Hamed Shaban Hamed Ahmed, Chief Technology Officer

Hamed Shaban Hamed Ahmed

Chief Technology Officer

UB Consulting Co.

Location
Egypt
Education
Doctorate, Systems and Computers Engineering
Experience
24 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 2 Months

Chief Technology Officer at UB Consulting Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2019

* Quantitatively improving the company's product, engineering, and technology roadmaps by 15%, resulting in a 10% increase in customer satisfaction and a 5% reduction in costs.
* Developing and implementing a company-wide technology strategy that is aligned with business goals and aligns with industry best practices.
* Turning the technology strategy into actionable goals and roadmaps that are being successfully executed by technology teams across the company.
* Expanding, supporting, and mentoring technology teams, resulting in a 20% increase in employee engagement and a 15% increase in productivity.
* Fostering a culture of strategic ownership, scrappiness, and cross-functional collaboration, which leads to the development of innovative new products and services.
* Using data insights to drive efficient feature delivery and operations excellence, resulting in a 10% reduction in time to market and a 5% increase in operational efficiency.
* Modeling capacity requirements and utilization rates to predict and improve margins, resulting in a 15% profit increase
* Communicating the technology team's direction and data- driven insights to leadership peers, customers, partners, and the CEO, resulting in a better understanding of the team's goals and priorities.
* Measuring the efficacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the technology team's work using KPIs, such as time to market, cost per acquisition, conversion rate, and product performance index.
* Successfully leading the development and delivery of the Digital Strategy and Transformation offering to government and semi-government entities, resulting in multiple successful client engagements.
* Leading the design of business and technology strategy solutions for clients, shaping and developing tailored proposals that address their specific needs.
* Orchestrating all involved stakeholders and overseeing all deliverables and streams to successfully deliver digital strategies and digital transformation projects.

Senior IT Projects Manager / Enterprise Architect at Saudi Etqan Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2017 to August 2019

• Developed and delivered a Digital Strategy and Transformation offering to government and semi-government entities, resulting in 6 successful client engagements.
• Designed and shaped tailored business and technology strategy solutions for clients, resulting in 15% increase in customer satisfaction, 10% reduction in costs, and 5% improvement in operational efficiency.
• Orchestrated all involved stakeholders and oversaw all deliverables and streams to successfully deliver digital strategies and digital transformation projects, on time and within budget.
• Used TOGAF ADM to complete gap analysis for each domain (business, data, application, and technology) to identify opportunities, solutions, technologies, and build roadmaps for implementation, resulting in 10% improvement in efficiency and effectiveness of IT operations.
• Evangelized new IT products to internal and external stakeholders, resulting in 25% increase in awareness and 15% increase in adoption.
• Advised entrepreneurs on business strategy and technology solutions, helping them to launch 3 successful businesses.
• Reviewed and assessed running strategic plans, identifying areas for improvement and recommending corrective actions, resulting in 5% increase in revenue and 10% decrease in costs.

IT Project Manager / Technical Consultant at MAWHIBA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2007 to March 2017

• Successfully managed projects from start to finish, including gathering business requirements, assembling and managing development and support teams, preparing communication plans, contractual agreements, and obtaining sign-offs.
• Mapped current business processes, identified problems and inefficiencies, and provided transformation alternatives, resulting in 10% improvement in efficiency and 5% reduction in costs.
• Oversaw or managed procurement activities, including tender documentation, resulting in 15% reduction in procurement costs.
• Ensured that projects were delivered on time and within budget, and to the required quality, in order to realize project benefits, 95% of the time.
• Managed delivery of BI and DataWarehouse E-Service (Qlikview, SQL Server), resulting in 20% increase in user adoption.
• Managed end-to-end delivery of web solutions projects on Mawhiba portal, including enterprise and kingdom-wide scale projects, such as the National Project for Identification of Gifted Students Integrated with government organizations Qiyas, MOE, and MOI, resulting in 100% customer satisfaction.
• Managed implementation projects for Oracle ERP and Microsoft CRM, resulting in 90% success rate.
• Managed web solutions development projects (.NET, Sharepoint 2013, SQL Server 2012), resulting in 100% on-time delivery.
• Used TOGAF ADM to complete gap analysis for each domain (business, data, application, and technology), identifying opportunities, solutions, technologies, and building roadmaps for implementation, resulting in 15% improvement in efficiency and effectiveness.

Team Leader-Systems Integration at KnowledgeNet (Datability)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • March 2005 to March 2007

Served as resident expert in web development of Microsoft .Net based solutions
collaborating with IBM products (e.g. IBM DataStage TX, IBM DataStage ETL).

- Leads and manage development team.
- Proactively recommend development of new products that would add revenues to company.
- Development of code libraries, common classes and Integration web services.
Projects:
- Integration Layer for SADAD E-Payment Gateway System, project initiated by Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency (SAMA).
- Custom workflow and security systems for Saudi Electric Company, a key deliverable of Data Warehousing Project for Statistical Dept.
- Middleware for messaging between any brokers across different arabian stock markets.
- Broker2Broker trading web application that interfaces with developed middleware.

Senior Solutions Developer at Vinnell Arabia-Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2003 to April 2005

Served as resident expert in development of Microsoft .NET based Solutions with Oracle 8i
as Backend. Team coaching responsibilities were also expected.

Projects:
- Warehouse & Inventory Management System.
- Al-Janadriah Festival Event Management System.
- Document Management System.
- Medical Vaccinations System.
- Police Bulletins System.
- Training Management System.
- Customer Care Management System.
- National Guard Housing Management System.

Web Application Developer at Vinnell Arabia-Saudi Arabian National Guard Modernization Program
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2000 to February 2003

Served as specialist in Web development to automate core business functions

Projects:

- CMS for HRH Crown Prince private Office (Perl, CGI, HTML, Javascript)..
- National Guard schools "Teachers Evaluation System" (ASP 3.0 and MS SQL server).
- Projects Management Information System (ASP 3.0 and MS SQL server).
- Time Attendance System with finger print (ASP 3.0 and MS SQL server).

Education

Doctorate, Systems and Computers Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering , Aswan University
  • November 2022
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University
  • March 2013
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at Faculty of Electronic Engineering , Menoufia University
  • July 1997

Very Good with Honor Degree

Specialties & Skills

Enterprise Architecture
Project Management
Technical Design
Cloud Computing
Strategic Technology Planning
Coding in C#, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML, DHTML, CSS , VBScript ,ASP, and VB.NET
(Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting services for reports)
(Business Objects XI for Business Intelligence )
DataStage as (ETL Tool)
DataWarehouse Concepts & Star Schema
development of Project plans , WBS, RR, CRs,MOMs, monitoring charts
SOA and Cloud Computing
Enterprise Architect

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Qlikview BI Applications Development (Training)
Training Institute:
PlanetSKY, KSA
Service Oriented Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
ZapThink, UAE
Business Analysis Body of Knowledge IIBA curriculum (Training)
Training Institute:
AFNAM, KSA
Strategic planning for organizational success (Training)
Training Institute:
Learning Tree, UK
Agile Project management with Scrum (Training)
Training Institute:
Learning Tree, UK
Enterprise Architecture TOGAF 9.1 (Training)
Training Institute:
JODAYN,KSA
TOGAF Certified Practitioner (Certificate)
ITIL Certified (Certificate)
Prince2 Certified (Certificate)