TAMER FARAG

I graduated from Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering department at June 1996.
My Graduation Degree was Very Good.

I graduated from the ITI at July 1997, SSDP (Software Skills Development Program). Since graduation, I have occupied many positions

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

February 2008 – Current
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
Senior product manager

• Responsibilities:

  • Managing Microsoft’s policies, strategies, goals, processes and procedures for driving revenue growth for the Microsoft SQL Server line of products.

  • Directing a framework to track how key subsidiaries and segments are performing in terms of marketing and sales practices.

  • Strategizing on Microsoft’s current SQL Server marketing efforts, and recommending and implementing substantial improvements across SQL Server marketing efforts.

  • Analyzing market trends that affect our marketing and sales motion, and/or deliver product or technology service presentations.

October 2004 – February 2008
Microsoft Canada, Montreal, Canada
Partner Technology Specialist

• Responsibilities:

  • Support Small and Medium business sales teams and Partners during sales engagements to achieve SQL Server Quota as well as strategic wins for SQL Server.

  • Support teams working to recruit competitive partners by delivering business value presentations and Architectural guidance to recruit, activate and get partners into competencies.

  • Readiness and support for Microsoft partners developing SQL Server and Business Intelligence solutions.

  • Develop partners’ technical capacity and engage with them to migrate their application to SQL 2005.

  • Raise awareness inside Microsoft about SQL Server and Business Intelligence.

• Achievements:

  • Partner Technology Specialist North America “Top Performer” award FY ‘05.

  • Gold Star award FY ‘06.

  • Was Instrumental in Recruiting 15 competitive partners (Total expected revenue of $22M for the next 3 years).

  • Built Business Intelligence Partner community in Canada with more than 20 active partners trained on the latest Microsoft BI technologies.

  • Delivered presentations in the biggest Microsoft events including Convergence 2007 , SQL Server 2005 launch in Toronto and International Developers Conference (DevTeach 2006 and 2007).

August 2000 – October 2004
Microsoft Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Senior Database Specialist

• Responsibilities:

  • Achieve SQL Server revenue through active engagement with sales teams and product awareness campaigns.

  • Build readiness and support plans for Microsoft partners developing SQL Server and Business Intelligence solutions.

  • Competitive recruitment of Oracle partners in Egypt and conversion of their applications to SQL Server.

  • Competition against IBM platform by surrounding and isolating their Mainframe and AS/400 platforms.

  • SQL Server and Business Intelligence Evangelism and developers’ engagement by delivering regular technical events.

  • Presales activities with customers as well as guarantying after sales satisfaction.

• Achievements:

  • Part of the team who achieved Sub of the Year FY04

  • Achieved SQL Server Growth of more than 300% during the last three years.

  • Increased Business Intelligence partners from 0 to 7.

  • Recruitment of the largest ERP ISV, with more than 1800 customers, and conversion of its application to SQL Server.

  • Recruitment of more than 10 Oracle partners including 2 of the top 5 partners. Managed to convert Oracle biggest partner in Mobile applications to SQL CE.

  • Created “Egypt Developers’ Connect” initiative and delivered more than 50 sessions to developers touching more than 2500 developers.

  • Participated in the biggest events in Middle East including delivering a general session in Middle East Developers’ Conference featuring a keynote by Bill Gates.

  • Was engaged in the largest BI deals in Middle East, including Fastlink and Etisalat (Telco), Bank of Beirut (Banking) and Jordan Ministry of Planning (Government) as well as lots of other projects in Egypt.

May 1999 – August 2000
Unatrac Group, Cairo, Egypt
Programmer analyst

• Responsibilities:

  • Analysis and development of software solutions for all Group companies.

  • Co-ordination with IT managers in eight countries.

  • Windows NT and Oracle8 administration.

• Achievements:

  • Started the company Data-warehouse, by building the first data-Mart.

  • Implemented the company Intranet reporting system using ASP and Oracle 8.

  • Was responsible for the analysis, design and implementation of three large-scale projects. Implementation was done using JAVA and ASP.

October 1997 – February 1999
Citymax Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Programmer analyst

• Responsibilities:

  • Assessment and Remediation phases of a Y2K Project for CSFB NY.

  • Development and Support of a securities package that provides the functions required to support CREST. The GUI was developed using UnifAce 7.2, the background processes were implemented on a UNIX Alpha server using C++, embedded SQL and shell scripts and connected to an ORACLE 8 server.

• Achievements:

  • Participated in building large-scale applications that support hundreds of simultaneous users and thousands of daily transactions.

  • Worked in co-ordination with team members working from London.