Tamer Fouad,  Project Manager, PMP, Senior Project Manager

Tamer Fouad, Project Manager, PMP

Senior Project Manager

Cisco

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Doctorate, Engineering
Experience
12 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 7 Months

Senior Project Manager at Cisco
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2015 to August 2016

Sr Project Manager, Cisco advanced services
 Manage Cisco AS large scale projects that integrate cross functional teams and different technologies.
 As Project Manager accountable for maintain in good Project status Financials, Timelines and Quality.
 Constantly assess customer satisfaction feedback and make necessary improvements.
 Forecasts revenue, cost and resource requirements for the duration of the project.
 Project Manager accountable for maximizing contract margin through effective operational cost management; contribute to profitable revenue growth; and minimizing exposure to claims
 Report to organizational leadership, project delivery teams and client/customer groups and lead progress meetings.
 Report Cross selling and up selling opportunities within my project as appropriate
 Act as the liaison between the customer and my organization in regards to issues for new customer escalating any roadblocks, in order to secure successful delivery and enhance the flow of new business
 Assure all parties maintain close communication and coordination regarding project status and milestones.
 Data Center, Security, Networking, IP, Telecommunication, Telecom, Operation Management,

Key achievements
- MOI -Big Data DC infrastructure (Duration 18 months) Plan - design - implementation of complete BIG DATA infrastructure (CPU 8, 600 Core-DIMM 330, 240 GB - 5, 160 TB)
- Riyadh Bank DC Migration (Duration 12 months)
Plan- design - Implementation of complete Riyadh bank New DC Cisco infrastructure
- Saudi Electricity Company Security Optimization Program management (12 months) Program and benefit Management of Design - Network Device - SOC - Penetration test complete assessment
- Arab National Bank ANB- Security Design assessment Optimization Plan- Analyse -optimization report of end to end ANB security infrastructure

Project manager at Raya Integration
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to January 2015

IT Project Manager Banking and Government sector

 Manage Banking and Government IT infrastructure projects that integrate different teams and solution providers, manage performance and customer expectation to meet project objectives.
 As Project Manager responsible for the appropriateness, quality, budget, and timeliness of all aspects of the projects. Validate Project “Scope of Work” against Sales Order to Develop detailed project plan
 As Project Mnager follow up on revenue, cost and AR issues for projects portfolio.
 Negotiating contracts with clients and suppliers
 Define, manage, monitor and control project plan, milestones, resources, scope, risks, issues, costs and time throughout the project life-cycle.
 Report to organizational leadership, project teams and client/customer groups and lead progress meetings.
Data Center, Security, Networking, IP, Telecommunication, Operation Management, Banking IT, Government, Logistics, ATM, Telco


Technology: CISCO - HP - IBM - Fortigate - Juniper - Symantec - Mcafee - Tandberg - Ipoque - Crestron - Paloalto - Christie - Wolfvision - Extron - F5 - RSA - Arcsight - IronPort - Riverbed - Oracle - EMC -Microsoft - ATM Diebold

Key Projects:
 Riverbed Wan optimization for 140 Bank branch, managing local and remote Riverbed teams through different geographies, Fiber Cabling, branches installation and implementation of Cascade solution DC and DR.
 Installation and configuration of 42 ATM all over the country, Site preparation/decoration and 3G connectivity - Manage ATM operation 1 year contract
 ADIB Complete implementation of Internet banking infrastructure DC-DR, Routers, Firewalls, Reverse Proxy+WAF (F5), RSA token authentication IPS(Mcafee), Server farm HP- NSM - SRX- Arcsight - Management.
- SIEM/ Arcsight implementation CIB Bank - End to End Archsight implementation -Advanced Analytics security Platform application and event manageme
 New Bank Data center project, Network, Voice and security infrastructure implementation.

Strategic Project Manager at ITSynergy
  • Egypt
  • August 2009 to November 2010

 Project Manager Responsible for planning and executing embedded systems, Unified Communication, and Cloud applications projects
 Project Manager : Deliver Cloud SaaS - integration with Customer environment, CRM, VoIP call Center, Network Management
 Contribute in R&D for developing IoT Hardware innovative solutions and new Cloud solutions.
 Contributes to the development and enhancement of PM best practices, tools and techniques

Key achievements
-IoT - Analytics (Machine Learning) Museum security (Duration 18 months) Panning-design-development and implementation - Museum cabinet’s security system using IoT sensors and developing Learning algorithm to analyze and optimize Visitor passage flow

Project Manager at Nogafone
  • Italy
  • January 2007 to June 2009

 Project Manager and responsible for planning, designing and building from end to end NogaFone Cloud VoIP system that deliver thousands of simultaneous calls, terminating calls to PSTN network, including advanced and innovated tools that can compete in the Italian market.

VoIP Engineer at Netline
  • Italy
  • January 2006 to January 2007

 Designed, deployed and maintained VoIP systems, Call Centers, IP PBX products of Netline.

IT instructor at Fourth R
  • Egypt
  • January 2001 to December 2002

IT instructor
Instructor of Microsoft software and informatics at "Forth R" (Cairo-Egypt) leader school of informatics in Egypt.

Education

Doctorate, Engineering
  • at Roma 2 university
  • January 2006

Ph.D., 2006

Bachelor's degree, Engineering
  • at HTI Higher Technological Institute
  • January 2001

Engineering Bachelor, 2001 Biomedical Engineering bachelor from Egypt study 5 years,

Specialties & Skills

Information Technology
Telecommunications
Data Center
Agile Project Management
Project Management
Leadership
CRM - Call Center
Banking IT
Web Development
SmartHome
Quality Management
Management skills
Communication skills
MS Project
MS Visio
Low Current -CCTV
Risk Management
Security
Software Development
Senior Project Manager
Program manager
IT Project Manager
Telecom
SaaS Cloud
Project Manager
Team Leadership
Scrum Master
Project Management
Planning
Data Center

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Italian
Intermediate

Memberships

Pmi
  • Project Manager PMP
  • December 2012

Training and Certifications

ITIL V3 (Training)
Training Institute:
IT Egypt Copr
Agile - Scrum Master (Training)
Training Institute:
Online
Financial for non Financials (Training)
Training Institute:
Raya Academy
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012