Sameh Guirguis, Head of IT

Sameh Guirguis

Head of IT

Wilton UK (Group) Ltd.

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Diploma, Technology & Privacy
Experience
19 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months

Head of IT at Wilton UK (Group) Ltd.
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since January 2017
Head of IT at Wilton Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2012 to April 2014

• Provides strategic and tactical planning, development, implementation, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems and IT operations.
• Managing IT Due Diligence which is an investigation of a business or person prior to signing a contract, or an act with a certain standard of care.
• Apply international standards with regard to IT budgeting & planning, development, IT Operations and Quality control.
• Technical advisor for all IT development and operations matters and ensure the consistency of the IT performance in the organization.
• Review and manage the IT budget, in line with the goals and the approved IT budget.
• Setting the department goals with the department heads and supervise, train, evaluate and mentor them.
• Facilitates communication between staff, management, vendors, and other technology resources within the organization.
• Responsible for the support of multiple information and communications systems and for the implementation of projects, including voice, data, imaging, and office automation.
• Supervise, at a managerial and executive level, on the IT procurement and attempt on applying international standards and procedures to ensure obtaining excellent competitive offers. And evaluate such offers in a professional manner that is fair for the company as well as local and international companies.
• Responsible for dealing with the technology suppliers, evaluate the best that suits the company needs and negotiate the best offer with the least cost.
• Direct, attend and participate in staff meetings and related activities; attend workshops to keep up to date with Information Technology issues.
• Responsible for the IT operations, systems uptime, resiliency, and the Network Operation Centre (NOC) management.
• Responsible for the organization back up policies, business applications support efficiencies, and the standard operation procedures for the IT systems/infrastructure.
• Implementing backups and disaster prevention and disaster recovery policy, plan and documentation.

Head of IT & Projects Manager - "Exchange Systems" at Arzak Global Securities (UK & UAE)
  • United Kingdom - London
  • September 2009 to October 2012

• Trading system “MetaTrader Administrator”, “MT Manager” and “MT Client” training and support.
• Insure the efficiency of; the disaster recovery plans and put scenarios; the organization systems management, servers’ performance and security; the databases management and securing the organization’s data.
• Supervise and manage the overall performance of staff, analysing, reporting, giving recommendations and developing strategies.
• Achieve business and organization goals, visions and objectives.
• Involved in employee selection, career development, succession planning and periodic training.
• Identifying problems, creating choices and providing alternatives courses of actions.
• B2B solutions and strong negotiations.

Senior IT Officer at Orion Financial
  • France
  • August 2006 to September 2009

• Web Trading System Administrator.
• Immediate trouble shooting for :
o Tenfore workstation and the satellite connections.
o Bloomberg and Reuters workstations and connections.
o MetaQuotes Software (MT4) and Data Feeds (DDE).
o eSignal Products Data Feed and.
• Plan, installation, and connectivity of computers and network systems to ensure the stable operation of the organization’s Network Infrastructure.
• Make recommended tasks to improve systems and network configurations.
• Network Administrator (Win2003 Servers, Win2008 Server, ISA servers...).
• CRM software administrator like (Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Sales Force)
• Network Infrastructure: Maintain servers, workstations, cables and patch panels, switches, router, UPS…
• Cisco VOIP System Administrator (Call Manager Express).
• Diagnose hardware and software problems and replace defective components.
• Assist staff members with any technology related issues and handle the data base reports.
• Data Bases backups and recovery.
• Generating reports on Linux Servers.
• Performing a daily routine tasks and maintenance.

Programmer at Al Nahda National Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2006 to November 2007

• Creating a new computer’s programs for various departments such as:
o Accounting department.
o HR department.
o Purchasing department.
• Programming and Developing the Data Base for existing Programs.
• Solving the network problems.
• Maintenance activities, daily routine duties, technical supports on IT systems.

IT Developer/Consulting at Educators for Educational Consultant
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2005 to October 2006

• Advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives
• IT consulting, Computer consultancy, technology consulting or business and technology services).
• Provides lectures in IT and Computer Skills.

System Analyst at 3M Computer Company (Ajman-UAE)
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2002 to June 2003
Programmer at Allied Soft Company
  • United Kingdom
  • November 2001 to June 2002

November 2001 - June 2002: Allied Soft Company (Egypt) as a
Programmer.

I have been chosen as a Project Leader to establish a program for the Public Prosecution of the Ministry of Justice in Egypt to Follow-up the implementation of the provisions
The project took six months of system analysing then programming so the company was shortlisted by the ministry for a
public bid.

Letter of Credit Department & Collection Department. at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • Egypt - Port Said
  • January 2000 to January 2001

Education

Diploma, Technology & Privacy
  • at ICSA IOM Programme Event
  • January 2010

CPD Certificate for the ICSA IOM Programme Event "Data Protection - Technology & Privacy: Challenges, Threats and Solutions" in (UK) Other Qualifications & skills Professional in IT/Technical Business analysis, Satellite Connections, Network Administration, Oracle Developer Programmer,

Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Banking
  • at Suez Canal University
  • January 2000

Specialties & Skills

CRM software
Systems Management
Management
Oracle SQL
BROKERAGE
DATABASES
DISASTER RECOVERY
EXCHANGE
MAINTENANCE
IT SOLUTIONS
TRADING Platforms
CLOUD Hostin Solution

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) (Certificate)
mini MBA (Certificate)
MCSE (Training)
Training Institute:
Dubai
ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
Dubai
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Training)
Training Institute:
Dubai