My Experiences

Possible for intelligent and smart solutions – Dubai, The UAE

Senior consultant & director of data science and business intelligence analytics

2018 Till NOW

  • Establish value-added relationships with business customers to discover their needs, assess current analytical, BI & AI capabilities and strategies. Collaborate with enterprise data warehouse, data governance, and business teams on data quality issues, as well as architecture or structure of data repositories. Then, Plan, manage and develop data-driven solutions and products, in an agile mode, to optimize their decisions and achieve business goals.
  • Plan, manage, develop, present and maintain BI & predictive analytics dynamic visualizations to inform and engage customers on key metrics and performance measures. Interpret the findings in an understandable and actionable way tailored to the audience and customer's needs.
  • Actively participate in selecting and recruiting other consultants especially in gamification & 3d virtual environment projects that require statistical models for big data analytics.

 Python, gaming & 3d virtual environment libraries and platforms

Ahsant global - Smart Hospitality (a sister company of Ahsant Dubai for Hotel Supplies), The UAE

Manager for digital products and digital transformation, June 2017 – June 2020

June 2017 – June 2020

  • Prepared projects’ proposals and made pre-sales presentations for clients on different solutions (e.g., AI and BI, Smart mirrors, augmented reality solutions, gamification, digital marketing… etc.) to gain stakeholders buy-in and help them define the use cases.
  • Worked with cross-functional teams to structure problems, identify appropriate data sources, extract/ scrap, integrate data and develop integrated data-driven solutions and products.
  • Planned, managed and led Information management and solution integration for data-driven and technology state-of-art projects in the cultural, tourism and hospitality, ecommerce, and digital marketing sectors.
  • Managed and analyzed digital marketing and ecommerce data for clients starting from forming strategies, KPIs, metrics, and integrating the digital marketing tools (Google Analytics, Google Ads, social media platforms, etc.) and data to reach specific decisions for optimizing digital marketing expenses till content creation using human and AI tools.

 SQL Server, Mongo DB, Neo4j, Python, Python libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Open CV, others), Spider, Jupyter Notebook, Pycharm, VScode, Google CoLab, Git, Power BI, GIS SW, Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Ads, Google Data Studio, AWS, GCP

Tawgeeh (Founder), Egypt and GCC

Information Management/ data science and business intelligence principal consultant

June 2011 – June 2017

  • Prepared projects’ proposals and make pre-sales presentations for clients. Guided the data strategy for the company’s clients and mentoring data science team members (on average 10) in wrangling and analyzing vast pools of data to provide integrated solutions to business problems and create new business opportunities.
  • Created scraping algorithms to integrate data into data products and created machine learning models for anomaly detection in survey data. Also, conducted cluster analysis algorithms to explore and generate segmented profiles and KPIs of urban communities and neighborhoods.

 SQL Server, Mongo DB, Python, Python libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, others), Git, Power BI, Tableau, GIS SW

Fayoum University, Egypt

Visiting Lecturer (GIS, Geo-marketing, spatial data mining and BI)

May 2015 – October 2016

Lead Limited (co-founder), Egypt

Online business development technical consultant

April 2011 - December 2012

  • Developed online marketing plans and determined the needed tools (e.g., Google insights, SEO tools, Alexa, Social media analytics, back link analysis tools) of digital marketing implementation for various clients. Also, Created cluster analysis and recommendation algorithms for e-buyers.

 Excel, SPSS, MATLAB, SQL server, Oracle, Python, Python libraries (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Django, others), Pentaho, PHP

Tawgeeh Consulting, Egypt and Lybia

Senior GIS/ spatial statistics consultant and coach

June 2010 - November 2011

  • Preparation of technical proposals and solutions for clients and Leading 6-persons team on Geographic data mining projects including data collection strategy preparation, data analysis, and visualization.

 Excel, SQL server, Oracle, Python, SPSS, MATLAB, Pentaho, PHP, GIS SW

Egis-BCEOM France, Lybia

Senior GIS/ spatial statistics Consultant and Coach

December 2009 – June 2010

  • Completed information management audit of The Urban Planning Authority (UPA) and prepared the strategic plan for The National Libyan Territorial observatory.
  • Defined data structures, data flow pipelines, KPIs, predictive models, and solution architecture, for the observatory, in cooperation with the prototyping teams. These tasks optimized data analysis, results visualization (e.g., decision support dashboards), and decision making.

 Excel, SPSS, MATLAB, ETL and OLAP scripts, Pentaho, Python, PHP, Postgre SQL, Post GIS, GIS SW

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Egypt

National Real Estate Project Manager

December 2006 - December 2009

  • Overall management of planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the project (e.g., data quality control, data cleansing and munging, statistical models' quality control, GIS component progress and delivery), its deliverables, and consultants’ recruitment.

Excel, SPSS, SQL Server, MySQL, ETL and OLAP scripts, GIS SW, .Net, PHP

General Organization for Physical Planning, Egypt

Information management Consultant/ Coach

July 2007 - July 2010

  • Designed and built spatial & non-spatial databases, data pipelines, data wrangling and data analysis & visualization applications to optimize national urban development policies.

 SQL, ETL and OLAP scripts, SPSS, GIS SW, .Net

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Egypt and Italy

Senior Regional Information Management Assistant

December 2006 – December 2007

  • Integrated spatial & non-spatial databases, designed VAM dashboards and tracking dashboards using COMPAS to optimize food security and food programming for 45 countries in the region.

 SQL, ETL and OLAP scripts, SPSS, GIS SW, .Net

Ain Shams University, Egypt

GIS Visiting Lecturer

September 2005 - December 2009

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt

Project Manager of the “National Spatial Database Infrastructure – EGN for Decision Support”

September 2005 - November 2006