Experience

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  Cross Solutions

  • President

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  Cross Solutions

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • President

    • Sep 2006 - Present
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Cross Solutions is a premiere provider of resources in the Learning & Development space. We are comprised of L&D experts, who have industry knowledge to help guide strategic decisions that meet your business needs as well as the L&D skills to get the job done.We partner with you to understand your needs, work environment, corporate culture and provide L&D consultants who will complement your existing staff with the skills that your project needs. Our expertise in Learning & Development allows us to quickly understand your needs and provide the right resources to keep your projects on time and on budget.Cross Solutions is a government registered Small Business.

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  GP Strategies Corporation

  • Principal Consultant

    • 2004 - 2014

    Department of Justice• Provide technical consulting support on a daily basis• Scope, design, develop and implement system integrations and data migrations.• Lead architect on the Office of Legal Education LMS migration into learnDOJ.General Dynamics• Provide project Management support on a daily basis• Manage budget, project schedule, resources, operation support as well as new initiatives• Work closely with the client to understand their short and long term goals, develop strategic roadmaps and manage teams to meat strategic goals.Department of Treasury• Provide strategic consulting to ensure that our teams are working towards incremental growth and meeting Treasury’s goals.National Science Foundation• Developed nightly interface with HR System• Provided technical consulting during implementation of their Plateau LMS• Provide project Management support on a daily basis• Manage budget, project schedule, resources, operation support as well as new initiatives• Work closely with the client to understand their short and long term goals, develop strategic roadmaps and manage teams to meet strategic goals.Health and Human Services• Assist with client requirements gathering during workshops• Develop project schedule and timelines and Solution Design Document• Architect multiple HR. Transcript and Course data interfaces• Architect the integration and migration of multiple existing Learning Management Systems• Manage the implementation and all resources involved• Full System development life cycle for cots implementationEHRI• Architected and developed a central repository and process for extracting Training data from federal learning management systems and compiling into a specified XML format to deliver to OPM.• Worked with multiple agencies to configure their systems to interface with GP’s EHRI repository.

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  Beach Street Consulting

  • Senior Architect

    • 2005 - 2006

    Essam worked as a developer of Beach Street's Documentum University, a detailed Documentum training program intended to retrain an experienced IT professional with little DCTM knowledge in DCTM 5 core products and applications.• Created system and training materials including Requirements Specifications, Installation Guides, and Detailed Design documents• Architected and implemented the Documentum University infrastructure. Installed Oracle 10g, Content server 5.3, BEA WebLogic 8.1, Documentum Administrator 5.3 and multiple instances of Documentum Webtop 5.3 in both Solaris and Windows environments• Defined and implemented custom Object Types, Attributes, Groups, ACLs, Lifecycles and Workflows using Application Builder, Workflow Manager, and Application Installer• Developed custom BOF component (TBO) to attach lifecycle to newly created documents• Developed custom WDK component to streamline the selection of a workflow and its associated participants by object type

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  Sogeti Group

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Senior Consultant

    • 2004 - 2005
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Essam performed as the technical lead on the implementation of Learning Management Systems through General Physics at the Department of Veteran Affairs and the Department of Energy.• Configured user interface and functionality of the out-of-the-box Plateau, which required extraction of the application EAR, modifying files and reassembling the application EAR.• Managed the data migration effort from existing government systems into Plateau, which involved running requirements gathering workshops, creating data templates, receiving and cleansing the data and importing into Plateau.Created an automated data feed process between multiple federal systems and the Plateau LMS requiring development of PL/SQL stored procedures, shell scripts to automate the process, and error handling and reporting.

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  Pfizer

  • Consultant

    • 2002 - 2004

    Essam was a leading member of the Global Business Technology team at Pfizer. While there, he participated in developing, architecting, redesigning, and supporting several global pharmaceutical systems using Documentum.• Incorporated the business needs of multiple new groups created by Pfizer’s acquisition of Pharmacia into the system. Worked with clients to streamline and merge business processes.• Re-architected existing Documentum systems to accommodate new business groups and achieve a 100% increase in usage. The system was rolled out to Pfizer Country Offices worldwide.• Developed Visual Basic Client/Server application that interfaced with multiple Pfizer systems to import Adverse Event data and produce customized text files and PDF reports that were distributed to Pfizer Country Offices worldwide.• Made required programming changes and enhancements while acting as a Tech lead, mentoring other developers.• Monitored systems, performed required maintenance and tuning, fixed bugs, developed and implemented enhancements and upgrades.• Organized and ran weekly status meetings, managed QA processes and validation tasks with to report progress and status to management on all issues.

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  Capgemini

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Consultant

    • 1997 - 2000
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area