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.