Mohamed Fouad Farag, Technology Consultant

Mohamed Fouad Farag

Technology Consultant

Pricewaterhousecoopers

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
31 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :31 years, 10 Months

Technology Consultant at Pricewaterhousecoopers
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2021

• Managing and delivering Digital Transformation Projects portfolio to time, cost, and quality.
• Create Master Program Plan including prerequisites and dependencies for all the projects and define and monitor the
correlation between them.
• Issue the RAID log for the transformation program and track the status for each log.
• Conducting periodic reviews, identifying & mitigating risks, measuring metrics, tracking progress, and submitting
various management status reports.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis for evaluating needs & expectations of stakeholders based on final program contract
utilizing program impact analysis
• Define & implement parameter’s tolerance for cost, schedule, scope and risk for the program aimed at maintaining
seamless execution
• provide executive management Reports for the portfolio of the projects.

Projects/programs
• AL Rajhi Capital (ARC), PMO Transformation Management:
o Successfully delivered IBM middleware product hosting 50+ APIs and microservices, thus enabling the organization to be more agile for integrations of heterogeneous financial products between backend and frontend systems for Mutual Fund, Robo advisory, Order management system, Super Applications for Login and cash management.
o Managed all related infrastructure work stream activities including provisioning, troubleshooting and delivery.
• Zakat, Income Tax and Customs Authority (ZATCA), Managing the Transformation and Merger programs
o Managed the Digital payment platform program, Notification’s platform to taxpayers and the Applications to control the compliance of companies with the authority requirements.

PMO Expert at Saudi Electricity Co. (SEC)
  • Saudi Arabia
  • July 2012 to June 2021

Leading the overall designing and implementation of directive Project Management Office (PMO) including portfolio management, center of excellence, methodology, Model, templates and forms.
•Leading the implementation of the Business case stage gate process and value realization process for ITC projects and programs.
•Increasing Programs and project management maturity from 30% to 70% reference to OPM3 assessment model.
•Acknowledged for raising program/projects main KPIs on time delivery to 80% and on budget to 95% by utilizing Current resources and financial prudence and ensuring compliance to defined KPIs
•Actively involved in leading project management team within ITC, 37 employees in projects planning, engineering and execution.
Key Profile:
•Managing projects/ programs Portfolio of ITC including Demand management, Capital and Operational Budget development, Projects prioritization and Benefit realization.
•Leading and Managing the implementation of Strategy and ROIT track within the strategic transformation program for SEC.
•Manage the implementation of the Business case framework for ITC programs/Projects including defining the projects Category, Business outcome, Business alternatives, and Total cost of ownership, value drivers and Benefit realization.
•Working with subject matter expert to define the ITC sector budget and control the payment regularly.
•Conducting periodic reviews, identifying & mitigating risks, measuring metrics, tracking progress and submitting various management status reports.
•Prepare & implement benefit realization plan for evaluating program’s benefits based on KPIs like IT standards compliance, IT risk assessment as well as employees’ maturity
•Conduct stakeholder analysis for evaluating needs & expectations of stakeholders based on final program contract utilizing Power/Interest grid and program impact analysis
•Define & implement parameter’s tolerance for cost, schedule, scope and risk for the program aimed at maintaining seamless execution
•Coordinate with ITC sector team in managing programs & projects within IT sector, applying new policies and procedures prior to going to production environment.
•Optimize resource utilization across program components, enhance program efficiency by enhancing, fine tuning and resolving issues for existing security and data management technologies in SEC
•Responsible to control, monitor, and provide executive management Dashboards for the projects portfolio.
Projects/programs
•Manage Establishment and operation of PMO project within ITC sector.
•Manage the implementation of primavera p6 program within ITC sector as part of the implementation team for overall SEC company.

Senior Manager,quality and BMW projects at Bavarian Auto Group (BMW, Mini)
  • Egypt
  • September 2003 to July 2012

Quality and Project Management Department.

Accomplishments:
•Establish product Quality and projects management department for BMW factory in Egypt.
•Managing mega programs/ projects for BMW worth €500 million.
•Implement general expenses saving project to reduce general expenses by 3%.
•Reduce repair timing end of production line by 20%.
•Formed a part of the core team for implementing SAP in the organization
Key Profile:
•Leading the project for resumption of the new BMW plant in Egypt, organized recruitment of new staff & establishment of the factory.
•Lead the quality assurance and quality control activities.
•Worked on large scale Projects for launching projects of BMW new models in the plant according to BMW AG standards
•Implemented six sigma and lean manufacturing projects to achieve increase in productivity rate by removing waste
•Eradicated poor quality elements and factors and implemented the related corrective, preventive or improvement actions
•Identified company KPI’s with reference to company vision, mission and business goals then monitor the KPI’s (budget, revenue, cost, etc…) on monthly basis and took the related corrective and preventive action
•Established & adhered to ISO: TS 16949, ISO: 14001 and OHSAS: 18001 standards
•Supported by 40 personnel and reported to GM Operations as Deputy to him

Projects/programs
•Establishment of new BMW in Egypt with budget €300 Million
•Launching the new E60 BMW model including equipment and parts procurement, line setup Budgeted €80 million
•Launching the new E90 BMW model including equipment and parts procurement, line setup budgeted €100 million
•Launching the new X3 BMW model including new equipment procurement, line setup budgeted €70 million
•Launching the new 7 series BMW model including equipment and parts procurement budgeted €120 million
•Leading the Implementation of ERP SAP project budgeted €10 million.

Manager,Quality department at Al-Fotouh Company for vehicle assembly
  • Egypt
  • January 1997 to February 2003

Ensure the delivery of the products according to BMW quality standards and was specially successful in implementation of the latest available quality standard for BMW Automotive production by:
•leading Quality zero defect project on the production line
•Implement Lean manufacturing for production process to increase the production volume 20%
Key Profile:
•Leading the Establishment and maintaining company’s Quality Management System in accordance with the requirements of the International Standard ISO 9001.
•Planning for various Quality activities needed within the company that ensures the highest level of the product quality. This includes Quality Department mission & annual objectives, Statistical quality control Plans, Process Audit Plans, Product Audit process, Customer Complaints, Continues improvement process
•Select, Recruit and Train the high candidates in Quality department that share in achieving the departmental objectives.
•Leading, Motivating and coaching of the quality team towards the team work culture to effectively achieve the departmental objectives.
• Report, discuss and present the product quality level for the higher level as well as the other departments.
•Supervise the establishment, implementation and maintaining of Quality Management System and Reporting the performance of the quality system to the General Managers of Operations.
Projects/programs
•Establishment of brake test rig, road test and water test equipment for BMW plant in Egypt.
•leading Quality zero defect program and Lean manufacturing for production process and with local content suppliers

Car makers of Egypt JAC

Production Engineer at Citroen & Mitsubishi
  • Egypt
  • September 1993 to January 1997

Accomplishment:
Supervised production operation in the assembly shop and successfully implementing Technical change application in the assembly line by Japanese 5S application on assembly line.
Key Profile:
•Supervised production operations in the assembly shop.
•Implementing Technical change in the assembly line.
•Auditing Vehicles according to Citroen quality standards.
•Investigate the products, process, and quality standards conformity.
•Make follow up sheet for defects and plan for corrective actions.
•Follow up corrective & preventive actions.

Design Engineer at Arab British Dynamics
  • Egypt
  • January 1992 to September 1993

Formulation of technical documents necessary for production of high precision defense equipment
•Supervise & follow up all manufacturing phases and process to achieve the production and quality target
•Controlling the modification and the issuing of the design and the technical repairmen documents.
•Giving technical support to both production and quality department including solving any technical problems.
•Ensure that all the products are within approved design and specification and was especially successful in using TUTSIM software to simulate the performance for any product deviation.

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at Maastricht School of Management
  • November 2008

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Diploma, Total Quality Management
  • at American University in Cairo
  • July 2000

Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, power section
  • at Ain Shams University Faculty of Engineering
  • June 1991

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Specialties & Skills

Manufacturing Operations Management
Planning Systems
Project Management
Customer Focus
Quality Analysis
AUDITING
BUDGETING
BUSINESS CASE
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
DATA MANAGEMENT
QUALITY CONTROL
Six Sigma
Project management
QUALITY Assurance
Scrum master

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker