- Serving as a client advisor on topics such as AI, Data Science, Robotic Process Automation, FinTech, Blockchain, and AI governance. - Leading some banking client's data enhancement and reporting initiatives. - Participating in several Sia Partners Game Changing proposals and Key Initiatives. - Contributing to internal working groups, blogs and IPs. - Assisting in growing our Sia Partners' Bot Catalog. - Participated as a PM in several FinTech Hackathon series and Data Challenges. - Serving as Digital Transformation Charlotte work group representative to expand the Data Science and AI practice in US and Global markets. - Ambassador, Ideation Enabler, Opinion Leader, & Growth Hacker for Sia Partners. Client Projects: - Managed and led several tech work streams at commercial banking clients involving several initiatives such as data quality enhancements, centralizing data sources, and reporting. - Managed banking client weekly and Bi-weekly Data Quality progress reporting and produced Dashboards to track our Data remediation efforts. - Performed comparative analysis of our banking client new Global Sanctions Policy against Loan IQ EOD attributes. - Worked on multiple LIQ Enhancements’ projects. - Supporting a banking client’s Loan IQ Upgrade shakeout ( API ) testing and designing future automated in-scope testing. - Reporting all data discovery findings and progress directly - Led banking client Global Sanctions Data Discovery meetings and escalated necessary data attributes changes. - Optimized the client’s Guarantor Validation Report review, remediation, and performed the ALM UAT testing.

Wells Fargo | Feb 2016 - Feb 2018

Analytic Consultant - Risk Management

- Identifying & defining opportunities through thoughtful understanding & analysis of processes, managing all related implications, & supporting business line leadership to drive all initiatives. - Maintaining frequent contact with department leadership & process owners to work collaboratively with them during exploration & execution of initiatives. - Creating, implementing & managing alignment of different measurements to help deliver consistent management reporting through collaboration with appropriate stakeholders in creating, maintaining & analyzing different sets of data as well as reporting & escalating any risk related elements or discrepancies to the appropriate partners. - Collecting & retrieving data to publish effective reports for the purpose of supporting management decision making, driving initiatives & overall risk management. - Effectively tracking expenses & ensuring timely & accurate payment of invoices to help manage related expenditures. - Leading different aspects of efficiency & expense related initiatives. -Tracking projects' progress with respect to time management, budgeting, & projected goals; communicating updates against original plans to key stakeholders on a timely basis.

Wells Fargo | May 2013 - Jan 2016

Commercial Credit Analyst - Wholesale Banking Compliance

- Retrieving financial Data, analyzing & reporting both business & personal financial statements using Moody's Risk Analytics bank spreading models for current customers & prospects. -Updating loan agreements' financial covenants per financial data available in WLS data marts. -Monitoring current borrowing relationships to ensure compliance with loan agreement by testing financial loan covenants against MRA reports created based on the borrower's financial statements provided. -Providing analytical support to other Credit Analysts, & Commercial Relationship Managers in the field offices. -Seeking out & constantly participating in ongoing trainings on financial statement analysis and underwriting. -Supporting other team members to meet overall department efficiency and productivity goals.

UNC Charlotte | Feb 2009 - Dec 2012

Tutor

Tutoring UNCC students in Arabic, MIS subjects, Business Mathematics, Statistics, French, Accounting & Finance.

NBS HDPE Lining S.A.R.L. | Oct 2010 - Sep 2011

Project Associate

- Assisted in translating and communicating proposals to OCP and TEKFEN Holdings. - Assisted in networking with local banks and potential investors in Morocco in order to obtain a performance guarantee or a performance bond.

Azama Bus | Jun 2010 - Aug 2010

Financial Analyst Intern

-Assisted in creating financial statements for external use such as potential investors. -Became familiar with using SAS Enterprise Guide.

My Education

Take a look at my formal education

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Software and Information Systems - Artificial Intelligence (AI) based...University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 2024

Professional Science Master's (PSM) program , Data Science and Business AnalyticsUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte | 2019

Graduate Certificate, Data Science and Business AnalyticsUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte | 2018

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), AccountingUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte | 2012

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.), FinanceUniversity of North Carolina at Charlotte | 2011

About Me

A lifelong learner in data science with a proven track record of optimizing business processes leveraging design thinking and agile implementation to help Fortune 500 organizations solve problems and reach their OKRs.

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