Mohamed Fathalla
Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
Summary
For over 25 years, I have been bridging the gap between complex clinical needs and robust technical solutions. My journey began as a developer building the Oasis Hospital Information System from the ground up, and today, as Executive Director, I oversee the strategic roadmap for medical applications that power healthcare across the region. I specialize in translating business vision into deployed reality. I don't just manage teams; I build engineering cultures focused on 24x7 reliability and innovation. My expertise lies in modernizing legacy systems, ensuring interoperability, and guiding products through the full lifecycle—from requirement elicitation to market release. Core Competencies: Strategic Leadership: Managing large-scale product roadmaps and engineering teams. Technical Expertise: Oracle, Java, System Architecture, Integration & HL7 Standards. Operational Excellence: Budgeting, Resource Planning, and Technical Support Operations.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Executive Director Medical Applications
Balsam United
Jeddah, Makkah
07.2023 - 12.2025
- Spearhead strategic vision for Balsam United’s medical applications suite, overseeing medical departments' developers and product managers.
- Drive digital transformation initiatives to improve system performance.
- Manage departmental budgets, optimizing resource allocation to reduce development costs while accelerating release cycles.
- 26 years
Medical Solutions Development Manager
Balsam United
Jeddah, Makkah
07.2011 - 07.2023
- Recommends strategies and improvement ideas to senior management.
- Designed and executed 5-year product roadmap that modernized Oasis HIS, resulting in increase in market share and user adoption.
- Work together with product owners to plan and execute projects, ensure that teams have appropriate product and technical specifications, directions, and resources to deliver products effectively ensuring that projects remain on target to meet deadlines.
- Coordinating product upgrades, enhancements and fixes based on release schedules.
- Lead and supervise team of Technical Support Engineers to provide 24x7 optimized coverage for 50+ client hospitals across region.
- Provide leadership and guidance to coach, motivate, and lead department staff to their optimum performance levels and career development, and monitor individual employees’ performance and achievements, and jointly develops and implements employee development plan for department staff.
- Make recommendations for employee actions (hiring, promotion, transfer, compensation, discipline).
- 12 years 1 month
Software Product Manager
Balsam United
Jeddah, KSA
11.2006 - 06.2011
- Responsible for eliciting software requirements developing a high level Product Requirements Documents, and an elaborate Software Requirements Specification for subsequent design, development, and testing activities.
- 4 years 8 months
Technical Lead
Balsam United
Jeddah, KSA
08.2004 - 11.2006
- I was responsible for the underlying architecture of the product Oasis HIS, overseeing the work being done by the development team, having supervisorial responsibilities in delegating work, ensuring projects come in on time, and serving as technical adviser to management.
- 2 years 4 months
Senior Programmer
Balsam United
Jeddah, KSA
01.2000 - 08.2004
- I was part of the development team that built Oasis HIS., I have built a considerable part of the overall system.
- 4 years 8 months
Software Developer
Brain waves
Cairo
08.1998 - 01.2000
- Started as oracle forms developer developing Hospital Information System.
- 1 year 6 months
Education
Computer Science
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
Cairo 01.1997 - 01.1998
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
Faculty of Engineering At Mansoura University
Mansoura 01.1992 - 01.1997
Skills
- Defining Requirements
- Risk management
- Strategy to Execution
- Product lifecycle management
- Product development
- Agile project management
- Stakeholder engagement
- Regulatory compliance
- User experience optimisation
- Clinical workflow integration
- Leadership mentoring
- Performance evaluation
Timeline
Executive Director Medical Applications
Balsam United
07.2023 - 12.2025
Medical Solutions Development Manager
Balsam United
07.2011 - 07.2023
Software Product Manager
Balsam United
11.2006 - 06.2011
Technical Lead
Balsam United
08.2004 - 11.2006
Senior Programmer
Balsam United
01.2000 - 08.2004
Software Developer
Brain waves
08.1998 - 01.2000
Computer Science
Information Technology Institute (ITI)
01.1997 - 01.1998
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics
Faculty of Engineering At Mansoura University
01.1992 - 01.1997