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Omar Megawer

Senior Managing Consultant - IBM Consulting
Dubai

Summary

Data & AI Management professional with extensive experience in leading the strategic development and implementation of Data & AI projects, particularly within the Oil & Gas and Public Sector industries. Proven track record in driving digital transformation initiatives and delivering high-impact projects from conception to completion. As an effective mentor and leader, I consistently guide cross-functional teams to exceed business goals.

A strong believer in continuous learning and sharing knowledge, demonstrated through written contributions on AI best practices and initiatives in mentoring teams in IBM and externally with startups.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Senior Manager - AI Integration Services

IBM
12.2021 - Current
  • Leading the implementation of the first AI Governance strategy and implementation project for e& UAE.
  • Leading a team of 10 data scientists across EMEA, who are working on two critical AI streams for IBM's prominent clients in the region with a primary focus on UAE's largest Oil & Gas client to deliver AI and Generative AI solutions for Capital Projects to drive insights and help achieve their strategic goals.
  • Leading the AI team for one of the prominent Government Entities in Abu Dhabi, where we generated a pipeline of AI use cases to achieve their strategy and currently in the implementation phase for 10 prioritized AI use cases generating value internally for its employees and externally for its customers.
  • Product Owner for the digital transformation project in a major Oil & Gas client in UK to help build their sustainability solutions portfolio and help the enterprise achieve their customer's net zero commitments by building their solutions data catalogue for the sales team and a PowerBI analytics dashboard for their leadership team which generated signings of $5M across the year
  • Building the AI Strategy and Roadmaps for IBM clients in the region across the Government and Oil & Gas sectors
  • Mentoring and supporting consultants across different practices in IBM Consulting and helping them build their careers in AI and inside IBM
  • Acting as a technical SME for AI Proposals in the region to define committed scope, identifying team members and timelines of delivery

Senior Consultant

IBM
07.2018 - 12.2021
  • Continued to translate our learnings from different engagements on the AI Strategy with the UAE Gov. into different engagements in Customer Support, Image Recognition to improve technical Oil and Gas workflows and Estimating Housing Application wait times for UAE citizens
  • Directly contributing to IBM's signings of $1M and delivery in AI in Healthcare and Oil & Gas Sector by identifying and working on several Data & AI proposals
  • Leading a team of 10 consultants on the Abu Dhabi Digital Transformation journey and migrating and delivering 42 police services

Consultant

IBM
09.2016 - 07.2018
  • Leading the IBM Consulting delivery team on the partnership with Smart Dubai Government to build their AI roadmap.
  • Technical lead for several AI PoCs across the Smart Dubai Government to address the different customer support issues using virtual agents across the different entities such as RTA, Dubai Economy and growing to UAE Ministry of Finance and Department of Health.
  • Directly contributed to the SDG architecture's blueprint for a unified virtual agent approach across the emirate to create the worlds first Government Concierge which will transform the way UAE residents and visitors interact with multiple government entities and ask for any information and services through multiple channels.
  • Translating the PoCs into 5 different project engagements with the UAE government to deliver on the AI Strategy for Customer Support

Associate Consultant

IBM
09.2015 - 09.2016
  • Understanding client needs and translating them into digital solutions that help bring them value
  • Focusing on Customer Relationship Management solutions in the Healthcare Industry
  • Working briefly as a Communications Consultant to facilitate the communications sent from the director's office around digital transformation to the organisation
  • Helped team of 50 consultants optimize efficiency of current systems by conducting training sessions on SAP solutions delivered to the client

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

American University in Cairo
Cairo, Egypt
09.2010 - 2015.06

Skills

Written communication

Problem-Solving

Team building

Team collaboration

Team mentorship

Image processing and modeling

Technical Writing

Agile

NLP

Software

Python

Swift

Flutter/Dart

Professional Initiatives

  • Filing and publishing a patent in the Virtual Assistants fields "Building and Modifying Conversational User Journeys" - Nov 2020 - US-11675820-B2
  • Leading the IBM initiative in MEA to help mentor startups building their solutions on IBM Watson and providing training sessions and technical support
  • Currently working with a small team to build a mobile app focusing on changing traveler's experience.
  • Consulting and supporting on multiple mobile apps initiatives regarding which architecture to use and what technology stack is more suitable to the problem they are trying to solve.
  • Publishing 4 blogs on the IBM Medium channel explaining the best practices in building and maintaining an enterprise AI Virtual Assistant.
  • Contributing to the AI community by sharing Jupyter Notebook packages to maintain and implement advanced functionality for your Virtual Assistant

Certification

SAFe Agilist - Product Owner

Interests

Music

Kayaking

Football

Timeline

SAFe Agilist - Product Owner

11-2022

IBM Government Silver Knowledge Badge

05-2022

Senior Manager - AI Integration Services

IBM
12.2021 - Current

Open Data - Data Science Profession Certification - Level 1 Experienced

02-2021

IBM Intellectual Capital/ Intellectual Property Creator

10-2020

Senior Consultant

IBM
07.2018 - 12.2021

Consultant

IBM
09.2016 - 07.2018

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

06-2016

Microsoft Dynamics CRM MB2-704

05-2016

Associate Consultant

IBM
09.2015 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering

American University in Cairo
09.2010 - 2015.06

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