About Ghassan
Who am I?
- Intergrity and accoutability
- Innovative and Growth Mindset
How I can help?
My Career Journey:
- 1. In the USA, I practiced Software Engineering & Software Project Management (6 years).
- 2. In Saudi Arabia, my IT Hardware Management (Operations, Applications, Network) Knowledge grew as I managed a Team and supervised 2 Data Centers (5 years).
- 3. In Germany, I combined both Software and Hardware skills/experience with New Technologies (AI, IoT, Industrial IoT and Cloud) and led several Digital Transformation initiatives that saved the business both money and time (7 years).
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Arabic
Fluent
Experience
- Trelleborg Sealing Solutions Germany GmbHDigital Transformation Tech LeadDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2018 - January 2025 (7 years)Germany• Led the implementation of end-to-end INNOVATIVE IoT, Cloud and AI projects including stakeholders across different countries and different organizations (Digital Transformation Team software engineers, R&D, customer, and vendor). Projects included:➢ Factory Machine Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)➢ An IoT, Cloud and AI solution for automatic replenishment of stock in warehouses➢ Predictive maintenance of Wind-Turbine cylinders using IoT, Cloud and AI services.• Provided TRAINING on IoT and Cloud topics to technical and business colleagues in Germany and India.• Developed and applied BEST PRACTICES to improve usage of IoT Cloud technologies. Adopt and share governance practices with the Digital Transformation Team• Example COST SAVINGS that resulted from successful IoT and IIoT projects I drove forward:o 12% average improvement in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of factory machines,o Predictive Maintenance of Wind Turbines in Spain can now be done BEFORE a failure occurs. A typical failure of Wind Turbine blades costs over 100,000.00 Euros.• Also managed a project to develop a Digital Twin solution for factory motors
- ACCIT Manager (IT Infrastructure, Operations, Applications)DIGITAL AND ITMay 2010 - May 2015 (5 years)Saudi ArabiaI motivated a successful IT Team to deliver successful results for a major construction project. The Team maintained, optimized, and secured two data centers (including network, servers and data management).• Provided secure and scalable Applications:
- Primavera P6 (project management) and
- SharePoint (content management) – used across four different countries.
The applications allowed engineers to collaborate on the management of the Construction Project and brought down the update time of the project plan from 2 days to a few minutes. - HD Supply Facilities MaintenanceSenior Software Engineer and Software Project ManagerDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2002 - January 2008 (6 years)United States1. Led a team of engineers to architect, design and implemented an EAI software solution that provided replication between an existing Oracle system and a new Siebel CRM system. This EAI system used asynchronous message queues and saved the company hundreds of thousands (USD) per year.2. Directed a successful ETL (Extract Transform Load) project to purge, archive and move data from the OLTP database to a data warehouse. Led a development team that designed and built automated shell scripts that carried out the business rules.3. Architected and built a large order management solution. The system was built using Oracle Forms and Pl/Sql and kept the customer happy (by offering them a discount) and prevented large orders from depleting inventory at the warehouses.4. Stayed abreast of the latest technologies. I successfully used the following technologies to build useful IT applications: EAI, ETL, ERP. And the following programming languages including SQL, Pl/Sql, UNIX shell scripting.
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Education
- Bachelor of ScienceBachelor of Science
- PMP Project Management Certification2005PMP Project Management Certification
Certifications
- Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert MCSEMicrosoft2017
- Microsoft Certified: Azure IoT Developer SpecialtyMicrosoft2022