Amir Salah, Manager, Corporate Information Services

Amir Salah

Manager, Corporate Information Services

mobinil

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, International Business
Experience
27 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :27 years, 3 Months

Manager, Corporate Information Services at mobinil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2012

• A core program ownership & management, the corporate portal unification, the program objectives is to unify the end user experience utilizing the internal systems and processes via unified workflow services, SLAs, notifications and look&feel
• ERP development and business maintenance in order to meet different and consolidated business requirements in a dynamic but very sensitive industry.
• Development of the Fraud management and Revenue Assurance systems and maintenance of financial changing requirements and industry new regulations.
• Development, roadmaps and program management for the following systems: Oracle E-business suite, corporate Intranet (Microsoft SharePoint), Identity management & SSO, FMS, RA, Workflow system and E-records management systems

Manager, Systems Automation& Integration at Mobinil.
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to December 2011

Scope: Development, ownership and management of Technology programs driven by best practices and IT governance, example the deployment of Identity lifecycle process across systems which host users’ identities.
Program management for initiatives that align technology with critical business needs and fulfilling other business functions requirements like regulatory, info security, and cost optimization initiatives.
Provide corporate Infrastructure solutions that automate business operations and integrate with variant platforms as Unix/Linux systems, Oracle and Data Network services, to provide integrated end to end services to corporate users.
Takeover the company flagged -hotspot & challenging projects which did not succeed before, like Billing systems single sign on, Intranet revamp, Email, SharePoint and SQL consolidations.
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Appraisal: Success implementation of company identity management system with excellent level of automation & integration connecting more than 10 business applications, successfully changing Customer Satisfaction using Single sign with critical applications like Billing (BSCS) and CRM (Siebel).
Successfully applying cost optimization strategies for data center operations using virtualization technologies and saving up to 2 MEGP in one year.
Implemented one of the most innovative projects, the unified communication portfolio based on MS OCS 2007.

– Infrastructure Development Expert at MobiNil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2004 to January 2007

Scope: The Technology department was re-organized into two departments, Operations and Development, where the former is maintaining the technology operational aspects from IT services to Billing system and GSM integration, the later put the technology roadmap and launch new solutions and services, from IT services to Billing applications

The Infrastructure Development function was a new function created under the Technology Development, basic role was to construct IT technology roadmap, building solutions that fit in the Infrastructure, of strategic focus like virtualization and consolidation.
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Appraisal: Implemented a realizable roadmap integrated and tested within the operational environment, successful realization of the roadmap through sponsored projects like Virtual PC setup for more than 2500 clients, HRMS integration with company active directory, other Infrastructure upgrades and optimization projects, while meeting corporate expectations and pro-actively exceeding their expectations.

Mobinil - Sr. Infrastructure Engineer at MobiNil
  • Egypt
  • October 2002 to June 2004

Leading the Infrastructure Development and Backoffice automation solutions to achieve business efficiency and customer satisfaction, while providing technical consultancy to Mobinil operation team.

Senior System Engineer at MobiNil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2001 to October 2002

As a system engineer responsible to implement, deploy and administer Microsoft Exchange email environment in Mobinil and other integrated E-mail based services and dependent modules like (Faxination, Remote e-mail access, ..etc)

Network Engineer at Mobinil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2000 to January 2001

Network security project planning and implementation is the major achievement beside the Exchange administration and maintenance

System Administrator at Mobinil
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 1998 to January 2000

A Business Administration Group Team Member responsible for technical maintenance and keeping IT systems up to the expected operation level, and technical support activities for Backoffice servers’ environment& HP OpenView products

Network Engineer at Price WaterHouse
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • February 1998 to October 1998

1. Designing the company’s network and network operating system (Netware 4.0) and migrating to Windows NT 4.0
2. Administration of all Financial and audit programs which are used by the auditors as “ Great Plans Dynamics”

System Administrator at PriceWaterhouseCoopers – PWC Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 1998 to September 1998

General management and administration for the company IT environment (no other IT resources)

Responsibilities
• Designing the company’s network and network operating system (Netware 4.0) and migrating to Windows NT 4.0
• Administration of major Financial and audit programs which are used by auditors like “ Great Plans Dynamics”

Systems Engineer at Gupco Petroleum
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 1997 to March 1998

• Responsible for the successful implementation of all projects and enhancements in the Services Environment.
• Handled the migration of Novel Netware 3.x to Netware 4.x operating system.
• Deployment and administration of Microsoft SNA server connecting the Microsoft network with the IBM AX400 Mainframes.
• Deployment of a big migration project to Windows NT 4.0 in headquarter and RAS Shokair site field.

System Administrator at Gupco Petrolium
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 1997 to February 1998

1. Supporting the Netware 4.0 as a network operating system in the main office and the Ras Shokeir field.
2. Supporting the Microsoft NT 4.0 as a network operating system in the main office and the Ras Shokeir field.

Education

Master's degree, International Business
  • at RITI
  • January 2006

MBA certification in Globalization & Strategy major, Maastricht University (Thesis in innovation patterns in ICT sector- obtained , 2008)

Diploma, Building scalable Cisco networks “ BSCN”
  • at “Synergy Egypt”
  • November 2000
Diploma, Cisco firewall PIX course
  • at “Synergy egypt”
  • July 2000
Diploma, Windows 2000 INFRASTRUCTURE and Active Directory Services
  • at “LEAGUE-Egypt”
  • February 2000
Diploma, HP OpenView Desktop Administrator, HP OpenView ManageX
  • at “HP training center – Berkshire-U.K.”
  • November 1999
Diploma, . Administrating/Design Microsoft Exchange 5.5
  • at “LEAGUE-Egypt”
  • March 1999
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications
  • at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University
  • May 1996

Accumulated Grade: Good Last year Grade: Very Good Project Grade: Excellent

Specialties & Skills

Regulatory Requirements
Identity Management
Information Systems Development
Virtualization Solutions
Windows 2000/NT , MS-Exchange 5/2000
Network engineer using Cisco devices
Network security using Cisco routers,PIX firewall , Intrusion detection
Network infrastructure expert
project management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Instructor led training program (Training)
Training Institute:
Techno management
Date Attended:
January 2006
Customer centricity (Training)
Training Institute:
Mobinil
Date Attended:
May 2012
Foundations of Leadership provided by center for creative leadership (Training)
Training Institute:
Center of creative leadership
Date Attended:
December 2008
Outside training by activity learning and competitions (Training)
Training Institute:
Red Rock
Date Attended:
May 2008