From department chair to a national mandate.
Twelve years of progressive executive and academic leadership across national AI capability building, technology governance and higher-education transformation.
The record.
- Mar 2026 — Present
General Manager, SDAIA Academy
Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) · Riyadh
- Direct Saudi Arabia's national data and AI capability-development arm, owning the strategy, portfolio and delivery of advanced training programmes, bootcamps and professional certifications.
- Translate Vision 2030 and Human Capability Development Program priorities into a measurable academy portfolio with defined KPIs and impact metrics.
- Structure and manage strategic partnerships with universities, research institutions and industry to co-develop curricula and scale accredited learning pathways.
- Govern academy-wide quality assurance, assessment and certification frameworks against international standards.
- Aug 2024 — Mar 2026
Director, AI Academy & Acting Director, Technology Governance
Tahakom · Riyadh
- Held a dual mandate spanning enterprise-wide AI capability building and corporate technology governance for a national smart-mobility and public-safety technology company.
- Designed and institutionalised a PMO playbook governing the full project lifecycle; led governance audits, maturity assessments and remediation roadmaps.
- Raised enterprise-architecture maturity and clarified the governance operating model, aligning technology investment with corporate strategy.
- Overhauled policies, processes and the SDLC with CMMI-aligned quality controls, and modernised delivery with CI/CD-enabled DevOps.
- Built a sustained AI capability ecosystem through enterprise training, competency-based certifications, recurring AI townhalls and academia–industry partnerships.
- Apr 2024 — Aug 2024
Founding Dean, College of Space & Aviation Sciences
Prince Sultan University · Riyadh
- Established the college from inception — academic vision, governance structure and founding programme architecture — for one of the Kingdom's first dedicated space and aviation colleges.
- Sep 2020 — Aug 2024
Dean, Quality Assurance & Development
Prince Sultan University · Riyadh
- Led institution-wide quality strategy, securing ISO certifications and national and international academic accreditations.
- Implemented a comprehensive Quality Management System and institution-wide assessment and evaluation frameworks.
- Elevated teaching practice through the Teaching & Learning Center, expanding faculty development campus-wide.
- Sep 2018 — Aug 2020
Dean, Educational Services
Prince Sultan University · Riyadh
- Owned the end-to-end student journey and restructured the Preparatory Year Program into an independent department.
- Strengthened academic-support operations — placement testing, semester knowledge evaluations and advising.
- Jan 2015 — Aug 2019
Chief Information & Technology Officer
Prince Sultan University · Riyadh
- Set and executed the university-wide technology vision, aligning IT services with institutional strategy.
- Delivered an institution-wide ERP implementation across finance, accounting and HR.
- Established a continuous IT planning process serving faculty, staff and students.
- Sep 2015 — Aug 2016
Chairman, Department of Computer Science
Prince Sultan University · Riyadh
- Redesigned the curriculum to IEEE, ACM and ABET standards, broadening course and degree offerings.
- Built structured employer feedback into programme design to keep the curriculum industry-relevant.
Advisory and applied work.
Engagements where the brief was to diagnose something concrete and leave a working answer behind.
- Strategic Planning ConsultantNov 2023 — Present
CYBEX, Prince Sultan University — Advise on strategy formulation end to end: methodology selection, multi-stakeholder workshops, and full documentation of vision, mission, goals and initiatives.
- Software Engineering ConsultantFeb 2023 — Feb 2024
Prince Sultan Defense Studies & Research Center (PSDSARC) — Provided software-engineering expertise and technology recommendations that improved the efficiency of research and analysis workflows.
- Principal Investigator, Funded ResearchJan 2017 — Dec 2018
King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) — Designed a dynamic capacity-provisioning system for cloud networks, applying machine learning to auto-scale resources against demand — improving network efficiency and reducing operational cost.
- Software Engineering ConsultantJun 2018 — Oct 2018
Software development company — Ran a software process improvement initiative: analysed existing development processes and introduced tools and methods that improved delivery speed and quality.
- Data Science ConsultantJan 2016 — Sep 2016
Major Saudi telecom operator — Led root-cause analysis of repeated customer-service tickets and implemented corrective measures, reducing ticket recurrence and lifting customer satisfaction.
- Software Engineering ConsultantJan 2013 — May 2013
NISC — Led the migration of an enterprise billing-management system from client–server architecture to web services, reducing operational cost and improving the customer experience.
- Software Engineering ConsultantAug 2010 — Feb 2011
Wisconsin Falconers Association — Designed and built a web-based reservation system with real-time availability, scheduling and integrated payment processing.
Courses taught, 2014–2024.
Fifteen courses across the software engineering, cybersecurity and computer science curricula at Prince Sultan University — several of which I designed from scratch.
- SE 201
Introduction to Software Engineering
- SE 211
Software Construction
- SE 311
Software Requirements Engineering
- SE 322
Software Design and Architecture
- SE 353
Building Secure Software Systems
- SE 401
Software Quality Assurance and Testing
- SE 415
Group Dynamics & Professional Practice
- SE 423
Software Project Management
- SE 489
DevOps Engineering
- SE 492
Cooperative Education
- SE 495
Software Entrepreneurship
- SE 499
Software Design & Development Project
- CS 225
Software Engineering: Design and Development
- CYS 402
Secure Software Development
- DMS 426
Game Development
Master's students supervised.
- Hussain Alshehri
Internet of Things — architecture of multiple-source data-acquisition sensors
- Sultan Alotaibi
An exploratory study of DevOps awareness and adoption in Saudi Arabia
- Abdulrahman Asiri
Cloud-based cross-enterprise imaging framework
- Thamer Alhamed
Business continuity management and disaster recovery capability in Saudi ICT companies
- Turki Alshammary
Software architecture understandability in object-oriented systems
- Hassan Al-Mousa
Software architecture stability evolution in open-source object-oriented systems
- Laila Al-Rowais
A framework for security testing of web applications
- Khawlah AlOmar
Static analysis of open-source web applications
Committee service.
Fourteen university- and college-level committees spanning strategy, quality, research, policy and accreditation.
- PSU Higher Strategic Planning Committee
- PSU Strategic Planning Committee
- PSU Higher Research Committee
- PSU Executive Research Committee
- PSU Institutional Policy Committee
- Institutional Effectiveness Committee
- Institutional Executive Quality and Planning Committee
- Institutional Quality Committee
- Institutional Technology and Quality Committee
- CCIS ABET Steering Committee
- MEGDAM Executive Committee
- CS Department Outreach Committee
- CS Department Research Committee
- PSU Strategic Transformation Project
The detail behind the roles.
Projects and impact sets out what was actually built — programmes, systems, governance frameworks and funded research.