VP & IT Manager
HC Securities & Investment (Egypt, UAE, Syria, UK) - www.hc-si.com
Total years of experience :14 years, 0 Months
Achievements:
- Directed implementation of private Cloud Computing, for servers and VDI, encompassing self-service and BOYD, serving Egypt, UAE, Syria and UK branches.
- Reduced IT CapEx by 36% and OpEx by 17% to save 24% of total IT spending, while increased IT service availability to 98%.
- Nominated for “Network World” award (Middle East), "Honoring innovation and excellence" for Virtualization project of the year - 2012.
- Conducted BCP with hot disaster-recovery site, and automated fail-over/fail-back process.
- Initiated business products: “Online-Trading”, which contributed in business development by increasing brokerage revenue by 4% and exposing services to international markets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervising IT teams for efficient execution of system engineering, network administrations, information security, and software development.
- Performing sizing analysis and plan for expected growth, to improve operational efficiency.
- Managing vendor relations, proposal evaluation and leading commercial negotiations.
- Devising IT budgeting with appropriate OpEx/CapEx weight, to assure improved cash flow.
- Reporting to corporate CEO and coordinating with COOs of six subsidiaries to analyzing organizational requirements and determining appropriate technology solutions and services.
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Achievements:
- Successfully delivered “operation and infrastructure enhancement” project for EU datacenters, implementing infrastructure standards (OS, DB, Backup, Network, Security) for 230 customers.
- Augmented annual revenues by EUR 1, 960, 000 successfully closed major 12 deals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Acted in Pre-Sales role to examine/analyze customer infrastructure, concerning processing power, storage, databases and operating systems, to tailor suitable datacenter resources.
- Devised and implemented database/network security policy and backup/recovery procedures to maintain conducive environment for customers and uphold confidentiality of information.
- Formulated project implementation plans, project schedules, and assigned tasks to team members for on-time delivery of client deliverables.
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Achievements & Highlights:
- Promoted to member of IT Steering Committee at May 2004, for offering innovative VAS product (Mobile Contact Sync) resulting increased data revenue, and ARPU.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversaw major issues pertaining to administration of 3 production iAS, 16 non-stop production Databases on UNIX clustered systems (SUN Solaris) and deployment of J2EE applications.
- Conducted a comprehensive study of databases for reengineering, analyzed areas of underperformance and accordingly customized IT systems of the company.
- Handled the entire migration procedure from development to production phase for new systems/modifications, whilst maintaining compliance with set standards.
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Key Responsibilities:
- Provided 2nd line technical support to remote DBA teams, internal designers and developers.
- Created and administrated databases required for development, testing, and production usage.
- Enforced and maintained database constraints, and security to ensure data integrity.
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