Rayan Al Zahab

Developed the long and short term strategies and tactics for growth and sustainability along the brand.

Developed and deliver the technical training curriculum and select the technologies and tools to be adopted for the training.

Developed and deliver the interactive sessions and personal development workshops.

Led digital transformation initiatives in government entities and banks across the Middle East and North Africa Region:

- Working with a Government entity in Dubai, trained multiple Agile coaches on Agile methodologies to lead their entity's digital transformation

- Working with a Government entity in Dubai, led the transformation of the procurement team to Agile methodologies

- Working with a Government entity in Abu Dhabi, led multiple teams of developers and designers to develop and deliver a platform using Big Data to assess different entity's performance 

- Working with a Government entity in Dubai, led a massive digital transformation across all government entities to digitize services adapting the Agile methodologies for a scalable and sustainable development

- Trained technical teams to adopt the agile methodologies

- Trained non-technical teams to transform their processes and implement agility

- Identified and trained several batches of Agile Coaches to support internal digital transformations in Government entities

- Working with a major bank in Kuwait, trained the tech leads on integrating DevOps and Agile methodologies to scale their development efforts

(Details of the project and client are classified, can be discussed in person)

Focused on automating processes of data collection, and data analysis of different sections across local UNICEF office, and the entire MENA region offices.

Worked closely with county officers from different countries.

Field visits to monitor the processes and to gather feedback regarding youth usage of the systems developed.

Worked remotely with multiple teams and traveled on field to Jordan to train partners.

Work included learning and converting into different technologies: From PHP/Laravel Web development, to FireBase with Native Android Java, to self learning Python/Django and delivering a customization of an existing tool.

As Google developer expert, delivered over 130 talk and workshop around the world with a reach of over 20000 trainees directly and and 353K indirect reach

Featured at Google I/O 2018 for my efforts in equipping teenage girls of marginalized communities with programming skills

Was the most active Google Developer expert in 2018 across the world

Featured at Google GDG Summit 2019 for my efforts in supporting diversity in the tech industry

Featured at WomenTechmakers International day campaign

Featured by Google Developers as inspiring community leader 

After being elected for the Techwomen 2016 program by the department of state in the US, was chosen to intern at SalesForce in the San Francisco offie within the Cloud team, during which I studied the recruiting and selection process of SalesForce to promote diversity.

Studied the agile practice in SaleForce and how they apply it differently across teams.

As part of a startup incubator, consulted a rising local startup in:

• Setting up a business model
• Business building 
• Applying Design Thinking 
• Client relation building
• Setting a product strategy 

As Android development started trending in my region, freelancing was my way to apply my self taught android development skills and keep up with the trend.

During which made sure to develop applications to cover all main features, projects included: 

• Hotel Management Application
  
• Geography Educational Quiz Application
• Internal Chat application
• Javatar: Education application automating learning and testing Java knowledge
• Restaurants Online Delivery Application
• Task Management and order tracking Application

Teaching : JAVA, Android Development, Web Development, MYSQL Database Management, Technical Project Management

Training : Versioning Tools, Bug Tracking System, Quality Control, Presentations skills

Working in an international team across 7 different time zones designing and implementing an HR management solution built in a LAMP environment.

Responsible of backend web development, migration, automation and devops.

Software developer in a multimedia agency, developing web platform, facebook applications and flash applications