Mazen Hindi

In addition to the Manager roles, became responsible for introducing intelligence into Path Solution’s products
•Introduced Big Data technologies to be utilized within the scope of Path Solution’s data platform using the Hadoop Ecosystem
•Assisted in architecting new data solutions for Path Solution’s products
•Introduced statistical modeling techniques using R and Python.
•Introduced machine learning algorithms to detect patterns in structured and semi-structured data collected from different systems.
•Built supervised machine learning models in Python for predictive analytics
•Built unsupervised machine learning models for outlier detection and clustering
•Planned for and led new initiatives in the area of Artificial Intelligence

Planning for new BI projects, and preparing project plans using MS Project.
•Introducing new technologies into the BI product (Power BI)
•Introducing self-service BI and natural language processing (NLP) as a key feature of the product’s roadmap
•Introducing SSAS Tabular Models as part of advanced in-memory BI feature
•Introducing Datazen as part of Mobile BI.
•Developing sample dashboards on Power BI designer.
•Supported, planned, and implemented technical BI deployments.
•Participating in pre-sales demos for prospective and current clients.
•Responding to RFPs
•Automating development and testing process flows.
•Managing a team of BI developers and QA (Business Analysts)
•Assigning tasks to individual team members in terms of designing, coding, code review, test case writing, and testing.

In addition to my previous development roles and tasks, the below have become part of my responsibilities.
•Designed a new Data Warehouse under Microsoft Technology and developed its ETL using SSIS 2012
•Designing reports using SSRS 2012, power view, performance point, and Excel 2013.
•Designing and building OLAP cubes using SSAS 2012
•Documentation of changes done on application and/or database.
•Mentoring new entrants on BI processes
•Doing code reviews on team members
•Preparing training material with live scenarios for team members on new technologies
•Consultancy in assigning resources and time frames for projects
•Participating in Sales presentations and on-site implementations

In addition to my previous development roles and tasks, the below have become part of my responsibilities.
•Presented and developed enhancements to the ETL module in order to cater for integration with external systems (database systems, file systems, etc…)
•Designed and migrated the Business Intelligence system from relational database schema to data warehouse architecture star schema.
•Maintained application source code and database scripts on Microsoft Visual Source Safe.
•Worked on SQL Server database management systems using SQL management studio in addition to Sybase and Oracle.
•Developed reports using Hyperion 11 reporting analysis studio as a reporting presentation layer.
•Provided orientation, training, and test exercises to team entrants.

Maintained and developed the BI ETL module as part of the Business Intelligence team.
•Prepared technical specification documents that reflect the technical point of view of the solution for a certain business requirement.
•Prepared data analysis documents, which specified the data warehouse dimensions and facts that were to be affected, created, or used in any new report requirement.
•Maintained the iMAL*Business Intelligence Data Warehouse tool for building dimensions and facts.
•Worked under Sybase PowerBuilder 7.0 and 10.5 environments
•Developed reports using Hyperion 8.3 and Hyperion 9.5 reporting analysis studio as a reporting presentation layer.
•Database management and design under Sybase (12 and 15), Oracle 10g and 11g, using PL/SQL developer and ASE Isql.