Ammar Ahmed, Ph.D.
Email: acticd@r.postjobfree.com
Phone: 773-***-****
Chicago, IL 60660
SUMMARY
IT professional with strategic vision and high ability to execute, over fifteen years of diverse international experience providing IT business solutions. Leverage business, technical expertise, data strategy best practices and leadership experience. Combined with academic, business relationship building and proven high quality of delivery.
Interests: Strategic planning, enterprise architecture, information governance, security architecture, decision support systems, analytics, business intelligence, data science, data warehouse, data architecture, program management.
EXPERIENCE
Office of Inspector General, Chicago, IL, 04/2015 to present
Director of Information Systems
Build a team and the core business systems, a cloud-based infrastructure, an open-source data management and decision support system, incorporating best security practices and transform all of the office IT systems and operations.
Deliver the following scope on time, on budget and with high quality:
-Extend the office network into Amazon Web Services and migrate to Office 365.
-Enforce disaster recovery, redundancy, fail over and high availability strategies.
-Build an OLTP system, supported by in-house developed front end.
-OLAP data marts integrating City of Chicago’s heterogeneous databases through automated ETLs.
-Leverage analytics, business intelligence and reporting capabilities.
-Institute a security information management system that complies with NIST cybersecurity framework, the federal FISMA guidelines and ISO/IEC27K standards. Guided by the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework.
-Impose strict security protocols, utilizing IAM, cryptography and defense in depth strategy.
-Achieve over 70% saving in IT & Telecommunications budget.
-Present and communicate transformation strategy to senior management and staff.
DeVry University, Chicago, IL, 06/2012 to present
Visiting Professor, part time
Teach advanced topics in cloud computing, information Security & Privacy, web security, business continuity & disaster recovery, project management, presentation skills & scientific writing.
Key remarks:
-Introduce Amazon Cloud as a platform for lab work and advise database Curriculum Community.
-Supervise senior projects, introduce scientific writing, cloud concepts, data warehouse and cybersecurity.
CCC Information Services Inc., Chicago, IL, 03/2012 to 04/2015
Enterprise Architect
Improve the overall architecture, strategic planning, technologies, systems, governance, design, development and maintenance of CCC’s Enterprise Databases.
Key achievements:
-Architect cloud solution to manage 200+TB binary data in operational storage using RIAK-CS big data technology.
-Stabilize production and synchronize environments.
-Define gaps and leaks in customers’ data security.
-Set up policies and enforce security models for information governance.
-Implement policies for data quality, retention and archiving.
-Evaluate ROI for solutions, single-sign-on, massage queues, automation, big data and ETL technology.
-Establish data sharing, master data management architecture and common point of reference.
-Provide strategies for data acquisition, integration, replication and delivery.
-Standardize schemata design, data file templates and deliver multiple relational and dimensional models.
-Drive initiative and execute plans to leverage analytics, business intelligence and enterprise reporting.
Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering, Cork, Ireland, 06/2008 to 03/2012
Data Architect/ Analytics
Awarded a Ph.D. for the exceptional achievements and delivery of strategic planning and program management of data strategy and governance, data mining & business intelligence initiatives that support data analysis & representation requirements, for building energy and facility management with regard to the building energy usage.
Key deliveries:
-Integrate building monitoring data streamed from Germany, England and Ireland in an Enterprise Warehouse.
-Connect the OLTP systems of buildings operational data sources with online analytics & predictive intelligence through the data warehouse.
-Deliver and publish knowledge-based methodologies capable of providing holistic structured decision making support to improve energy efficiency while reducing energy costs.
-Build methods for analyzing patterns and trends, build mining methodologies and predictive analytics models.
-Provide proactive knowledge driven decision support.
-Formulate timely reporting of energy consumption through data warehousing analytics.
-Secure budget through proposal writing, speak at conferences and multiple publications.
-Engineer and manage the database system, provide data security and data quality measures.
-R&D in machine learning, data science and Knowledge extraction.
Higher Colleges of Technologies, Al Ain, UAE, 10/2003 to 05/2008
Software Specialist
Plan strategies to enhance better E-learning, E-teaching, and advised enhancement of applications & database systems, within the Technical Educational Department. Key deliveries:
-Advise in developing the database schema of the college’s portal.
-Model the Database Schema of the E-portfolio web-based system for the college.
-Participate in the system analysis phase of the textbooks ordering system.
-Develop many training materials and Information technology practical courses to different Students levels.
Daimler Chrysler, Auburn Hills, MI, 07/2002 to 09/2003
Software Engineer
Meet with user groups and discuss the functionality and enhancements/maintenance issues to the DEALERCONNECT Portal Framework. Key deliveries:
-Advise the required changes to JSPs, beans, Servlets, and JavaScript functions and the implementation.
-Contribute to the development of the lifecycle of the system.
-Perform learning and training sessions to the users groups on using the system.
MEDCO Consultant, Detroit, MI, 10/2000 to 07/2002
Lead Developer
Manage the developer team to program multiple applications in several fields such as automotive, human resources (personnel), and billing web-based systems for different clients. Key deliveries:
-Perform analyses, designing, coding, testing, and implementation for the ECC Tracking System.
-Design and develop a new business component for an existing web application that accesses a legacy system.
-Develop and implement the SD2 Web application to collectively create departmental reports online.
Multiple Organizations, Khartoum, Sudan, 11/96 to 04/1999
Engineer/ Research Assistant
-Research assistant at the Hydraulics Research Station, Department of Engineering.
-Research assistant at the Institute of Building and Road Research.
-Engineer at multiple contracting companies.
SKILLS
-Architecture Frameworks: Zachman, FEAF (CRM), EAP methodology, NIST EA, Gartner (Meta), TOGAF, IFEAD.
-Data Processing: SAS 9.2, Oracle BI & Data Miner, R, Python, Excel, Tableau, Qlikview, MATLAB, WEKA, Pentaho.
-Databases: Oracle 11g, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server/ Access, MySQL, DB2, Riak, Hadoop, Mongo DB, HBase.
-Enterprise Architecture & Processes Modeling: UML, IDEF (0/1/1x/3), MS Visio/ PowerPoint, FEA CPM, ArchiMate, System Architect, IDS Sheer ARIS, BPMN, TOGAF 9ED & ADM.
-Data Modeling/ Exchange Standards: UML, IDEF1X, IE, Barker & Bachman for Data Architecture, NIEM, Oracle DM 3.0, Oracle Designer, ERwin r9, Rational Rose/GDPro, SQL Architect.
-Security Standards & Framework: FISMA, RMF, FIPS, NIST Cybersecurity, NIST SP 800-39/58, ISO/IEC27K ISMS, NIST, ISF SOGP, CIS, NVD, EISA, AWS Cloud Security, FIPS requirements for Cryptographic.
-Security Technology: CIS-CAT, Symantec DLP, Cisco (IPS, IDSM, mgmt. tool), NIST SCAP (ACS, CVE), Cryptology.
EDUCATION
-Doctorate in Informatics
National University of Ireland, UCC, Cork, Ireland.
Focus: Data strategy, governance, knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning, analytics, data science and business intelligence.
-Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Detroit, Detroit, MI.
-Bachelors of Science in Engineering
University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan.
CERTIFICATES
-Management skills and leadership development, 2015.
-Applying the risk management framework to federal information systems, NIST, 2015.
-HIPAA privacy and security training, 2015.
-Ethic training, 2015.
-Build a cloud, RICON, 2014.
-Oracle database 11g performance tuning Ed2, 2013.
-Doors practitioner, 2008
-Red hat Linux networking & security administration-RH253, 2007.
-Red hat Linux system administration-RH131, 2007.
-Sun certified web component developer for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, 2003.
-Sun certified programmer for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, 2002.
AWARDS
-Board of directors - Brandon Shores, 2015.
-The ‘Road to freedom’ award, CCC Information Services, Inc., 2013.
-The ‘Way to go’ award, CCC Information Services, Inc., 2012.
-Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) scholarship, 2008.
-The ‘Language awareness certificate’, Higher Colleges of Technology, 2007.
-The UAE Educational IT challenge judging certificate, Ministry of Higher Education, 2004.
-The Higher Colleges of Technology certificate for professional development, 2004.
-Nominee of Kappa Mu Epsilon Mathematics Society of University of Detroit, 2002.
-ASAI Scholarship, 1999.
-Sudan Engineering Council, 1999.
SAMPLE PUBLICATIONS
-Ammar Ahmed, Nicholas E. Korres, Joern Ploennigs, Haithum Elhadi and Karsten Menzel, "Mining building performance data for energy-efficient operation" Advanced Engineering Informatics, 25(2011) 341-354.
-Joern Ploennigs, Ammar Ahmed, Burkhard Hensel, Paul Stack and Karsten Menzel, “Virtual sensors for estimation of energy Consumption and thermal comfort in buildings with under floor Heating" Engineering Informatics.
-Ammar Ahmed, Orteba Michel, Korres E. Nicholas, Elhadi Haithum and Menzel Karsten, "Assessing the performance of naturally day-lit buildings using data mining,", 25(2011) 364-379.
-Ammar Ahmed, Joern Ploennigs, Karsten Menzel, and Brian Cahill, "Multi-dimensional building performance data management for continuous commissioning," Advanced Engineering Informatics, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 466-475, 2010.