Experience

D360 Bank

• Saudi Arabia
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Executive Director of Data & BI

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia



Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank

• United Arab Emirates
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Data Strategy

  • Sep 2018 - Oct 2020

  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank, provides innovative trade finance solutions and other associated banking services to our commercial clients.



Barclays

• India
• Outsourcing/Offshoring
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Architect

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2018

  Canary Wharf, London Contract position: Remediation portfolio - Blending semantics with good data practises in order to: - Systematically identify when scenarios occur in data - Advice on strategy to automate analysis - Build reporting capabilities across internal teams Key Skills used: - Teradata SQL - MS SQL Server - ETL - Data analytics - Data process lifecycle



Kubrick Group

• United Kingdom
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Evangelist

  • Oct 2017 - Apr 2018

  London "Preaching Big Data to tomorrows creative minds"... At Kubrick Group I am responsible for teaching and inspiring passion in the latest Big Data technologies. Some of the technologies we work with are: - Python - MongoDB - Cloudera Hadoop - Apache Spark - of course not forgetting... SQL! We work on many real world data projects consuming real-time and large datasets for cleansing, munging, blending and analysis. We work using Agile methodology and encourage… Show more "Preaching Big Data to tomorrows creative minds"... At Kubrick Group I am responsible for teaching and inspiring passion in the latest Big Data technologies. Some of the technologies we work with are: - Python - MongoDB - Cloudera Hadoop - Apache Spark - of course not forgetting... SQL! We work on many real world data projects consuming real-time and large datasets for cleansing, munging, blending and analysis. We work using Agile methodology and encourage our Junior Data Professionals to use pair programming where the opportunity arises. Show less



Telefonica

• Spain
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technology Manager

  • Oct 2016 - Oct 2017

  London, United Kingdom LUCA is the new data-driven offering from Telefónica. See more at https://luca-d3.com



Smart Steps, Telefónica Digital

• Product & Commercial Development Manager

  • Oct 2014 - Oct 2016

  London, United Kingdom Responsible for development and commercialisation of aggregated, anonymised insight products that serve a range of industries and regions.



Altius: Better BI. Delivered

• BI Strategy Consultant

  • Jan 2014 - Oct 2014

  Godalming Developing current service capability, offering strategic guidance to clients in the adoption and exploitation of Business Intelligence solutions. Providing information management thought leadership, expertise and BI strategy consulting to a variety of large corporate clients across multiple industry verticals. Engaging at CxO level to help understand business problems and define suitable strategic solutions and road-maps, seeing solutions through to successful implementation.



Retail Insight

• South Africa
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Implementation Analyst

  • Dec 2012 - Jan 2014

  London, United Kingdom Working with multiple teams across the business including Operations, Analysis, SQL Development and New Product Design. Led joint projects with the University of Reading to offer retailers mathematical models that performed basket analysis or optimised the use of space and store configurations. Training members of the Operations team to increase the bandwidth of technical support the company could offer when maintaining products across multiple retailers.

• Implementation Analyst

  • Jun 2012 - Jan 2013

  Bentonville, Arkansas Deploying SQL based solutions for an international retailer to over 6 different countries so far. Working alongside the innovations team based in the main company headquarters as well as representatives from each country. Building database structures and working with client information services to import/export data to/from the new systems. Heavily involved with product development for new markets and new functionaility

• SQL Developer

  • Nov 2010 - Jun 2012

  London, United Kingdom