WAGDY ISHAC

Chief Architect | Data & AI Leadership | MICROSOFT

Personal Profile

Lead architect for Data & AI specialized in the AI, Advanced Analytics, and Big Data value proposition, implementation, and architecture. 17+ years of global experience in consulting and advising senior leadership in large organizations and architecting different transformational enterprise solutions in the data universe. Broad exposure to the latest methodologies of building end-to-end data platform solutions through helping different roles in organizations from IT to business leaders to understand and build the business, technical, and governance capabilities to become intelligent driven organization.

Professional Experience

Background & Expertise

Since July 2019

Senior Architect | Data & AI

Leading end-to-end data and AI engagement for large deals across EMEA and LATAM. Focusing on Bringing customers to Azure Data Platform through building the technical, business and people journey. From broad to deep and hands-on coverage. Helping the architecture team through the developed Data Adoption Framework to enable streamlined methodology to build Advanced Analytics use-cases.
Also leading junior technical resources across EMEA to ensure wide coverage to customers and more focused time

January 2018 - July 2019

Technology Specialist Lead | Data & AI

Leading the technical data specialty in the Emerging markets region of EMEA. From customer technical advisory to supervise the execution of proof of concept my activities spanned to ensure the acceleration and successful closure of the digital transformation major deals in the region.

April 2015 to December 2017

Data Insights Solution Architect

As a Trusted advisor to my customers. I lead the data insights and advanced analytics vision & solutions, taking care of presale activities, technical discussion and closing to the Implementation. Working across Europe, middle east and Africa based out of Dubai. With different industries and customers like Rolls-Royce, Emirates, Emaar, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Helsana Versicherungen AG, La Liga and Abu Dhabi Investment Authorities

June 2010 - March 2015

Technology Solution Professional, Microsoft MEA

As MEA regional engineer to cover Egypt, Saudi, Gulf, Africa, and East Asia as a Technology Solution Professional for presales to SQL Server. Leading client engagement of architecting, providing solutions, and proof of concept development for all the data warehouse or BI projects. Partner and customer training is one of my main objectives to help to go through and build expertise and ecosystem for Database and BI. Besides evangelizing the Microsoft SQL Server through events and communities