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Hossam Elkobrosy

Chief Technology Officer

Summary

Dynamic IT Director oversees every facet of IT Infrastructure with strong project management and decision-making skills. Brings comprehensive knowledge of IT management, planning and technical operations. Skilled at coordinating production plans and personnel resources to complete work under tight deadlines.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
2
2
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications

Work History

Director

Global High Tech Services
Abu Dhabi
07.2020 - Current
  • Formed strategic partnerships and connected with potential clients to drive business development.
  • Spearheaded IT projects for large banks with innovative approaches to resource allocation and strategic planning.
  • Works with venture capitals that helps entrepreneurs succeed
  • Built e-commence platform and oversaw supply chain functions to verify inventory levels and budget adherence.

Regional Leader - IT Operations & Services

General Electric
Abu Dhabi
11.2014 - 03.2020
  • Effectively led the IT teams in 15 countries and managed the IT infrastructure resources. Achieved reduction the operation cost by 11% while effectively reduced the down time by 17%.
  • Spearheaded the introduction of mobile digital transformation and could achieve 87% workload reduction, saving 600 employee hours per month
  • Built IT KPIs and supported Business Operations, Projects Risks, and mitigation plans. Achieved enhancement of operation productivity by 15%.
  • Collaborated with managers to provide customer feedback and recommend operational changes to meet emerging trends.
  • Spearhead user-satisfaction program in 35 countries and drove the score to an impressive 20. Convert Outsource to Insourced models that provide a saving of $1.7 million every year.
  • Led IT cost analysis program and the conversion to cost center allocation per services.

Key Achievement:

  • Led a complete overhaul of the flagship Customer Services Lounges (MyTech Lounge) in 5 countries, within 1 year that prompted NPS with 20+ points.
  • Implemented Network Branch Transformation for 30 locations with annual cost saving of USD 500K

Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations

National Bank of Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi
05.2009 - 04.2014
  • Guided organizational technology strategy and roadmaps.
  • Adjusted project plans to account for dynamic targets, staffing changes and operational specifications.
  • Conferred with executives to advise and plan for short-term and long-term IT system upgrade needs.
  • Wrote policy, procedure and manuals governing internal IT use.
  • Set organization cloud adoption strategy and implemented applications migration to the cloud.
  • Coordinated IT operations activities to deliver smooth flow of daily business needs.
  • Worked with internal compliance team to execute IT security risk assessments, ensuring platforms and processes are compliant with all corporate and regulatory standards and requirements.

Key Achievement:

  • Developed and implemented automation of 40% of IT operation and 60% power saving of facility consumptions .
  • Direct the implementation of ITIL and PCI across the bank infrastructure while reduced service disruption to 2 hours per year.

Education

MBA - Business Administration And Management

University of Strathclyde
Glasgow
10.2006 - 03.2009

Master of Science - Information Technology

Alexandria University
Egypt
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Alexandria University
Egypt
04.2001 -

Skills

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Certification

CISSP

Timeline

Director

Global High Tech Services
07.2020 - Current

Regional Leader - IT Operations & Services

General Electric
11.2014 - 03.2020

Head of IT Infrastructure & Operations

National Bank of Abu Dhabi
05.2009 - 04.2014

MBA - Business Administration And Management

University of Strathclyde
10.2006 - 03.2009

Master of Science - Information Technology

Alexandria University
04.2001 -

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Alexandria University
04.2001 -
Hossam ElkobrosyChief Technology Officer