Chief Data Specialist – Data Governance, Data Compliance
Abu Dhabi – Department of Government Enablement -DGE
Total years of experience :20 years, 3 Months
participated in:
o Creating Data Management Strategy
o Defining Data Governance Operating Model for the organization
o Conducted data management maturity assessment.
o Developing data management roadmap, operational plan and metrics
o Conducting data management awareness workshops
o Developing data management policies, procedures and standards
o Monitoring the execution of data management program
Zain Telecom (Zain-Group, + 3 Operating companies-OPCOs Zain-Jordan, Zain-KSA and Zain-Iraq), May/2020 - In progress
Role: Data Management Consultant - Data Governance and Data Management programs, participated in:
o Conducting data management workshops for SPOCs.
o Performing current data management capability assessment for Zain-Group and 3 OPCOs.
o Analyzing gap in data management capabilities.
o Proposing target state model, blueprint, processes, and organization structure.
o Proposing technology architecture.
o Defining data management standards.
o Defining adaption roadmap.
Abu Dhabi Digital Authority-ADDA (Government Sector) Jan/2019 - April/2020
Role: Data Management Consultant- Abu Dhabi Open Data Portal
o Participated in writing BRD/FRD to implement Abu Dhabi Open Data Portal.
o Conducted meetings and workshops to help client to collect and publish datasets.
o R&D and provided consultancy services.
o Helped in tailoring Abu Dhabi Open Data Portal to meet requirements, workflow, and policies.
o Defined metadata requirements.
o Configured APIs to automate the process of publishing dataset via portal.
o Developed user manuals for administrators and publishers.
Zain Kuwait Telecom -Kuwait, Dec/2019 - Jan/2020
Role: Data Management Consultant- Data governance and Data Quality Programs
o Developed data governance polices and standards for data quality program.
o Developed data governance operating model to plan and execute data quality assessment and monitoring programs.
I've been given letter of recognition from ADDA (Abu Dhabi Digital Authority) for successfully implementing data management program - Phase 1.
My responsibilities :
o Assessing data practices maturity level.
o Developing road map to implement Abu Dhabi data management standards and polices.
o Running awareness workshops and meetings to assist data owners and stewards to conform with program’s requirements.
o Tracking, assessing and auditing deliverables from various departments
o Helping data owners to identify, define and manage datasets in data catalog.
o Helping data stewards to measure and uplift data quality under their stewardship
o Defining metadata requirements according to AD data management program.
o Develop Data Catalog and interoperability requirements according to AD data management program
o Defining KPIs and generating progress reports for data governance committee.
o Participating in identifying business driven and analytical requirements.
o Establishing analytical procedures to discover business insights, patterns and seasonality.
o Designing business intelligence solutions and data warehouse.
I have 13 years of hands-on software development experience delivering enterprise software solutions and consultancy for customers from high-profile government, semi government, and private sectors to build their tailored high availability software solutions. My responsibilities include meeting business users, writing proposals, project scoping, project monitoring, project life cycle and releases management, team staffing and management.
With a broad knowledge in many Enterprise software development methodologies, technologies and frameworks like Agile development methodologies Scrum framework, Microsoft .Net and Java EE, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), software design and architecture, choosing the tight technologies and frameworks, working with teams to produce high quality solutions using industry standards and best practices.
I worked in several job roles, including Solution Architect, Software Development Manager, Technical Team Leader, Project Manager, Business Analyst, SharePoint Specialist, Liferay Portal Specialist, Oracle Portal Specialist and Software Engineer.
Outsourced Senior developer
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Information and Computer Science (Minor : Banking and Finance)