: “Bussiness as usual is no longer an option”. 7th WaterNet/WARSFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. Lilongwe, Malawi 1-3 November 2006. • Umaru Garba Wali and Innocent Nhapi. Water and Agriculture in Rwanda: Intervention and sustainability. 7th WaterNet/WARSFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. Lilongwe, Malawi 1-3 November 2006. • Innocent Nhapi and Umaru Garba Wali. Capacity Building in IWRM in Rwanda: Analysis and Innovations. 7th WaterNet/WARSFSA/GWP-SA Symposium. Lilongwe, Malawi 1-3 November 2006. • Umaru Garba Wali, Innocent Nhapi and Florent Lasry. Potential for rainwater harvesting for domestic urban water supply in Rwanda: A case study of Huye town. Presented at 10TH SEARNET CONFERENCE Mombasa-Kenya 4-6 Dec. 2006 Dissertations: • Wali U.G. “ Method of determination of discharge capacity of hydrometric parabolic flumes in a small trapezoidal channel”. Ph.D Dissertation. Moscow State University of Environmental Engineering. Moscow, Russia, 2002. 158p. • Wali U.G. “ Hydro-engineering Complex (Earth Dam Construction) on river Palonka of Baranovich area of Brest region in Byelarussia, with elaboration of spillways”. MSc. Thesis. Byelorussian Agricultural Academy (BBA), Gorki, Belarus, 1995 102p. L. Service to public • Vice President: Nigerian Community in Rwanda June 2007 to Date • Volunteer: In Rwanda at the National University of Rwanda 2005-2006 • General secretary Staff Cooperative, Federal Road Safety Commission RS1.4 Jigawa Sector Command Dutse 2004; • President of the Association of Nigerian Scholarship Students in the Russian Federation; (ANSSIR).Feb. 99 to March 2001; • Chairman staff welfare Committee FRSC Zamfara Sector Command. Nov.96-April,
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98; Gen. Secretary staff welfare Committee Gusau unit command June 1996- Nov. 1996; President African students union Byelorussian Agricultural Academy Gorki Belarus 1994/95 academic session; Vice President African students union Byelorussian Agricultural Academy Gorki Belarus 1993/94 academic session; Representative of the foreign students at study committee of the faculty of Hydro melioration and water resources of the Byelorussian Agricultural Academy Gorki Byelorussia; Gen. Secretary Gidan Haki Youth organization Sokoto. Aug.,1988-Sept. 1989; District Commissioner Boys Scout Gusau District
M. Referee
• Prof. D. V. Shterenliht
Name
Position Head of Hydraulics Department Moscow State University of Environment Engineering Moscow, Russia Project Manager Water Resources and Environmental Management
Contacts Moscow State University of Environment Engineering Moscow, Russia Tel: office- +7495 9760019 Resid- +7495 2828382 National University of Rwanda, Faculty of Applied Sciences. P.O.Box 117 Butare, Rwanda Mobile Tel: +250 08626558 Email:
• Dr. Engr. Innocent Nhapi
i_nhapi@yahoo.com
• Dr. Engr. F.O.K. Anyemedu Ag. Dean Faculty of Applied Sciences, National University of Rwanda National University of Rwanda, Faculty of Applied Sciences. P.O.Box 117 Butare, Rwanda Mobile Tel: +250 08556921 Email:fokanyemedu@yahoo.co.uk
N. Certification I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge and belief, these data correctly describe me, my qualification, and experience.
Dr. Engr. UMARU GARBA WALI Date :10/08/2008
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