Client Manager at Ooredoo Oman acting as the Country Manager starting operations from scratch. Managed the delivery of all VAS products (cloud/web/mobile/digital): including Master Aggregation, RBTs, Portals, Promos, Customer Care, etc. Built a world-class multicultural Oman based team with marketing, developers, account manager & call center members while managing offshore teams in different time zones. Achieved an 100% increase in the target gross revenue to a total of 13 million Euros on Y1. Launched the first TIMWE Ringback Tone product in MENA.

Co-Head of the Software Development area with 230+ consultants (10% of the company). Responsible for strategy, talent management, staffing, recruitment (100+ interviews/year) & training. Head of Microsoft Custom Application Development managing the relationship with Microsoft PT. Innovation co-Lead with several successful applications to European co-funded large scale projects. Project Manager & Software Architect in 3+ projects/year (mobile/web/desktop). Pre-Sales and technical architect in 10+ projects/year (up to 10M€/year). Played a major role in changing the company’s culture and vision with internal projects like the Software Engineering Group SmartTeam’s initiative. Public speaking at national/international forums about topics like Cloud, Software Architecture and Innovation.

Product ownership for a complex nation-wide retail till system (400 POS across the United Kingdom). Considerably reduced the number of reported bugs for this .NET/SQL application. Involved in the implementation of several other large scale projects using Agile methodologies and Microsoft technologies including an e-government anti-tax fraud solution and a recruitment agency analytics tool.

Responsible for the analysis, architecture and implementation of a company-wide integrated system using .NET and SQL Server. Defined the architecture foundations for the solution that was later implemented.

Started as a Bioinformatics developer for the Molecular Biology/Cytogenetics laboratories. Main applications included: paternity investigation, sequencing analysis/annotation & genome browsers automation using .NET, SQL and VBA.

Computer Science, Software Engineering