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Al Almaktoum

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I am a determined, result-oriented, and experienced Developer with over 10 years of extensive and diversified experience in Web Development, Data Reporting and Analysis in the public and private sectors. Flexible and versatile. I thrive on rapidly changing situations and deadline-driven environments, and always remains open to new challenges with others.

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Work across multiple industries

Experience

Implementation Consultant - Qlik

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Implementation Consultant using Qlik's end-to-end business analytics platform

Data Visualisation Developer - Federal Government

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Worked on High Level Dashboards and developed the adhoc datasets required to power them

  • Acted as a key member of the Reporting Team and was responsible for completing the data integration and statistical analysis in line with Ministerial, Senate estimate, and program management requirements.
  • Lifted the quality and accessibility of dashboard visualisations with special attention to the cognitive load on the user combined with specific usage of pre-attentive attributes to improve the overall retention of information.
  • Cleaned, formatted and blended data extracted from a range of repositories and Data Marts department-wide
  • Collated and controlled huge quantities of data to deliver information on the programme’s effectiveness

Project Coordinator - Federal Government

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Assigned by the Enterprise Programme Management Office to provide support project team involved in Transitioning Procurement Contracts for a new programme.

  • Assisted with organising and monitoring stakeholder engagement sessions to ensure service providers were able to fulfil their obligations in line with the new contract requirements
  • Maintained issues logs for service providers and followed up on resolution
  • Carried out quality control of service providers’ work – ensured agreed deliverables were covered and compiled a catalogue of verified deliverables to assist with formal acceptance of project work
  • Collated lists for transfer of select clients to newly nominated service providers – this played a key role in delivering a high risk work package with mandatory dependency ties to successor activities

Analyst Developer - Federal Government

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Engaged to develop a data-mapping prototype and prepare data mapping documentation.

  • Accurately documented the information flow between departmental systems to support Change Releases within the Technology Services Division – created a custom in-house metadata management tool
  • Developed software to meet requirements and fix defects
  • Assisted other areas in resolving data mapping related issues
  • Mapped data flows based on information gathered from multiple sources such as Web Service Schemas
  • Trained new staff in the technical tasks
  • Improved clarity of product requirements for technical stakeholders and as a consequence enhanced the quality of their deliverables

Business Analyst - Federal Government

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Starting in the Graduate programme and moving to a Business Analysis role

  • Analysed requirements in order to resolve defects
  • Modelled Business processes to streamline and improve them

Prior roles - various

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Prior to working for the Federal Government I was at:

  • GlobalX Information Services, Australia – Analyst Developer | Jun 2010 – Jan 2011
  • Ipswich City Council, Australia – Business Analyst (Contract) | Sep – Dec 2009
  • Gold Coast City Council, Australia – Business Analyst (Volunteer) | Mar – Jun 2009
  • Zenkey Group, Australia – Developer | May 2007 - Feb 2008

As a developer I was mainly working on Front End code with a bit of server code due to it being standard at the time to make posts to the server in order to do any processing.

Some of my accomplishments

Projects

Executive Dashboard

This dashboard was a proof of concept.

When building dashboards, the first step is to identify the grain and level of detail of your data. I found this dataset to be low granularity which meant it wasn't well suited for high interactivity (drilling down into the data and slicing it).

However it made up for this by effectively allowing the user to view summaries of data across many Departments across Western Australia. Swapping between Departments needed to be quick to allow the user to Compare performance in this metric.

Working with data for many years in this way has taught me the importance of a good data model underlying any application.

Cover Image for Executive Dashboard

History of Learning

Education

  • Certified Associate in Project Management

    Project Management Institute

    Achieved in the year

    Completed Exam on first attempt

  • ITIL v3 Foundation

    Axelos

    Achieved in the year

    Completed Exam on first attempt

  • Master of Information Technology (Networking & Security)

    Griffith University

    Achieved in the year

    High Distinction Average

  • Bachelor of Information Technology (Information Systems & Software Engineering)

    Bond University

    Achieved in the year

    Received 50% scholarship through High School Principal's rewards scheme

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