15+

years of hands-on IT consulting, cybersecurity and solution architecture


Fortune 500

to startups. Banks, Engineering Firms, Universities and Service Providers


20K+

professionals following the journey on LinkedIn

“Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.”

– Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hi, I’m Mohamad El Hout


I've been an employee and I've been a consultant. Becoming a consultant was the most liberating (and stressful) decision that I ever made.
I hope to share my experience with you so that you have an easier time transitioning to a consultant and I'll do my best to set up a supportive community for consultants.

P.S.: My family name means "The Whale", hence the whale logo you see everywhere :).

Courses



How to become an IT consultant

In this course I share over 15 years of IT experience, +9 as an independent consultant. I've worked with Fortune 1000 companies and with SMBs and I must have helped tens of friends and contacts start their own corporations to do follow their dreams of becoming IT consultants. I'll take you through the steps needed and will share knowledge that I hope was available to me when I started out as a consultant.

Mohamad El Hout

Mohamad El Hout

$200

Learn DoDAF by Example

Building an IT System Using DoDAF is a practical, example-driven video course for systems engineers, enterprise architects, IT leaders, and defense professionals. Through a continuous JG-IMS case study and a DoDAF news-website capstone, learners apply the Department of Defense Architecture Framework to a realistic IT system. The course explains how AV, CV, OV, SV, SvcV, DIV, StdV, and PV views connect from mission purpose and capabilities to operations, interfaces, services, data, standards, and delivery projects. Engaging 3D visuals, diagram zoom-ins, document walkthroughs, common-error reviews, and short knowledge checks make complex architecture products clear and usable. By the end, learners can select fit-for-purpose views, interpret and create key DoDAF products, trace capabilities through implementation, identify architecture gaps, and communicate a coherent, decision-ready system design.

Mohamad El Hout

Mohamad El Hout

$200

Experience delivering for SMEs and international organizations