Experience

BUSINESS & AI

• Tunisia
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CEO

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  In BUSINESS & AI, we build AI-Powered solutions that help companies getting more efficient. We deliver concrete examples of how AI can make the enterprise smarter. In BUSINESS & AI, we build AI-Powered solutions that help companies getting more efficient. We deliver concrete examples of how AI can make the enterprise smarter.



Volkswagen Group

• Germany
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Analytics & AI Solutions

  • Mar 2020 - Present



Artificial Intelligence Consulting and Training

• Artificial Intelligence Consulting & Training Specialist

  • Jan 2019 - Jun 2020

  Key Activities: - Giving Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Classroom/Corporate training and strategic thinking. - Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (Machine/Deep/Reinforcement Learning) to help companies (mainly banks) improve their decision-making processes. - Identifying and solving the most complex business challenges faced by banks by combining Artificial Intelligence (AI), Technology and Business expertise. - Delivering concrete examples of how AI can make banks smarter by augmenting the human intelligence with AI-powered solutions. * Target: - Banks, Insurances, Telecom, Pharma, etc. * Topics (not limited to): - Big Data Technologies: Hadoop Ecosystem - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (for beginners) - Artificial Intelligence for Digital Transformation (for professionals) - Machine Learning and Deep Learning use-cases - Artificial Intelligence for Fraud Detection - Fighting Money Laundering with Artificial Intelligence - Natural Language Processing and Understanding for Marketing - Advanced Clustering and Dimension Reduction for - Reinforcement Learning for decision making. - Deep Reinforcement Learning for complex decision making. - Multiobjective Deep Reinforcement Learning: real-world applications in Finance - Trading in the era of Artificial Intelligence (Reinforcement Learning) - Recent Applications of Evolutionary Algorithms in Banking - How to solve a hard banking planning problem with MO Deep Reinforcement Learning - "Know Your Customer" with Advanced Deep/Machine Learning approaches - Predict the Churn in a Big Data Environment (Telecom, Banks) - Optimize your inventory with advanced planning approaches Extras: - Helping companies to hiring the best Data Scientists (intern, juniors or seniors) - Projects with the real data - POC making



BANQUE DE TUNISIE

• Tunisia
• Banking
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Senior Data Scientist & Competitive Intelligence Manager

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2019

  I am involved in 2 main activities: Applied R&D + Technology Watch.[Applied R&D]I design, implement and deploy end-to-end intelligent systems using Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Optimization algorithms. I achieved many successful Data Science POCs: Credit Scoring, Forecasting, Cash Planning, Anomaly/Fraud Detection (AML), Customers Profiling, Intelligent Transactions Scoring & Monitoring, Opinion Mining, Social Listening, etc.[Technology Watch]• Keeping track of the latest trends in the data mining, machine learning and big data ecosystem.• Technological watch around financial and banking systems• Suggesting strategic insights to the management and executive directions.Leveraging: Data Science, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Machine/Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Linear/Nonlinear Optimization, Evolutionary Optimization.

• Internship Supervisor (end of studies & master thesis projects)

  • Jan 2013 - 2017

  I supervised many internships in collaboration with higher institutes of management, technologies and computer science. Here is an overview:𝐂𝐎-𝐒𝐔𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐅 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐒* PHC-NSGA-II: A New Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization* Modelling, simulation & multi-objective optimization of ATMs replenishments𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐍𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏* [2016] NLP & Text Classification (ESSAI)* [2016] LR, SVM & AdaBoost for Credit Scoring (ESSAI)* [2016] Frequent Item-sets & Association Rules using Apache Mahout (ESPRIT)* [2016] Content-based & CF Recommender systems using Apache Mahout (ESPRIT)* [2016] Time-series clustering: distance & similarity (EPT)* [2016] Time-series Prediction using Artificial Neural Networks (ATM Cash forecasting) (EPT)* [2016] Anomaly Detection using Machine Learning Techniques (EPT)* [2016] Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in Time-series (ESSAIT)* [2016] Scrum-based Project Management Web Application (ISG)* [2015] Software platform for jobs scheduling (INSAT)* [2015] Mobile dashboards & business intelligence (ISIS)* [2015] Augmented reality & banking service discovery (ISIM)* [2015] Android Gateway & Automatic SMS Sender (ISETR)* [2015] Multi-purpose & Reusable Restful API (ISG)* [2014] KPIs & web dashboards of multiple banking activities (ENSI)* [2014] Real-time ATMs monitoring system (ISI)* [2014] Mobile application to track bank guarantees transactions (FST)* [2014] Cross-plateform GPS based mobile application using Google restful web services (ESPRIT)* [2013] Computerization of inspection and audit procedures (ISI)* [2013] Dynamic support system for ATMs managements & geo-location (ISETK)

• Senior Software Project Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Dec 2012

  Role: Management of the entire IT project life-cycle:- Business needs perception- Database design, optimization and administration- Programming and technical documentation- Test, verification and validation- Deployment and integration- ETL data from legacy systems (data migration)- End-user assistance (tutorials, interactive help)- Periodic control and maintenance of the software apps - Reporting, dashboarding and interactive BI integration in existing operational systems*** 𝐊𝐄𝐘𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒 ***Business process management, Process Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Best practices in project managements, direction and development, Data Driven vs. Process Driven software development approaches, Service Oriented Architecture, Mobile banking.



sequa gGmbH

• Germany
• International Trade and Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

  - Technical support for a German experts' team. - Specification of a Computerized maintenance management system - Technical support for a German experts' team. - Specification of a Computerized maintenance management system



Avicenne Private Business School (APBS)

• Tunis, Tunisia

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Sep 2013 - Mar 2014

  Master Courses (in English): - Master II Engineering & Decision Support (Course:Preferences Modeling and Decision Making) - Master II Marketing & Business Intelligence (Course: ICT & Competitive Intelligence) - Master II Marketing & Business Intelligence (Course: Advertising Analysis) Master Courses (in English): - Master II Engineering & Decision Support (Course:Preferences Modeling and Decision Making) - Master II Marketing & Business Intelligence (Course: ICT & Competitive Intelligence) - Master II Marketing & Business Intelligence (Course: Advertising Analysis)



Southtowns Regional Chamber of Commerce

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Consultant

  • Jan 2014 - Feb 2014

  - Business requirement engineering - Technical expert and advisor - Specification and validation of software purchasing tenders - Specification of a distributed e-Learning platform - Business requirement engineering - Technical expert and advisor - Specification and validation of software purchasing tenders - Specification of a distributed e-Learning platform