Farouk Ibrahim

Exeter, UK · 07950 225181 · dr.farouk.ibrahim@gmail.com

Clinician and data‑focused researcher with 9+ years’ experience across psychiatry, learning‑disability services and digital health. Led an EHR rollout and founded a Digital Information Centre to embed analytics into day‑to‑day decisions; currently completing an MSc in Big Data Technologies (UEL) with projects in Spark/PySpark, streaming analytics, Word2Vec, classification and clustering. Skilled in evidence synthesis and clear communication; fluent in English and Arabic.

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Experience

Adult Support Care Worker (part‑time)

Horizon Care South West Ltd · Exeter, UK

Delivered person‑centred support to help adults live independently; collaborated with MDTs on care plans; maintained accurate, confidential records; received multiple client commendations.

Jun 2023 – Sep 2024

Web & App Testing Consultant (Freelance)

United Kingdom

Exploratory testing and UX/UI feedback; identified 500+ issues and usability opportunities; contributed to ~20–30% improvements in user retention for client projects.

Feb 2022 – Jun 2023

Neuropsychiatric Resident & Head, Digital Information Centre

Dakahliya (Demira) Mental Health & Addiction Hospital · Egypt

Led EHR and data‑storage facility; established a health‑informatics and analytics function supporting KPIs, diagnosis and prediction. Reported measurable outcomes (~10% fewer readmissions; ~20% lower admin overhead).

Dec 2018 – Jan 2022

Neuropsychiatric Resident & Head, Digital Information Centre

General Secretariat of Mental Health & Addiction Treatment (El‑Azzazi) · Egypt

General adult psychiatry across inpatient and outpatient settings; rotations in geriatric, addictions and child clinics; after‑hours inpatient cover; committee work (Infection Control, Medical Services Follow‑up).

Dec 2016 – Dec 2018

Army Physician (Soldier)

Egyptian Armed Forces (Border Guard Forces)

Provided physical and mental healthcare; delivered monthly health‑education seminars linked with a ~30% reduction in clinic attendances.

Oct 2015 – Dec 2016

Football Team Physician

Haras El Hodoud SC (Border Guard FC) · Cairo

Responsible for athletes’ wellbeing and injury management; coordinated care pathways; explored sports analytics.

Sep 2016 – Nov 2016

Primary Care Physician (GP)

Family Medicine Unit · Egypt

Delivered primary, maternal and child healthcare; preventive care; health education; basic medical statistics and community screening.

Apr 2015 – Oct 2015

Intern Doctor (FY2/House Officer)

Mansoura University Hospitals · Egypt

Rotations across internal medicine, surgery, paediatrics (incl. ED/ICU & neonatology), emergency, anaesthesia, neurosurgery, haematology, and gastro/endocrine/cardiology; developed robust documentation practices and clinical skills.

Mar 2014 – Mar 2015

Education

University of East London

MSc Big Data Technologies (in progress)
Modules: Big Data Analytics & Platforms, AI & Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Ethics, Visualisation.
Dissertation: Exploring data‑driven approaches to mental‑health interventions.
2024 – 2025 (expected)

Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Egypt

M.B.B.Ch (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery)
2006 – 2013

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Data & Platforms

Apache Spark (PySpark), Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Ubuntu/VMware, basic Bash.

Machine Learning & Analytics

Feature engineering; Word2Vec; classification (LR, RF, SVM); clustering (k‑means, DBSCAN); validation; PCA, t‑SNE; streaming/micro‑batch concepts.

Healthcare Informatics

EHR implementation; KPI dashboards; outcomes & audit reporting; careful, governance‑aware data handling.

Communication

Evidence synthesis; plain‑English summaries; UX‑aware reporting; stakeholder & PPI engagement.

Selected Projects

Spark/PySpark Portfolio

Word2Vec symbol embeddings with semantic‑similarity analyses; multi‑class classifiers; clustering; streaming analytics with micro‑batches; deployment notes (resource sizing, checkpoints, logging).

Cybersecurity Case Studies

Structured analyses of the Twitter 2020 compromise and the Fastly 2021 outage using threat modelling and incident‑response lenses.

UNSW‑NB15 (Cyber Dataset)

Correlation analysis, hypothesis testing, and scalable ML with PySpark; emphasis on reproducible pipelines and evaluation.

Licences & Certifications

  • Egyptian Ministry of Health — Registered Qualified Medical Practitioner (No. 264755) — 12‑03‑2015
  • OET – Medicine — L:B, R:B, W:B, S:B (CBLA) — 03‑11‑2018 — Candidate 200013491
  • Basic Life Support (AHA) — Provider — 09‑12‑2018 — Verification 2f3e11cc7302
  • Immediate Life Support (ERC) — 14‑02‑2019 — Verification ERC‑901‑074304
  • Udemy: The Data Science Course 2024 (Bootcamp); SPSS 26 for Beginners (2022); Survival Analysis using SPSS (2023)
  • Coursera/Stanford: Machine Learning (2019); Health Informatics on FHIR (Georgia Tech, 2019)
  • Udacity: Front‑End Web Development (2021); Advanced Full‑Stack (2022); React Cross‑Skilling (2022)
  • DAAD Bioinformatics Schools (2019) — Linux, R, Python; single‑cell & radiogenomics; ML in bioinformatics

Interests

Computational psychiatry, clinical NLP, health‑data platforms, inclusive & accessible design, and community health volunteering.