Essam Abbas, CIO Chief Information Officer

Essam Abbas

CIO Chief Information Officer

Dubai Health Authority

Location
Egypt
Education
Master's degree, Preliminary M.SC. In Information Technology, Alexandria University.
Experience
34 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :34 years, 0 Months

CIO Chief Information Officer at Dubai Health Authority
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2018

Main Responsibilities and achievements:
• Develops, improves and Provides corporate strategic IT leadership Healthcare and expert advice on healthcare IT to the Executive team and Board of Directors.

* Oversee the technological infrastructure (networks and computer systems) in the organization to ensure optimal performance.
* Direct and organize IT-related projects to ensure the group has the right systems available to deliver effective patient care and services.
* Monitor changes or advancements in technology to discover ways the group can gain competitive advantage
* Analyze the costs, value and risks of information technology to advise management and suggest actions

IT Director at Mabaret Al Asafra Hospitals Group-MAHG
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • December 2021 to February 2022

Dimensions of the role:
Provide global leadership, innovation and direction in the development and implementation of IT strategy in support of business objectives.
Main Responsibilities:
• Leading the development and execution of an IT strategy, impacting on the MAHG to ensure the group has the right systems available to deliver effective patient care and services.
• Planning, directing and overseeing the IT and Communications infrastructure to ensure its optimum performance and availability for improving patient care and efficient resource allocation.
• Develop new and innovative IT solutions to enhance and support effective and efficient delivery of the MAHG vision and mission.
• Develop and improve strategic planning, process, and procedure related to the MAHG technology.
• Oversee all MAHG technology operations and evaluating them according to established goals.
• Manage, coach and lead a professional IT team member including the global and remote teams.
• Provide strategic input to budget planning processes, maintain overall responsibility for the MAHG IT budget.
• Establish and maintain a good relationships strategy with IT vendors and creating cost-efficient IT contracts.

IT Director at Elite Hospital
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • December 2020 to November 2021

Main Responsibilities and achievements:
• Provided corporate strategic IT leadership Healthcare and expert advice on healthcare IT to the Executive team and Board of Directors.
• Developed and improved IT strategic planning, process, and procedure related to the Hospital technology.
• planned, directed and oversaw the IT infrastructure and systems to ensure its optimum performance and availability for improving patient care and efficient resource allocation.
• Developed new and innovative IT solutions to enhance and support effective and efficient delivery of the Hospital vision and mission.
• Established and Monitored the IT Department KPIs to enhance the IT performance.
• Oversaw all technology operations and evaluating them according to established goals of the Hospital.
• Managed, coached and led a professional IT team member including the global and remote teams.
• Provided strategic input to budget planning processes, and maintained overall responsibility for the IT budget.
• Established and maintained a good relationships strategy with IT vendors and created cost-efficient IT contracts.

Regional IT Manager (Africa, Middle East) at Arab Co. For Export and Commercial Agencies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2018 to November 2020

Main Responsibilities and achievements:
Successfully oversaw, developed, designed, implemented IT direction and strategy, process, quality improvement, and supported the company IT Infrastructure and systems, control IT budget and report on expenditure, led large IT projects, as well as Led, managed and coached an experienced IT Team member in 10 major cities in Middle East and north Africa.

IT Coordinator-IT Expert at Plan International
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • January 1996 to July 2018

Main Responsibilities and achievements:
• Developed and maintained an effective IT Infrastructure and manages the overall organization IT services to align with the organization business needs and future growth.
• Developed an ICT4D implementation plan to guide the best use of ICT4D in the organization.
• Designed, and implemented IT systems, policies and procedures to ensure security of data, network access and backup systems.
• Managed the IT budgets, assets, contracts, vendor negotiations, and bid proposals.

IT Manager at Finmar Shipping Co.
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • May 1994 to December 1995

Main Responsibilities and achievements:

• Successfully oversaw, developed, designed, implemented IT direction and strategy, process, quality improvement, and supported the company IT Infrastructure and systems as well as Led, managed and coached an experienced IT Team members in 7 major cities in Egypt.

IT Training Consultant at Computer and Secretarial Studies Center CSSC
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • January 1994 to April 1994

I have developed, managed and supported an effective IT training and guidance to of all center branches.

IT Technical Support Engineer at International Group Company IGC
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • June 1990 to December 1993

I have provided a high-level of IT Technical support to a wide range of clients to facilities their work on workstations, servers, and data centers including on-site and remote support.

Education

Master's degree, Preliminary M.SC. In Information Technology, Alexandria University.
  • at Alexandria University
  • July 1994

Preliminary M.SC. In Information Technology, Alexandria University. (October, 1993 – July, 1994)

Bachelor's degree, B.SC in Electrical Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering
  • May 1990

Specialties & Skills

Computer Networks
Data Center
IT Infrastructure
IT Service Management
IT Operations
presentation skills.
Negotiation skills
work under pressure.
communication skills
ability to work effectively with people of all levels
demonstrative capability for analytical problem solving.
team management
system administration
team leadership
service delivery
computer hardware troubleshooting
windows server
it operations
it strategy
strategic technology planning
it transformation

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Memberships

Engineers Sydicate
  • member
  • May 1990

Training and Certifications

Programming (Advanced Basic) (Training)
Training Institute:
International Computer Center ICC
Date Attended:
January 1989
Duration:
40 hours
Programing (Advanced FORTRAN 77) (Training)
Training Institute:
International Computer Center ICC
Date Attended:
May 1989
Duration:
40 hours
Programming (Turbo Pascal) (Training)
Training Institute:
International Computer Center ICC
Duration:
40 hours
PMS (Performance Management system) (Training)
Training Institute:
Development & Performance Improvement Center DPIC
Date Attended:
May 1996
Duration:
24 hours
PME (Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation) (Training)
Training Institute:
Development & Performance Improvement Center DPIC
Date Attended:
May 1996
Duration:
24 hours
SYBASE Course- Fast Track to SYBASE (Training)
Training Institute:
Opensoft- Microsoft Certified Solution provider
Date Attended:
June 1999
Duration:
40 hours
SYBASE Course-Sybase SQL Anywhere Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 1999
MS Certificate-Microsoft Visual Fox Pro Course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 1999
Advanced Business in English Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 1999
MS Certificate-Microsoft Access 2000 advanced (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
April 2001
Duration:
40 hours
Front Page 2000 advanced (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
April 2001
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-MCSE-2151B Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
June 2001
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-MCSE-2153 Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
June 2001
Duration:
40 hours
Syndicate of Engineers Experience Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2002
MS Certificate-Querying Microsoft SQL Server 2000 with Transact-SQL (Training)
Training Institute:
Raya Academy- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
February 2004
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-Administering Microsoft SQL Server Database (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2004
Advanced Level of English Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2004
CISCO course CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2005
MS Certificate-MCSE-2274 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
June 2005
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-MCSE-2275 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
March 2006
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-MCSE-2276 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
March 2006
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate-MCSE-2278 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
MS Certificate-MCTIP-Essentials (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
June 2011
Duration:
24 hours
MS Certificate-MCTIP-6292A (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
July 2011
Duration:
24 hours
MS Certificate-MCTIP-6425 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons- Microsoft certified Technical Education Center
Date Attended:
July 2011
Duration:
40 hours
MS Certificate- MCTIP-6426A (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Introduction to CCCD (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
Leadership and Influence Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
How to Harden Your Enterprise in today’s Threat Landscape (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
IT Strategy Essentials-Implementing an IT Strategy (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2018

Hobbies

  • Sports
    Football, Tennis table, Chess, and Swimming. Reading about new technology is a favorite activity.