Work in Detail

The systems behind the roles.

A closer look at what I actually designed, built, and delivered — the problem underneath each brief, the architecture chosen to solve it, and what changed once it was running.

Current — Egis / MATARAT Airbus ILF
01 — Egis · MATARAT Holding
MAR 2024 — PRESENT · RIYADH, SA

Governing the capital portfolio of a national aviation system.

MATARAT Holding stewards Saudi Arabia's airports. Its P&TA division sets and governs the National Capital Projects Portfolio — every capital project across five operating companies, from first idea to board approval. I lead digital enablement for that division through Egis: first by building the CAPEX platform that took the 2026 budget cycle off email, then by architecting CIMS, the system that governs the entire project life cycle of which CAPEX is one chapter.

Fig. 01 — The ecosystem being governed
CENTER
MATARAT
Strategy & P&TA
Owns the national capital portfolio
Riyadh Airports Co.
OpCo
Jeddah Airports Co.
OpCo
Dammam Airports Co.
OpCo
Cluster 2 Airports
OpCo
SILZ
Logistics zone

Five operating companies submit capital proposals upward. P&TA reviews, endorses, and consolidates them into one annual investment plan aligned to the National Aviation Strategy — 27 airports in scope.

PROJECT A · 2025 INTERIM SYSTEM → PROVING GROUND FOR CIMS

MATARAT Intelligent CAPEX Budget Cycle Platform

The 2026 CAPEX cycle had to run before any enterprise system existed. So I built one on the ground already under our feet — the Microsoft 365 estate MATARAT already owned. No new platform, no new vendor, no additional licence cost.

BEFORE — THE BROKEN CIRCUIT
DOCDOCDOC DOCDOC
Fragmented data
Five entities submitting inconsistent Word files by email.
Zero visibility
No central way to track progress or status in real time.
High operational risk
Manual cleaning and validation — lost files, version conflicts, integrity gaps.
AFTER — ONE GOVERNED CHANNEL
CAPEX SUB.FINANCIALSPLANS CENTRAL PLATFORM SUBMISSIONREVIEWVALIDATIONAPPROVAL
Digitize
Word and email replaced by a controlled, validated interface.
Automate
The system handles the repetitive work; humans spend their time on judgment.
Govern
Every step time-stamped, validated, and recorded.
Fig. 02 — Platform architecture
01 · INPUT
Submission & SPOC validation
OpCos initiate proposals through standardized digital templates with mandatory fields — completeness enforced at the source, not corrected later.
02 · ENGINE
Power Automate engine
~60 flows handling permission granting, folder creation, routing, and notification — the administrative labor disappears into the system.
03 · GOVERNANCE
Governance platform
A single hub for technical reviewers and workstream endorsers across IT, CX, Cybersecurity, and Engineering.
04 · VISIBILITY
Real-time Power BI
Seven dashboard views giving every level — from reviewer to committee chairman — the same live picture.
Fig. 03 — End-to-end governance workflow
1
OpCo initiation
Proposal submitted → SPOC validation
2
Technical review
Delegated to IT, CX, Cybersecurity, Engineering
3
Governance & approval
Workstream endorsement → CAPEX committee decision
4
Output
Signature-ready documentation + automated notification
Fig. 04 — The intelligence layer
AI revision analysis

Auto-detects what changed between business-case versions and judges whether reviewer comments were actually addressed — fully, partially, or not at all. Reviewers read only the delta, not the whole document again.

Automated documentation

Generates signature-ready PDF business cases from validated data. Templates auto-populate — formatting inconsistency and manual drafting stop existing as a category of work.

Live monitoring

Continuous visibility of submission progress, iterative reviews, and pending tasks across every OpCo and department — which removed the follow-up email as an instrument of project management.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY OPCO SUBMISSIONS P&TA REVIEW ACTIVITY CROSS-DEPARTMENT REVIEW CONSULTATIONS CHAIRMAN APPROVAL REVISION MONITORING REVIEWER EFFORT
Fig. 05 — What changed
60,000+
Automated runs executed across ~60 flows
1.2M SAR
Direct cost avoidance — under 10 SAR per automated run
6wks
Ahead of schedule — completed before the board deadline
4060
Staff-hours saved per cycle
0
Additional development or licence cost

Business-case preparation and technical review went from days to minutes. Real-time consultation replaced email delay. The measurable win was cost and time; the structural win was that the portfolio finally had one governed record.

EGIS O&M SIGNATURE CHALLENGE 2025 · DIGITAL & AI TRANSFORMATION
Selected as a finalist in Egis' group-wide innovation challenge.

Submitted to Egis' internal innovation competition, the platform advanced through the first and second rounds and was presented in the final. It didn't take a podium place — but the work it proved became the mandate for something much larger.

Round 1 — passed
Round 2 — passed
Final round — presented
DELIVERED WITH THE EGIS–MATARAT PMO TEAM
ROLE: SOLUTION ARCHITECT & DEVELOPER
PROJECT B · CURRENT ENTERPRISE SYSTEM OF RECORD

CIMS — Capital Investment Management System

The CAPEX platform governed one chapter of the story: the annual budget cycle. CIMS governs the whole book — the PMO's system of record across the full airport project life cycle, from first idea to board report. Thirteen modules, built on Dataverse behind an Entra ID sign-in and a single-licence secured gateway, with server-side data scoping per company and a full audit trail. Delivered as a 71-item, Jira-tracked program with a live client-facing dashboard.

Fig. 06 — Scope: where the interim system sat inside the life cycle
← SWIPE →
PROJECT A — THE INTERIM CAPEX PLATFORM
Strategy & need
NAS alignment
Business case
Submission & validation
Review & approval
Committee decision
Budget & portfolio
Consolidation
Delivery & change
Stage gates, Form C
Executive reporting
Board view
PROJECT B — CIMS · 13 MODULES · ONE GOVERNED RECORD FROM FIRST IDEA TO BOARD REPORT

The interim platform was never the destination. It proved — on live national data, under a real board deadline — that governed automation works here. That proof is what made the case for the full life-cycle system.

ARCHITECTURE

Dataverse as the record layer, Entra ID for identity, one secured gateway licence rather than per-user seats — built entirely on the estate MATARAT already owns.

GOVERNANCE

Server-side data scoping per operating company, full audit trail, and separation of duties — five companies in one system without seeing each other's portfolios.

DELIVERY

A 71-item Jira-tracked program with a live client-facing progress dashboard — the delivery of the governance system is itself governed and visible.

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02 — Airbus Defence and Space
OCT 2021 — MAR 2024 · BANGKOK, TH

Turning a national satellite into operational decisions.

Team Leader, promoted from Geospatial Solutions Architect — delivering a work package under THEOS-2, the programme in which Airbus built Thailand's second Earth-observation satellite for GISTDA. The package delivered the flagship applications that turn future imagery into decisions: national land-use and flood-risk forecasting, automated hydrological modeling across 30 interconnected reservoirs, and live dashboards for national decision-makers.

SATELLITE EARTH OBSERVATION SPACE APPLICATIONS HYDROLOGICAL MODELING REAL-TIME DASHBOARDS TEAM LEADERSHIP
DETAILED CASE STUDY IN PREPARATION

This section will follow the same structure as the Egis case study above — the problem underneath the brief, the architecture, and what changed once it ran.

The challenge
What GISTDA needed the satellite data to answer
The system
Models, pipeline, and dashboard architecture
Leading the team
QA, client communication, national handover
Impact
Decisions it changed and figures worth citing
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03 — ILF Consulting Engineers (Asia)
2016 — 2021 · BANGKOK, TH

Where the ground truth was learned.

GIS/CAD Engineer on hydropower programs across Southeast Asia — topographic mapping, relief models, and conceptual design in ArcGIS Pro and AutoCAD; GIS-based hydropower potential studies and dam-break flood-impact scenarios; photogrammetry and remote-sensing environmental monitoring; and the regional GIS databases underneath it all.

GIS CARTOGRAPHY HYDROPOWER FLOOD RISK ANALYSIS PHOTOGRAMMETRY
DETAILED CASE STUDY IN PREPARATION

Selected projects from five years of hydropower and flood-risk work — the technical foundation everything later was built on.

Featured project
Which scheme, which river, which country
Method
Data sources, modeling approach, tooling
Outcome
What the analysis enabled or prevented
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