Technology Development Manager
Dubai Creative Clusters Authority
Total years of experience :12 years, 8 Months
Handling Dubai International Film Festival technology teams, infrastructure, online portals, and innovation.
Building customized software used to gather data, produce statistics, and automate report generation
Building and maintaining the company’s dynamic website (www.mentor-gc.com) and its MVC architecture
Building and maintaining the company’s database of clients and integrated a communication tool to follow up and get in touch with clients
Implementing and designing a new training and learning online platform that smoothens the HR training process through using interactive elements and content
Building a customized and user-friendly Content Management System for the company
Building the company’s intranet web portal for easy document and content sharing and integrating cloud storage for remote access
Developing automated reporting portals to track and monitor HR training sessions and their progress for different clients such as Dubai Islamic Bank, Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank, Crown Prince Court, and Carrefour
Developing, maintaining, and implementing new features for the company's online real estate portal, using PHP, MySQL, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, Linux.
Designing, and developing a new, more structured, and organized online real estate portal based on a NoSQL database, using PHP, MongoDB, Javascript, JQuery, HTML, Linux.
Designing and developing online dashboards to present statistical data in a useful and organized manner.
Designing and developing the foundation's dynamic website and customized Facebook application.
During my two-month internship with TECOM, I performed various technical tasks involving business analysis, technical problem solving, and programming skills such as:
Developing Excel applications using Visual Basic for Applications which allowed managers to track client issues and interactions such as visits or contacts.
Automating monthly/weekly/yearly report generation, and allowing for the dynamic creation of KPI measurements, and progress reporting using Gantt and other charting.
Providing IT support and troubleshooting in Windows and Mac operating systems.
Taking ownership for existing IT project list and working through many of the open items.
Performing additional organizational & clerical activities, such as data entry, filing & archiving, scheduling, and client management activities (networking, and meeting).
Completed an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in a double major of Computer Science and Economics at the University of Toronto. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, University of Toronto's ranking stands at 1st in Canada and 19th worldwide with its Computer Science department ranking 3rd globally.