2007 – today

Experience

Nineteen years across Egypt, the UAE and Australia: oil & gas, mining, hydrology, health research, government and enterprise SaaS.

1. Apr 2024 – presentPerth (Adelaide-based company)

   Reporting Manager · Amplify-Now

   Enterprise strategy-execution SaaS. Built and lead a 10-person distributed reporting team, run reporting for the new India Centre of Excellence, and lead the company’s AI enablement.

   • Cut report delivery from 2–3 months to 2–3 weeks (−60%) with a defined process, standard reports, workflow and team coaching.
   • Designed and built Amplify-Knowledge, a self-improving AI knowledge and delivery system used by 50+ colleagues: a further 50–70% delivery improvement.
   • Helped win 2 major enterprise contracts with tailored POCs and executive presentations, contributing to 7% year-over-year revenue growth.
   • Prevented 3 high-value client churns with custom Power BI solutions aligned to each client’s strategy.
   • Re-architected SQL Server: −40% storage cost, +50% OLAP/OLTP performance.
   • Redesigned customer onboarding: −30% porting time, −25% operational cost.
   • Authored the Data Governance policy and an AI-ready data strategy.

   • Power BI
   • SQL Server
   • SSRS
   • Python
   • Claude
   • MCP
   • GitLab
   • llama.cpp

   Case studies: Company-wide AI enablement with a self-improving knowledge system · From 2–3 months to 2–3 weeks by building a reporting team · Cloud orchestrates, local executes: local-LLM research

2. Apr 2022 – Apr 2024Perth

   Data Consultant · DataDivers

   Data consultancy. Moved between client engagements across Azure, AWS, Snowflake and Airflow stacks, often turning a POC into a contract.

   • INX Project Bifrost: technical lead of an “API without an API” integration on S3, Airflow and Snowflake; ~0.6 FTE saved.
   • Telethon Kids ORIGINS: built the full data pipeline whose 2-week POC became a multi-year partnership and the institute’s data platform.
   • Arc Infrastructure: real-time rail-sensor monitoring on TimescaleDB, Azure and live Power BI, including a custom visual.
   • AFG: migrated Informatica and Oracle to Fivetran, dbt and SQL Server with 100% output parity.
   • WA Department of Mines: AI/NLP graph-database POC for plain-English geoscience queries.

   • Snowflake
   • dbt
   • Airflow
   • Fivetran
   • AWS S3
   • Azure
   • TimescaleDB
   • PostgreSQL
   • Power BI
   • Power Automate

   Case studies: Project Bifrost: an API without an API · ORIGINS: the pipeline that became a research data platform · Real-time rail-sensor monitoring across Western Australia · Asking a geoscience database questions in plain English · EDDIH: Technical Achievement Prize at the WA Health Hackathon

3. Feb 2021 – Apr 2022Perth

   Data Analyst · Wireline Services Group

   Wireline logging services for mining and water clients.

   • Project Hawkeye: Board-level Power BI dashboards that exposed logging-truck failure patterns. +15% fleet reliability, and a major mining contract kept.
   • Image-log AI POC: 25% faster interpretation of structures and bedding.
   • Built water-level surface identification software for ore-extraction planning.
   • Automated calibration QC workflows: +40% efficiency and reliability, −1.5 FTE.

   • Python
   • SQL
   • Power BI
   • FileMaker Pro
   • VBA
   • REST APIs
4. Dec 2018 – Feb 2021Perth

   Wireline Field Engineer → Geophysicist → Data Processor · Qteq / Surtech Systems

   Wireline geophysical logging for mining, water and exploration clients including Rio Tinto, BHP, FMG and Water Corporation.

   • Pre-sales pilot proving rock water content for export-ore tonnage: won a 3-month contract.
   • CSIRO collaboration evaluating CO₂ storage in isolated aquifers.
   • Processed a Rio Tinto BMR (NMR) exploration campaign; built an NMR processing workflow and VBA QC tooling.
   • Helped build the company database and prepare its migration to Microsoft Azure.

   • NMR/BMR processing
   • WellCAD
   • Techlog
   • VBA
   • Azure
5. Feb 2017 – Dec 2018Perth

   Sessional Lecturer & PhD Candidate · Curtin University

   Research into formation evaluation of shale-gas reservoirs; lectures and workshops on Formation Evaluation and Borehole Geophysics.

   • Built software to analyse a 5 TB dataset of Australian minerals and oil & gas data.
   • MATLAB machine-learning model predicting Total Organic Carbon: 65% success against lab data.

   • Python
   • MATLAB
   • Petrel
   • Techlog
6. Nov 2007 – Nov 2015Egypt → South Australia

   Senior Data Engineer · Baker Hughes

   Real-time drilling and wireline data for Apache, BP, ENI, Santos, Beach Energy and others. Trusted technical adviser on site.

   • Saved a well from plug-and-abandon: recommended a $1M extra downhole service that proved hydrocarbons, saving the client millions.
   • Caught a tiny casing leak in sensor data before it became a collapse, saving the well and the area.
   • Spotted a formation 700 m higher than planned, revealing a reverse fault, and changed the casing plan to prevent a collapse.

   • Real-time drilling data
   • ECLIPS
   • Petrel
   • Interactive Petrophysics
   • Techlog

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