Ahmed Ashour, Data Solutions Architect

Ahmed Ashour

Data Solutions Architect

United Nations - MENA Regional Office

Lieu
Egypte
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Computer Engineering
Expérience
14 years, 9 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 9 Mois

Data Solutions Architect à United Nations - MENA Regional Office
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2018

Responsibilities:
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• Development and implementation of Information management strategies and systems serving facilitation & continual improvement of overall interdepartmental & inter-organizational coordination capacity of the organization on Regional, National & global levels.
• Providing onsite technical support to ongoing & new emergencies through surge missions across the region, covering all aspects in relevance of information management full cycle activities including data collection, processing, analysis, visualization, exchange & dissemination
• Serving as regional Focal point of Information Management Research & development activities with Innovation aiming empowerment of International Cooperation with partner organizations including UN entities, governmental & national authorities, and other non-UN NGO members of international humanitarian community

Project(s):
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1) UNOCHA Comprehensive Humanitarian Eye (UCHE), building real-time hub for business intelligence & big-data services supporting strategic decision-making in relevance of humanitarian crises, having main focus on data quality, governance, integration & analysis backed with smart cloud services & edge computing

2) Regional Initiative for Data-Oriented Humanitarian Response, leading technical-oriented coordination on regional level with IM focal points of national governments & partner UN organizations across the middle east; which to serve design, implementation and enhancement of national-level IM management plans & enterprise e-platforms for Humanitarian crisis response & management

Software Solutions Specialist à World Health Organization
  • Egypte - Le Caire
  • mai 2015 à janvier 2018

Responsibilities :
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• Design and implement innovative and cost effective information systems that can facilitate and improve the overall technical, administrative and managerial functions of the organization in the Regional Office and at country level.
• Provide technical consultations for health authorities/ministries across the region
• International Cooperation (with other regional offices/HQ) Focal point of Regional office IT for obtaining & implementing new IT visions for the global level of WHO

Project(s):
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1) Tuberculosis Surveillance T.B.S, a comprehensive web-portal to be used by medical teams of WHO & health ministries in the east-Mediterranean region, with main focus on decision support dashboards & trend analytics for financial & medical units & top management of WHO-EMRO
Technologies: Phone GAP, yaml css3 graphics/charting, SQL server 2014, ESRI ARCGIS (UN maps), WCF, Silverlight 5, wpf, SharePoint 2013 BDS/BDC, Tableau server, MS Dynamics AX, Oracle 10g Business Suite data services, DHIS2.0, Python
2) WHO-EMRO SharePoint Migration: Upgrade WHO-EMRO SharePoint environment having a main focus over shifting Business intelligence portals to current version & administration of data accessibility through web services with legacy applications (complete data warehouse of 92 databases)
Technologies: SSAS, Power BI, Phone GAP, WCF, WWF, Oracle 10g, SQL Server 2014, SQL Server 2008R2, DB2, MySQL, Oracle Business Suite data services, MS Dynamics AX, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, SOAP, JSON, Tableau 10.0 server, SSIS, SSRS, Windows PowerShell, Microsoft Project Management, SharePoint Workflows (InfoPath, Nintex), java, SharePoint Yammer, Python
3) Vaccines Warehousing system VWS, performing business analysis, design and implementation for a full scale software upgrade to the current system which is used by a several health ministries to monitor, control & maintain their national strategic reserves of millions of vaccines
Technologies: C++, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Microsoft xamarin/xamarin mono for Android & iOS, WCF, SignalR 2.0, ASP.NET 4.5 web forms, SQL Server 2014, Telerik 2015 data visualization controls, Ajax, jQuery, SharePoint 2013 data services, DHIS2.0
4) Special Services Agreement S.S.A, Developing Custom HR web portal for managing outsourcing & individual consultants contracts (including temporary ones) serving regional level (including a complete reform of legacy SSA database)
Technologies: (Asp.net 4.5.2 web forms, sql server 2014, Oracle 10g, BI implementation using Tableau 9, Power BI, MS Dynamics AX, Microsoft InfoPath, Windows PowerShell, Phone GAP)
5) Telecommunications Accounting & Management System TAMS, Real-time enterprise solution (regional operations) supporting satellite, VOIP, Cellular communications & apply high-precision accounting/billing solution with integration with organizational governance & banking solutions
Technologies: Web API, SignalR2.0, iTextsharp, Aspose.NET OCR, CISCO Communication Server API, Power Pivot, Power BI, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, Phone GAP X-platform mobile Apps

SD Team Lead (Last Position) à Innovative Solutions (Raqmi)
  • Egypte - Alexandrie
  • mars 2012 à mars 2015

Responsibilities :
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• Prepare technical analysis & assessments corresponding to business requirements
• Design & lead implementation of Solutions Architecture & modules
• Insure appliance of best software development practices for best performance & stability through SDLC
• Junior staff knowledge update & potential assessment of new technologies in market

Projects :
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1) Building Jobs Guide Web Application & Database for MCS in KSA (Ministry of Civil Services in Saudi Arabia serving as a unified government HR platform with integrating developed system with other legacy systems under SharePoint 2010 on premises mode
2) E-publications unified archiving system (dawriyah) for K.S.A government sector (13 ministries) supporting 32 marking systems with full support to manage Multimedia knowledge assets
3) Development & Maintenance of Institute of Public Administration (I.P.A) in K.S.A National digital libraries systems managing 300, 000 documents with automatic data classification, data management & operations/performance analytics, search data catalogs
4) Development & Maintenance of Cyber public Services platform for the ministry of foreign affairs (K.S.A embassies in New Zealand, Australian & Japan ) & development & integration of unified SharePoint on-premises mode
5) Presentation Applications Generator (KnowMe) : a custom built platform to generate Web Portals, Windows Clients through GUI with automated integration modules with Microsoft Organizational products
6) Research & Development for custom-built .NET API Modular extension projects in SignalR2.0, Silverlight, data management libraries for serving company’s development needs

Senior .NET Developer (Project Consultant) à Youth & Sports Government Sector in Abu Dhabi
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Abu Dhabi
  • septembre 2011 à février 2012

Project description:
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• Design and implement a complete platform shift (Desktop / Web / CMS) from old technologies (php, MySQL, VB6, Access Databases) to a new unified .NET oriented platform (Silverlight 4, ASP.NET 4, SQL Server 2008 R2, WPF 4, Sharepoint 2010)

Senior .NET Developer (Outsourcing) à XCOM Corporation
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • avril 2011 à août 2011

1. XCOM Corporation in Dubai freelance Contract (June 2011 till August 2011): Title: Senior .Net Developer
Target System: • GIS Fleet Management System for RTA, the system is .NET- Oriented and built using the following Microsoft Technologies: Silverlight 4, ASP.NET 3.5, MSSQLServer 2008, Bing Maps, Telerik ASP.NET & Silverligh3 GIS Third Party Controls.

Job responsibilities: • Shifting the System to .NET framework4 (ASP.NET 4 and Silverlight 4)
• System Arabization.
• Design and Development of a help desk system connected to the existing system in Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET 4.

Software Engineer à IST
  • Egypte - Alexandrie
  • juillet 2009 à avril 2011

Job responsibilities:
• Assess and determine user needs for new or modified programs for client/server and/or web-based applications.
• Assist in the design, implementation and administration of the client/server and/or web-based applications.
• Testing and deployment of client/server and/or web-based
Applications.
• Assisting with configuration and maintenance existing systems.
• Direct connection to the customers.

Projects :
1) Vast Hostel : .Net based cyber platform gathering all aspects of ERP & CRM of operations & Human Resources management, organization communications, advanced reporting & a lot more (with S.O.A implementation, tools : asp.net 3.5, Ajax, S.O.A.P web services, MS SQL Server 2008 R2 as back-end database & reporting Engine (using reporting services ), Silverlight 3 as client-side technology back-bone for handling multimedia .
Technologies: SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, SQL Server 2008R2, ASP.NET web forms, WCF, Silverlight 3, WPF 3, Microsoft Geo-spatial services, Telerik Ajax Data visualizations, iTextSharp, ffmpeg, .NET 3.5(upgraded to 4.0), SOA data architecture with MVVM application layer
2) e-Health Informatics : .Net based Health Informatics Solution with business intelligence (both analytical & predictive analysis) alongside distributed/high-volume data management Platform for ministry of health in Sudan
Technologies: Crystal Reports 11, SSIS, ESRI ARCGIS Server, SQL server 2008 R2, Oracle 8g, web-services, Microsoft CRM, Microsoft SharePoint 2007

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Computer Engineering
  • à Alexandria University
  • juin 2009
Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, Computer Engineering
  • à Alexandria Institute of Engineering & Technology

* College: Alexandria Institute of Engineering & Technology * Major: Computer Engineering * Grade: C+ * Graduation Project: GPS Navigation Application over Android Platform

Specialties & Skills

International Organizations
E government
Enterprise Application Development
Windows Azure Cloud Platform
.NET Framework (1/1.1/2/3/3.5/4/4.5) using C# ,F# and VB
Client Side Technologies(Ajax,jQuery,HTML5,javascript)
ASP.NET(Webforms, MVC3/4/5)
GIS (ESRI Platform)
SAP Crystal Reports 11
SQL SERVER (2000/2005/2008/2012)
Oracle 10/11g
Silverlight (3/4/5), WPF(3/4).
Windows Forms Applications
3rd party controls (DevExpress, Telerik, Aspose.Net, iTextSharp, ffmpeg, imagemagic, Component one,
Microsoft SharePoint 2010
Windows Services
WCF, SOAP Web services
Android Xamarin Platform
Microsoft SharePoint 2010/2013
SignalR 2.0
K2 Business Platform Development
Microsoft Asp.net Dynamic Data
District Health Informatics System DHIS2
Tableau Business Intelligence Platform

Langues

Arabe
Expert
Anglais
Expert
Italien
Expert
Russe
Moyen

Formation et Diplômes

DHIS 2 Professional Business Developer (Formation)
Institut de formation:
University of Oslo
Date de la formation:
October 2015
Durée:
50 heures
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Server Communication Applications ( MCTS .Net 4.0) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
March 2010
MCITP – Database Developer 2008 (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
April 2010
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Data Access ( MCTS .Net 4.0) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
March 2010
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Web Applications ( MCTS .Net 4.0) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
January 2010
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - Windows Developer ( MCPD .Net 4.0 ) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
April 2010
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - Windows Applications ( MCTS .Net 4.0) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
January 2010
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer - Web Developer ( MCPD .Net 4.0 ) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Microsoft
Date de la formation:
April 2010

Loisirs

  • Music
  • Drawing
  • Sports
  • Reading