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Ibrahim Maher Kourah, IT Director

Ibrahim Maher Kourah

IT Director·PharmaOverseas

Egypt

Higher diploma, Communications Engineering

Work experience

Total years of experience: 22 years, 6 months

IT Director

January 2012 - Present

PharmaOverseas

Alexandria, Egypt

January 2012 - Present

o Receiving objectives & strategies from CIO, converting it into Projects plans, TCOs & ROIs.
o Establishing and directing the IT projects.
o SAP Business Implementation Projects:
o SAP implementation at PharmaOverseas - as Delivery Manager & Business Expert
 SD - MM (warehouse management included) - FICO - HCM
 Basis tasks (IBM Power 7 / AIX / DB2) - (Homogenous / Heterogeneous migrations )
 Complete business analysis, As Is - Blue Print - Realization phases.
o Responsible for ERP migration to SAP, building the new sector for SAP implementation / support team.
o Sovaldi and Harvoni Virus C drugs related to MoH SAP implementation - as Delivery Manager
o PharmaOverseas Import and Export SAP Company Implementation - as Delivery Manager
o VISTEX implementation for PharmaOverseas - as Project Manager (Indian / Egyptian team)
o PharmaOverseas web Application for Online Ordering - as Delivery Manager
o PharmaOverseas Mobile Application (Android and IOS Versions - as Delivery Manager
o Magic Pharma (Import, Export and Production) SAP Company Implementation - as Delivery Manager
o Maintenance and Logistics Services (MLS) SAP Company Implementation - as Delivery Manager
o PharmaOverseas Mobile Notification and SMS - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o SAP ECC to SAP S4HANA Migration - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
 Develop a custom Zero-Down time system for migration
 Planning for all migration activities / rollouts
 IBM Power Server 9 / Flash 9000 Storwize
o Mansour Automotive VISTEX implementation - as Delivery Manager
o Fiori Applications Implementation - as Delivery Manager
o MoH Track & Trace System with custom Fiori Applications for warehouse management - as Delivery Manager
o C4Hana Commerce (Hybris) implementation for PharmaOverseas - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Basis Projects / Systems:
o SAP Solman implementation - as Delivery Manager
o SAP Business Intelligent platform and Lumira BI applications - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Qlik Sense BI Applications integrated with S/4Hana 1809- as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o HANA database replication / read only instance - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o Infrastructure Projects:
o Windows domain upgrade from 2003 to 2012 - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Exchange upgrade from 2007 to 2013 - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Open source email solution (Postfix / Dovecot / SOGo) - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Implementing Hikvision surveillance system (Hikvision Blazer) - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o Implementing WiFi centralized system - as Delivery Manager
o Implementing Linux clients LTSP system - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Migrate data center to GPX II - as Delivery Manager

Company industry:
Other Healthcare Services
Job role:
Management

IT Manager

January 2007 - January 2012

PharmaOverseas

Alexandria, Egypt

January 2007 - January 2012

o Responsible for all IT infrastructure, Servers & services as new projects, maintenance and support
o Planning, hiring, evaluating for all IT activities.
o Implementing management tools (Redmine, TimeTracker & IssueTracker) with strong team KPIs system based on it.
o Information System Security (protection against Phishing, Hacking & malwares) - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o Internetworking for 40+ branch (from RIP v2 to EIGRP to BGP) with hot backup plans for media and ISP - as Delivery Manager.
o Managing Microsoft AD Domain of 40+ site / 2000+ nodes & users - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o Data Center Migration (Centralizing the distributed ERP system) at GPX data center - as Delivery Manager
 IBM Servers
 TSM Backup Solution
 VMWare VSphere / ESXI
 IBM V7000 Storwize
 Fortigate / Microsoft ISA Firewalls
o Printing Solutions (HP - Ricoh) - as Technical Expert and Delivery Manager
o UPS / Finger Print Solutions - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
o Branches Racks (Small local server rooms) for 40+ branches - as Delivery Manager.
o Local developed UPS monitoring / Printers monitoring / Finger print monitoring solutions - as Technical Expert
o Microsoft Exchange 2007 System migration with ERP integration - as Delivery Manager
o Cisco Unified Communication Manager (CUCM) collaboration system implementation (starting from release 4 to release 8) - as Delivery Manager
o Asterisk open source call center custom developed solution - as Technical Expert & Delivery Manager
o Responsible for Database Administration team as before.
 Enhancements in all business areas - as Project Manager
 Upgrade SQL Servers to 2008 / 2012 - as Technical Expert & Project Manager
 Technology upgrades / Web applications development - as Project Manager
 Migrate to x64 servers / OS - as Delivery Manager
o Responsible for Linux Administration team as before

Company industry:
Other Healthcare Services
Job role:
Management

Database administrator

January 2003 - January 2006

PharmaOverseas

Alexandria, Egypt

January 2003 - January 2006

o DataBase Administrator:
o Responsible for Custom ERP (PharmaChain) Performance, Deployment, Maintenance & Support
 30+ SQL Server distributed system.
 SQL Server Replication Merge (for master data) & Transactional (for transactions).
 Deployment and support of many releases with strong business integration (HCM - Warehouse Management - Sales - Procurements - Financials - Sales force).
 Backup / Restore for production, testing & training environments.
 SQL Server Analysis, SQL Server Reporting Services.
 Custom solution for business aware archiving for DataBases.

Company industry:
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Alexandria University

November 2004

November 2004

Higher diploma, Communications Engineering

Egypt

Alexandria University

November 2001

November 2001

Bachelor's degree, Communications Engineering

Egypt

Skills

DELIVERY
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DELIVERY
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ERP
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ERP
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IBM
Expert
IBM
Expert
MIGRATION
Expert
MIGRATION
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ADVERTISING
Expert
ADVERTISING
Expert
AIX
Expert
AIX
Expert
BACKUP
Expert
BACKUP
Expert
BGP
Expert
BGP
Expert
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Expert
BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Expert
C
Expert
C
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Expert

English

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