walid Saleh, IT Manager / Program Manager

walid Saleh

IT Manager / Program Manager

ADCI

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
18 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 10 Months

IT Manager / Program Manager at ADCI
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since November 2005

Looking after all IT/ELV related Group projects and teams.
▪ Handling Group IT Budget and reporting to Group CEO.
▪ Communicate and maintain trust relationships with customers, business partners and authorities
▪ Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company survival and growth
▪ Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
▪ Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
▪ Working closely with customers to understand and capture requirements.
▪ Ensuring that the company’s products/services can deliver on the customer’s requirements.
▪ Replying to customers following requests for information and proposal requests.
▪ Presenting proposals to customers.
▪ Producing detailed costings for customers and ensuring the contract is profitable. Provide trustworthy feedback and
after-sales support
▪ Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers

Head of IT at Royal Group
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2009 to November 2009

Pre-Sales Presentations/Activities
▪ Leading and managing a team of 25+ consultants/Developers/Programmers for Oracle EBS implementations/Support
projects and .Net applications
▪ Responsible for ERP projects, including project planning, resource allocation, steering committee leadership, project
communications and team organizational structure management.
▪ Maintains and controls the ERP project budget, schedule and resources.
▪ Works on highly complex business issues that have significant impact to the enterprise, and across enterprise
processes and functions due to the implementation
▪ Responsible for ensuring that the project can deliver the benefits outlined in the business case and that it meets the
reasonable expectations of end users.

IT Project Manager at Global Technology Services
  • United Arab Emirates
  • December 2007 to April 2009

Leading a team for implementing Oracle EBS in various client sites
Macro Software Systems

IT Project Manager
  • December 2006 to November 2007
  • June 2005 to December 2006

Implementing Oracle EBS 11i & R12 in several client sites
El Sewedy Cables

  • to

Undertake corporate IT projects/program, as determined by senior management of identified functions for
supporting achievement of business objectives, from planning to delivery of the system/ solution to the
satisfaction of the business/ its internal customers.
▪ Define & determine clear deliverables, requirements &, resources (reviewing budgetary outlays) and plan the
corporate project lifecycle leading up to deployment, creating project schedule and risk mitigation strategies.
▪ Manage the corporate IT projects budget on behalf of the management team/ steering committee (MT/ SC),
monitor expenditure against delivered and realized benefits as the corporate program progresses
▪ Implement appropriate methods, processes and techniques for project management, business case development
and definition of user requirements.
▪ Coordinate the implementation of business systems with the Development and IT service delivery teams to ensure
smooth implementation and usage.
▪ Monitor corporate project progress through all its phases, resolving issues and initiating Preventive /corrective
actions as appropriate and keeping the MT/SC updated of the same.
▪ Coordinate with internal business and IT stake holders and vendors/ contracted service providers for alignment of
expectations, clarity and discharge of respective role/ responsibility and resolution of issues to achieve stated
milestones of the program.
▪ Advise & guide all stake holders on the impact of program roll out and necessary preparedness from change
management perspective for smooth implementation and deriving maximum value out of the system.
▪ Provide leadership and direction to subordinates towards the achievement of goals and objectives.
▪ Guide and motivate subordinates to enhance performance and produce quality work, and ensure that they are
continuously developed for higher level roles.
▪ Continuously monitor the project performance and prepare professional and accurate project status reports at
frequent intervals and report to the management
▪ Negotiate change requests with both business users and implementation partners to assure minimal impact on
schedule and cost constraints.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at University Cairo University
  • January 2019

Specialties & Skills

Science
Oracle Applications
Management
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
BUDGETING
PRESENTATION SKILLS
MEETING FACILITATION
PRODUCTION
PROPOSAL WRITING
REPORTS
SALES SUPPORT

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert