Sharif Idris, IT Manager

Sharif Idris

IT Manager

McDonalds UAE

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering
Experience
30 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 2 Months

IT Manager at McDonalds UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • My current job since January 2015

Accomplishes information technology staff results by:

communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; initiating, coordinating, and enforcing systems, policies, and procedures.

aligning with Corporate IT strategies and new technologies in UAE Market

Maintains staff by:
recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees

as well as maintaining a safe and secure work environment; developing personal growth opportunities.

Maintains organization's effectiveness and efficiency by:

defining, delivering, and supporting strategic plans for implementing information technologies.

Completes projects by:

coordinating resources and timetables with user departments and data center.

Verifies application results by:

conducting system audits of technologies implemented.

Maintaining business continuity plan by:

implementing disaster recovery and back-up procedures and information security and control structures.

Recommends information technology strategies, policies, and procedures to IT Director and senior management

Accomplishes financial objectives by:

forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; and initiating corrective action.

Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards, and ensuring SLA & OLA agreements

Keeping myself up to date by:

attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; bench-marking state-of-the-art practices; and participating in professional societies.

I have completed successful critical projects in IT like:

Service Desk, Enterprise Content Management System, time & attendance web app, IT cost cutting & outsourcing

currently working with other functional departments to implement SAP S4 HANA cloud ERP system as well as SAP Success Factor (HCM System)

IT Consultant at Mcdonalds UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2010 to December 2014

Working with senior managment of Mcdonalds UAE and IT Dept. Head, to:

successfully chose the proper solutions or technologies required, providing the proper support level to IT team, and placing the IT Policy, and IT Dept. Documentation

implemented projects:
Data Center co-location & servers virtualization
Exchange Server 2010
MPLS project to connect more than 100 outlet to data center
Citrix XenApp
GEMS ERP consultation
Call Center
McDonald's Delivery System
Load balancer, WAF, Application Delivery Controller ADC

Business Development Manager at Excel Int'l Business Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Ajman
  • October 2005 to May 2010

Was responsible for:
generating new selling leads
visiting customers and addressing their businesses pain areas
promoting new products and services in IT and similar fields
keeping customers update with new technologies and solutions in the market

and because of solid technical background i was supporting sales team of 10 persons, and 2 managers with all technical discussions and projects sizing and costing

negotiating with distributors and principle companies

I have closed more than 450k AED worth project in 18 month ERP/CRM/HRMS and any other back-office solution

I also participate in after sales services, AMC's and SLA contracts with customers

IT Project manager at Paris Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • September 2003 to September 2005

I’ve successfully implement and run a full retail system project in garments industry(Men Fashion), the project is to establish an IT Dept. in the H/O and connect all the remote location to the H/O (Approx. 75 outlets), managing and directing 20 IT staff and controlling the day to day activities, Reporting to the Group Vice President

I.T. Manager at MAF Hypermarket LLC (Carrefour)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2000 to August 2003

- Reporting directly to Store General Manager
- IT & Commercial staff Training on corporate ERP and other application
- IT & consumable purchases (hardware, toner, print head, bar-code label, etc)
- Setting up &Configuring Network Users mailboxes creation, (LAN, WAN, VPN) troubleshooting
- Controlling network security & apply the proper user permissions to the network resources
- Controlling Database Validity, Database Maintenance, system recovery plans & backup
- (IBM POS) cash line connectivity and controlling day to day activities
- Items bar-coding and pricing controlling
- Electronics weighting scales configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting
- JD-Edwards (ERP- account Package) supports and set up the application on the users desktop
- IT Department & Staff expenses and budget planning, IT team directing and managing
- HR-system & Payroll support
- Users PC Hardware/Software support and troubleshooting (100 users concurrently)
- controlling Office Automation Section Sales operation and display
- Stock take/Inventory controlling and validation
- Users & system monitoring
- Managing & controlling AS/400® and IBM® SMA® (Super Market Application) operations

System Administrator at presidential court
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 1998 to December 2000

System Administrator in Abu Dhabi, presidential court :
‎(Office of the personal representative of H.H. the president)‎
Small LAN administration, Software Installing and hardware supporting
, PC hardware and office support and troubleshooting
IT Purchases (Supply and provide all IT related items)

Computer technician at Almuhannad Copy Center
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 1996 to November 1998

Computer technician responsible for peer -to- peer network‎s, with some shared resources, fixing errors & bugs

Technical / Teacher at Aljundi For Computer
  • Syria - Aleppo
  • March 1994 to December 1996

Syrian based computer centre,
I was teaching DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, MS-Office ‎WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Access application in addition to technical field that I ‎assembling computer parts and fixing it.‎

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of science in Electrical Engineering
  • at Univercity of Devonshire
  • June 2002

complete the following majors electrical fundimentals radio activity mechanichs electrostatics chemistry ETC.

Diploma, Electrical Engineering
  • at Tishreen University
  • August 1998

I was been in Syria to study the Electric Engineering And I finish Two Year study and pass the following subjects: -Electrical technology essentials (1 & 2) -Thermodynamic theory -Materials prosperities -Math & chemistry -physics (1 & 2)

High school or equivalent, science section
  • at Saif aldawla secondry school
  • June 1993

I've finish my high school education in 1993 - science section- from Fujairah in UAE with 84.8 %

Specialties & Skills

Virtualization Technology
Network Designe & Cabling
Setting, Configuring & Troubleshooting CISCO Device
Sales (Office Automation)
Service desk managment
ERP Cosultation
Cloud Technology
SAP erp
Retail and QSR IT
Datacenter management
Virtualization Technology

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Memberships

CiOMajlis
  • Member
  • January 2016

Training and Certifications

MCSA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
McITP 2008 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
MCSE System Engineer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2001
SCRUM Study ID:612862 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2018
Six Sigma Yellow Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2018
Cloud Security (Training)
Training Institute:
GITEX
Date Attended:
October 2012
(Training)
ITIL Foundation V3 # GR750382905SI (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2018
CCNA CISCO (Training)
Training Institute:
Knowledge Key
Date Attended:
September 2015
IBM e-servers AS/400 (Training)
Training Institute:
GBM UAE
Date Attended:
March 2001

Hobbies

  • Jet flying
    practice it on flight simulator :)