Hossam Sayed Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Oversee all professional service delivery engagements in the Middle East and Africa, leading a cross-functional team of technical professionals.
• Spearhead the strategic direction for GIS solutions in the region, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure the successful execution of projects.
• Lead business development activities of Esri professional services business in the region and coordinate with other Esri sales team, partners and distributors.
• Act as the main liaison and escalation point for all PS customers in the region and focus on ensuring customer are successful and satisfied.
• Manage the budgeting and revenue forecasting of all PS engagements and opportunities.
• Lead and direct resource management and managing multiple competing priorities in close collaboration with the technical and project management team leads.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Lead all technical teams at Esri Saudi Arabia, ensuring the delivery of top-quality GIS consultancy and IT services to customers and partners.
• Managed teams across training, technical support, professional services, and presales, aligning them with the company's strategic objectives.
• Worked in close collaboration with the CEO and sales team to drive business growth, contributing to Esri SA's expansion in the region.
• Developed the company’s technical vision and strategy while introducing new service offerings such as jumpstarts, workshops, and consulting engagements.
• Provided mentorship to internal teams, partners, and clients, fostering a deep understanding of Esri technology and its capabilities.
• Led proposal management and educated the sales team on Esri’s technology strengths, empowering them to better serve clients.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Managed solution engineering team which performs presales activities and organize events to evangelize and promote Esri technology in the West Asia Middle East and Africa region (WAMEA).
• Developed strategies and vision of the technical marketing activities in the region.
• Performed and supported business development activities in the region.
• Consulted strategic customers and distributors to understand their business needs and advise on the best practices to implement Esri technologies.
• Coordinated technical response of tenders in the region
• Worked closely with distributors and partners to raise their technical marketing staff capabilities.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Relocated to Dubai, UAE to work in the new Esri regional office to support the region of West Asia, Middle East and Africa. Worked in presales and technical marketing activities
• Coordinated technical response to tenders in the region
• Raised the awareness of GIS technology through seminars and demonstrations.
• Advised distributors and customers on implementing Enterprise level GIS.
• Performed and supported business development activities in the region.
• Developed demonstrations and prototypes of Esri technology

• Worked at Esri headquarters in Redlands. Work responsibilities included analyzing, designing and developing enterprise, web and desktop GIS applications.
• Worked closely with clients to understand their business requirements
• Designed, developed and implemented several GIS applications for various clients the US using ArcGIS Server and Desktop software using industry standard programming languages such as ArcGIS Desktop, Arc Engine, VB.NET.
• Clients worked with included: New York DOT, FedEx, GeoEye, Orkin, United Shipping Solutions (USS) and others.
• Designed and implemented a web application for New York Stat DOT to analysis traffic accident occurrences.

Brooksville, FL, USA

• Relocated to Brooksville, FL to work as an on-site technical lead of the Land Resources Information System (LARIS) project. The client was South West Florida Water Management District
• Worked as the technical lead to oversee the overall implementation of the project and coordinated between the on-site team, the headquarter team and the client staff.
• Worked on refining the system architecture and preparing the detailed design for the various components.
• Using Enterprise Architect to develop use cases and sequence diagrams.
• Worked in designing and developing an ArcMap edit application using C# and ArcObjects.
• Worked in designing and developing various web applications using Arc Server, ASP.NET, C#, PL/SQL and Oracle.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Worked as a GIS Programmer Analyst at GeoAnalytics Inc., Madison office. Responsibilities included GIS project management, GIS applications analysis, design, development, and software consultancy.
• Managed Several GIS Projects
• Worked in designing, developing and deploying several GIS applications using various Esri technologies including: ArcGIS 8.x, 9.x, MapObjects ArcObjects, VBA, VB6, VB.NET, C# and ArcSDE, Oracle, SQL Server, ArcIMS and.
• Provided GIS Consultancy to various clients wearing different hates as needed including Analyst, Programmer and GIS Project manager.
• Worked with several clients including: City of Chicago, DuPage County-Illinois, City of Des Moines, Winnebago County-Wisconsin.

Kuwait

• Worked as a GIS consultant for the OpenWare, Esri distributor in Kuwait. Responsibilities included GIS applications development, design, software consultancy, technical support and teaching Esri GIS software.
• Designed, developed and deployed several GIS applications using various Esri technologies including: ArcInfo 7.x, ArcGIS 8.x, ArcObjects, VBA, VB6, MapObjects and ArcSDE.
• Provided technical support to various clients
• Developed and demonstrated prototypes using Esri technology.
• Taught several Esri classes including: ArcInfo 7.x, ArcView 3.x, AVENUE, Spatial Analyst and ArcSDE

Cairo, Egypt

Worked as a GIS specialist for Quality Standards, the Esri distributor in Egypt, focusing on GIS applications development and design, software consultancy, and technical support.Designed, developed, and deployed various GIS applications using Esri technologies, including ArcInfo 7.x, ArcView 3.x, and AML.Provided customer support to a range of clients.

Cairo, Egypt

• Worked as a design architect. Responsibilities included designing buildings and preparing architectural working drawings.
• Worked in preparing working drawings for several projects including AL-Tameer Wholesale Center in Riyadh
• Participated in several architectural competitions including: Imam Saud Mosque – Diriyah – Riyadh (won this competition)

Chief Technology Officer Program, Information Technology

Mba, It Management

Gis Certificate, Gis And It

Completed an IT diploma with specialization in GIS in the Information Technology Institute at Cairo. This was a nine months program which.

Bachelor, Architectureal Design

Completed a bachelor degree from the school of Engineering at Cairo University with a major of architectural design