Hi, I'm Mohamed Adel — but most people know me as Rashdan

Technical Program & Project Manager

I turn complex technology programs into delivered products.

17+ years delivering banking, telecom, health-tech and AI programs for Al Rajhi Bank, Huawei, Orange, Cegedim, IBM and Microsoft — from R&D engineering to regional program leadership across the Gulf, Africa and Europe.

Now: Technical Project Manager at Al Rajhi Bank, Riyadh — leading 21 strategic digital-transformation projects

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PMP® PMI-ACP® PSPO I M.Sc. in AI (NLP) EN · FR · AR
Mohamed Adel (Rashdan) in Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
17+ years in software production & delivery
17+
years in software delivery
21
strategic tech projects at Al Rajhi Bank
25
African countries led for Huawei
€2.5M
yearly dev budget managed at Orange
54
verified certificates
About

A program manager who speaks engineering

Med Adel (aka Rashdan) is a Technical Project & Program Manager and Business Product Owner with 17+ years in software production. He started as an R&D software engineer and grew into leading large-scale programs — so he plans with the team, not around it.

As Technical Project Manager at Al Rajhi Bank, Regional Manager at Huawei and Program Manager at Freed, he led large software programs with teams of every size and hundreds of developers worldwide, working directly with CXOs across the Gulf, Africa and Europe. He also founded Rashdan Information Technology (Dubai & Egypt), delivering custom solutions in several countries.

His M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence (NLP) gives him a rare edge in today's AI programs: he can scope, challenge and de-risk technical work as well as manage it.

LanguagesEnglish, French, Arabic — learning Spanish
RegionsBased in Riyadh & Cairo · worked across the Gulf, Africa & Europe
EducationM.Sc. AI (Cairo Univ.) · B.Sc. CS (Helwan Univ.)
Off the clockFootball, chess, running, reading
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Experience

From R&D engineer to program leader

17+ years across banking, telecom, health-tech and enterprise software — most recent first.

  1. CurrentMar 2025 — Present

    Technical Project Manager

    Al Rajhi Bank Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · on site
    • Program leadership: oversaw the onboarding of banking platforms and 21 strategic tech projects driving digital transformation
    • Delivery: led Open Banking, digital channels, core banking, automation and integrations, including the Al Rajhi Mobile App, portal and microsite with AI-driven features
    • Coordination: aligned IT, Cybersecurity, QA and vendors, with engineering teams in India, Italy and Egypt
    • Governance & risk: directed PMO governance, risk, change control and senior-leadership reporting, in line with banking regulation and security standards
    Banking · FintechOpen BankingPMO
  2. Mar 2023 — Mar 2025

    Regional Manager · Regional Advisory Product Manager

    Huawei Technologies North, West, East & Central Africa + China
    • Multi-country leadership: regional manager for HBB internet technologies across 25 African countries, guiding CXOs and ICT ministries on AI and software platforms
    • Portfolio & strategy: led FTTH, software and AI products, including the Huawei AHVI AI High-Value Identification tools
    • Execution: oversaw regional delivery and KPIs, indirectly coordinating 5,000+ engineers in China and Africa; resolved bottlenecks and grew revenue
    Best Regional Manager in the Region Award — Huawei, China, 2025
  3. Jun 2022 — Mar 2023

    Technical Program Manager, Development & AI — EMEA

    Freed Group MEA headquarters, Dubai, UAE
    • Ran technical programs for clients such as Al Rajhi Bank, Abu Dhabi Tourism Board, Etihad, Ajman Bank and ADNOC: roadmaps, scope and budget estimates
    • Coordinated development teams of about 100 people in China and Korea, plus the MEA sales team
    • Built the company's new MEA tech team and its AI / project-management processes in Dubai
    • Improved the technical pre-sales and sales strategy in MEA by at least 50%
  4. Jun 2020 — Jun 2022

    Senior Technical Project Manager · Senior Product Owner

    Cegedim Santé Paris, France · London, UK · Cairo
    Cegedim Santé France · 2021–22 Cegedim Rx UK · 2020–21
    • Built a high-availability system serving 3,500+ live concurrent customers and thousands of daily transactions for MLM (a major healthcare system) and DAF (the group's main SSO)
    • Led the Remote Dispensing team building the AI component of Cegedim Pharmacy Manager, award-winning UK software deployed in 12K+ sites
    • Directly managed clusters of AI, full-stack, UX and QA engineers (up to 15–20 people); head of the Product Owners committee
    Health-techAISSO
  5. Oct 2015 — Jun 2020

    Technical Project Manager · Product Owner

    Orange — International R&D Labs Lannion, France · Cairo
    Technical Project Manager / PO · 2017–20 Senior R&D Software Engineer · 2015–17
    • Managed teams in 12 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on projects with a development budget of €2.5M per year
    • Product Owner for Mobile Connect, Orange Money / Cash and Livebox Phone; idea owner of Djingo Bot and Maana
    • Senior developer on the Orange GDPR anonymization project, Orange Virtual Assistant and Orange Flexi
    Winner of the Orange Labs worldwide innovation challenge — 2017 (Maana) and 2018 (Djingo Bot)
  6. Sep 2013 — Sep 2015

    Founder & Chief Technical Officer

    Rashdan Information Technology Dubai & Egypt
    • Delivered 20+ international projects in France, South Africa, Canada, KSA and Egypt (web, mobile, desktop, embedded), with a team of 20+
    • Lecturer at Egyptian engineering and computer-science faculties — 700+ lectures
  7. Sep 2012 — Sep 2013

    R&D Software Engineer

    IBM Johannesburg, South Africa · KSA
    • Built the South African government Workforce education portal and mobile app; trained IBM partners and junior engineers
    Best Employee, Services Department — IBM Johannesburg, 2013
  8. Jun 2010 — Sep 2012

    Junior Data Platform & Business Productivity Engineer

    Microsoft EMEA MEA region · Cairo
    Junior Engineer · 2011–12 Intern Software Developer · 2010–11
    • SQL Server (SSAS, SSIS, SSRS) and SharePoint projects for major Microsoft partners
    • Selected after representing Egypt's national student team at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009
How I deliver

Four strengths, backed by track record

What a hiring team gets when Med owns a program.

Program & project delivery

Clear scope, realistic plans, tracked budgets and risks managed before they become issues — from kickoff to go-live.

PMP® · Project financial management · MS Project

Agile at scale

Scrum and Lean practices adapted to the organisation, with product ownership that keeps the backlog tied to business value.

PMI-ACP® · PSPO I · Agile at scale · Jira

Stakeholders & executives

Trusted by CXOs across EMEA; aligns engineering, business and clients in English, French and Arabic.

Al Rajhi · Huawei · Orange · Program strategy

Technical depth

A former R&D engineer and certified architect who can challenge estimates, spot technical risk and lead AI initiatives credibly.

M.Sc. AI · Orange Labs Architect · Azure ML

Toolbox: ScrumLeanAgile at scaleJiraMS Project BudgetingRisk managementRoadmapping Stakeholder managementAI / NLPCloud
Selected programs

Programs he helped deliver

Large, multi-country products in banking, identity, fintech, AI, health-tech and education.

Al Rajhi BankBanking · Fintech

Al Rajhi Mobile App & Portal

Mobile banking app, portal and microsite of one of the world's largest Islamic banks, with new AI-driven customer features (Java Spring, React).

HuaweiAI · NLP

AHVI — AI High-Value Identification

Huawei's AI High-Value Identification tools, aligned with operator strategies across Africa (C#, GIS, Python, SQL).

CegedimHealth-tech

Cegedim Pharmacy Manager

AI component of an award-winning UK pharmacy and medication-management system deployed in 12K+ sites.

One of the top 3 healthcare management systems in the UK
Orange LabsDigital identity

Mobile Connect

One of Europe's largest identity programs, implemented by many operators. Orange built its own platform to serve its countries.

Orange LabsFintech

Orange Cash

Money-transfer platform widely used in France, Spain, Romania and many African countries.

Orange LabsAI · NLP

Djingo Bot · Djinguest

NLP system built on Orange's Djingo technology, planned for release with Djingo.

2018 innovation winner across all Orange Labs worldwide
IBMGovernment · Education

Edu@za — South Africa

National education portal built by IBM for South Africa's education sector, serving thousands of students and teachers.

Yemeni CaféRetail · POS

Field-sales Point of Sale

Mobile and desktop POS for sales representatives of one of the largest coffee producers in MEA, serving millions of users.

Dans Le Noir · CanadaImage processing

3D immersive dining rooms

Image-processing and hardware solution that makes guests of a major restaurant chain feel they are dining in space.

Credentials

Certified to lead — and to build

Every certificate links to its original PDF. Here are the ones most relevant to program leadership.

54

certificates across 6 areas

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    What previous managers say

    “Med has a lot of potential and has shown me that he is capable of doing some unexpected and very interesting things.”
    Christian RouxOrange Labs
    LinkedIn
    “When we worked together for IBM in South Africa in 2011 and 2012, Med Adel was a genius young software engineer who always had up-to-date technical knowledge and was really better than engineers his age.”
    Hossam RagabIBM EMEA
    LinkedIn
    Contact

    Have a program that needs a lead?

    Open to Technical Program / Project Manager roles and consulting engagements.

    Emailmed-adel@med-adel.com
    Phone · Egypt+20 111 131 8965
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    LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/med-adel

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