Yasser Hossam Eldeen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Strategy Developer
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Toptal member since June 8, 2019
Yasser is a recognized industry expert in business intelligence, data analytics, and information management with over 12 years of experience building data strategies, enterprise data architectures, information management solutions, and data-driven decision support systems. His background is multi-faceted across strategic business intelligence and data analytics consulting, data products management, and building organizations' data strategies and roadmaps.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Analytics, Data Warehousing, Data Architecture, Snowflake, Redshift, Tableau, SQL, Data Build Tool (dbt), Python
The most amazing...
...service I've provided is a full business intelligence architecture and roadmap for RCHSD, the largest children's hospitals in the US.
Work Experience
Lead Data Architect
Stratus Data LLC
- Built a data lakehouse and set of dashboards for a global job-matching platform.
- Led a team to build a full data warehouse and migrate old dashboards to use it as the main source for a global healthcare company.
- Created the data architecture and data warehouse for a pharmacy automation technologies company.
- Developed a set of dashboards for an investment management company.
- Engineered data architectures and infrastructure for other clients.
Data Consultant
Hello Chef
- Defined the data team's vision and strategy and executed a roadmap for implementation.
- Developed the data architecture and infrastructure.
- Aligned analytics needs with key decision-makers and stakeholders, defined and organized the business OKRs and KPIs, and set the data requirements and delivery processes.
- Implemented a full data warehouse and data marts that combined all the data points together and modeled it in a business-friendly way to enhance the self-service decision-making process.
- Integrated data from diverse sources into a centralized data warehouse.
- Developed over 20 dashboards to cover all the business decision-making needs.
- Established a business glossary and metadata and data discovery capabilities.
- Provided training courses and built the community to utilize all developed components.
BI, Data Analytics Consultant | Data, LG, and Strategic Research
Yara
- Managed a business intelligence center of excellence and community of practice organization program to train 35 business stakeholders to self-service their analytics and apply data visualization best practices to enhance their decision-making process.
- Worked with the management to define the organization's OKRs and created a framework to monitor and track them, spreading them among the entire organization.
- Created SQL-based and tool-based ETL pipelines, obtaining data from multiple data sources.
- Architected and developed a scalable data warehouse, employing Amazon Redshift and Data Lake, using S3, Lake Formation, and Glue Data Catalog.
- Developed dashboards covering all business aspects and trained the business team to use the tools as a self-service component of the decision-making process.
- Built efficient and reliable data pipelines, ingesting and transforming more than 15 data sources, using services like (Rudderstack, AWS DMS, S3, Glue, Spark, Terraform, Redshift, MSK, Lambda, and Athena).
- Built a data lake to enable analytics, data science, and a machine learning team to tune and run the data platform end-to-end.
- Helped the brand awareness team to measure and track their efforts and impact.
- Helped the lead generation team understand the market, measure the effectiveness of their efforts, and tune their target to optimize CR and CAC.
- Affected vendor assessment for tools and technologies used.
Business Intelligence Architect
Rady Children's Institute for Genomic Medicine, USA
- Assessed the current situation in detail and provided a full situation assessment and an organization readiness report, including data, IT, business, technology, and infrastructure readiness.
- Interviewed stakeholders and decision-makers and gathered current and future use cases and requirements.
- Interviewed IM team members to understand current and future systems and solutions.
- Defined, wireframed, and documented all stakeholders' requirements.
- Built the entire organization's business intelligence and data analytics roadmap and technical architecture that fit business constraints and technology preferences.
- Built the initial detailed plan as well as the milestones.
- Provided recommendations on the proper technology stack, tools, and technologies for each component of the technical architecture. Prepared a detailed report with initial ROI and the estimated budget and resources.
- Provided a variety of training sessions for the business in technical teams for requirements discovery, data modeling, data warehousing, data integration, data governance, metadata management, data visualization, and data storytelling.
- Built the internal BI community and center of excellence and built the community engagement strategy.
- Created the change management, initiative adoption strategy, data learning, and education strategy for both the technical and business teams and built the user's support strategy, deployment, and maintenance strategy, amongst other solutions.
Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Lanterne Rouge, New Zealand
- Set the BI strategy, met with the business executives to understand the business and KPIs, and accessed and understood the current eight data sources.
- Created dashboard drafts to satisfy all the decision support needs. Also created the required data warehouse and ETL to get all the data in one place with an analytical layer suitable for self-served analytics.
- Modeled and implemented the data warehouse and ETL to get all the data from multiple sources to one place with an analytical layer suitable for self-served analytics. Implemented a set of analytical dashboards for the CxOs and key clients.
- Led the strategy, accuracy, impact, and relevancy for all required BI and data analytics insights and reporting for Lantern Rouge's customers and built/optimized the new internal and external data warehouse and analytical dashboards.
- Empowered the team to use analytics as a self-served component in the decision-making process by providing multiple data visualization and data storytelling training sessions.
- Used AI/ML to leverage the personalized recommendation system based on users’ behavior.
Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Elmenus
- Helped to build a data-driven culture and decision support systems and scale the company’s revenues 5x in less than a year. I was instrumental in its $8 million Series B funding round.
- Built the business intelligence and data analytics roadmap and technical architecture and was responsible for building and executing the implementation and maintenance plan.
- Hired and built the lead BI and data analytics team from scratch.
- Met with all the decision-makers from all the teams to understand their needs and enhance their decision-making process, knowing the business, its KPIs, and OKRs.
- Worked with all the data sources and created the BI and data analysis architecture. I implemented it so they can get the most of their data and understand their customers' behaviors and make better data-driven decisions.
- Selected the right tools and technologies to align with the architecture and company's needs.
- Managed and worked with the team to model and implement the entire data warehouse and required ETLs from scratch.
- Built more than 30 dashboards and ad-hoc reports for all the teams, including operations, marketing, sales, finance, and strategy, to help them take direct decisions and optimize their processes.
- Created investors-focused dashboards to show our growth and profitability forecasting from all the perspectives to help understand the potential ROI and prove ourselves as a data-driven company with every decision empowered by data.
Head of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics
Afkar Technology
- Built and led a team of amazing BI developers to deliver high-quality business intelligence and data analytics solutions for big clients like EFG Hermes, Beltone Financials, IBM Resilient, and Giza Systems.
- Managed the entire process from the pre-sales activities, proposals, requirements gathering, projects planning, managing the implementations to the project's delivery, documentation, and providing training sessions for our clients.
- Provided after-delivery support for the key accounts.
Independent Data Analytics and Data Performance Management Consultant
Ajman Ministry of Finance, UAE
- Performed pre-sales, awareness, and training activities prior to the main project.
- Gathered and analyzed requirements, discovered the main pain points, and set suitable solutions.
- Created full documentation and user manuals for the whole project.
- Owned the project planning and management, UAT, delivery, after-delivery support, and maintenance.
- Modeled and implemented the planning analytics solution.
- Built IBM TurboIntegrator processes to automate every part of the process.
- Provided training sessions for the team and the end-users.
- Managed the full training and orientation for the development team that was working with me.
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Expert
Ministry of Justice - Qatar
- Managed the entire project, from system analysis and design to project delivery.
- Solved IBM Cognos complex problems to satisfy users' needs.
- Modeled the data with IBM Cognos Framework Manager.
- Created a standalone web portal to manage the dashboards' governance to be easy to use.
- Solved many data-related technical challenges facing the technical team in the ministry.
- Created documentation and user manuals for the entire project.
Independant Data Analytics Consultant | Project Manager (Contractor)
Pendo Management Group
- Created a web-based application with integration to an appraisals API called Appraisal Scope. I was responsible for obtaining the API data, synchronizing it to the system, and enabling the system users to manage the appraisal...
- Created a business intelligence web-based application to view the dashboard for each company that Pendo Management Group is working with per month. The dashboard had about nine business charts and data that enabled Pendo Group and its clients.
- Provided training/UAT/full documentation for the two projects.
Business Intelligence Developer and Data Analyst
Bizware International
- Worked in more than 20 complete data analysis and visualization mega projects.
- Managed two teams that won two data competitions in the same year.
- Created around 30 POCs for different clients in many industries.
- Provided corporate training courses for big companies like GUPCO, EgyptGas, and AstraZeneca.
Experience
PowerBI Dashboard for E-Ajman Mobile Application
Beltone Financials Decision Support System
We started by collecting all the data in a centralized data warehouse and building the ETL to do this. We then linked the data warehouse to PowerBI as a DV tool.
EFG Herms Data Visualization Project
Resilient Dashboard Product
Qatar Ministry of Justice Dashboards
Data Storytelling with Flourish
Training Courses
Web Applications
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science Specialization
Cairo University - Cairo, Egypt
Certifications
Predictive Analytics for Business Nanodegree
Udacity
Data Engineering Nanodegree
Udacity
Data Analyst Nanodegree
Udacity
Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering Certificate
The Agricultural Research Center, Egypt
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Google Chart API, Chart.js, D3.js, Matplotlib, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy
Tools
Cognos Analytics 11, Cognos Framework Manager, Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, Cognos ReportNet, TM1, IPython Notebook, Seaborn, Git, Jupyter, SSAS, Microsoft Project, Chartio, Google Analytics, Talend ETL, AWS Glue, Terraform, Mailchimp, Grafana, Amazon QuickSight, BigQuery
Languages
SQL, Python, R, PHP 7, JavaScript, PHP, C#, Java, Snowflake
Frameworks
Flourish, Data Fabric
Paradigms
Database Design, Business Intelligence (BI), Database Development, ETL, Requirements Analysis
Platforms
Jupyter Notebook, Alteryx, Anaconda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, Ubuntu, Oracle, Azure, RudderStack, Docker, Mixpanel
Storage
Databases, Database Modeling, MySQL, SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL, SQL Server 2005, Data Integration, Redshift, Redis, Google Cloud
Industry Expertise
Project Management
Other
Data Architecture, Big Data Architecture, Data Analysis, Cognos, Data Visualization, Visual Storytelling, Data Modeling, Data Analytics, Complex Data Analysis, Data Strategy, Business Intelligence Training, Business Intelligence Architecture, Microsoft Business Intelligence (MBI), Data Engineering, Data Warehousing, Data Warehouse Design, Data Science, IBM Cognos Dashboard Embedded, Google Data Studio, A/B Testing, Algorithms, Data Structures, Predictive Analytics, Predictive Modeling, Data Wrangling, Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Data Mining, Analytics, Data, Strategy, Roadmaps, Product Management, Mathematics, Algebra, Training, Metadata, Data Governance, Tableau Server, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), IBM Planning Analytics, Data Management, Budgeting, Employee Training, Planning, Amplitude, Data Build Tool (dbt), Reporting, Dashboards, Fivetran
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