Ahmed FEKRI

Accomplished Principal Data & AI Architect at Microsoft Corporation, specializing in cloud-native solutions and advanced analytics. Expert in data architecture and machine learning, driving digital transformation through innovative strategies. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver impactful results, enhancing operational efficiency and data governance across complex projects.

• Advanced Professional Certificate in Computers and Programming 2000
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on Windows 2000 and 2003
• Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator on Windows 2000 and 2003
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Security on Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 (ISA 2004); (MCSE: Security)
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer: Messaging on Windows 2000 and 2003 (Exchange 2003) (MCSE: Messaging)
• Microsoft Certified Database Administrator (SQL 7.0 2000 2005) (MCDBA)
• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)
• Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) v3.0 Practitioner
• Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft Certified IT Professional : Database Administrator SQL 2005
• Microsoft Certified Learning Consultant (MCLC)

Computers, Chess and Snooker

FIFA 2022 Smart Stadiums, A big project under the Qatar FIFA 2022 program. Building 8 smart stadiums connecting all sensor systems (CISCO, Honeywell, etc.) to many central observatories centralizing all data collected from inside and outside the systems and deploy Data Science to extract business insights., Qatar MoPH Data Hub 2020, Creating country-wide Health data cloud including data from different government entities relative to citizens health and deploy data science techniques to foresee diseases and health patterns, etc., Qatar Ministry of Economy and Commerce 2019, During the embargo and some political pressures there was a need to deploy Data Science to analyze food imports, export, sources and consumption in order to optimize usage and provide business insights to top country management and decision makers to make right the political and economical decisions to respond to the current political changes., Qatar Customs Authority 2018-2019, Qatar Customs Authority wanted to deploy Big Data techniques and Data Science in order to analyze imports against country rules and automatically detect frauds rather than the current manual process., Tansik 2007, This project was meant to enable high-school graduates to do their college admission through the Internet rather than the normal manual way. 500000 students did their admission through the Tansik 2007 portal. The web site was www.tansik.egypt.gov.eg, My role in the project is to:, Designing the overall solution of the Tansik 2007 Project (MS Infrastructure and Database Solution), Acting as the Team Lead of OMS Infrastructure Team in Tansik 2007 Project, Planning, designing and Implementing Tansik 2007 Database Highly Available and Scalable Solution using SQL Server 2005, Technology/Product used: Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, ISA Server 2004, MS NLB, MS Clustering Services, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server Failover Clustering, SQL Server Replication, SQL Server DB Mirroring, SQL Server Log Shipping, Time Frame: 4 months, Qatar National Bank (QNB) 2005, Designing the Migration, Consolidation and the implementation of Windows NT 4.0 directory service to Windows Server 2003 Active Directory in a clustered environment, and Exchange 5.5 server and Exchange 2000 server to Exchange server 2003 geo-cluster. Beside the implementation of Certificate Services and Public Key Infrastructure. Also Designing and Implementing Microsoft Business, Desktop Standards through scripting technologies and Group Policy Objects. Also Implementing MOM 2005 server and SMS 2003 server. 2000 users, Learning Gateway (Saudi Ministry of Education) 2006, Designing, implementing Project managing the deployment of MS Learning Gateway Framework 2005 in 25 Schools in KSA, the solution included several features provided through a portal gateway that encompasses collaboration and assignment mechanisms to enhance and computerize the learning process including Teachers, Students, Admins and Parents all through the same portal and the same cycle. 12500 users, RAYA Group 2005, Designing and implementing a migration and consolidation infrastructure to consolidate all RAYA group nine subsidiaries into one Active Directory forest tree and one Exchange server organization, 3000 users. The design and implementation included SMS hierarchy, Exchange Cluster, load-balanced front end servers, Site-To-Site VPNs using ISA Server 2004 in some subsidiaries, MOM implementation, E-Government Egypt 2005, Troubleshooting and reassessing the implementation of some of the E-Government sites in Egypt, including Traffic, Tax., Designing and Implementing E-Government Sites like Giza Traffic Service Stations., Reassess security measures in NCEC, Optimize SQL Server performance and Database Replication between service connections, E-Government Portal 2007, My role in the project is to, Act as the resident Infrastructure Consultant for all projects within the confines of the e-Government services www.egypt.gov.eg, Leading partner infrastructure teams in implementing infrastructure projects related to the services encompassed in the e-Government Portal, Enhancing the Server Management Solution (MOM 2005) implemented in the e-Government using Advanced Scripting techniques using WSH and WMI Technologies, Managing the process of Change Management in the e-Government Portal with respect to the Infrastructure point of view, Technology/Product used: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, ISA Server 2004, MS NLB, MS Clustering Service, SQL Server Failover Cluster. SQL 2000 Server, MOM Server 2005., Time Frame: 6 months, General Taxation 2006, Design Migration from Windows 2000 domain to a new Windows Server 2003 forest (~230 sites), Design Migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange Server 2003, Hardware rotation of SQL 2000 cluster to a new SQL 2000 64bit cluster, Design the migration from SQL 2000 environment to SQL Server 2005, Learning Solution for Ministry of Foreign Trade 2004, Assess, Design, Develop and Implement a complete Learning Solution for the IT Sector of the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Egypt) including all IT departments (Systems, Development, Graphics, Web, etc), held in New Horizons Egypt and the customer’s side (On-The-Job Training). The plan duration was one year with a budget of $16,000+, and the evaluation of the plan resulted in a Return On Investment (ROI) of around 400%, 200 trainees.