Abdullah Kassas, Senior Data Engineer

Abdullah Kassas

Senior Data Engineer

Tamkeen Technologies

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
13 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 2 Months

Senior Data Engineer at Tamkeen Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since August 2019

- Data-warehousing
- Big Data
- Data Visualization (PowerBI)

Senior BI & Reporting Developer at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2018 to July 2019

▪Designed a complex SQL report and a visual dashboard to measure the on-time delivery of shipments that helped the supply chain business increase delivery accuracy by 20% and customer satisfaction by 40%.
▪Developed +20 critical analytical dashboards and data models that helped the business in master data management, order fulfilment monitoring, order-to-cash process analysis and other important KPIs.
▪Developed a visual dashboard for the business to monitor the utilization of E-Commerce that helped in eliminating manual reports and increasing the accuracy of the reporting.

Technologies : Advanced SQL • SAP HANA Design Studio • Celonis Process Mining • SAP Lumira

Senior Business Analyst at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2016 to June 2019

▪ Skilled in collection of user requirements and converting them to functional and technical specifications.
▪ Developed the specifications for a set of features for the steel business that helped increase the usage of E-Commerce from 6% to over 80% in one year, allowing the sales representatives to focus on a more strategic relationship with the customers.
▪ Enhanced the E-Commerce portal with a set of self-service features that reduced the email communication.
▪ Conducted research & study on the latest trends in B2B E-Commerce and helped formulate a vision for a state-of-art future platform.

Technologies : SAP ABAP • UML • BPM • Requirement Analysis • User Stories

Senior ETL Developer at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • March 2014 to October 2016

▪Designed templates for collecting data transformation requirements from business. Developed hundreds of ETL jobs to extract data from legacy SAP and non-SAP systems, manipulate them, and load them into the target systems.
▪Worked with data across different business domains such as : Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain and HR.
▪Developed data validation and reconciliation reports to compare preload and post-load data.

Technologies : Advanced SQL • SAP Data Services • Oracle DBMS • IDOCs • LSMW

Testing Automation Consultant at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2013 to March 2014

▪Built +40 reusable automation scripts contributed to saving the business +200 hours of manual work. Scripts were used for : data load, SAP configuration, master data maintenance and other repetitive work.
▪I supported SAP SMEs in automation of +240 ERP business scenario, that helped in reducing the regression testing time from 6 weeks to 4 days and increased the efficiency of the testers.
▪Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in quality assurance, testing best practices and setup of testing CoE for enterprises.
▪Customized the HP ALM Quality Center to be in line with the PMO design for requirements, test scenarios, test cases, defects and the risk register.
▪Advanced experience in administration of HP ALM Quality Center.
▪Worked as a technical lead for the Post Go-Live Support (PGLS) of a large global ERP transformation project, handling the technical preparations and training of end users.

Technologies : HP ALM QC, HP UFT, VBscript, BMC Remedy

ETL Developer at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2013 to October 2013

▪Worked with SMEs across 10 different business domains on defining +300 data quality rules, documenting them and reflecting them in the SAP Information Steward DQ tool.
▪Built several ETL jobs and data pipelines to extract and prepare the ERP data for the DQ tool.
▪Designed visualization dashboards and scorecards using Qlikview to allow the management and data stewards monitor the data quality scores.
▪Trained a number of data stewards on data governance, data quality best practices and how to define data quality rules.

Technologies : SAP Information Steward • SAP Data Services • SAP Business Objects CMC • Qlikview

Software Engineer at SABIC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2011 to April 2013

▪Developed a responsive web-based & mobile-friendly application using JQuery Mobile, HTML5 and Google Maps API to help the company employees find information about the nearby hospitals covered by their insurance.
▪Developed a reservation system for all telepresence units of the company using C#, Exchange Server API, Cisco API and MS SQL.
▪Implemented change requests and maintained several web applications built with .NET Framework.

Technologies : C#, .NET, HTML5, Javascript, JQuery, MSSQL, T-SQL

Geographic Information Systems Analyst at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • June 2011 to August 2011

-I worked in the eMap Division under the Corporate Application Department (CAD) in IT at Saudi Aramco.

eMap provides solutions using map technologies that integrate and leverage business data, improve workflows and enhance decision making in support of Saudi Aramco objectives.

- My roles include :
* Learning about GIS software, analysis and technologies.
* Developing GIS Applications usnig ESRI API and Adobe Flex.
*Participate in the GIS Migration Project

Projects :

- Public Health Project
- Manifa
- eBid Map

ETL Developer at KFUPM
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • June 2010 to September 2010

I was responsible for maintaining the Honeynet Security System (Saudi Honeynet) in KFUPM. I created the central database of the system and designed an API to connect all the parts of the system to the database and automated data storage.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
  • September 2011

Focus : Data Mining and Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • September 2010

Graduated with distinction.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering/Science
  • at Texas A&M University
  • December 2008

I was under a student exchange program between KFUPM and Texas A&M for 6 months to spend one semester (Fall 2008) in the US.

Specialties & Skills

Dashboard
Reports Writing
WebLogic
Javascript
.NET Platform
Software Testing
Data Visualization
Data Science
Business Intelligence
Data Analysis
Data Quality
Process Mining
PowerBI
Tableau

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

IEEE
  • Vice President
  • February 2006
IET
  • Member
  • January 2007
Computer Club @ KFUPM
  • Active Member/Events Organizer
  • June 2007

Training and Certifications

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2019
Microsoft Data Science Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2019
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016