Medhat Salem, Web & Digital Specialist - Data Analyst

Medhat Salem

Web & Digital Specialist - Data Analyst

Dubai Statistics Center

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master in Information Systems & Internet
Experience
20 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months

Web & Digital Specialist - Data Analyst at Dubai Statistics Center
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2014

Key Responsibilities:
- Handle online surveys from A-Z including web design & development, sampling, launch, progress monitoring and descriptive data analysis & visualization
- Act as the link between the business & in-house/outsource technical teams

Achievements:
- Successfully launched 100+ web surveys during the last 4 years, including main Dubai Executive Council studies (like infrastructure, education & consumer behavior surveys)
- Developed cross-platform ad-hoc modules to extend the use of the survey system to: phone & field surveys, licensing exams, indicators calculation and a simple employees voting system
- Gathered business requirements, prepared RFPs and analyzed proposed solutions for major technical projects including: Survey Management System - Contact Center Management Solution

Awards:
-"Department's Employee of the Year" (2016)
-Innovative Ideas Award (2015)
-Appreciation from Dubai Government Executive Council (Jun 2014)

Digital Marketing Specialist - Senior Web Developer at RIA Novosti (Russian Federal News Agency)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2012 to January 2014

Key Responsibilities:
- Handle all Web activities in UAE branch including web development, web analytics, SEO, SEM and PPC.
- Maintain technical coordination with head office in Moscow, and provide technical support to in-house journalists.

Achievements:
- Recommended & Developed several web plugins such as: homepage revamp - Authors corner - Facebook integrated comments
- Top rankings in Google organic SERP for targeted keywords, with a boost of 316% in Organic traffic & 18K visits/month Referral traffic during 3rd quarter of 2013

Senior Web Developer at Discovery Networks / Fatafeat TV
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2011 to January 2012

Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Solution Analysis, definition of Time Estimates / Milestones and Development of database-driven web plugins & applications
- Coordinate tasks between in-house team, 3 members, Egypt office & outsourcing agencies

Achievements:
- Led Fatafeat.com revamp process
- Development of StarChef contest website & blogs
- Development of several Social Media modules including: Facebook feeds reader, auto-Twitter updates, Ajax-based search engine, Youtube video page with Drag & Drop playlist, JQuery chat system.

Senior Web Developer - Team Leader at Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2008 to December 2010

Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for all phases in the development life-cycle, (SDLC), including: scope preparation, solution analysis & design, implementation, QA, documentation, integration, monitoring & maintenance
- Guide the web team, 4 people, through development to ensure on-time delivery
- Conduct meetings & hiring interviews with agencies & candidates

Achievements:
- DIFC Corporate website (research & recommend solution - led deployment)
- Planned & Developed FEKRA (a custom application, that integrates with existing corporate’s staff portal, to process complicated Employees Suggestions workflows)
- Planned & Developed Auto-Login functionality (Integration between ASP, PHP & LDAP tables to avoid per-app login.)
- Events Registrations & E-Payment plugins for Hawkamah.org & Mudara.org
- Managed outsourcing of corporate Access Cards Management system

Senior Software Engnineer & Web Developer at Cyber Gear
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2007 to April 2008

Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze, Develop, Test & Maintain database-driven websites & web applications
- Maintain direct communication with several key accounts (mainly with Arab clients)

Achievements:
Developed many websites & applications such as:
- Doctors without Borders (msf-me.org): (Bi-lingual CMS - forms builder - online donations - users permissions - custom site search )
- Mailing system for national-me.com: (newsletters creation - imported list sending - anti-spam & time-outs tactics - delivery progress tracking)
- Few smaller websites like: qatar-masters.com - aswaaq.ae - rakproperties.net

web developer at B.O.C - ArabEra
  • Syria - Aleppo
  • November 2003 to November 2006

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Education

Master's degree, Master in Information Systems & Internet
  • at Picardie Jules-Verne University
  • July 2006
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor Degree in Informatics Engineering - Software Department
  • at Aleppo University
  • August 2003

Achieved the First degree. - 2003 First of the faculty award 2002 Second of the faculty award 2000 Second of the faculty award 1999 Third of the faculty award -2003, Excellence & Honor Certificate from Syriatel Company in collaboration with the National Union of Syrian Students

Specialties & Skills

Data Analysis
Statistics
Web Development
Programming - DB design & SQL - OOP - MVC - CMS
PHP - HTML - XML - XSLT - MySQL - JavaScript - AJAX - JQuery
SEO - SEM - Google Analytics , Adwords & DoubleClick - Google & Bing WebMaster tools - FB Insights
MS-Project - Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Memberships

Egyptions Engineers Union
  • member
  • January 2005

Training and Certifications

XML / XSLT - SVN (Technical Training) (Training)
Training Institute:
RIA Novosti - Russia
Date Attended:
January 2012
36 hours program (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI - AMIDEAST
Date Attended:
February 2010
Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Google
Date Attended:
October 2013

Hobbies

  • internet - reading