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The Record

Roles, education, certifications and languages, in one card.

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EXPERIENCE

June 2024 - Present

Digital Transformation Specialist

Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK)

Work across service design, requirements and responsible AI adoption, helping translate complex needs into a clear basis for decisions.

Contribute research, journey mapping and interface design, and coordinate with people from different disciplines as work moves into delivery.

Bring data definitions, responsibilities and the purpose of a service into governance discussions. My contribution centres on coordination, analysis and making decisions understandable.

March 2022 - June 2024

UX Researcher

Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK)

Designed bilingual questionnaires and routing, connecting the questions asked to the data they needed to produce and collaborating with specialists on validation.

Worked on data definitions, measures and quality requirements so research findings could be interpreted consistently.

Led user research and stakeholder workshops, translated findings into service requirements and journeys, and reviewed delivery against agreed criteria.

September 2017 - September 2018

Front-End Developer & Technology Advisor

Véggie-Sphère · placement year during the BSc

Developed and debugged front-end features of the company's eCommerce website, and advised on technology selection and on the tooling used for internal communication.

A placement year taken during the BSc.

EDUCATION

May 2021 - May 2025 · Abu Dhabi

42 Abu Dhabi · Common Core completed, Level 10

Completed the full Common Core while working full time: minishell, cub3d, Philosophers, Born2beroot, NetPractice, ft_irc, Inception, ft_transcendence. C, C++, Unix systems, concurrency, networking, containerisation, full-stack web. This systems foundation supports my developing cybersecurity practice.

January 2020 - 2021 · Dubai

Heriot-Watt University · MSc Managing Innovation

September 2016 - May 2019 · Dubai

Middlesex University · BSc (Hons) Information Technology, Upper Second Class

Software development, systems analysis, database management, with additional modules in business, strategic project management and AI.

September 2014 - March 2016 · Nice, France

EPITECH · Software Engineering, two years completed

2013 - 2014 · Mulhouse, France

IUT Mulhouse · Materials Science & Engineering, first year

2013 · Abu Dhabi

Lycée Louis Massignon · French Scientific Baccalaureate

CERTIFICATIONS

  • TryHackMe Pre Security, a foundation learning path (August 2026)
  • 42 Abu Dhabi Common Core Completion Certificate (May 2025)
  • BSc (Hons) Information Technology, Upper Second Class

References on request.