Rania Abboud (Lebanese, Married, 41 years) Address: Belle Vue 557 Building Main Street Beit El Chaar-Belle Vue, Metn-Lebanon Mobile:009613883816 E-mail:raniaabboudmelhem@hotmail.com Work experience Lebanese University - Department of Architecture and Interior(February 2015 Present) Lecturer Teaching Masters classes (Masters in Architecture): construction document Teaching Third year classes (BA in Architecture):3D Max and 3D Modeling. Innovative Institutional IDEAS (November 2012 Present) Project Manager of GIS department Analysis, upgrade and implementation in major municipalities of customized GIS applications linking geographical and municipality financial, cadastral, and administrative information for improving municipal revenues and tax collection follow up tracking of municipal transactions, parcel information. Supporting and consultancy for the engineering departments in different municipalities concerning maps. Working on a report with World Bank on the influence of Syrian refugees on the economy of municipalities in Lebanon.
American University Of Sciences and Technology: Department of Arts and Design (October 2010 Present) Instructor Teaching first, second and third year s classes (BA in Interior Design) : Interior Design, Computer Aided Design I, Computer Aided Design II and Technical drawing. American University of Beirut - Faculty of Engineering and Architecture (February 2009- Present) Lecturer Teaching first and third years classes (BA in Architecture): Drawing I and II: technical & descriptive drawing-computer Aided Design: AutoCAD 2D, 3D, and 3D Max. State University of New York, Center for Legislative Development, Assistance to sustain local Democratic practices program (funded by the USAID) (September 2006- October 2010) Consultant-Senior developer/analyst/gis engineer Teaching and training in AutoCAD 2D and ARCGIS (for municipalities). Analysis, upgrade and implementation in 20 major municipalities of customized GIS applications linking geographical and municipality financial, cadastral, and administrative information for improving municipal revenues and tax collection, follow up tracking of municipal transactions, parcel information analysis, upgrade and implementation in major municipalities of PIC (parcel information card system) including electronic archiving of parcels files. Supporting and consultancy for the engineering departments in different municipalities concerning maps (correcting and adding data in AUTOCAD and ARCGIS), engineering, laws and regulations. Design of applications and User Guides.
Campus Libano Européen de L institut (October 2005-June 2006) Instructor Teaching BT1-BT3 classes: Perspective-Building technology and architecture drawing. Stalq (July 2003 July 2005) Project and Quality Control Manager Design and production of exhibitions stands. Freelance Jobs (2005-2012) Updating the data GIS map in Beit Merry municipality. Consultant engineer at the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Sciences at American University of Beirut: study the space allocation for the new building of the faculty Interior designer of several houses and chalets. Several projects design and execution Supermarkets stands, exhibitions and promotional Items. Science Pro (Medical Kiosk & Exhibition Stand) Indevco (Bambi Counter-Private Tray) Fattal (Antonio Amato Tray) Rim (Stand) Diageo (Johnnie And Promotional Items) Almaza Stand Alone And Exhibition Stand For Its 75 Year Pepsi Max Exhibition Stand Tropicana Tasting Stand Gatorade Stand Alone Cadbury Stand Sunsilk Stand Alone Nestle Stands Najjar Stands
Workshops and Achievements Selected to present Notre Dame University at UAI Berlin 2002 and First Architectural Biennale at Rotterdam 2003. Attended several conferences: Francine Houben, Ciro Naile, Pascal Tarabay, Bernard Khoury, Nabil Gholam, Georges Arbid, Nada Sehnaoui, Chady Chamoun at NDU. Jean Nouvel at AUB. UAI Berlin 2003, Architectural biennale for mobility at Rotterdam 2003-2005, Reem Koolhass (AUB 2010), and Eric Verdeil (Biel 2011). Presented a project at Rotterdam 2003 on Mobility. Attended a course and workshop in GPS 2007. Attended seminar on ESRI software 2007-2008-2009. Education Lebanese University PHD candidate: Urban Planning and Transportation (September 2010 Present) Lebanese University with coordination of the INSA-LYON Tempus program (European Union) Masters in Urban Planning (October 2005 October 2007) Notre Dame University Bachelor of Architecture (October 1997- October 2003) Skills AutoCAD (2D-3D), 3d Max, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrators, Word, Power Point, Excel, ARCGIS and GPS. Experience in printing field, silk screen, offset, inkjet and having information about metal, wood and plastic injection
Languages Arabic (Native) French (Education Language) English (Education Language) References Available upon request