This document provides a summary of Ahmed Wasfi Arafa's professional experience and qualifications. It summarizes that he has 12 years of experience managing and implementing business applications and data warehouse/business intelligence projects. He has worked as a technical consultant, BI architect, and project manager. His skills include database design, ETL processes, dimensional modeling, report development, and communication with clients to understand requirements.

1. Ahmed Wasfi Arafa
Business Intelligence Consultant
Address 9
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district, Obour City, Egypt
Cell Phone +20 1001811790
Email Wasfi.Ahmed@gmail.com
Personal Data
Date of Birth July 30
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, 1978
Marital Status Married
Languages English, Arabic
Certifications
1995 – 2000 B.Sc. in Civil Engineering (Higher Technological Institute “HTI”)
2002 – 2003 Diploma in Software Skills Development Program (Information Technology Institute “ITI”)
2008 Certificate Oracle 10 g Professional “OCP”
Summary
• 12 year experience in managing, designing and implementing business applications. Worked in many
different business areas - both on-site and off-shore applications.
• Technical consultant, business intelligence architect and technical lead of 6 BI developers and database
administrators.
• Project manager of integration and BI solution projects.
• Perform extensive data analysis including data extract and cleansing on different legacy systems.
• Design data warehouse, migration methods and multi-dimensional databases.
• Provide solutions for optimizing application performance and maintain high availability.
Skills
Excellent
• Communicate with clients to understand the requirements, define the possible approaches and estimated
time needed for the projects.
• Analyze current systems and legacy data.
• Design OLTP or DW databases optimized for usability and performance.
• Design and assist in developing integration and analytical layers for data warehousing solutions.
• Database development and administration on many engines DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL.
• Develop reports using many reporting tools like Micro Strategy, Oracle Reports, Crystal Reports, and SQL
Server Reporting Services.
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2. Some experience
• .Net and Java development.
• Network, Windows, Linux and UNIX (Solaris and AIX) administration.
• IIS, Oracle Application Server and Rational Application Server administration.
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3. Work Experience
First for industrial development
Period Jan 2011 : Current
Title Database and Business Intelligence Consultant
Significant Projects
1- Order Tracking Module (OTM)
Period Dec 2013 – Now
Client First Group
Title IT Manager
Project Summary
OTM is a web application built for planning and manufacturing. It defines products, place orders, plan order
times, follow up manufacturing processes and calculates machine utilization, material waste and time
efficiency.
Responsibilities
• Communicate planning, production and operation departments and gather requirements.
• Perform all design and development tasks.
• Design, develop and implement integration layer with “Back bone” system.
Technologies and Tools
• SQL Server 2012 database management system.
• SQL Server 2012 Integration Services.
• SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services.
• SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services.
• Visual Studio 2012 C# web application
2- “Backbone” warehouse and BI
Period May 2011 – Dec 2013
Client First Group
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4. Title Business intelligence consultant
Project Summary
“First Group” is a group of factories specialized in manufacturing paper and paper packages. “First Group”
has its own application development team. Over 5 years from continuous development that has
successfully developed the ERP system “Backbone”.
The Group has 6 facilities each in a different location with no direct connection between them. At the same
time the top management should overview the overall group performance.
Consolidating data from different facilities to make reports for top management takes 2 weeks every month.
The target is to generate the same reports in 1 day with the ability to drill down on details for problem
discovery purposes.
Responsibilities
• Communicate with commercial managers to gather requirements.
• Communicate with “Backbone” development team to understand business rules.
• Design the data warehouse, design and develop the Integration layer.
• Design, develop and maintain the OLAP data view layer, dimensions and cubes.
• Create Excel files with power pivot with data, equations and the same report output.
Technologies and Tools
• SQL Server 2005 database management system.
• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.
• SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
• Excel 2010 power pivot
• Erwin data modular.
3- “Backbone” Performance Enhancement
Period Jan 2011 – Feb 2012
Client First Group
Title Database design and performance consultant
Project Summary
There were some database design and performance issues we started a team
Responsibilities
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5. • Deploy a bug tracking tool to record all reported errors with details
• Investigate each programming units - module by module – for performance
• Cooperate with testing team to report defect scenarios
• Monitoring production databases to understand how the code is using server resources
• Give sessions to developers on common and high impact performance practices
• Help developers redesign some database objects
Technologies and Toolst
• SQL Server 2008 database
• Erwin data modular
• Visual Studio 2008
GCSSD - Global Consulting Services and Software Development
Period Jan 2005 : Jan 2011
Title Data warehouse consultant
Significant Projects
1- Accounting Sales Data Mart “ASDM”, Circulation System Data Mart “CSDM”, and Freedom
KPI Projects “KPI”
Period Apr 2009 – Dec 2010
Client Freedom Communications Inc. (CA, USA)
Title Data warehouse consultant
Project Summary
Collecting the advertisement revenue, newspaper circulation transactions, budgeting data, and some
production measures from more than 20 different systems. Structuring and unifying the data into data
marts which in return are the basis of a multi-dimensional database that provides rich analysis to end
users. These projects have proven a great outcome for managers and we are extending it to (Phase II).
Responsibilities
• Travel to the client to discuss the requirements, investigate, analyze and transform the legacy data.
• Design SSIS packages and lead the BI development team.
• Design, develop and maintain the OLAP data view layer, dimensions and cubes.
• Control 3 different environments with continues new features and hot fixes.
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6. • Deploy releases on client servers, manage batches and maintenance tasks.
• Support 2 .Net developers in reporting.
Technologies and Tools
• SQL Server 2005 database management system.
• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.
• SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
• Microstrategy Analyzer BI Server.
• Erwin data modular.
2- Wholesale Mechanical Incentives Tool “WICT” and Part Sales Tracking Tool “PSTT”
Period Jan 2007 – Dec 2010
Client Nissan North America (TN, USA)
Title Data warehouse Architect
Project Summary
Collection & Management of master and transactional data from different sources and formats, perform
cleansing and validation automatically and calculates incentives for the dealers based on dynamically pre-
established rules.
Responsibilities
• Study business needs from consulting company.
• Build application interfaces to retrieve data from other systems.
• Analyze, validate and cleanse data coming though system interfaces.
• Transactional and Warehouse database design.
• Design the integration layer and lead its development.
Technologies and Tools
• Visual Studio .Net 2008
• SQL Server 2005 database management system
• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
• SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services.
• SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
• Erwin data modular.
3- Point of Sale
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7. Period 2007 – 2008
Client Mercury Insurance (USA)
Title Data designer / DBA
Project Summary
Manage automotive policies life cycle entered by Mercury Agents with comprehensive integration with
different systems and other modules in the application through Web Services. The portal interfaces with
other systems (NextGen, DMS, ChoisePoint…) through web services to handle invoice payments.
Responsibilities
• Understand requirements and design database.
• Design and develop batch processes using SQL and Java Stored procedures.
• Performance tuning and database administration tasks.
Technologies and Tools
• IBM Rational Development Studio
• IBM Rational Application Server
• IBM DB2 database management system
4- AP Portal
Period 2006
Client Countrywide Financial (USA)
Title Business intelligence developer / DBA
Project Summary
Invoice Tracking Portal with comprehensive workflow & reporting functionalities. The application provided
automatic data load for invoices into the system to replace a manual invoice tracking system. Also, the
portal interfaces with PeopleSoft to handle invoice payments.
Responsibilities
• Analyze data in legacy system and migrate the data into our system.
• Design and developed the integration layer to get transaction updates from other systems like
PeopleSoft.
• Design small data marts and OLAP cubes for high level analysis.
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8. Technologies and Tools
• Visual Studio .Net 2005
• SQL Server 2000 database management system
• SQL Server 2000 data transformation layer
• SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services.
5- Parts Pricing System “PPS”
Period 2005 - 2006
Client Nissan North America (CA, USA)
Title Database designer / DBA
Project Summary
Segmentation, Pricing & Methods for Nissan Spare Parts, Workflow to manage users’ tasks & Reports
Generation. Also, interface with Nissan Legacy Systems.
Responsibilities
• Create database objects.
• Synchronize remote database environments.
• Design and develop small data marts.
• Develop integration layer for data marts.
• Create OLAP Cubes.
• Develop SQL and Java stored procedures.
• Develop comprehensive reports.
• Hand-over the databases configuration, administration and stored procedures to Nissan IT staff.
Technologies and Tools
• IBM Websphere Studio
• IBM Webshpere Application Server
• IBM DB2 database management system
• IBM DB2 data warehouse design studio
• IBM DB2 OLAP builder
• Microstrategy Reports
• Erwin data modular
6- Other Projects
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9. Wholesale system Nissan North America (CA, USA)
Dealer Financial System Honda (USA)
Task Manager GCS (Egypt / USA)
BBS - Bright Business Solutions
Period Jul 2003 : Jan 2005
Title Oracle Developer / Oracle DBA
Significant Projects
1- Brokerage, GDR and Portfolio Systems
Period 2003 – 2004
Client HR Brokerage
Title Oracle Developer / Oracle DBA
Project Summary
Special modules designed for selling and buying stocks and bonds according to Egyptian stock market
rules, GDR and managing portfolios. These modules are integrated with other modules in the company
ERP system.
Responsibilities
• Restructure and Rebuild GDR system.
• Collect, study, design and develop change requests.
• Business and Technical support first contact person.
Technologies and Tools
• Oracle database management system
• Oracle forms and reports
• Power designer
2- Other Projects
WinFAST (ERP system) Many clients (Egypt and Middle East)
Pharmacy Stores Care Pharmacies (Egypt)
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10. Gif Stores POS Patchi (Egypt)
Fuel Management System Exxon Mobil (Egypt)
Obour for REI
Period Jun 2000 : Sep 2002
Title Civil Engineer
Projects
Packline Paper Factory
Ebour Mall
Lheemy Factory
Packline warehouses
Hobbies
• Traveling
• Photography
• Reading
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