Farouk Akl, Applications Consultant

Farouk Akl

Applications Consultant

E-Finance

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree,
Experience
21 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months

Applications Consultant at E-Finance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2010

E-Finance 2010 - Present
Position: Applications Consultant
Primary Objective

• Responsible for managing the ECM (Enterprise Content Management) Offerings successfully to achieve business objectives and success measurements.
• Provide specialized consulting services to assist customers in implementing, and operating electronic and physical archiving Solutions
• Provide Strategy, implementation plans, and Operation Roadmap including Staffing, technologies and alliances

Major Areas of Accountability
• Develop, Implement and Operate ECM Solutions
➢ Document Management Solutions
➢ Business Process Management Solutions
➢ Document Imaging and Capture Solutions
➢ Physical Records Management Solutions
➢ Ongoing Electronic Archiving Operation
• Developing the Roadmap for a successful Operation for electronic and physical archiving
• Provide application and specific consulting services to customers, participate in project scope sessions, facilitate business process review sessions and gap analysis

Product Manager \ Project Manager at ALKAN Telecom
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2008 to January 2010

Position: ECMProduct Manager
Primary Objective
• Responsible for managing the ECM (Enterprise Content Management) business line to successfully achieve business objectives and success measurements.
• Provide Strategy and implementation plans including Staffing, technologies and alliances

Major Areas of Accountability
• Partners with senior management to define strategic direction and IT Solutions Business Unit specific objectives.
• Reporting sales pipeline/Forecast for Top management
• Develop and Maintain the ECM line BusinessPlan
• Work directly with Account Managers and presales Reps to sell products
• Developing proposals and Quotations for total ECM proposed solutions
• Develop Marketing & Sales Strategyfor educating the market about the ECM technology and ALKAN Offerings in specific
• Create Partners network for the Business Line.
• Provide Market Analysis and targeted industries and sectors.
• Provide Business Analysis for local and global competitors
• Preparing Technical & Financial Proposals and responsible for resource management.

Position: Project Manager
Objectives and areas of accountability
• Develop the project plan and gain approvals of the plan.
• Conduct project Kickoff and statusmeetings.
• Prepares and maintains the project SOW (Scope of work)
• Monitoring and managing all third parties activities and tasks for projects.
• Issue status reports on the progress of the project versus the plan.
• Preparing Project Team list, Implementation plan and delivery plan
• Dividing and Estimating Project time, lifecycle and tasks.
• Manage and support team members.
• Monitoring and managing all third parties activities and tasks.
• Analysis, design and development of Projects.
• Responsible for resource management.
• Monitoring the project during all its phases; starting from the Pre-sales phase, till the completion of the project.

Project Manager at ACT
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to December 2007

Objectives and areas of accountability
• Manage the full project life cycle from initiation to closeout
• Develop the project plan and gain approvals of the plan.
• Conduct project Kickoff and statusmeetings.
• Prepares and maintains the project SOW (Scope of work)
• Agree project completion, handover criteria with customer / users.
• Liaising with all project stakeholders
• Preparing Project Team list, Implementation plan and delivery plan
• Dividing and Estimating Project time, lifecycle and tasks.
• Managing project status reports and budgets
• Presenting project progress to stakeholders
• Ensuring projects are completed and handed over is achieved successfully

Team Leader and Analyst at Business Connect
  • Egypt
  • January 2005 to December 2006

Role and Objectives
• Drive the project team to develop a clear project plan and project deliverables
• Manage the requirements definition, procurement, development, testing and implementation of a business operations portalsand online business applicationsthat automate business processes
• Prepare projects' scope of work and proposals.
• Perform business process analysis
• Review completed requirements to ensure that the requirements are built correctly.
• Prepare system analysis documents, technical requirements, GUIs design, Database design, system As-Is and To-Be processes.
• Assist technical team by providing them with technical requirements

Team Leader at IST Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2004 to January 2005

Objectives and areas of accountability
• Developing Call Centers Solutions leading a team of 4 .Net developers.
• Dividing and Estimating Project time, lifecycle and tasks.
• Responsible for the project Planning and Project Management
• Responsible for the Full lifecycle application development
• Conduct meetings with the clients to analyze their requirements and get the exact specifications.
• Provide system analysis, design, code analysis, requirements analysis, software review, documentation, maintenance, and programming techniques
• Leading the designing, coding and debugging applications in various software languages and technologies
• Writing technical and financial proposals
• Evaluate and identify new technologies for implementation

Senior Web and Desktop Developer at The Ministry of Foreign Trade
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2002 to December 2003

Position: Senior Web and Desktop Developer
Objectives and areas of accountability
• Developing office automation applications for different sectors using Microsoft technologies
• Database developer, designer and Administrator using MS SQL Server and Oracle
• Managing and Administration for the main archiving system of the Ministry.
• Developing the Ministry's Official Website.

Samples for Successfully AchievedProjects

Egyptian Taxation Authority Archiving Solution
Responsibilities
• Leading the project implementation of a centralized content repository for electronically&physically archiving tax forms provided by taxpayersaccessed from 227 ETA Tax Offices utilizing ICR Techniques

Egyptian Taxation Authority Distributed Archiving Solution
Responsibilities
• Leading the project implementation of a distributed content repository for electronically archiving The Taxation Filefor 6, 000, 000 Taxpayers in 227 ETA Tax Offices


Egypt Air IT Service Management Project
Responsibilities
• Control and direct the project from the Initiation Phase till the closure of the project.
• Leading theproject implementation of IT Enterprise Service Management (BMC Remedy Suite, 9 Products) Turn Key Solution
• Managing and Assuring Hardware delivery
• Preparing SOW and Project Plan
• Assist in Project Technical and Financial Proposal.
• Conduct project Kickoff and statusmeetings.
• Issuing reports of the amount of completed work.

NSGB IT Service Management Bank:

Egyptian Cement Co. (Lafarge): • Brief: IT Service (BMC Service Desk) Management Solution


ABC Bank: • Brief: IT Service (BMC Service Desk, Asset Management) Management Solution


El Gomhorya Drug Co. Project
Responsibilities
• Supervising third party (Bayanet) for Implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX including Finance, Inventory and Logistics Modules and Trade

Education

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo Univercity
  • June 2002
High school or equivalent,
  • at Misr Language School
  • June 1996

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Physical
Business Process
Operation
Approvals
BIZTALK
FILENET
ARCHIVING SOLUTIONS
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
DATABASE (SQL , ORACLE )
WEB APPLICATIONS
.NET DEVELOPMENT (C# , VB)
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
PRESALES \\ PRE-SALES
JAVA ( SE , EE )
IT SERVICE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM ANALYSIS
SHAREPOINT
DOCUMENTUM
BMC ( SERVICE DESK & NETWORK MANAGEMENT )

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner