Samer Abu-Obaid, Digital Transformation Advisor

Samer Abu-Obaid

Digital Transformation Advisor

Devoteam

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
Experience
20 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 7 Months

Digital Transformation Advisor at Devoteam
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2020
Software Solutions Architect at Yelo
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2019 to September 2020

- Participating in the hiring process for the technical team by setting the hiring process, putting technical exams and performing interviews.
- Design and develop system-wide components like integration layer and user notifications engine.
- Develop an attendance calculation engine for the company's internal attendance system.
- Involving in creating a new company product (WEEM) from the early stages and designing the overall system architecture.

Senior Solutions Architect at Katib Technologies
  • Jordan - Amman
  • October 2017 to February 2019

- Reestablishing and organizing development department.
- Leading the development team to develop enterprise level Hospital Management System.
- Put technical standards and rules for the development team.
- Create a preliminary system architecture blueprint.
- Write the solution framework on different aspects like Data Access, API Services, Caching and… etc.
- Tracking the project schedule.

Solutions Architect at Taeppa
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2017 to October 2017

- Supervising technical team to develop and maintain current company products.
- Put the architecture and code standards to develop CRM system from scratch utilizing Windows Azure products such as (SQL Azure, Azure Search and App Services).
- Performing HR tasks like Salaries calculation, vacation tracking and personnel.

Software Solutions Architect at Shepherd Technologies
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2013 to June 2017

Leading a team to work on an enterprise HR SaaS solution that is built on Windows Azure.
My responsibilities are the following:
- Involving in business analysis and evaluating business scenarios.
- Designing the solution architecture.
- Create and Update the project schedule and technical plan.
- Manage the team assignments and their daily work.
- Provide technical support for the team when needed.
- Prepare and conduct team reviews.
- Decide the appropriate technologies to use.
- Manage project releases.

Technical Team Leader at Smart Cube Information Technology
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • July 2012 to June 2013

Leading a software development team to create passes issuance system for Dubai Airports. My role involves:

1. Create and Update the projects’ plans.
2. Manage the team assignments and their daily work.
3. Provide technical support for the team when needed.
4. Prepare and conduct team reviews.
5. Prepare required proof of concepts.
6. Solution design.
7. Releases and deployments.
This project was developed using ASP MVC3, SQL Server 2008, and Entity
Framework 4.5 using code-first concept.

Technical Team Leader at eSense Software
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2008 to June 2012

Role:
-Leading a software development team (4-6 members) to deveop company products. my role involves:
1. Create and Update the projects’ plans.
2. Manage the team assignments and their daily work.
3. Provide technical support for the team when needed.
4. Prepare and conduct team reviews.
5. Prepare project estimations.
6. Prepare required proof of concepts.
7. Project database design.
8. Project solution and projects design.
9. Decide the appropriate technologies to use.
10. Analyze new requirements.
11. Provide support to the clients.

-Partecipating in development standards a architecture components>
My responsibilities are the following:

Projects :
EVVENTA Global Search Application.
An enterprise search engine that utilizes Ms. FAST search server for
SharePoint 2010.
Security Checkpoint System
windows based application that is used to organize the visitors for any
organization. The system was deployed on desktop machines and on touch
screen machines.
Visitors Management System - VMS(2.0)
Badges printing solution that is used for massive events that require special
work flow to issue the access badges. The solution is a combination of windows
based and web based application.
Correspondence System.
Windows based application that organizes the documents exchange in any
organization. Correspondence application used Hummingbird (Open Text) DMS
as back-end.

Software Developer at eSense Software
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2006 to April 2008

Role:
-Partecipating in company products as Sr. Developer specialized in back-end operations.
-Developing resusable components and aspects on company framework level.

Projects:
- Smart Client
Gala is a web based VIP scheduler. Gala - Smart Client is the desktop version of the web solution. The data is synchronized with application by a web service. The application and be used online and offline.
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Visitors Management System (VMS)
VMS is a desktop application that organizes the attendance of large events including badge designing, printing and delivering and attendee checking-in and out.

- Correspondence (Data Migration):
A software service that was developed to extract data from different sources (Excel Sheets, Access DBs and SQL DBs) and load it on a unified database. This project was developed using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) in addition to some tools that were developed using .Net 2.0.

- Correspondence
Correspondences is a desktop document management system that handles formal correspondences exchange in any organization. Correspondences developed using .NET 2.0 in front-end and Humming Bird document management system as back-end. My role was to develop different features among the application layers.

Developer and Systems Analyst at The Arab Assurers for Insurance
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2005 to July 2006

Role:
-Creating and maintaining business applications in the enterprise using multiple technologies (VB6, .Net, SQL Server).
-Supervising digitizing for enterprise documents.
-Creating visual financial reports.

Projects:
-Migration Tool
The Company was relying on legacy binary files to store the core data. These files were scattered and cause severe issues related to data integrity and quality in addition to the limitation in reports and data analysis. So I created a software service that migrates data from the legacy files to a SQL Server database using .NET 2.0 framework.

-Foreign Workers Insurance System
A product that was developed in the company to ensure the Foreign Workers at Jordan. A software system was created to serve this product. The application processes the foreign workers insured by the company and tracks the policies books in stock. The claims are being processed by the application as well. The application was written on .NET 1.1 and Ms. SQL server database.

Developer and Systems Analyst at Shnoudi Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 2003 to April 2005

Role:
-Working on projects in all SDLC aspects (management, business requirements, solution design, implementation, and maintenance).
- Client facing and account management
Projects:
-Hammoudeh Grains Inventory system.
-Hammoudeh-Provimi Production system.
-Purchasing system.
-Sight & Sound Students Management System.
-Developing school and students system.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at Jordan University of Science and Technology
  • January 2003
High school or equivalent, -
  • at Salalah Secondary School Salalah
  • July 1997

Specialties & Skills

ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET
Team Coaching
Project Management
.Net Core
Microservices Architecture
Domain Driven Design DDD
Unit Testing
Solutions Design
SQL Server Database

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Al Fursan Center (Training)
Training Institute:
Leadership and Softskills
Date Attended:
April 2007
Duration:
20 hours