Khalid M. Gomaa
IT Specialist/Consultant
Cairo, EgyptWork Experience
Freelance IT Specialist/ConsultantFull Time
GIZ, USAID, COMESA, EU, UNIDO, and other organizations
Jul 2004 - Present -21 yrs
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:► Consultancy to some international, governmental, public, and private enterprises and charities on IT aspects. This includes IT system integration, design of corporate information policies and procedures, design of information system evaluation criteria, conducting needs assessment, analysis, recommendation, and supervision of implementation. ► Focus on web-based information systems in the fields of agriculture, energy, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and fresh-produce export and traceability schemes. ► Consultancy, engineering, coaching and/or implementation of corporate information systems with focus on web-based applications. ► Design and implementation of a number of specialized web-based energy applications such as (1) energy balances based on Eurostat and IEA models, (2) power plant efficiency and electricity generation cost, (3) fuel composition calculator, (4) online visualization of the Mediterranean Solar Plan Project (MSP), (5) online visualization of power grid in some countries.
Deputy IT Director and Application Development Team Leader Full Time
- Job Details:(I'm currently still working for UPEHC as an IT Consultant) ► Implementing the upsizing of Cotton Traceability and Follow-up System to become Strategic Crops Traceability and Follow-up System. ► Supervising and participating in the development of UPEHC website constituting several applications having web front end and database back end.
MIS Senior SpecialistFull Time
Agricultural Technology Utilization and Transfer Project (ATUT)
Sep 1995 - Sep 2002 -7 yrs
Egypt , Cairo
- Job Details:► MIS Senior Specialist ► Team Leader, application development/programming team ► Team Leader, database development team ► ATUT Website administrator ► Technical Advisor to Assessment, Procurement, and Receiving committees Other Responsibilities and Achievements: ► Implemented Cotton Traceability and Follow-up System--an Internet-based, nation-wide data collection and reporting system for follow-up of vegetation of cotton in Egypt. ► Responsible for website dynamic linking with databases for ATUT library holdings, international wholesale market prices for horticultural commodities, ATUT outreach programs and activities, etc. ► Responsible for the design and implementation of a web-based directory of agribusiness firms in Egypt. ► Responsible for the establishment of ATUT website including hardware and software configuration, website registration, etc. ► Responsible for web-based publishing of ATUT bimonthly newsletter. ► Participated in the design and inspection of ATUT’s LAN (100+ nodes) including switches, routers, access server, and Internet up-link ► Technical advisor & inspector in procurement committees for IT hardware and software in ATUT, some Agricultural Research Center’s (ARC) research institutes, and the Egyptian National Agricultural Library (ENAL) ► Instructed courses on general office applications and Internet attended by ATUT, ENAL, and ARC staff and researchers
Education
Agricultural Export Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Agriculture & Supply Chain Management
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AAST)Jan 2010 - Jan 2013 - 3 yr
B.Sc. Engineering in Mechanical Engineering
Kind Saud UniversityJan 1980 - Jan 1985 - 5 yr
High School - Thanaweya Amma
Badr Secondary SchoolJan 1980