Shaimaa Hashem is a Senior Telecommunications Engineer/ Project Manager at Dar Al-Handasah Consultants (Shair and Partners) the founding company of Dar Group, an international consortium of professional service firms in over 100 countries around the world.
Shaimaa joined Dar in 2006, shortly after graduation from Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. She has major participation in a wide range of projects undertaken by the Firm in the Arab Gulf region, the Middle East, Africa and Asia mainly including healthcare facilities, mixed-use complexes, educational developments, land ports, residential compounds, commercial and tourist complexes.
In July 2014, Shaimaa has been certified as a Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC) from Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI), she was the first to hold this certification in Egypt; in November 2017 she was certified as Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) from the Uptime Institute and in December 2018 she was certified as Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) from BICSI. Shaimaa is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since August 2012 and LEED Accredited Professional Building Design and Construction (LEED AP BD+C) from the Green Building Certification Institute since October 2013.
Shaimaa is recognized as trailblazer by Project Management Institute and recognized as subject matter expert by BICSI’s RCS Committee.