Mohamed Said
Group Information Technology Director at Egypt Kuwait Holding
Cairo
Summary
IT director has a critical and interesting role, no matter what type of company he works for and what size of group he manages. Oftentimes, IT director wears two hatstechnical and management. The success of his team will depend on how he balances the two and still keeps up with the high demands of the fast-paced environment that his team supports.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
2
2
Languages
Work History
Group Information Technology Director
Egypt Kuwait Holding
06.2017 - Current
- Building the technology vision for an 25 years age group that achieves around $ 3.2 billions turnovers with legal entities across 5 strategic sectors & 6 production facilities and 5 k employees, through creating the digital transformation road-map using a well-established technology organization, process and right capabilities.
- Projects Management
- Responsible for managing and prepares project budget and ensuring its completion within budget and project schedule and ensures strict cost control
- Responsible for preparing time action plan for developing applications for agreed on business cycles
- Lead a project team with respective departments at corporate level to ensure time frames and customer satisfaction are met
- Software development & Strategy
- Managing the technical development team, including software strategy and systems design
- Technical support
- Supervising technical issues with IT managers in our affiliates. (Microsoft licenses, Microsoft training, Oracle developing and Oracle Application) and provide advice/recommendation in the business solutions
- Oracle ERP solutions
- Test and implement the Oracle ERP Applications functional solution for business cycles.
- Ensure the full integration between exiting modules and others application with respective business cycles and Overseeing the designing and implementing of software programs (reports, custom programs, enhancements, etc.)
Corporate Information Technology Director
Kuwait Food Company (Americana)
07.2011 - 05.2017
- 1. For Business (Strategically):
- Develop and implement an information technology strategy to support the local financial and business objectives of the company.
- Identify and recommend strategic IT solutions as to ensure the delivery of IT services in an efficient and effective manner.
- Identify areas in which the introduction of new technology will improve business performance and assists the teams with the implementation of any new systems.
- Design, implement, and carry out all actions necessary for the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
- Enlarge Americana Corporate IT department role to be the main launcher for IT support and IT Project Management in all the sister and affiliated corporate.
- 2. For Business (Operationally):
- Coordinate and review the work plan for the Information Technology Division with other departments (Finance, HR, and Sales & Marketing etc.)
- Provides direction to department managers by outlining policy, program, or operations changes to be implemented.
- Manage day-to-day operations, reviews departmental performance and operating reports, resolves operational and service delivery problems to ensure minimum costs, client satisfaction, prevent operational delays and meet future growth.
- Provide local management and Regional Offices with relevant and accurate financial information of IT operations in Americana.
- Test the Disaster recovery Plan (DRP) on a regular basis and suggest possible corrective steps.
- Responsible for maintenance, development and security of all IT applications and hardware used in the Company.
- Ensure the smooth running (backup, monitoring, tuning, etc) of all common IT resources (LAN, servers, Telecom equipment, applications, etc) to secure maximum business continuity.
Corporate Information Technology Manager
Kuwait Food Company (Americana)
01.2006 - 07.2011
- - Create and manage the IT local strategies for the company to achieve the short term & long term vision of the company.
- - Direct, Manage, Supervise and Coordinate the activities and operations of the IT Division within the Management Needs.
- - Creating and manage the IT budget; develop and execute a business plan and the on-going management of costs.
- - Advising the management on all technology issues that may affect corporate strategy.
- - Propose new technologies, new software in order to satisfy the current or future needs and to increase the efficient of the Company.
- - Ensure the smooth running (backup, monitoring, etc) of all common IT resources (LAN, servers, Telecom equipment, applications, etc) to secure maximum business continuity.
- - Managed technical infrastructure operation and development for 200-person
- - Expert analysis and careful planning to ensure that company receives top-quality equipment for hardware/software improvements and upgrades while remaining within budget.
- - Analyze developments in Internet technology and proposed far-reaching Web strategy to improve client services and firm's visibility.
- - Negotiate contractor prices for outsourced work to maintain competitive edge with minimal expenditures.
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating Forefront (TMG)
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating (LYNC).
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating MS Exchange Server.
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating MS hyper-V Server.
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating of Cisco Call Manager.
- - Managing and Administrating Cisco Firewall (ASA).
- - Managing and Administrating MS Forefront and Antivirus Server.
- - Managing and Administrating MS Domain [DHCP-DNS-Active Directory].
- - Creating, Managing and Administrating VOIP Network.
- - Managing and Administrating Americana Intranet.
- - Managing and Administrating Video conference systems.
- - Implementing, Managing and Administrating Blackberry Enterprise Server.
System Administrator
Americana Group
12.2000 - 01.2006
- NT system administration.
- Network maintenance and application management.
- Responsible for monitoring all activities over the network.
- Responsible for staff training on the new packages.
Deputy Systems Dept. Manager
Ginza for Construction & Real Estate Development (IGI Group)
01.1998 - 02.2000
IT Specialist
Ginza for Construction & Real Estate Development (IGI Group)
10.1996 - 01.1998
Education
High Studies, Information Technology Diploma. - Information And Communication Technology
Sadat Academy For Management Sciences
Cairo 04.2001 -
Timeline
Group Information Technology Director
Egypt Kuwait Holding
06.2017 - Current
Corporate Information Technology Director
Kuwait Food Company (Americana)
07.2011 - 05.2017
Corporate Information Technology Manager
Kuwait Food Company (Americana)
01.2006 - 07.2011
High Studies, Information Technology Diploma. - Information And Communication Technology
Sadat Academy For Management Sciences
04.2001 -
System Administrator
Americana Group
12.2000 - 01.2006
Deputy Systems Dept. Manager
Ginza for Construction & Real Estate Development (IGI Group)
01.1998 - 02.2000
IT Specialist
Ginza for Construction & Real Estate Development (IGI Group)
10.1996 - 01.1998
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