Mohamed Salem

Acting as IBM Technology CTO for KSA MOD & MOI their subsidiaries. I am responsible for aligning IBM strategy with clients' digital transformation and initiatives strategy to drive multi-million revenue. Also, I am leading technical teams to perform presales and post-sales activities and ensure successful engagement. In addition, Driving with the client multiple innovative strategies related to Gen AI, Security, quantum computing, research, and sustainability. My responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Developed and implemented innovative technical solutions to improve operational efficiency.
• Spearheaded technology integration initiatives, aligning systems with business goals for enhanced functionality.
• Championed cybersecurity initiatives to ensure the protection of sensitive data from unauthorized access or potential breaches.
• Spearheaded transformation efforts from legacy systems to modern cloud-native solutions for improved scalability, flexibility, security.
• Delivered exceptional customer support, effectively resolving complex technical problems and ensuring client satisfaction.

• Acting as IBM Technology CTO for Aramco and Sabic including their subsidiaries. I am responsible of aligning IBM strategy with clients’ digital transformation and initiatives strategy to drive multi-million revenue. Also, I am leading technical teams to perform presales and post-sales activities and ensure successful engagement. In addition, Driving with the client multiple innovative strategies related to Gen AI, quantum computing, research, sustainability, and security.

• Leader of 10 senior pre-sales technical specialists / Architects with 10+ years of experience. Provide mentoring, guiding, and coaching for the team to assist them delivering business results. Assisting sales team in building GTM, sales plays, upsell and cross-sell. Take care of team career growth and education. In addition, working as senior architect for IBM strategic clients.

• Assist customers in their digital transformation journey, and building cloud, integration and analytics solution architectures. Assisting sales team in building pipeline, progressing deals and onboarding new logos to IBM market. I served many clients in MEA region such as (but not limited to):
• Saudi National Bank (former NCB) - Saudi Arabia
• I worked with the client in building the architecture of omnichannel layer based on microservices and API management patterns.
• Worked with the client in planning for their integration modernization replacing Kurods system with IBM ESB (AppConnect / APIConnect) to integrate with their core banking system (finacle).
• Alinma Bank - Saudi Arabia
• Participated in the architecture of channel system (using microservices in liberty profile) integrated with Temenos core banking system using IBM APPConnect.
• Participated in the architecture of B2B system using API management system on containers.
• Alrajhi Bank - Saudi Arabia
• Participated in building the architecture of Open API project to transform all bank services into APIs using IBM APIConnect.

• Design & implement business process management solutions for customers in EMEA region. I worked in different technical and leadership role as Team leader, architect, solution designer, and implementor. Also, I worked as BPM consultant and advisory to multiple customers WW such as:
• Emirates National Bank of Dubai (ENBD) - UAE
• I participated in architecture and implementation, and deployment of first modernization project in the bank to build BPM/integration/content management solution integrated with banking systems using Rest APIs such as:
• - Signature system
• - Finacle core banking system.
• - Scoring system.
• - Credit Card system.
• - BL system.
• Barclays Bank – South Africa
• Participated in building the architecture and implementation of a complete scoring core banking system using BPM / integration technologies. The solution was integrating with bank channels through REST APIs exposed from BPM engine on the integration layer.
• Ericsson – Sweden
• I Participated in building the architecture and solution of internal education portal for Ericsson employees using IBM portal, Ajax and BPM.
• Standard Bank – South Africa
• I participated in building on-boarding and account opening solution (architecture & implementation) using BPM and integration technologies. The solution was integrating with temenos APIs through IBM ESB.

• Working in IBM SWAT & Services teams assisting customers in EMEA region to solve critical situations in IBM WebSphere product stack. And help customer in assessing their IT solutions and operational methodology. I served many clients WW such as (but not limited to):
• AT&T – USA
• Telefonica – Spain
• Royal air Force – UK
• Deutsche Bank – Germany
• Isch Bank – Turkey
• HSBC – Turkey
• Vodacom – South Africa
• SABSA – South Africa
• TATA holding – India
• Birla sunlife – India
• Egypt Telecom - Egypt
• Provide support to sales teams in POCs and services teams in testing/production deployments at customers in Germany, USA, India, Spain, France, Bulgaria, Italy, UAE, Russia, UK, Slovenia, Argentina, Switzerland, South Africa and Egypt.

• Working as a web, IBM Portal and java developer in IBM Lab. I worked in different IBM products implementations such as IBM Business Monitor. Also, I worked in multiple internal tools development related to product translation and inter company communication. I was developing using IBM Portal, Java, javascript, servlets, database ETLs, SQL, DB procedures and HTML.