Hossam Katory Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Primarily looking after the Architecture for the Straight to Processing application, which is an Oracle Application Express based application handling MSD tasks processing, creating the architecture for the application integration and data flow with various internal and external systems. Additionally, I looked after the architecture of the Fleet Management System replacement from Rackspace Smartrack solution to AWS hosted Procon solution, including data security and privacy reviews. And I oversee the solution architecture of the MSD Social services providers accreditation system modernisation from the legacy application to a Salesforce/AWS based application.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Senior Solutions Architect at Land Information New Zealand as part of the STEP program to modernise the land survey application from Client-Server architecture model to a cloud based micro services architecture solution utilising AWS cloud services.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Watson Cognitive and Analytics solutions architect.• Develop cognitive solutions using IBM Watson.Key Projects and achievements:• Investigation Search tool for New Zealand Police. Hossam designed the solution to enable serious crimes investigators to search and find case files and evidence files across several police file repositories (Windows Shared drives, MS SharePoint, custom secure file repositories, etc.) with over 250TBs of data, saving time and effort for the investigators to find the files they need while adhering to the strict secure data access rights and privileges. With the ability to add more integrations for more data repositories. During the solution implementation Hossam lead the implementation team and the stakeholders’ communications, Hossam lead the team to deliver the working proof of concept in less than 6 weeks which was used by Police Investigators in New Plymouth as a pilot • Project Lead Architect for ASB Bank Risk Insight migration from CBA Bank instance to a separate IBM managed AWS cloud environment.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Watson Explorer application architect and support team leader for Westpac New Zealand where I lead the support team for 3M NZD per annum project to ensure 24/7 system availability while coordinating with Westpac business leadership, IT Infrastructure management team, frontend application development team, and other stakeholders. • Design solutions for Westpac NZ Big Data and Westpac One online banking to increase system capacity handling the growing number of customer and data, and to add new innovative system features and capabilities. • Develop and design BigData and Analytics solutions for IBM clients in finance and banking sectors. • Advise IBM customers on IBM Cloud and IBM Watson offerings, capabilities and how they can fit their business needs.Key Projects and achievements:• Implementing Watson Explorer backend solution for Westpac One online banking system• Designed and implemented Westpac Kiwi Saver and Wealth Management integration and migration to Westpac One.• Automated Westpac One online banking system backend maintenance which saves 10+ hours of support team overtime on monthly bases and eliminated possible human errors. • Define the new WestpacOne - Watson Explorer Architecture to support the increasing data and user query load saving over 2M NZD in hardware upgrade costs to achieve the same performance with the old architecture.• Design, plan, and lead the migration from Watson Explorer v9.0 to v11 for Westpac.

Cairo, Egypt

• Development lead and Scrum Master for IBM Public health solution (a.k.a. Panorama) using Java, JSF, JSF, struts, HTML, Hibernate and SQL. • Leading Software globalisation and Bidirectional languages support efforts, design, and implementation for the IBM CSI (Tivoli) brand. • Work with regional stakeholder from IBM software sales teams to collect the customer localization requirements and work with IBM development labs to implemented the requirements. • Create solutions and implementation plans for Bidirectional languages support for IBM software products.Key Projects:• IBM Public Health Solution for Disease Surveillance and Management development, a.k.a. Panorama• IBM iLog jViews development• IBM Decision Team Server for ILog JRules. Internationalisation development• IBM Maximo 7.5 development.

Nairobi, Kenya

• Build and mentor a local Kenyan team to support the IBM C&SI brand across Central and East Africa region as part of the IBM East Africa newly founded lab.• Client technical advisor for IBM customers in Kenya, find out if they face any difficulties utilising or deploying the IBM products they purchased.• IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure specialist, delivering and implementing IBM Maximo, IBM Control Desk and IBM Cloud Orchestrator solutions in Africa, Middle East, and Europe. Key Projects:• IBM Control Desk deployment and customisation for Eni S.p.A in Italy• IBM Control Desk deployment and customisation for Etihad Airways in UAE• IBM Control Desk and IBM Tivoli Monitoring deployment for Kenya Revenue Authority.• IBM Tivoli Monitoring pilot for Equity Bank• IBM Maximo migration for SAB Miller

Cairo, Egypt

Software Globalisation Development and Technical Team lead.• IBM Maximo and IBM Control Desk SME • Java and JEE Software Developer. • technical team lead for globalisation development team, handle product lab communication with stakeholders, create project sizing, work break down structure for the development projects.• Report and present the team achievements to the product stakeholders. Key Projects:• IBM Maximo development• IBM Change and Configuration Management Database development• IBM Omnibus WebGUI development

Cairo, Egypt

BiDi solution Tech LeadJob responsibilities: Software Globalization and BiDi enablement, Development and Technical Team lead.• Perform technical team lead activities in daily bases including product lab communication, track and report team progress.• Assign the team to the project’s tasks, track their progress, and help them with technical issues. • Report and present the team achievements to the product stakeholders

Egypt

Develop software globalisation using Java, JEE, JCA, HTML, C and JSP technologiesKey Projects:• IBM WebSphere Process Server Adapters development• IBM WebSphere MQ Workflow Adapter for WBI development• IBM WebSphere Partner Gateway development• IBM Lotus Quickr development

Egypt

Develop Bidirectional languages scripts enablement for IBM Software.Assess Arabic and Hebrew Support in IBM Software