As the Director of Azure App Innovation for the West and Midwest regions, I lead a team of highly skilled Cloud Solution Architects who are passionate about driving digital transformation and cloud adoption. With a target Azure revenue close to $300 million, my focus is on delivering innovative solutions that empower our customers to achieve their strategic goals.My team works with a diverse portfolio of customers, primarily large gaming, media, and entertainment companies, as well as automotive and autonomous vehicle enterprises, spanning from Silicon Valley to Detroit and south of Nevada. We are dedicated to understanding our customers' unique challenges and aligning Azure technologies to deliver scalable, secure, and impactful solutions.I set my team's mission: Empower customers to modernize mission-critical workloads and integrate AI across all applications, boosting productivity and maximizing business potential.

- Founded & lead an organization of talented engineers locally & offshore to build the best facility management cloud solution in the market.- Built a custom OAuth/OID identity system w/ biometric support- Built a modern facility management tracking SaaS platform for schools,workplaces & sports facilities- Published 8 iOS/Android/Windows B2B apps- Shipped 4 devices for offices, factories & schools (Sold on Amazon)- Acquired ~668 customers & more than 35K paid users

Building the first livestreaming marketplace that connects people with places instantly to make well informed decisions faster

Work with the US West region customers to deliver cutting edge solutions building with Microsoft dev tools and using Microsoft Azure developer services. Design innovative cloud native solutions on Azure that meets customer's requirements and provide needed security, reliability and performance. Help customers understands best ways to run lean deployments on Azure, optimizing the cost and maximizing the value.Provide strategic advice on best cloud services’ options and mechanisms to plan migration or green field deployment that ensures success in the cloud.Deep knowledge on building and maintaining highly available SaaS solutions run on cloud services and on-premises servers.Provide guidance on ways to modernize company’s SDLC and build robust DevOps practices to ensure developers productivity and development qualityFacilitate and lead architecture design sessions with customers to help them with their cloud journey.Deliver training on Azure cloud services for newbies or AWS\GCP architects with detailed comparison between similar services in the three cloudsMeet with CxO occasionally to review current & future business needs, to make sure that companies have the right set of cloud strategies that are aligned with the company’s goalsProvide detailed cost estimates for running workloads in the cloud, cost models and optimization plans to help customers have an accurate financial planning for the cloud spend

Design & architect state of the art cloud solutions for enterprise customers. Analyze complex problems, big data, security requirements and budget constrains to provide the best solution possible that can run efficiently on the current IaaS, PaaS and SaaS cloud technologies.Provide feedback to the Microsoft Azure cloud product group to enhance their solutions and adapt to the customers ever changing needs.

Provide software development consultation and support

Worked as teacher assistance in “Computer Science” department in the German University in Cairo. Teaching Introduction to software development using Java for computer science students.

Worked as a software developer using C++, C#, ASP.NET and SQL Server building internal financial applications for customers in Netherlands, Egypt & the UK.

Worked in developing a stock exchange trading system, utilizing matlab and .NET.

Worked in a large development team in Sakhr OCR and ArabDox 5.0 document management system.