Maher Abu Ghali Email & Phone Number

Vienna, Austria

Austria, Slovak Republic, United Arab Emirates, Egypt

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Vienna, Austria

I was responsible for the vision of software products development for UNODC to be used by the 198 governments worldwide in the area of fighting drugs and crime. This includes managing the software development cycle from inception, planning, development, quality assurance, packaging, marketing, and delivering software solutions to the governments of 198 Member States. The software solutions are in the areas of drug control and crime prevention that covers anti-money laundering, criminal intelligence, counter- terrorism, anti-corruption, and asset recovery.Key Achievements:Managing the development and deployment of the National Drug Control Systems, winner of the United Nations 21st Century Award for Innovation. The system is in use by the drug control authorities of 64 governments around the world.—Managing the development and deployment of the International Drug Control System used by the International Narcotics Control Board that controls the manufacturing, trade, distribution and consumption of Narcotics, Psychoactive substances and Pre-cursor Chemicals in 212 countries and territories.—Managing the development and deployment of the anti-money laundering (AML) solution goAML which is currently UNODC standard for AML. http://goaml.unodc.org/—Managing the development and deployment of the case management system goCASE which is currently UNODC standard system for managing anti-corruption cases. http://gocase.unodc.org/—Managing the development and deployment of the PEN Online solution for tracking shipments of precursor chemicals currently used by 168 governments. https://www.incb.org/pen/—Expanding the section’s budget from US$1.1 Million to US$18 Million per year.—Achieving fully independent funding resulting from software sales in the first three years of my appointment.—Expanding the workforce of the section from 5 IT professionals to 38 IT professionals spread in 5 geographic locations.

Vienna, Austria

Key Contributions:— Responsible for managing an information system for national and international drug control based on ORACLE RDBMS on multiple platforms including UNIX, Windows Server, and Novell NetWare. — Responsible for expanding the system usage among some 182 countries in compliance with international drug control treaties. — Responsible for managing three regional support centers spanning the whole globe in three divisions, namely: the Americas, Europe and Africa, Asia and Australia. — Responsible for managing the global technical support for the National Drug Control System. http://nds.unodc.org/

Vienna - Austria

Key Contributions:— Responsible for managing an information system for national and international drug control based on ORACLE RDBMS on multiple platforms including UNIX, Windows Server, and Novell NetWare. — Responsible for expanding the system usage among some 182 countries in compliance with international drug control treaties. — Responsible for managing three regional support centers spanning the whole globe in three divisions, namely: the Americas, Europe and Africa, Asia and Australia. — Responsible for managing the global technical support for the National Drug Control System. http://nds.unodc.org/

Cairo, Egypt

— Designed & implemented an intellectual property protection system for a sister company Abu Ghazaleh for Intellectual Property Protection. The system had the ability to track the registration process of registering trademarks, designs, and patents. In addition, the system integrated an optical archiving functionality that integrated with the workflow system. — Handled and supervised several consultancy engagements in the fields of information security, Y2K compliance, integrated financial auditing, and integrated management information systems.

Cairo, Egypt

Key Contributions:— Designed and implemented a Multimedia CD-Title called Comedy World, which is currently available in the market. — Designed a Micro Controller Arabic System that works as an Electronic Quran document with search and indexes capabilities. The system has been manufactured by CEW and is available in the market.

Gaza, Palestine

Key Contributions:— Designed and supervised the implementation of the national border control system in co-operation with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior using Oracle Developer 2000. — Designed and supervised the implementation of The Population Registry Data Bank, in co-operation with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior using Oracle Developer 2000— Designed and supervised the Implementation of Fund Control & Monitoring System for the Palestinian Ministry of Finance using Oracle Developer 2000. — Designed and supervised the implementation of a GIS - Security - Zone Checker for the Palestinian High Board of National Security using ArcView and Designer 2000.

United Kingdom

Key Contributions:— Design and implementation of a cotton plant model. — Design of an insect model (Pink Bollworm) — Design of an agricultural environment model that incorporates weather data, irrigation data, and fertilization data — Design of an insect control model that implements the usage of insecticides and pheromones as insect-control methodologies. — Implementation of the above systems using MS-Fortran, Borland Pascal, and Assembly. — Technical support for the implementation of the simulation model in 2 governates, namely: El-Fayoum and Bin-Souef in corporation with the Egyptian ministry of agriculture covering an area over 580,000 feddans.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

B.Sc., Computer Science, Philosophy, 3.8

Double Major in Computer Science - AI and Philosophy