Samir .

Samir .

  • Product Owner, Director of Applied AI
  • Dortmund, Germany
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  • 20 Jahre Erfahrung
  • ASAP
  • Lead

With 25 years of experience split between in-person and remote jobs in Amman, Jordan, Athens, GA, USA and Dortmund, Germany, I have the skills of in-depth research, hands-on development, mentorship, multidisciplinary team management, and design and management of very advanced products. I enjoy travelling, experiencing new cultures and meeting new people. I also like hiking and astronomy.

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Computer Science

University of Georgia, PhD, United States
2004 - 2009
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Computer Science

University of Jordan, Master's Degree, Jordan
1999 - 2003
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Computer Science

University of Jordan, Bachelor's Degree, Jordan
1994 - 1998

Arbeit & Erfahrung

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Applied AI Director

LigaData
May'2021 - Gegenwart
California, United States * Building AI PowerSuite platform to train and deploy large-scale telco-specific ML models. * Enhancing our mobile assistants's (Sancho) AI capabilities by providing causality analysis and ML-based prediction as insights. Product Owner June 2022 - June 2023 (1 year 1 month) Silicon Valley, California, United States Owner of TimeMachine, the new data protection and archiving product that is to be used by all current and future customer. This includes working with stakeholders to define the product vision, setting priorities, and managing the development process.
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Product Owner

LigaData
May'2021 - Gegenwart
United States Owner of Data Fabric, the major data management platform upgrade that is to be used by all current and future customer. This includes working with stakeholders to define the product vision, setting priorities, and managing the development process.
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Knowledge AND Data Researcher AND Consultant

Self employed
Jan'2021 - Jun'2021
Provide consultation and training to businesses and projects on how to best develop a data strategy. In addition to working on data- and knowledgerelevant research projects with other researchers.
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Consultant

Mawdoo3
Apr'2018 - Jul'2018
Amman Governorate, Jordan Providing consultation services and advice regarding the use of semantic web technologies, knowledge graphs, and Arabic NLP to members of the AI team. philadelphia.university 9 years
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Visiting Scholar

The University of Jordan
Jun'2011 - Jul'2011
Jordan Teaching two classes for the department of Computer Information Systems.
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Head

Department of Web Engineering, Philadelphia University
Sep'2009 - Aug'2018
Amman Governorate, Jordan * Leading efforts in founding and promoting of the Department * Management of all issues that matter to different levels of students. * Managing all issues relating to the administration of the two departments including: * Offering appropriate courses for the following semester * Updating study plans to reflect the most recent field knowledge and regulations. * Forming specialized committees to manage different matters of the departments.
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Database Programmer

PADGETT BUSINESS SERVICES
May'2006 - Aug'2006
Collaborating with other team members on the implementation of unemployment and income tax applications for the different US states. Programming was done using the Sybase Application Server.
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Research Assistant

University of Georgia
Aug'2005 - May'2006
Georgia, United States I was the main developer of the Forestry Department's Spatial Analysis Lab working on EDM (Entity Distribution Modeling) project led by Prof. Nathan Nibblink for modeling mechanisms that influence the spatial patterns of animal distribution on the landscape and how these models can be integrated into GIS-based tools to help manage ecosystems. My main tasks were in designing and building the different components in the system mainly with VB.Net and ArcGIS platform. PADGETT BUSINESS SERVICES®
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Analyst Database Developer

Simtix
Jun'2004 - Aug'2004
Jordan Worked on the Aqar Holding Real Estate Sales web project. It is a 3-tier project that involved Java as a front-end and an Oracle database as a back-end. My main responsibility was designing and providing the Java team with the correct database objects and procedures. philadelphia.university
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Member of Semantic Discovery

SEMDIS
Jan'2004 - May'2009
Discovering Complex Relationships in the Semantic Web" (SEMDIS), an NSF-ITR funded research project. Responsibile for interpreting natural language questions using ontologies and extracting their answers from web documents and local relational and semantic databases. I also designed the OntoQA framework that focuses on the analysis and summarization of ontologies to be able to understand their contents without the need to view complex RDF or OWL files. To date, OntoQA has been cited around 1000 times and has been one of the main quality measurements for ontologies. I also designed the SemanticQA framework that utilizes ontological knowledge to answer user questions presented in natural English by extracting these answers from web documents and ranking them using different measures.
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Senior Database Developer Team Leader

Integrant
Jan'2000 - Dec'2003
An American company whose management and projects are based in San Diego, CA, and its development is conducted in Amman, Jordan. I have worked there as a senior database developer specializing in building forms and complex PL/SQL scripts. I was also the Oracle DBA for Integrant. I have conducted some analysis for some systems. I also have led some projects for Integrant. And, I spent six months in the American branch doing systems analysis and meeting with clients, mainly, a company called "NAGS" (National Auto Glass Specifications).
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Banking Applications Developer

Computer AND communications systems
Jun'1998 - Apr'2000
a British company that has several branches and departments, and has projects in several countries. Worked there as an Oracle banking applications developer, specializing in the Trade Finance System applications.

Berufliche Fähigkeiten

Framework
  • ArcGIS 21 Jahr(s)
  • MapReduce 21 Jahr(s)
  • VB.NET 21 Jahr(s)
General
  • Data Management 21 Jahr(s)
  • Hadoop 21 Jahr(s)
  • Sybase 21 Jahr(s)
  • GIS 21 Jahr(s)
  • ETL 21 Jahr(s)
Database
  • Oracle 5 Jahr(s)
Language
  • Java 21 Jahr(s)

Sprachen

  • English native
  • Arabic native
  • German good
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