My professional journey: Management Consultancy → Software Development → Systems Architecture → Solutioning → Enterprise Architecture + IT Compliance/InfoSec → Intelligent Automation (RPA) → AI Governance & Sovereign Digital Resilience.
Two-market footprint: Canada and the GCC.
Current executive role
LandSure Systems Ltd. (2023 – Present)
LandSure Systems Ltd. (2023 – Present)Manager, Enterprise Architecture — Head of the EA function (eight architects) | Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Custodian of BC's critical land-title infrastructure — accountable for target architecture, technology principles, and governance of the registry systems underpinning the province's property market.
- Led solution architecture for the Digital Vault records program — century-scale record authenticity, data sovereignty, and a deliberately vendor-agnostic, exit-capable design.
- Contributed to a governed agentic-AI modernisation MVP (acknowledged multi-million-dollar savings; MVP cycles cut from ~6 months to 6 weeks), with AI-governance guardrails for a system of public record.
Independent practice & research affiliation
Robotiqa Technologies Ltd. (2017 – Present)
Robotiqa Technologies Ltd. (2017 – Present)Founder & Principal — Enterprise Architecture & AI Governance | Vancouver
- Government of Alberta: multi-tier architecture for provincial Grants services — high availability and end-to-end auditability for public funds.
- Coast Capital Savings: established a TOGAF-aligned EA methodology for one of Canada's largest credit unions.
- Delivered RPA programmes (Blue Prism, UiPath), including the operating-model and governance controls that later informed the practice's agentic-AI guardrails.
Previous Experience
Al-Futtaim Group (2012 – 2017)
Al-Futtaim Group (2012 – 2017)General Manager — Enterprise Architecture & IT Compliance | Dubai, UAE
- Group-wide EA and information-security governance across retail, automotive, and financial-services businesses (43 countries, 100+ legal entities).
- Defined group policies, standards, and SLAs against DIFC, SAMA, and UAE data regulations — jurisdictional data control across a multi-country conglomerate.
- Designed the group's cloud-integration architecture and led legacy migration, balancing agility with data-residency obligations for a 40,000+ employee organisation.
RAKBank (2007 – 2012)
RAKBank (2007 – 2012)Chief Enterprise Architect | Dubai, UAE
- Established the bank's enterprise architecture practice on TOGAF from the ground up.
- Architected continuity-critical financial infrastructure — payment gateways, e-Banking, ATM networks, and SWIFT exchange.
- Replaced point-to-point legacy integration with a hybrid middleware ecosystem; delivered capability maps and roadmaps to guide executive decisions.
Google (2006 – 2007)
Senior Software Engineer | Mountain View, US
- Member of the 'Algorithm Central' process-optimisation team; designed internal workflows that accelerated the product development lifecycle.
HSBC Bank Canada (2000 – 2006)
Manager - Business Systems | Canada / Global
- Led global delivery teams (Canada, China, India) for Internet Banking platforms; project lead for the FirstDirect.com portal.
- Managed a hybrid team of 25+ delivering major Portal and CIF projects.