Shawky Foda, IT Consultant (Information Technology Consultant)

Shawky Foda

IT Consultant (Information Technology Consultant)

MasterWorks

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Science
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

IT Consultant (Information Technology Consultant) at MasterWorks
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since September 2018

Lead a digital transformation program implementation for the following customers :
1- Ministry of Justice - KSA
2- Lean Company - Mistry of Health
3- Thiqah Company - Ministry of Commerce
4- Tahakom Company - Ministry of Interior
implementing a global service management gateway using Apigee / Google framework

IT Manager at AL Gihaz Contracting Company
  • Saudi Arabia
  • August 2015 to June 2017

IT Service Management Activities
Develop and maintain performance tracking tools for Projects, Department, .. and design reporting formats and advise methodology for information collection
Work closely with business stakeholders e.g. Finance, HR to ensure integrity of data and reconciliation where appropriate.
Manage the automation of reports and scheduled notifications -understand SLAs for the different systems
Identify information sources, collect required information and ensure data quality for the periodic and ad-hoc reports
Internal Process Improvement Activities
Develop management dashboard and balanced business scorecard for KPI’s with meaningful recommendations for business improvement.
Manage Business Critical Processes
Lead a team of technical capabilities
Performance Measurement and Improvement - Balanced Score Card implementation
Oracle ERP System Implementation ( HR, Projects, Supply Chain, Finance ) supervision, monitoring and controlling
PMO and Project Management performance evaluation.
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Senior Project Manager at Dell International
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • March 2015 to June 2015

Plan and Manage for the implementation of a highly technical IT Project to deploy a sophisticated High Performance Computing Cluster ( HPCC) using a well known infiniband fabric of 3200 of computing nodes in addition to subnet manager, management server, network switches and others .
The Customer is considered as one the very highly strategic customers to Dell international worldwide.

Coordination between lot of stockholders teams ( Intel, Arista, clustervision, ACS ) is one of the project stakeholder management activities.

Direct and continuous coordination with customer, monitoring and controlling different project activities, manage & control subcontractor scope of work.

Configuration management and asset management also is one of my key responsibilities.


The cluster is planned to add to the top500 clusters worldwide.

IT project Manager at Smart Value For Integrated Solutions
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2009 to January 2014

Job Description : Supervise a System Development Project for Oracle based system architect / framework
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
• Build Project Management Plan Documents
• Manage a Team of Senior IT Developers.
• Apply Scrum Agile concepts / standards and quality assurance.
• Identify, monitor and control project key performance indicators

Projects/Program Manager at Al Jeraisy Group for Computer & Communication System
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2012 to June 2013

• Monitor and control projects workflow cycles
• Identifiy and measure project key performance indicators PKI
• Reporting and keeping key stackholders updated according to the communication plans
• Perform quality controls / assurance activities.
• Ensure the provision of suitable project controls systems and tools
• Participate in the development of project Execution and Contracting Strategies, Contract terms and conditions for compatibility with Project delivery requirements.
• Prepare and maintain the project work breakdown structure
• Maintain timely awareness on project cost and planning performance against budget and schedule.
• Managing Potential Changes; recommend corrective actions and impact analysis
• Supervise the project accounting function, maintain liaison with Finance Department and ensure adequate reporting is established to communicate invoice approvals and payments status.

List of Projects :

1- Royal Commission Project in Jubail (5+ M US$). The project include :
Manpower/HR Management.
IT Service Management.

2- King Fahd University Of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM)
3- Qatif Municipality Data Center

Responsibilities: Services related to projects such as:
1- Identify Project managements activities and compliance level with the PMI Standards
2- Perform PMO activates, managing projects portfolio, documenting lessons learned process review
3- Conducting Training courses related to Project Management and PMP preparation.

IT Consultant at EastNets
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2008 to June 2010

Key Roles and Responsibilities:
• Build a J2EE framework/Architect for DB based Systems including and not limited to logging, security, licensing, reporting, i18n… using Java agile frameworks, Junit, JSF, cayenne, hibernate…
• Manage a Team of Senior Java Developers.
• Apply Scrum Agile development standards and quality assurance.
• Conduct automated test cases/scenarios.

The Framework is used to build an AML (Anti Money Laundry) application including profiling, Safewatch Filtering and SWFT Tools

Business Activity Monitoring Consultant / Capacity Management Specialist at HP- Atos Origin
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2004 to December 2007

Responsible for a 24/7 operation, System Monitoring, Support and Project Coordination for Saudi kingdom wide Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) system including but not limited to :
1. Responsible for developing and implementing a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to monitor SADAD overall system performance. Business Activity Monitoring (BAM)
2. Incident Manager: Develop corrective action plan and procedure for dealing with system incidents.
3. Quality Control: Manage SLA
4. Team leader : responsible for dealing with incidents related to system operations in a fast and effective way to eliminate/minimize system outage time (incident management)
5. Liaise with system consultants’, vendors and subcontractors as a problem management process.
6. Maintain and manage different testing and performance environments (version control management)
7. Responsible for keeping Disaster Recovery Environment up and running and up to date.
8. Responsible for smooth operation switching (zero time down) between production and Disaster recovery environments and vice versa.
9. Responsible for developing a proactive monitoring and alerting system for mission critical operations
10. Support Banks and Billers for daily operations and system upgrades
11. Manage and follow up the development Process of Business Core System.
12. Monitoring and Support for production issues (Implementation of Support and monitoring web tool to monitor mission critical systems
13. Develop a set of Interactive Business Intelligence modules to Assist High level Management for Decision Making Process.
Key Accomplishments
Introduce, enhance, deploy and maintain a very flexible Web Business Monitoring and alerting system in a fast and effective way.
System end users found it very helpful and prefer it over readymade and costly ones. It saved project many critical issues

IT Consultant at National Company for Cooperative Insurance NCCI- KSA-Riyadh
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2002 to June 2004

Responsibilities
1- Implementing and executing and controlling SADAD Project. an Electronic ePayment System Linking Billers with Saudi Banks Through SAMA ( Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency )
2- Maintain System Security (Confidentiality- Integrity - Authentication) using Digital Signature and Digital Certificates
3- Implement a Web Based Complaint & CRM System IBM FileNet e-Process and Workflow engine
4- Design & Developing Insurance applications (Life, Motor, Reinsurance)
5- Coordination and support on the Project development and Quality Assurance. .

Senior Test & Quality Assurance Engineer at Gulf Test Factory Services (GTFS)-Bin Zayed Group, Dubai-UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 1999 to February 2000

1- Developing and executing Test Methodology for testing (STC) IT Systems
2- Planning and executing a proven testing and quality assurance methodology.

Education

Master's degree, Science
  • at Ain Shams University - Faculty of Engineering
  • April 1996
Bachelor's degree, Communications & Electronics
  • at Ain Shams University - Faculty of Engineering
  • March 1990

Graduation Grade : Very Good with honor degree

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
IT Service managment
Application Performance Management
Oracle BPEL
Oracle DB
Java And XML
Project Management
Business Process Modeling and Management
Change & Configuration Management
Monitoring and Controlling PKI's
Staff mentoring and coaching skills
PMIS Tools: Premavira, Microsoft Projects , and MS Enterprise Project Management & Excel
Risk Management
IT Service Delivery Management
Mobile and channels system
IVR system implementation

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certified Professional Project Manager - PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011