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Professional Experience

Enterprise experience spanning Oracle ERP, data engineering, business intelligence, leadership, and AI solution development.

Mohamed Sheriff’s professional journey includes direct employment and consulting engagements with recognized enterprise organizations, hands-on Oracle E-Business Suite implementation, ETL and data integration, business intelligence, analytics, telecommunications leadership, and founder-led AI product development.

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Career overview

A professional foundation built across both technical delivery and organizational leadership.

The early technical foundation included Oracle E-Business Suite implementation and customization, Oracle Forms and Reports, PL/SQL, software development, SQL databases, enterprise reporting, business intelligence, ETL, data integration, analytics, and data-quality improvement.

Direct employment and consulting work with Accenture, Amdocs, BMC Software, DST Innovis, Hanover Compressor Company, and other organizations strengthened the ability to understand complex enterprise data models, trace cross-module transaction flows, and translate operational requirements into reliable applications, pipelines, reports, and implementation decisions.

Telecommunications-management and executive roles expanded that perspective to include institutional strategy, infrastructure priorities, governance, stakeholders, finance, organizational risk, service continuity, and public accountability.

Today, those experiences support founder-led work in AI strategy, workflow automation, SaaS product planning, data, media systems, education, and community technology.

Selected experience

A career progressing from technical systems work to consulting, executive leadership, and product development.

The chronology below emphasizes verified responsibilities and professional themes. Dates are included only where they have been confirmed.

01

2023 — Present

Entrepreneurship, AI and Product Development

Founder, Owner and Principal Technology Architect

Anunnaki Technology Solutions LLC

Delaware, Ohio, United States

Leading a technology company focused on AI-enabled SaaS products, business intelligence, analytics, workflow automation and enterprise software.

Responsibilities

  • Define product strategy, system architecture, data models and security requirements
  • Set development roadmaps, testing standards, deployment processes and commercialization plans
  • Build with Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Supabase, Python, REST APIs, n8n and AI model integrations
  • Manage cloud infrastructure, source control, Linux servers, deployments and documentation

Selected highlights

  • Multi-product portfolio
  • Multi-tenant SaaS architecture
  • AI-assisted engineering standards
02

September 2018 — June 2022

Data Migration and Quality

Senior Database Developer Consultant

FutureCom SL Ltd.

Led data profiling, cleansing, validation and ETL for the migration of a national pension-management system.

Responsibilities

  • Lead profiling, cleansing, validation and ETL across biometric, financial and demographic records
  • Align migrated data with operational and business requirements
  • Coordinate data-quality remediation across technical and business stakeholders

Selected highlights

  • More than 50 million records migrated
  • 98% verified data accuracy achieved
  • Pension-management system
03

April 2013 — August 2018

Telecommunications and Executive Management

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Sierra Leone Cable Limited (SALCAB)

Sierra Leone

Directed corporate strategy and operations for the national cable landing organization, including large-scale technology and infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

  • Direct corporate strategy, operations, governance and organizational direction
  • Lead technology and infrastructure programs and multidisciplinary international teams
  • Manage relationships with government agencies, international partners and vendors
  • Connect technical decisions with organizational and public responsibilities

Selected highlights

  • Technology and infrastructure programs exceeding $50 million
  • Teams across Africa, Asia and Europe
  • Contributed to 30% revenue growth over five years
04

June 2013 — August 2018

International Submarine Cable Infrastructure and Governance

Chairman, Assignment Routing and Restoration Subcommittee

Africa Coast to Europe Submarine Cable Consortium

Directed strategic routing and restoration for a submarine optical-fiber system connecting 24 member countries across Europe and Africa.

Responsibilities

  • Chair the consortium subcommittee responsible for assignment routing and restoration
  • Coordinate technical issues affecting network resilience, service continuity and maintenance
  • Support restoration planning and cross-border coordination among consortium members
  • Translate operational risk and engineering requirements into consortium decisions

Selected highlights

  • 24 member countries
  • Five years of subcommittee chairmanship
  • Improved network reliability by 15% through coordinated restoration planning
05

ACE construction phase

Technical Procurement and Infrastructure Delivery

Co-Chairman, Technical Working Group in the Interim Procurement Committee

Africa Coast to Europe Submarine Cable Consortium

Helped lead the technical and procurement work required for construction of the ACE submarine fiber-optic cable network.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate technical and procurement tasks during the cable construction phase
  • Participate in technical evaluation, vendor, requirements and delivery decisions
  • Align procurement with engineering, consortium, budget and implementation priorities

Selected highlights

  • Co-chairmanship during construction
  • Technical procurement and vendor evaluation
06

National infrastructure deployment

National Broadband and Educational Connectivity

Terrestrial Fiber and Schools Connectivity Implementation Leader

Sierra Leone National Connectivity Initiatives

Sierra Leone

Helped build and deploy Sierra Leone’s first terrestrial fiber-optic network and implemented a DWDM Schools Connectivity Network.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the construction and deployment of the country’s first terrestrial fiber network
  • Implement DWDM connectivity across university and secondary-school locations
  • Coordinate technical delivery of broadband for students, faculty and institutions

Selected highlights

  • Sierra Leone’s first terrestrial fiber network
  • All university locations connected
  • Ten secondary-school locations connected
07

International speaking engagements

Technology Thought Leadership

Technology Presenter and Guest Speaker

Connect Africa Summit

Rwanda and South Africa

Presented at Connect Africa Summit events on telecommunications, connectivity, digital infrastructure and Africa’s technological development.

Responsibilities

  • Present technology and telecommunications perspectives to international audiences
  • Contribute to discussions on African connectivity and digital development
  • Translate infrastructure topics for technical, institutional and policy stakeholders

Selected highlights

  • Connect Africa Summit — Rwanda
  • Connect Africa Summit — South Africa
08

2009 — April 2013

Telecommunications IT Management

Information Technology Manager

Sierra Leone Telecommunications Company

Sierra Leone

Directed enterprise IT infrastructure initiatives for the national telecommunications operator.

Responsibilities

  • Direct enterprise IT infrastructure initiatives and service availability
  • Introduce technology and process improvements across operations
  • Coordinate technical teams and vendor relationships

Selected highlights

  • Network uptime increased to 99.5%
  • Operational costs reduced by 20%
09

2007 — 2009

Enterprise Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Consultant

Accenture

Designed and implemented business-intelligence solutions for major United States corporate and government clients.

Responsibilities

  • Digitize historical records from disparate legacy, archival and paper sources into a single analytical environment
  • Reconcile conflicting records across sources to establish an authoritative dataset where source systems disagreed
  • Model dimensional data warehouses — star schema, slowly changing dimensions — and build the data marts and reporting on them
  • Build predictive models over historical performance data to produce evidence-based valuation ranges for contract negotiation
  • Replace paper-based field collection with handheld devices transmitting directly to central systems on a national data-collection program
  • Build the near-real-time ingestion and analytics on that stream, so results were available while collection was still in progress rather than after it closed

Selected highlights

  • Improved access to operational and performance data by 40% through historical digitization
  • Predictive valuation modeling from historical performance data
  • Near-real-time field data capture and analytics
  • Federal engagement under security clearance
  • Corporate and government clients
10

2005 — 2007

Business Intelligence Architecture

Senior Systems Designer

Amdocs Limited

Designed scalable business-intelligence solutions using Java, Oracle and MicroStrategy.

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable BI solutions across enterprise data sources
  • Build with Java, Oracle and MicroStrategy

Selected highlights

  • Java, Oracle and MicroStrategy
  • Scalable BI architecture
11

2004 — 2005

Oracle and PL/SQL Development

Software Engineer

DST Systems (Innovis)

Developed Oracle and PL/SQL solutions supporting enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Oracle and PL/SQL solutions
  • Tune and optimize database performance

Selected highlights

  • Improved system performance by 15%
12

2004

Database Application Development

Senior Software Consultant

BMC Software

Built transactional database applications and optimized PL/SQL performance.

Responsibilities

  • Build transactional database applications
  • Optimise PL/SQL performance

Selected highlights

  • Transactional database applications
  • PL/SQL optimization
13

2003 — 2004

Oracle E-Business Suite Customization

Senior Software Consultant

Hanover Compressor Company

Customized Oracle Financials forms and reports to improve reporting accuracy.

Responsibilities

  • Customize Oracle Financials forms and reports
  • Align reporting with finance and operational requirements

Selected highlights

  • Improved reporting accuracy by 20%
  • Oracle Financials
14

2000 — 2003

Enterprise Application Development

Programmer and Analyst

ITW Wilsonart International

Automated manual workflows and developed Oracle applications supporting four departments.

Responsibilities

  • Automate manual departmental workflows
  • Develop and support Oracle applications

Selected highlights

  • Applications supporting four departments
  • Workflow automation

Education and professional development

Computer science, technology management, and data science.

All three qualifications below have been verified against the awarding documents themselves — the MIT certificate and both diplomas.

01Verified

Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT xPRO)

Data science and analytics

January — August 2024

A professional and continuing-education certificate carrying 36 Continuing Education Units. Coursework covered data analysis, Python, statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, predictive modelling and data-driven business decision-making. It is a professional certificate, not a degree.

02Verified

Master of Business Administration

University of Phoenix

Technology management

Conferred 30 June 2007

Graduate business education connecting organizational management, technology strategy, leadership and business decision-making.

03Verified

Bachelor of Science

University of the District of Columbia

Computer science

Conferred 13 May 2000

Technical education supporting software development, computing systems, databases, programming and analytical problem-solving.

Certifications and affiliations

Continued technical study, and the professional bodies behind it.

Certifications

  • Data Warehouse Developer — Udemy
  • Data Analysis: SQL, Tableau, Power BI and Excel — Udemy
  • Java Programming and Oracle Developer Suite — Oracle University
  • Submarine Fiber-Optic Network Design — Alcatel-Lucent University

Professional affiliations

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • Toastmasters International

Professional themes

Capabilities strengthened repeatedly across different roles and industries.

Although the titles and operating environments changed, several themes remained consistent throughout the professional journey.

01

Connecting business needs to technology

Understanding operational priorities and translating them into systems, workflows, data structures, requirements, and implementation decisions.

02

Treating data as operational infrastructure

Improving data quality, validation, definitions, reporting, migration readiness, and usefulness for organizational decision-making.

03

Leading across technical and nontechnical teams

Communicating with engineers, managers, executives, institutions, users, and external stakeholders while keeping responsibilities visible.

04

Documenting complex work

Using requirements, workflows, architecture decisions, reports, testing criteria, and roadmaps to reduce ambiguity and preserve continuity.

05

Building with operational realities in mind

Considering governance, budgets, risk, ownership, adoption, infrastructure, service continuity, and organizational capacity alongside technical capability.

06

Continuing to learn and adapt

Applying an established software, data, business, and leadership foundation to new developments in AI, automation, SaaS, and digital media.

Professional opportunities

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