Mohannad El-Barachi
Chief Technology Officer
Montréal, Québec, CanadaCTO, technologist, solutions architect, project manager, and developer, wielding a wide range of experience in the Information Technology sector. I specialize in aligning business and technical strategies, building efficient technology teams to execute complex development plans on budget and on time. While my primary focus is technology, I also spend a lot of time on the strategic-end of the business, helping analyze the business landscape, and coming up with strategies that fit within the realm of what is technologically possible.
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Opportunities I've posted
None at the moment.Interests
International Business, Investment, Technology, Hacking, Politics, Egypt, Formula 1, any and all kind of sport, lots and lots of Travel
Specialties
CTO, project management, web application development, software development, business strategies, technical strategies, SaaS
Work experience
(January 2010 to
present)
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Board Member,
Sweet IQ
Sweet IQ is a fully integrated location-based marketing platform that provides actionable recommendations to marketers, helping them increase venue presence, manage brand visibility and drive customer engagement.
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Design, architect, and plan the implementation of technical solutions as per product requirements
∴ Project Management
∴ Working with Product, Sales, and Marketing to align their strategies with the company's technical strategies
∴ IT recruitment
∴ Monitoring, and ensuring systems stability
∴ Coming up with corporate technical standards
∴ Measuring and analyzing KPIs
Achievements
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∴ Launched GetMeListed.net, the first version of the company's product
∴ Launched SweetIQ.com, the company's flagship product
∴ Built a backend system that analyzes terabytes of local marketing data on a daily basis, building trends, and monitors client-specific information
∴ Hired, and managing a team of specialized developers to build multi-hyper threaded processing systems, handing Big Data, applying machine learning algorithms, and pluggins into various social network fire-hoses
Much more to come... Follow @mysweetiq on Twitter.
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Design, architect, and plan the implementation of technical solutions as per product requirements
∴ Project Management
∴ Working with Product, Sales, and Marketing to align their strategies with the company's technical strategies
∴ IT recruitment
∴ Monitoring, and ensuring systems stability
∴ Coming up with corporate technical standards
∴ Measuring and analyzing KPIs
Achievements
———————
∴ Launched GetMeListed.net, the first version of the company's product
∴ Launched SweetIQ.com, the company's flagship product
∴ Built a backend system that analyzes terabytes of local marketing data on a daily basis, building trends, and monitors client-specific information
∴ Hired, and managing a team of specialized developers to build multi-hyper threaded processing systems, handing Big Data, applying machine learning algorithms, and pluggins into various social network fire-hoses
Much more to come... Follow @mysweetiq on Twitter.
(2009 to
2010)
Executive Consultant,
Via One
Special mission to help Via One technologies, a US-based telecommunications company, deliver two of its products.
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Project management
∴ Defining points of failure and resolving them
∴ Auditing the automata system behind the e-commerce websites
∴ Helping streamline communication between programmers in the US and overseas
Achievements
———————
∴ Helped align the technical resources to soft-launch World Phone for Dummies and Octilla Dialler
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Project management
∴ Defining points of failure and resolving them
∴ Auditing the automata system behind the e-commerce websites
∴ Helping streamline communication between programmers in the US and overseas
Achievements
———————
∴ Helped align the technical resources to soft-launch World Phone for Dummies and Octilla Dialler
(August 2004 to
2010)
Owner,
International Corporate Associates LTD.
International Corporate Associates (ICORPA), is a private consulting business that specializes in international business development, and funding my personal IT projects.
International Business Development
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∴ Brokering multi-million dollar transaction between Bear Stearns and the Government of Quang Nam in Vietnam to build an international airport in the free trade zone of Chu Lai
∴ Brokering transactions between the Egyptian Cotton Association and textile factories in Astrakhan, Russia
∴ Commodities trading between Dubai and Ukraine in Urea fertilizer
IT Projects
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∴ Technical studies for the deployment of a Liferay portal solution in the Caribbean Countries, a project sponsored by the CKLN and the EU
∴ Technical studies for the deployment of an association management software for transportation groups across Canada
∴ Managed the back-end systems for Stand Out Jobs
∴ Worked on the proof-of-concept of www.medforyou.com
∴ Developed www.smsit.ca, an SMS platform for real-estate agents, to create a frictionless of connecting real-estate buyers and seller
∴ Developed a proof-of-concept flash click-to-call-through widget connecting website visitors to company customer support via a flash SIP interconnect that requires no download, and no call-back from the end-user
International Business Development
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∴ Brokering multi-million dollar transaction between Bear Stearns and the Government of Quang Nam in Vietnam to build an international airport in the free trade zone of Chu Lai
∴ Brokering transactions between the Egyptian Cotton Association and textile factories in Astrakhan, Russia
∴ Commodities trading between Dubai and Ukraine in Urea fertilizer
IT Projects
—————
∴ Technical studies for the deployment of a Liferay portal solution in the Caribbean Countries, a project sponsored by the CKLN and the EU
∴ Technical studies for the deployment of an association management software for transportation groups across Canada
∴ Managed the back-end systems for Stand Out Jobs
∴ Worked on the proof-of-concept of www.medforyou.com
∴ Developed www.smsit.ca, an SMS platform for real-estate agents, to create a frictionless of connecting real-estate buyers and seller
∴ Developed a proof-of-concept flash click-to-call-through widget connecting website visitors to company customer support via a flash SIP interconnect that requires no download, and no call-back from the end-user
(January 2006 to
January 2009)
Chief Technologist,
Interchange Technologies Inc
High-level IT consulting, portal and web-application architecture, development and deployment, and complex systems integration.
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Project management
∴ System & Portal design, planning, and optimization
∴ Integration of applications in complex technical environments
∴ Deriving solutions based on open-source code
∴ Lead programming of system components
∴ Managing programming team
∴ Maintenance of in-house code
Achievements
———————
∴ Built and designed an application layer on top of the PHP Zend framework for the rapid deployment of web applications
∴ Project management, lead design, and development of an online claims management solution for vehicle manufacturers covering 12 major vehicle brands sold across Canada, currently managing over $2 million in claims
∴ Project management, and lead design of the rebuild of an online vehicles trading platform covering over 1.6 million inventory items across Canada
∴ Project management, and lead system development of the upgrade of a scalable website content and layout management system catering to over 1600 companies
∴ Project management, and lead implementation of the Liferay online students portal for the Caribbean countries (CARICOM and EU)
∴ Leading and spearheading the creation and packaging of the online suite of applications for Turnkey Web Solutions (Simply Business application suite, including integration with the NetSuite financial platform)
www.equipmentsearch.com
www.simplywarranty.com
www.simplyassociations.com
www.simplywebeditor.com
∴ Technical design of an online claims management system for Canon Canada’s digital imaging division
∴ Technical design of an online portal solution for the Canadian medical industry allowing doctors to monitor patients online
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Project management
∴ System & Portal design, planning, and optimization
∴ Integration of applications in complex technical environments
∴ Deriving solutions based on open-source code
∴ Lead programming of system components
∴ Managing programming team
∴ Maintenance of in-house code
Achievements
———————
∴ Built and designed an application layer on top of the PHP Zend framework for the rapid deployment of web applications
∴ Project management, lead design, and development of an online claims management solution for vehicle manufacturers covering 12 major vehicle brands sold across Canada, currently managing over $2 million in claims
∴ Project management, and lead design of the rebuild of an online vehicles trading platform covering over 1.6 million inventory items across Canada
∴ Project management, and lead system development of the upgrade of a scalable website content and layout management system catering to over 1600 companies
∴ Project management, and lead implementation of the Liferay online students portal for the Caribbean countries (CARICOM and EU)
∴ Leading and spearheading the creation and packaging of the online suite of applications for Turnkey Web Solutions (Simply Business application suite, including integration with the NetSuite financial platform)
www.equipmentsearch.com
www.simplywarranty.com
www.simplyassociations.com
www.simplywebeditor.com
∴ Technical design of an online claims management system for Canon Canada’s digital imaging division
∴ Technical design of an online portal solution for the Canadian medical industry allowing doctors to monitor patients online
(January 2000 to
January 2004)
Senior Consultant,
Concordia University
Providing solutions and effective remedies to server problems, while maintaining in-house systems.
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Setting up and deploying Windows and LINUX servers
∴ Maintaining and securing servers, and automating server tasks on a daily basis, ensuring 24/7 operations of each system
∴ Ensuring consistency of backups on SAN system
∴ Troubleshooting and resolving server problems from a preemptive rather than reactive approach
∴ Testing and applying system updates and upgrades
∴ Evaluate, and recommend new hardware and software to ascertain the improvement of the University’s system
∴ Documenting servers, systems, and upgrades
∴ Acting as the backup/primary to the PeopleSoft students’ portal (www.myconcordia.ca)
∴ Devising new strategies for the enhancement of the infrastructure
Achievements
———————
∴ Programmed an automation system based on PERL and LINUX to monitor, secure, and automate tasks on the entire server farm
∴ Integrated Oracle 10g on LINUX in a cluster environment
∴ Programmed an automated alert mechanism to detect, report, and log any and all intrusion attempts, and automatically alert the on-call personnel
∴ Programmed an automated system to alert the various responsible groups when specific components of the PeopleSoft students’ portal failed
∴ Implemented and improved the XEROX® DocuShare platform to allow the university to manage over 5 million documents
∴ Tested and developed a university-wide firewall and intrusion-prevention system with McAffee Canada
∴ Tested and developed a departmental servers’ monitoring system with Hyperic HQ
∴ Delegated the sole responsibility of technically supporting the university’s senior management board
∴ Successfully coordinated in conjunction with Rogers (Rogers At&t at the time), the integration of Concordia’s wireless PDA platform with Rogers’ mail servers
∴ Restructured the University’s system setup standard
∴ Rewrote Concordia University’s computer use policy
Responsibilities
———————
∴ Setting up and deploying Windows and LINUX servers
∴ Maintaining and securing servers, and automating server tasks on a daily basis, ensuring 24/7 operations of each system
∴ Ensuring consistency of backups on SAN system
∴ Troubleshooting and resolving server problems from a preemptive rather than reactive approach
∴ Testing and applying system updates and upgrades
∴ Evaluate, and recommend new hardware and software to ascertain the improvement of the University’s system
∴ Documenting servers, systems, and upgrades
∴ Acting as the backup/primary to the PeopleSoft students’ portal (www.myconcordia.ca)
∴ Devising new strategies for the enhancement of the infrastructure
Achievements
———————
∴ Programmed an automation system based on PERL and LINUX to monitor, secure, and automate tasks on the entire server farm
∴ Integrated Oracle 10g on LINUX in a cluster environment
∴ Programmed an automated alert mechanism to detect, report, and log any and all intrusion attempts, and automatically alert the on-call personnel
∴ Programmed an automated system to alert the various responsible groups when specific components of the PeopleSoft students’ portal failed
∴ Implemented and improved the XEROX® DocuShare platform to allow the university to manage over 5 million documents
∴ Tested and developed a university-wide firewall and intrusion-prevention system with McAffee Canada
∴ Tested and developed a departmental servers’ monitoring system with Hyperic HQ
∴ Delegated the sole responsibility of technically supporting the university’s senior management board
∴ Successfully coordinated in conjunction with Rogers (Rogers At&t at the time), the integration of Concordia’s wireless PDA platform with Rogers’ mail servers
∴ Restructured the University’s system setup standard
∴ Rewrote Concordia University’s computer use policy
Education
(2000 to
2004)
BSc at
Concordia University
