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Career History & Accomplishments

2. Career History & Accomplishments: Consultancy         1986-Current
I worked as a consultant to a number of Government and commercial establishments:
2.1        Management and Business Consultation.
  • Worked as a consultant for COMESA under the contract no. COM/IRCC/2/2015/015 to provide Technical Assistance to COMESA secretariat in identifying main challenges faced by Member states and developing frameworks for cyber security and critical information infrastructure protection during the period April 30-May 4th
  • Delivered two sessions for the ITU regional office on Mobile Money and Financial inclusions: one in Bahrain and the second in Khartoum,
  • Private Consultant to Local Companies and Commercial Banks: Islamic Development Company, Faisal Islamic Bank, Tadamon Islamic Bank, … etc. to help them in implementing their banking systems to be able to provide modern banking services such as ATM, e-Banking …etc.
  • Currently:

o working as a consultant to Omdurman National Bank to assist in designing and implementing their Technology strategy for the years 2022-2025.

2.2        Telecom Consultation.
  • Acted as one of the consultants in a team of 4 experts to Sudan telecom Co (SUDATEL) after its formation in 1993
  • Currently: Working as a consultant member in a technical advisory committee to the Board of

directors of the Telecommunication and Post Regulatory Authority (TPRA).

2.3       Software Consultation.
  • Acted as Computer Consultant to UNION CARBIDE (SUDAN) during the period 1985-1986.
  • Consultant to the Customs and Excise Duty Department to computerize customs procedures. This project was carried out in conjunction with UNCATD and proved to be one of the most successful computerization projects implemented in Africa that was accomplished within budget and schedule, the total budget of which was more than $10 Million
  • Analyzed, designed and supervised a project to computerize the work of Sudan News Agency. It covered all aspects of receiving news from different agencies and correspondents, editing, and compiling them to be distributed
  • Carried out a performance evaluation of a banking System used at Khartoum Bank, one of the largest commercial banks in SUDAN. As a result of the evaluation, the core banking software package, called ‘MODBANK’, was ported to a different platform and modified to meet Local Sudanese banks requirements. This process had enabled the system to work on small PC to serve small branches. In this project I technical mastermind to port the software package from being operating on minicomputer system to be distributed processing among all branches of the bank.
2.4        IT Consultation.
  • Coordinated, designed, and carried out survey work to collect and analyze data on Sudanese working abroad as a project supported by the US-AID during the period 1985.
  • I had taken a post as a consultant to a commercial company called “Computer Aided Design Co.” which conducted training, software development, and digitization of maps and architecture
  • Acted as a consultant to Computer Communication Company in the Sudan (CCS). During that period, CCS had the largest share of IT equipment sales in the Sudanese Market at that
  • Acted as a consultant to the Ministry of Assisted and advised in establishing the Petroleum Information Centre consisting of a data center, a network interconnecting all points of the ministry with data centre, and the selection of all Business Applications. The project budget was around $ 18 million USD