Baltimore City Department of Public Works
Ghafran Raza is an experienced IT professional with a robust background in project management and operations spanning over a decade. Currently serving as an IT Project Manager and previously as an IT Project Specialist II at Baltimore City Department of Public Works since July 2023, Ghafran has held various roles in notable companies such as Cognizant as an Associate Operations Manager in Infra Services from December 2020 to July 2023, Exelon as a Release Manager from May 2019 to November 2020, and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield as a Business Analyst from May 2018 to February 2019. Early career experience includes working as an Associate Business Analyst at foodora and as a Lead Business Analyst at Zong CMPak Ltd. Ghafran holds a Master of Business Administration & Engineering in Interdisciplinary Management from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Preston University.
Baltimore City Department of Public Works
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The Baltimore City Department of Public Works (DPW) provides the highest quality drinking water every day to 1.8 million people in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area. We collect, filter, disinfect, and purify regional wastewater. We oversee urban streams, storm water management, and riparian restoration. We regulate recreational activities at our reservoirs. We do engineering, training, contracting, maintenance, security, billing, communications, human resources, and many other departmental functions. DPW also provides Solid Waste services. These include collection of household trash, recycling, and bulk, corner can placement and maintenance, mechanical street sweeping, and operation of drop-off centers and the landfill. We also clean and board vacant properties, operate a fleet of boats to clean the harbor, cut public grass strips, remove graffiti, perform rat eradication, and organize and assist with community cleanups. We work with other agencies on emergency operations and snow removal.