Alaeddin Khader

Currently I am leading the data engineering department in Miral Experiences where we do help the business in day to day data driven decisions and provide the data products that support the company growth and help the company achieve its great mission of creating smiles every day.

Passionate about innovation and solutions design with more than 15 years of experience in leading digital and technology especially data and software projects.

Worked with multiple technologies for data ingestion, transformation and warehousing. Also made a lot of solutions to provide business insights out of the data to drive business decisions.

Happy to support you start your journey in data analytics, AI and be data driven organization.

I have joined Farah Experiences who is proud operator of amazing destinations (like Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Warner Brothers World Abu Dhabi, Yas Water World Abu Dhabi, Clymb, ... ) to build and maintain a cutting edge bigdata platform and heading a department of business intelligence and data engineering that drive and support the business strategy and operations with data.
My main achievements so far:
- Building the cutting edge bigdata platform for all the tenants and assets that Farah Experiences operate.
- Building and maintaining My Insights platform that provides numerous business intelligence dashboards and analytics to the business.
- Building and maintaining single customer view platform that provides complete 360 view of the customers in all tenants and various touchpoints.

I have joined Farah Experiences who is proud operator of amazing destinations (like Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, Warner Brothers World Abu Dhabi, Yas Water World Abu Dhabi, Clymb, ... ) to build and maintain a cutting edge bigdata platform and heading a department of business intelligence and data engineering that drive and support the business strategy and operations with data.
Building the cutting edge bigdata platform for all the tenants and assets that Farah Experiences operate.
Building and maintaining My Insights platform that provides numerous business intelligence dashboards and analytics to the business.
Building and maintaining single customer view platform that provides complete 360 view of the customers in all tenants and various touchpoints.

With the increasing importance on digital in the company strategy I have joined the digital team as solutions architect to work on the applications that are directly or indirectly service the customer needs.
Below are some examples of projects: 1- Fast Payment Solution:
Thanks to this solution, our in-store customer experience has been enhanced dramatically by reducing the time and steps needed to finalize the payments in store. Now in one stop the salesman can finalize the product selection and payment without the need to go to cashier.
2- Ecommerce solution Built on Azure and NopCommerce:
Full PaaS (Platform as a service) Ecommerce solution I have done on Azure cloud using NopCommerce solution.
3- Digital Printing Layer:
This is a complete API layer to serve our omni channel customers be it in-store or online to provide seamless invoicing experience (including Tax calculation). besides that it acts as a major block in data integration between our channels, partners channels and our back office and data warehouse.
4- Innovation Platform:
I have played major role in building an innovation platform initiated by our human capital department. This platform is crucial for the growth of the organization and maintaining the innovation in our DNA. As our CEO mentioned in his speech, "great innovations comes from within"

With the increasing importance on digital in the company strategy I have joined the digital team as solutions architect to work on the applications that are directly or indirectly service the customer needs.
Thanks to this solution, our in-store customer experience has been enhanced dramatically by reducing the time and steps needed to finalize the payments in store.
Now in one stop the salesman can finalize the product selection and payment without the need to go to cashier.
Full PaaS (Platform as a service) Ecommerce solution I have done on Azure cloud using NopCommerce solution.
This is a complete API layer to serve our omni channel customers be it in-store or online to provide seamless invoicing experience (including Tax calculation).
Besides that it acts as a major block in data integration between our channels, partners channels and our back office and data warehouse.
I have played major role in building an innovation platform initiated by our human capital department.
This platform is crucial for the growth of the organization and maintaining the innovation in our DNA.

After becoming certified project manager (PMP) and holding masters in business administrations (MBA) I became a senior project manager leading the team to create valuable projects to the company.
Central Items Technical Description has been developed to manage and control the items technical specifications.
The system is used to print and manage centrally the store’s promotional labels for the products in the stores.
The system is easy to use and provide the second language of the country printing the label.
An intelligent application to highlight the depreciated items to the operations team in every store and enables them to simulate the actions that they can do on those items (from price reduction to even wasting the items) and the tool will project the financial impact on every decision.
With this tool we helped the management to do the right decisions and save a lot of money for the company.
A web application to manage and update all employees’ information in Email signature and Telephone list linking the telephone list, Outlook email signature and Active directory.

After becoming certified project manager (PMP) and holding masters in business administrations (MBA) I became a senior project manager leading the team to create valuable projects to the company.
Below are some examples of projects created:
1- Central Items Technical Description:
Central Items Technical Description has been developed to manage and control the items technical specifications. The system is used to print and manage centrally the store’s promotional labels for the products in the stores. The system is easy to use and provide the second language of the country printing the label.
2- Stock Depreciation Tool:
An intelligent application to highlight the depreciated items to the operations team in every store and enables them to simulate the actions that they can do on those items (from price reduction to even wasting the items) and the tool will project the financial impact on every decision. with this tool we helped the management to do the right decisions and save a lot of money for the company.
3- Active Directory User Information Manager (ADUIM):
A web application to manage and update all employees’ information in Email signature and Telephone list linking the telephone list, Outlook email signature and Active directory.

Promoted as Applications manager leading a small team of developers.
I could with the team innovate a lot of internal Applications that are critical to the business operations and had an import efficiency enhancement on the daily work of almost all the departments of the corporation.
Complete intranet portal for the international company (Carrefour) covering all department in all 16 countries and over 210 stores the company operates in.
Complete solution to generate sales invoices with lots of reporting and analysis.
The system is designed to work in all Carrefour branches and consolidate the data and reporting in the central data warehouse in the international head office.
Central web system for automating the Internal Audit reports follow-up for all business units with the ability to do benchmarking and reporting in all countries.
Is an online personal profile management for all employees to enable the employees from filling and updating their own competences.
Management will use the valuable information for finding potentials and performance appraisals.
An online system to manage and follow-up defected items in the after sales services counters in all branches.
The system is capable of registering complaints and tracking the case till it has been repaired by the supplier and sent back to the customer.
With more than 38000 employees, Carrefour has a lot of potentials in the internal workforce to fill in the needed new vacancies.
Hence IRS has been developed in order to manage all vacancies and find the suitable candidates from all company’s branches.
The system is provided with full recruitment process from the time the candidate applied till hiring the accepted candidate.

Promoted as Applications manager leading a small team of developers. I could with the team innovate a lot of internal Applications that are critical to the business operations and had an import efficiency enhancement on the daily work of almost all the departments of the corporation.
Example of the applications developed:
1- Sharepoint Intranet Portal:
Complete intranet portal for the international company (Carrefour) covering all department in all 16 countries and over 210 stores the company operates in.
2- Carrefour Sales Invoices (CSI):
Complete solution to generate sales invoices with lots of reporting and analysis. The system is designed to work in all Carrefour branches and consolidate the data and reporting in the central data warehouse in the international head office.
3- Internal Audit Follow-up System (IAS):
Central web system for automating the Internal Audit reports follow-up for all business units with the ability to do benchmarking and reporting in all countries.
4- Carrefour Management Profile (CMP):
Is an online personal profile management for all employees to enable the employees from filling and updating their own competences. Management will use the valuable information for finding potentials and performance appraisals.
5- Carrefour Aftersales Service Application(CASSA):
An online system to manage and follow-up defected items in the after sales services counters in all branches. The system is capable of registering complaints and tracking the case till it has been repaired by the supplier and sent back to the customer.
6- Internal Recruitment System (IRS):
With more than 38000 employees, Carrefour has a lot of potentials in the internal workforce to fill in the needed new vacancies. Hence IRS has been developed in order to manage all vacancies and find the suitable candidates from all company’s branches. The system is provided with full recruitment process from the time the candidate applied till hiring the accepted candidate.

I have joined Majid Al Futtaim Retail as Software developer in order to support the business to digitize and automate the daily operations.
I could successfully build systems that helped Finance, IT, and Security departments enhance their efficiency.
eLPO system to electronically create and a digitally sign the local purchase orders.
Security registry system to centrally managing and controlling all the security incidents across all the branches.
IT Asset management solution to manage the IT assets across the company following the ITIL guidelines to manage the assets from the time of purchase till the time of disposal.

I have joined Majid Al Futtaim Retail as Software developer in order to support the business to digitize and automate the daily operations. I could successfully build systems that helped Finance, IT, and Security departments enhance their efficiency.
below are example of the project I have done:
1- eLPO system to electronically create and a digitally sign the local purchase orders.
2- Security registry system to centrally managing and controlling all the security incidents across all the branches.
3- IT Asset management solution to manage the IT assets across the company following the ITIL guidelines to manage the assets from the time of purchase till the time of disposal.

Managing and maintaining collage network.
Support and administration of computer labs.
Development of in-house applications
Administration of email and domain servers.
Network design and implementation
Domain redesign and implementation
Internal email design and implementation