sherif El-Ebrashy

Following my official retirement from ExxonMobil Egypt, April 2010, I was hired by BRUNEL Energy in Dubai, as “Human Resources Advisor” to extend professional Human Resources Services to ExxonMobil Iraq Ltd (EMIL). West Qurna 1 (WQ1) project in Basra, Iraq. WQ1 is a joint Operation Unit between, ExxonMobil Iraq Services Ltd. as the lead contractor, the South Oil Company of Iraq, the Iraqi Drilling Company and Shell.
Under that role, I was also appointed as the “Staffing, Secondement & Development Joint Section-Head” (jointly with an Iraqi counterpart), reporting to the WQ1 joint Human Resources Managers:
• Designed and implemented a process to second 1400 South Oil Company employees into WQ1. This included signing of the secondement agreements, induction into the project, and WQ1 internal policy orientation
• Developed “Employees Development Committee Process”; a scheme that ensures the availability of the adequate present and future human resources bench-strength in the organization. It also supports the organization identify High Potential individuals and prepares them for their current and future roles.
• Designed process to standardize: “Staffing” “Cross-Functional Moves”
• Designed a WQ1 database (using MS Access), through this program, instant information about the Iraqi secondees became available to management.
• In 2014 and as a result of EMIL selling part of its WQ1 shares to PETRO China and PERTAMINA (Indonesia), I designed a “Staffing Process” to identify/select candidates from both partners. That included, time-tables and conducting Behavior Event Interviewing training for the selection team; facilitating/participated in the actual 3 rounds of candidates selection in Beijing and Jakarta (2014 - 2015). Process resulted into the successful hiring of 53 candidates.
• Provides instant day-to-day coaching and counseling to the Iraqi Human Resources as well as other WQ1 managers and supervisors on personnel issues.
• Member of the WQ1 Leadership Development Team.

* Responsible for the execution and implementation of the Succession Planning System. This covers facilitation of the annual process and supporting management in identifying potentials, training and development interventions to support individuals’ developmental needs.
*Conducted and implemented many Change Management Processes/sessions to address Organization’s change endeavors
* During that period, have hired more 600 graduates and experienced hires to meet the functional business requirements in the post-merger situation: Setting a recruitment strategy, Competency-based Interviewing and new hire induction schemes.
* Developed and implemented a strategy to support ExxonMobil Upstream Business staffing operational in Libya. I have led the actual process started in 2005 until 2009 with frequent travels to Tripoli. All-in-all, around 100 Libyan nationals were hired.
*Designed a comprehensive hiring strategy for ExxonMobil Chemical in Qatar - 2008
Devised a scheme that enabled ExxonMobil Egypt staffing of the newly established Africa & Middle East Customer Service Center with 60 top competent individuals
*Developed & designed a comprehensive MS Access Database for "Employees/Employment tracking record" system to monitor the applicants, interviewing, and candidates correspondences
*Defined/implemented a Performance Feedback mechanism among departments to assess/monitor new hires performance
*Designed & implemented a New Hire Assimilation Program for company new recruits
*In 1999 conducted a series of Change Management sessions to prepare the organization for the merger with Exxon. I was asked by Esso Standard Egypt (the Exxon affiliate in Egypt) to co-facilitate similar sessions for the employees
*Implemented the post-merger Performance & Appraisal cycle: production of system booklets, training/awareness sessions and follow up schemes
*Responsible for managing the North Africa Cluster (Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia until 2008) Recruiting, training and succession planning process. This covered assessing manpower requirements and developing/implementing necessary strategies needed and reviewing competencies’ gap versus curricula availability to identify appropriate interventions. Coordinating the needs with the consultants and the Europe, Africa & Middle East Region for delivering. Conducting the training post-evaluation process and conducting interviews with manager to assess validity of the training

This was an additional job beside S&D Manager, reporting to the Regional European, African & Middle Eastern Training & Education Services Manager in Brussels
*Responsible for managing the North Africa Cluster (Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia until 2008) Recruiting, training and succession planning process. This covered assessing manpower requirements and developing/implementing necessary strategies needed and reviewing competencies’ gap versus curricula availability to identify appropriate interventions. Coordinating the needs with the consultants and the Europe, Africa & Middle East Region for delivering. Conducting the training post-evaluation process and conducting interviews with manager to assess validity of the training

*Developed a comprehensive Leadership & Management Development Strategy implemented throughout the African Region. Including identification of performance competencies (technical & non-technical), succession planning processes and the development of a comprehensive Training & development guide. Also included negotiation and contracting of world class renowned international training consultants/providers
*Played a pivot role in the design and implementation of Mobil Africa Career Development & Succession Planning annual process; through the design of the mechanism and identification of potential individuals as well as monitoring the implementation plans. Have designed a MS Access Program that ensures and monitors
*Established & Staffed "Mobil Africa Training Center - Cairo", a state of the art US$200, 000 training facility to serve the region; covering all the bidding/selection process of required equipment etc. Following the completion of the Center, I was managing it, fully responsible of the execution & monitoring of all training deliveries across the region and the African Continent
*Monitored & Controlled a US$1, 500, 000 training regional budget
*Developed & designed a comprehensive MS Access Database for "Regional - Employee Training & Succession Planning Records" a system to monitor the employees developmental plans and executions and costs monitoring.

*Conducted numerous Management, Supervisory and Individual Effectiveness Training Sessions for senior, middle managers and supervisors as well as employees in Mobil Affiliates in Egypt, Sudan, Cyprus, Morocco, Tunisia, South Africa, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Ghana.
*Devised a mechanism that supported management to objectively identify performance and competencies’ gaps that consequently led to the identification of training & development needs
Member of the Mobil South Africa Re-Entry team; responsibility included the development of a three-year Training strategy for this new affiliate within the functional, individual effectiveness, supervisory and management levels.
*In 1994, was appointment by Mobil Africa Regional management to conduct an “indoctrination scheme” for the newly acquired Mobil Kenya affiliate. This included a full scheme for potential assessment within the entire organization, setting up a 5 years plan for succession planning, organization climate assessments and training and development needs assessments
*Co-facilitated "Mobil Africa Millennium Session"; a session for the senior regional and affiliates managers (65 people) to establish the region's vision, mission & values. Conducted a similar session for Mobil Oil Egypt, Mobil Oil Morocco, Mobil Oil Tunisia and Mobil Oil Kenya
*Developed & Designed an organization climate process that identifies/monitors managerial behaviors which impact the overall climate of the organization; also developed a mechanism that supports individual corrective actions. Process implemented in many African Affiliates
*Designed and implemented 360o surveys to assess senior, middle managers as well as first line supervisors' competencies and management practices with supportive analysis to the impact of the individual results to the health and climate of the organization. Such process was implemented at both the Mobil Oil Egypt and the African Regional. This included an MS Excel program to automate the calculation and results definition process. Model widely implemented in the African Region
*Participated in a "Mobil Africa & Middle East Climate Survey", a team of experts from these regions to design an employee climate survey. My selection to this team was based on my extensive experience in this area and to provide guidance and appropriate implementation to the scheme
Conducted numerous Organization Assessment Sessions in Egypt, Sudan, Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Kenya to assess various behavioral/organization aspects that support and hinder achievement of organization strategies in these affiliates
*Developed & implemented a 5 years Strategy to support the organization's staffing requirements derived from a massive reengineering/restructuring process, resulting into the total hire of 185 employees, fresh-graduates and experienced hires
*Conducted Train-the-Trainer sessions where I certified more than 100 managers to conduct a "Behavioral Event Interviews - BEI" to support the recruiting process in Egypt, Sudan, Tunis, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa.
Conducted a Recruitment Strategy for Mobil Oil South Africa, to support the reentry of Mobil in this country. This included an organization/staffing structure study, interviewing and selection of South African Recruiters.

*Produced three top quality corporate book about the site and history of the Egyptian cities of Cairo, Alexandria and the Peninsula Sinai. All books received top awards in the, UK and Italy
*Supervised and coordinated all activities related to the company's sponsorship in the following events: Mobil Prize for Children's Literature, Mobil Prize for Literature, Mobil Contest for Applied Arts, Mobil African Athletics Championships, Mobil Egyptian/US Olympic Equestrian Championships, and the establishment of Blind students auditoria in 5 major Egyptian Universities
*Member in Mobil Europe, Africa & Middle East "Regional Response Team", a special rapid response team to handle major oil disasters involved with the company