An ex soloist for the Cairo Opera Contemporary dance company and the modern ballet, Waleed Shams also founded his own dance company which traveled abroad winning awards in European jazz dance festivals before returning to Cairo to teach dance.

Recently he has expanded his career into the fitness field and taught a wide range of aerobics at numerous gyms and clubs around Cairo before concentrating on his own studios. He now has a dance studio in Maadi and a second in Katamaya. He still choreographs for dance sequences for movies and is an aerobics consultant for the MBC TV channel.
This year he traveled to the UK to take his Internationally recognized certification for teaching Cuban salsa.