Hazem El_Abd, Information Technology  Director

Hazem El_Abd

Information Technology Director

gig Egypt Life Takaful

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Business Information Technology
Experience
30 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 1 Months

Information Technology Director at gig Egypt Life Takaful
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2020

Responsible for the management, strategy and execution of IT infrastructure, Applications and Quality for an organization. Typical job duties include:
• Overseeing technical projects in alignment with organizational goals
• Directing the effective delivery of networks, development, and disaster recovery systems and processes
• Working with information engineers to find solutions to manage business activities
• Supervising a team of workers, while working closely with management, external vendors and advisors
• Preparing financial budgets and presenting proposals for capital projects to senior executives
• Researching and recommending new products
• Leading efforts to improve IT processes

Information Technology Program Manager at Consulting Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2018 to August 2020

Scope: Handle all projects-related activities such as managing integration projects, developing and maintaining project plan, identifying, tracking managing and resolving project issues, creating projects SLA, OLA, and KPIs, and ensuring post implementation. Manage related vendors such as IBM & Egada. Report to CIO & Steering committee for program status.
Achievements
• Managed Customer at the Heart Program for CAE Bank, with complete upgrade Siebel CRM, complete implementation of IBM UNICA enterprise marketing management system and Implement Oracle Social Relationship Management (SRM) system with program budget as USD 2, 964, 000

Services Program Manager at IBM
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2012 to December 2017

Scope: Manage operational targets of service quality, resource fulfillment, business operation, business controls compliance, and financial and productivity that include support service quality, resources management, delivery management, business controls, and pre sales activities to Orange Egypt. Report to Telco industry manager and manage 12 Siebel CRM and 16 Oracle eBS team members.

• Operated support value project with 700, 000 USD annually.
• Gained new contract with Orange Egypt with seven million USD as a result of an effectively managed operation support.
• Generated not less than 200, 000 USD annually from changing requests.
• Solved 45 pending trouble tickets within two months.

Program Manager at OPENET
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2011 to November 2012

Scope: Handle all projects-related activities such as managing integration projects, developing and maintaining project plan, identifying, tracking managing and resolving project issues, creating projects SLA, OLA, and KPIs, and ensuring post implementation. Report to program director and head nine team members including four of different nationalities and locations.

• Managed data charging application for Wataniya Telecom (Kuwait) with nine million USD.
• Implemented many projects such as Cisco integration and data billing in one year.
• Increased the revenue of data charging of Wataniya Telecom to represent up to 40% of the total revenue.

Senior Data Modeler & Data Architect Consultant at Teradata
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2009 to May 2011

Scope: Facilitate the exposure of process data from functional experts and the user community, provide mapping between existing processes and proposed replacement processes as well as designing and normalizing the logical data models and reporting to professional services manager.

• Delivered the required data warehouse (RDW) in two projects CIB (risk management) and Xceed (call center).
• Decreased risk calculation time from three to one month in CIB.
• Prepared mapping document for customer data generated from around 20 applications to be in data warehouse.

Managed Services Manager at International Turnkey Systems
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • November 2005 to June 2009

Scope: Manage all IT operations including billing, CRM, provisioning, mediation, network administration, data base administration, system administration, and help desk. Report to managed service director and head 60 team members.
Achievements:
• Managed Zain Iraq project with a total value of 1.3 million USD gained from operations.
• Managed the operation of providing a solution with five million USD.
• Decreased trouble tickets by 50%.

Senior Project Manager at MCR Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2002 to October 2005

I did complete project planning, including recourse planning, with team of 8 professionals; we successfully delivered a robust system on time.
•Leading periodic status checks with customers & team to assess progress against plan.
•Designing Database Structure.
•Leading and participating in documentation work process flow.
•Maintain Project Implementation Plans.
Projects: ERP System for Ministry Of Interior, Ministry Of Commerce

Senior Project Manager at CIT Global
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 1999 to September 2002

During my work I have participated in several important projects and played several roles in the scope of these projects as follow:
Open Billing Exchange Management Project (London, England),
Stock Market Management, Shares Trading, Banking and Financial industry, Riyadh, KSA

Technical Project Manager at Brain Waves,
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 1996 to August 1999

Analyzing and Designing, Team Leader for Leading and developing three similar projects in Hospital management systems
El-Shorouk Hospital, Cairo, Egypt, Royal Committee Hospital, KSA & EIMIC projects

Analyst/Programmer, at Alpha Misr,
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 1995 to November 1996

Leading and developing Health care applications
Projects: Behman Hospital project.

Analyst/Programmer, at ICL Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 1993 to March 1995

Leading and developing Health care applications
Project Wadi El-Nil Hospital

Education

Master's degree, Business Information Technology
  • at School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Middlesex University
  • January 2010

M.Sc. in Business Information Technology at School of Engineering & Information Sciences, Middlesex University, London, U.K

Bachelor's degree, Accounting
  • at Faculty of Commerce
  • May 1993

B.Sc. of Accounting, Faculty of Commerce, Cairo University

Specialties & Skills

Cloud Computing
Program Management
Managed Services
Healthcare Information Technology
Project Management
Knowledgeable in Data Warehouse, Hospital management and, Data Charging
IT Management, Program Management, Project Management, Budget & Cost control.
Serviece Delivery Managment
ORACLE case tools, ORACLE engine 8i,9i, Expert in Power Builder development
Strategy and Business Planning
People Management, Team Building, People Development & Resources Allocation
Leadership, Communication & Interpersonal Networking, Analytical and Problem Solving.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

NCC Certificate in System Analysis & Design from (Training)
Training Institute:
National Computing Center U.K
Date Attended:
October 1993

Hobbies

  • Reading, Walking, Football