Project Director
Huawei Technologies
Total years of experience :25 years, 10 Months
Manage top-regional level IT, Software and transformation projects in Middle-East & Africa
Significant contribution leading Etisalat DC migration strategic and challenging project with more focus on risks, financial and 3rd parties management; mitigated major revenue & cost risks, closed subcontract agreements with the main IT vendors, drove the project into a safe financial state, increased profit margin from 1.7% baseline up-to +35% (forecast till completion)
Participated in the successful delivery of a very large and complex program for Ooredoo Qatar, Led multi-millions $ budget projects end-to-end; network inventory system including modeling, integration and complex data migration
Participated in sales projects, identifying risks, high level planning including scope, delivery strategy, cost estimation, and revenue plan
Contributed to the sales/presales process improvement as well as projects finance mgmt., developed template/guidelines for cost estimation, financial proposals, revenue planning, budget & cash-flow control, P&L reporting.
Recognized significant contribution to one of the most complex and high risk projects in Vodafone history; being responsible for leading NPC (Number Plan Change) on the products & services program level (BSS/OSS), with more focus on communication and risk management, worked closely with large team of system owners and strategic vendors to mitigate high risks, solve critical issues, detailed minutes planning of the cut-over launch
Managed delivery of several projects in Vodafone such as, “IVR/Call Collect Expansion”, “Prepaid Data Tariff”, “Online Services”, “Mobile Ad revamp”
Managed successful delivery of ET corporate CRM project
Managed a secure online banking services project for Banque du Caire
Effectively applied PM best practices within the IT/GIS Center
Managed a large GIS project “City Planning Services Automation”
Supervised presales team in enhancing quality of presales service; proposals, presentation, demos & POC’s across different verticals
Analyze RFP’s, align bid strategy with sales managers, define scope, identify risks, estimate efforts in term of time and cost
Effectively contributed to ECM products roadmap, developed competitive analysis and prioritization matrixes
Responsible for customer engagement, revenue & budget control, service delivery of IT projects
Managed the delivery of many projects; Aljazeera mobile service portal and Aljazeera sport channel web portal
Effectively supervised and coached the technical team.
Managed web-based implementations end-to-end.
Participated in presales activities.
Designed and deployed several solutions and system architecture.
Designed, implemented and maintained the company’s logical network and infrastructure servers.
Designed and developed a multilingual web content management framework.
Designed and developed web-based GIS solution and products catalogue module.
Implemented online real estate reservation system for SODIC, featured financial functions.
Implemented online advertisement campaign management solution.
Developed a proof-of-concept VAS portal solution using Microsoft Commerce & MCMS server.
Being the pioneer who mastered the first implementations of web-based GIS solutions in Egypt; I have been selected to work as an onsite consultant for Vodafone Egypt to design and develop their Internet and Intranet GIS systems as part of a large integrated GIS infrastructure project
Innovatively designed and implemented GIS web-based solutions.
Provided coaching to project development team.
Part time lecturer for how to design and implement web-based GIS solutions using ESRI ArcIMS.
Develop GIS applications and e-maps using Map Objects, IMS, and Net Engine.
Designed and developed the 1st implementation of web-based GIS solution in Egypt.
Maintain logical network infrastructure elements.
Develop e-learning materials using LATEX (document markup language).
Post graduate diploma in Information Technology, software development program
Graduation project was in Artificial Intelligence with grade Excellent.