Samir .
Lead
germany Dortmund, Germany ( GMT )
Lead •
20 yrs Experience
Can Join ASAP English: Advanced
About

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.

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.

Experience
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Applied AI Director
LigaData
May'21- present

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'21- present

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'21- Jun'21

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'18- Jul'18

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'11- Jul'11

Jordan Teaching two classes for the department of Computer Information Systems.

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Head
Department of Web Engineering, Philadelphia University
Sep'09- Aug'18

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'06- Aug'06

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'05- May'06

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'04- Aug'04

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'04- May'09

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'00- Dec'03

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'98- Apr'00

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.

Education
Computer Science
From 2004 to 2009
PhD
University of Georgia - United States

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

Computer Science
From 1994 to 1998
Bachelor's Degree
University of Jordan - Jordan

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Arabic
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