Walid Salousa, Project Manager

Walid Salousa

Project Manager

IBM

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
24 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :24 years, 7 Months

Project Manager at IBM
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since April 2016

Leading project implementation for Global Technology Services. Working with government, public sector, banking, health, construction, education and Oil & Gas sectors.

* Main Responsibility Areas:

* Manage projects for global technology services from initiation phase to successful project closing.

* Manage cross line of business projects (Business support services, Operation support services, Software, Storage, Main frame and Data centers).

* Achievements include:
1- Exceeding project planned GP (Gross profit).
2- Exceeding other business goals including coaching, education and reporting.

Business development Project manager at Advice Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • August 2012 to March 2016

Maintain and expand market position by developing, and implementing strategic business projects.
• Main Responsibility Areas:

• Locate, propose and screen potential business deals by contacting potential partners. Track progress against targets on ongoing basis. Maintain and develop close client relationship.

• Lead and deploy projects, examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals. Close new business deals and integrating contract requirements with business operations.

• Achievements include:
1- Expand market share by 15% in designated accounts.
2- Increase return on investment by 10% (year over year).

Regional project manager at Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2011 to July 2012

Delivering project excellence through enhancement KPIs (key performance indicator) for assigned accounts during execution, monitoring, controlling and closing.
* Main Responsibility Areas:

* Focus on service quality by enhancement of financial and non-financial KPIs using SAP and Integrated project management (IPM) tools. Ensure implementation of services in delivery scope and final site acceptance. Identify, analyze risks, plan and implement risk response actions.

* Sales service support, preparing service offers and analyzing resource and cost requirements.

* Plan and communicate accurate rollout demand figures for demand planning process.

* Achievements include:
1. Enhancement of major KPIs by 15-25% in one year.
2. Achieved services delivery management certificate.

Project manager at Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2006 to May 2011

* Main Responsibility Areas:

* Managed projects for Telecommunication, Software and Managed services.
* People management for project teams.

* Achievements include:
1- Successfully managed 150+ projects with positive gross margins.
2- Managed multiple simultaneous projects across MENA region with cross functional project teams.

Commissioning engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2001 to September 2006

* Main Responsibility Areas:

* System implementation, integration, expansion and upgrade.
* Operator service system implementation, extension and upgrade.
* Software and hardware upgrades.

Technical presales at Integrated systems
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 1999 to March 2001

* Main Responsibility Areas:

* Tender analysis, offering and negotiation.
* Multi-vendor management.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at ESLSCA Ecole supérieure Libre Des Sciences Commerciales Appliquées
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication
  • at Faculty of Engineering
  • May 1999

Bayt Tests

Management Skills Test
Score 70%

Specialties & Skills

MS Project
Service Delivery
Project Management
Project Execution
Program Execution
MS office
Primavera
IPM (Integrated project management)
SAP P20
MS project
Team management
Process development
Service delivery
Project management

Languages

English
Expert
French
Beginner
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Advisory Project Manager (Certificate)
Explorer Project manager (Certificate)
Establishing Team Goals and Responsibilities (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2020
Developing a Successful Team (Certificate)
Valid Until:
January 2020
Cloud Intro (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2018
Enterprise Design Thinking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
Cognitive practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2019
Services delivery managment from NSN (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Preventing, Recovering and managing troubled projects (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
Effective negotiating skills for project managers (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2009
The Kerzner approach to project management excellence (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2008

Hobbies

  • Reading (Literature, scince, & history), Table tennis, Walking and swimming