Group Head of IT
Elnefeidi Holding Group Ltd.
Total years of experience :20 years, 10 months
Building the IT strategy for the group, and the sub companies.
Establishing and building the Main Datacenter serving all the group companies.
Responsible of Designing, building, and operating the IT infrastructure for 19 companies in different business sectors.
Managing the IT Projects from initiation to closure with PMI project management standards.
Setting the IT Service Management process and system to manage incidents, service requests, problems, release, IT assets, and change.
--Establish the IT department at the company since it is a startup.
--Plan, budget and implement IT systems and software
-- Manage vendor relationships and service contracts. Recommends updates to service plans. (license and warranty updates)
--Implementation of Retail Management system with POS, back end inventory system, and full integration with accounting.
--Develop and maintain corporate IT policies regarding the execution and testing of information storage, system back-ups, recovery, and offsite tape storage. Voice & VPN with due emphasis on security of information at all times.
--Assist in selection of and implementation of new corporate IT systems, software and hardware.
Manage, Design, deploy and support the necessary infrastructure and applications required to run the business applications carried by Vision Valley.
Manage the resources of the Business Applications Department in all aspects such as availability, efficiency, training and quality of performance.
Develop and market the opensource products, especially OpenERP.
Extend the necessary functional assistance to all relevant parties in the company such as the Quality Management and other Departments.
Managing the IT infrastructure systems, and network for Sudan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), and all Sudanese Embassies and Consulates all over the world.
Managing the Section, and making sure that it achieves its objectives efficiently, on time.
Specifying the required projects for the section and its estimated duration, and budget
Preparing the Request for proposal (RFP) document for the projects
Evaluating bidders, and negotiating them until kicking off the project
Managing the Section Projects
Building the team capabilities to execute, manage, and administer the infrastructure projects, and operations.
Managing the department, and making sure that it achieves its objectives efficiently, on time, within budget.
Creating and managing the department procedures, and making sure procedures are followed and that it adheres to the international standards.
Managing the projects assigned to the department
Handling businesses related to Information Technology Strategies, Enterprise Applications, Operating Systems, Databases, Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions.
Process analysis and re-engineering for customer processes, and mapping the requirements and workflows to systems.
Consultation services for the ERP Systems and Information Technology Areas.
Determining the direction of the department, where it needs to expand and where it needs to put less effort.
Coaching department engineers, make sure they develop their career and use their time effectively.
Marketing for the department services, and trying to open new business
Creating new business partnerships with new vendors and keeping a good relationship with the existing vendors.
Managing all department managers and making sure they achieve their objectives effectively.
Establishing good relationships with all the company employees.
Encourage employees to perform their job in the most efficient and effective ways.
Managing the company resources, and making sure that it is used in the best possible way.
Insuring customer satisfaction.
Project manager for different IT projects, from the initiation of the project till its closure, following PMI standards in project management.
Installation, Configuration and Design of Thin clients with load balancing and failure groups.
Administering Sun Microsystems Solaris based servers, working with different kinds of
servers, e.g. SunFireV100, SunFireV120, SunFireV220, SunFireV240, SunFireV440, SunFire T1000 Server, and Sun X4100.
Installation, Configuration and Design of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).
Installation, configuration, Design, and training of Disaster Recovery Solutions using Storage Area Networks (SAN).
Installation, Configuration and Design of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC).
Installation, configuration, Design, and training of Disaster Recovery Solutions using Storage Area Networks (SAN).
Installation, configuration, and training on Varitas NetBackup systems, and integration with different Sun StorEdge Systems
Assessment and consultancy of the IT systems for several organizations.
Installation, Configuration, and training of Content Management systems.
Application Development and On-call support of Oracle 9i Application & Oracle9i Database Servers, On Sun MicroSystems platforms.
Installation, Configuration, Administration, and Development of different applications on Sun Solaris OS.
Ongoing
B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (First Class-Distinction) Sept.,1998 – Jan.,2003 University of Sharjah (Sharjah, UAE)