SKILLS

Servant Lead

Change Agent

Results Oriented

Strategic Planning

Product Development

Emotional Intelligence

Conflict Management

Positive Influence

Team Building

Mentoring

Coaching

WORK EXPERIENCE

Internet Brands (WebMD, Medscape & Avvo, Lawyer.com) // 2020 – 2023 VPE AI Platform & Data Science/Analytics

- Translated business objectives into execution strategies for AI applications & Core Data Services, resulting revenue growth of over 300% year-over-year (B2B2C)

- Orchestrated the development and optimization data pipeline and infrastructure of an Autonomous Platform

(SaaS/PaaS) for personalizing (Healthcare & Legal) to individual preferences leveraging recommender systems to providing relevant/valuable content, improving customer acquisition and retention

- Led the migration from AWS Redshift & other data sources to GCP-BigQuery and implemented Data Mesh on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), optimizing master data management systems and advanced analytics.

- Collaborated closely with stakeholders (C-Suite) to identify and manage priorities within the context of Objectives & Key Results (OKR) for Generative AI (Fine-tune LLMs, RAG and Knowledge Distillation)

- Built and recruited a responsive global engineering team of high-performance scientist & engineers dedicated to build Intelligence solutions, APIs, services, and optimizing AI-Powered Platform (Law & Healthcare)

- Established a Master Data Management (MDM) data governance committee to ensure data quality, data protection, and compliance with global and local regulations, resulting in a 25% growth in data quality

- Focused on data security through implementing advanced encryption techniques, regular security audits, and multi-factor auth, leading to a 40% reduction in security incidents ensuring the protection of PII data. AI Consultation Services

Al-Jazeera Media Network // 2022 – 2023

- Established the Prediction Practice for data modernization enabling Augmented Advanced Analytics. This included qualitative and quantitative analytics, predictive modeling, diagnostics, and prescriptive analytics

- Developed Writer Assistant (Co-Pilot) using distilled models from LLMs to have self-inference on Mobile

- Orchestrated the development of Kashef, which is a prediction engine for FIFA Qatar World-Cup 2022 games, implementing ensemble of XGBoost models deployed on GCP-VERTEX-AI Voyance Healthcare // 2021 – 2023

- Pioneered a groundbreaking Radiology Assistant by integrating Generative AI Foundation Models like BERT and GPT (LLM) to generate Radiology reports (Co-Pilot) from X-Rays images

- Fostered the implementation of computer vision and object detection by building an ensemble of convolutional neural network architectures (CNNA) detecting chest disease from X-Ray images Verizon Media (Publicis Media) // 2018 – 2020

Senior Vice President of Data Platform (Data Science, Data Engineering, AI Engineering)

- Pioneered AdTech/MarTech and Data & Marketing services strategy

- Overseeing the delivery Integrated Marketing (Digital and Traditional) Advanced Analytics, Media mix optimization (MMM), predictive analytics, Google Analytics, DoubleClick (DCM), and Adobe Analytics, Digital B2C tactics, Innovid, ROI management, and measurement science & experimental A/B testing

- Led a global team of professional SW Engineers, scientists, data engineers, ML Engineers, and data/BI analysts. PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A visionary tech leader with over 25 years of unmatched expertise in guiding dynamic teams within the Fortune 100 arena. My extensive global presence encompasses North America, Europe, and Asia, where I have orchestrated groundbreaking initiatives in AI, data optimization, architectural innovations. My forte lies in shaping and deploying highly scalable, cloud-centric infrastructures, placing me at the forefront of the latest advancements in Advanced Analytics, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Data Science, and the Internet of Things (IoT). My leadership philosophy revolves around igniting innovation, empowering teams to cultivate creativity, while concurrently fostering unwavering accountability. This approach ensures that we consistently establish industry benchmarks and, more importantly, consistently surpass the loftiest of organizational aspirations. With a relentless commitment to technological excellence and a global vision, I'm poised to drive the organization to new heights in the realm of intelligent software engineering. Hatim Aiad

Http://LinkedIn.com/in/Hatim-Aiad-a070911a4

VPE, AI Engineering & Data Science

425-***-****

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

SOA, Microservices, Distributed

Architecture, Server-less Architecture,

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, IaaC, CaaS, DBaaS

BQML, AutoML, VertexAI, Python, FastAI,

OpenCV, ResNet50, Tensorflow, PyTorch,

TorchVision, Pandas, NumPy

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK),

BigQuery, Azure, HDInsight, Data Factory,

AWS, EMR, EC2, S3, RedShift, Qubole, GCP,

ETL, Big-Data, Hadoop, HDFS, HIVE, SPARK,

Data Marts, EDW/Star-Schema, BI, Looker,

Power BI, Tableau, Data Studio

Java, C/C#, C++, Objective-C, AJAX,

Silverlight, WCF, Entity Framework, Jenkins,

JIRA/Confluence, GitHub

HTML5, JavaScript, NodeJS, Angular

DB2/400, RDBMS, MS-SQL, NoSQL, MySQL

ERP IBM AS/400 “BPCS” Business Planning

& Control System, FMIS (Financial

Management Info System)

i18n, g11n, l12y, l10n

HONORS & AWARDS

Gold-Star 2012 Award (MS-Office)

Gold-Star 2010 Award (MS-Office)

Gold-Star 2009 Award (MS-Office)

Honorable award 2008

(MS- Engineering Excellence)

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Deep Learning & Applied

Science

UC Riverside, College of Engineering

Riverside, California, USA

Executive Education,

AI & Data Science for Leaders

UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Bay Area, California, USA

M.Sc. Computer Science

Stevens Institute of Technology

NYC Metropolitan, USA

B.Sc. Computer Science

ASU (Ain Shams University)

Cairo, Egypt

B.Sc. Pure Math & Statistics

ASU (Ain Shams University)

Cairo, Egypt

EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

- Instituted data governance standards of CDP & MDB (Customer & Marketing Data Platform) to safeguard data quality, consistency, protection, and compliance across our vast and complex data landscape. GoDaddy // 2016 – 2018

VPE of Engineering & Infrastructure Platform (Cloud Platform, Data) As VPE of Global Hosting Engineering, overseeing Product Engineering, Cloud Platform, Data Engineering & Science, and AI Applications & Infrastructure.

Key Contributions:

• Long-Range Plan Strategy: Developed and executed a global strategy and roadmap for hosting Web products using scalable Machine Learning (ML), enabling 17 million web entrepreneurs worldwide to efficiently expand the online presence and foster thriving hosting and eCommerce businesses.

• AWS Strategic Partnership: Forged a pivotal partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), overseeing technical cooperation and expanding cloud capabilities to deliver cutting-edge solutions.

• Operational Process Improvement: Led initiatives to enhance operational efficiency, including standards implementation and key performance indicators (KPIs), resulting in significant improvements across local data centers and AWS.

• Infrastructure Transformation: Pioneered elastic Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) and Database-as-a-Service

(DBaaS) offerings, empowering developers to create resilient and auto-scaled hosted applications. Managed the migration of disparate infrastructure assets to AWS cloud.

• Team Leadership: Mentored and led a diverse team of 155+ professionals, spanning various regions, including Engineers, Data Scientists, DevOps, PMs, and SRE fostering high performance, and collaboration.

• CMS Migration & Modernization: Spearheaded Content Management System (CMS) migration services, particularly for Managed WordPress, and modernized Media Temple's Front of Site (FoS).

• Innovation & Global Impact: Played a pivotal role in driving innovation, forming strategic partnerships, and ensuring operational excellence within the Infrastructure Platform, elevating GoDaddy's global presence and delivering advanced solutions to millions of entrepreneurs and businesses worldwide. Microsoft Corporation // 1997 – 2016

2010 – 2016 Principal Director

• Received 3 Microsoft Gold-Star award for exceptional achievements multiple times.

• Led group of engineering managers (45 “full stack” software engineers & 30+ offshore) for 1. ApEx Connected Docs: Authentication feature in Office Apps to connect iPhone/iPad/iPod users to different could service

(OneDrive, DropBox, Sharepoint).

2. MiraMar, MiniMar, Services feature to run infrastructure system for office/iPhone/iPad, as test automations lab using apple development framework (Objective-C, Swift in xCode).

• Managed infrastructure multi-million $ budget of APEX team (iOS labs, CAPEX and OPEX).

• Established “Intl. Market Customization” team for office Business Intelligence (BI).

• Managed feature crew of office BiDi (Globalization & Localization for complex script).

• Shipped multiple Performance Point Server & Excel services in 106 intl. languages.

• Built & managed a team for Office infrastructure solutions to develop following systems: 1. Internationalization Live system “LocLive”: end-to-end platform for internationalization services (PaaS), feature based to consume machine translation and terminologies recycle. 2. FxCop Localizability Toolset: a set of custom rules for code analysis detects most of the localizability issues in the coding phase, developed by C#.

• Established & managed an incubation team for R&D to develop Windows Replicator, Image Localizer & KPIDraw, KPISearch. From 2000 - 2005 Sr. Software Engineer Manager (Dynamics - CRM)

• Developed & maintained set of OLAP Data Warehouse engines for Worldwide Marketing & support teams, WWMDB OLAP and PSS Worldwide (PSSGlobal/OLAP) from 30 Portera/Empire Time DB & Siebel to CRM backend

• Designed and developed web resource solution and Custom workflow using C# and JavaScript

• Designed and developed Power Apps solutions to be created and customized to meet business needs From 1997 - 2000 Sr. Software Engineer (DevDiv MS-Visual Studio)

• Designed the VSTS libraries of http://VSPerf Visual studio performance team.

• Designed and developed http://PerfStats Visual studio Statistics features set.

• Owned the design and development of series of support online service using Microsoft full stack: http://COSweb, http://MSInsight, http://Premier, http://24x7, http://Hotfix . IBM // 1995 – 1997 – Software Engineer

• Developed & customized many ERP financial modules of BPCS (AS/400), such as General Ledger, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Multi-Currency, Cash Management, Currency Translation, and BPCS-IWS (Intelligent Workstation OS/2). Moreover, contributed to the distribution modules of Order Processing, Purchasing, and Inventory Management

• Developed ERP modules in Financial Management Information system (FMIS on AS/400), encompassing Payroll/Personnel, Fixed Assets, General Ledger, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Multi-Currency, and Cash Mgmt.

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