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Salah Sobhi Ahmed

ICT Independent Consultant at Self employed

Sheikh Zayed, Giza, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Service Delivery DirectorFull Time

    EPL House

    Apr 2019 - Present -6 yrs, 2 months

    Egypt , Giza

    • Job Details:Identifying and analyzing innovative business & technology opportunities in the market. • Participates in the annual business planning process through providing insights, analyzing relevant information to formulate the annual objectives. • Manages the day to day operations. • Provides adequate on-job coaching and strong leadership to inspire teams and get the best out of its members and assure that all of them aligned with their function’s objectives and company’s goal and strategy. • Evaluate product market feedback by connecting with customers, sales team and support team. • Managing and leading RFPs, Cost Estimation and SLAs. • Implementing operations and project management best practices and frameworks. • Liaise closely with business and financial departments. • Building team, establishing KPIs, conducts performance appraisal sessions for team in due time ensuring a timely, efficient and objective performance management process. • Continuously reviews and reports performance against plans. • Present results to top management and key stockholders. • Develop and maintain business relationships with clients, suppliers, service providers and technology partners. • Leading all R&D Activities.
  • PMO Head Full Time

    Informatique for Education [SIS and SMS] Solutions, [CMMI3] – Egypt- Gulf

    Jan 2017 - Present -8 yrs, 5 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Developing Budgets, Coaching, Supervision, Staffing, Project Management, Process Improvement, Tracking Budget Expenses, and Performance Management. • Execute multiple large and complex projects in Egypt-Gulf [Universities –Institutes] according to project management methodologies and guidelines. • Managing and leading RFPs, Cost Estimation and SLAs. • Define business opportunities within existing customers. • Assist with advising managers and teams on the best practices of project management disciplines and approaches and act as the first point of contact for any program management queries within organization. • Track and report on project portfolio performance, providing a real-time, comprehensive, and prioritized view of all projects • Develop positive relationships with Project Sponsors [Universities’ Presidents, Academic Doctors, Directors,..] , and teams to enable the PMO to provide support including facilitation, tracking and reporting on projects. • Apply a solution based approach to business problems to determine the root cause and resolution alternatives. • Reporting Projects status on different perspectives (financial, technical, risks ..). Clients Samples: • University of Bahrain (UOB) - Bahrain. • French University in Egypt (UFE) – Egypt • Bahrain Trainee Institute (BTI) - Bahrain • Kingdom University (KU) – Bahrain.
  • ICT Independent ConsultantFull Time

    Self employed

    Jul 2014 - Present -10 yrs, 11 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Advisor and interim manager for ICT startups and growth companies to apply best practices in the areas of business operations management and governance, product development, client engagement, project management and vendor management to meet their business objectives. Industries that I work with: ICT education, food and beverages and health sectors”. • Identifying, evaluate and prioritise innovative opportunities that align with corporate strategies and towards market trends that improve the revenue or generate a new revenue stream. • Assess competition & form gap market analysis and define the market billers. • Provide clear product short-term and long-term roadmap with dated milestone • Act as Product owner during technical teams SCRUM meetings • Engage with clients to form effective case studies especially during product envision phase • Work closely with the productions and PMO teams to maintain the consistent product/projects outcomes across both teams and their impact on the business’s overall strategy. In addition, gaining invaluable experience in teamwork and problem-solving. SELECTED PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS • emenuz “Start-up”, Digital Menu, ordering and analytical solution for food & beverages • E-Detailing CLM “Closing Loop Marketing “solution for pharmaceutical companies. • mLearning “Start-up”, ”mobile learning and tracking solution for schools” • mTrading “mobile trading solution” • Automation system for Kids incubation unit in Ain Shams University with (ITIDA) cooperation.
  • COOFull Time

    Asgatech for Mobile Telecom Solutions, [CMMI-Agile] 100+ Employee]

    Dec 2010 - Jul 2014 -3 yrs, 7 months

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:• Identifying and analyzing innovative business & technology opportunities in the market. • Appraising new product ideas, sub-products and/or packaging changes • Participates in the annual business planning process through providing insights, analyzing relevant information to formulate the annual objectives. • Manages the day to day operations, while empowering the operations team to take decisions. • Able to see the holistic view as well as the finer details. • Provides adequate on-job coaching and strong leadership to inspire teams and get the best out of its members and assure that all of them aligned with their function’s objectives and company’s goal and strategy. • Evaluate product market feedback by connecting with customers, sales team and support team. • Managing and leading RFPs, Cost Estimation and SLAs. • Implementing operations and project management best practices and frameworks. • Liaise closely with legal and financial departments for contracting and “P & L”. • Building team, establishing KPIs, conducts performance appraisal sessions for the team in due time ensuring a timely, efficient and objective performance management process. • Continuously reviews and reports performance against plans. • Present results to top management and key stockholders. • Develop and maintain business relationships with clients, suppliers, service providers and technology partners. • Leading all R&D Activities. SELECTED PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS Spearheaded cross-functional initiative to achieve: • Improved the resource's utilization by 25+% which improved the ROI. • Initiated and developed vending management best practices and outsourcing approach which impacts the variable and fixed cost and our positioning as System Integrator. • Implemented the Agile CMMI3 program which results in improvement in the quality and customer satisfaction levels • Applying new Platforms and frameworks and best practices that result in 30+% cost reduction and time optimization • Reduced the variable cost by 29%. • Success with the Governmental sector like “Awkaf” in UAE, o Retailers like “EXTRA” in KSA, Axiom telecom in UAE, o Mobile Manufactures which was full of challenges and achievements like Nokia Finland, Blackberry, and Samsung, o Mobile Operators like ETISALAT Egypt.
  • Education

    • BSc, in BSc, Computer science and information technology

      October 6 University (OU)

      Jan 1995 - Jan 1999 - 4 yr

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      El-Ibrahemya secondery school

      Jan 1995 

    Skills

    • Management
    • team development
    • Technology and Business Innovation
    • Business Acumen
    • Strategic Planning
    • Process Improvement

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Advanced

    Training & Certifications

    • Sales Diploma

      New Horaizon·2016
    • Operations Excellence(Vodafone consortium)

      Vodafone consortium·2015
    • Innovative Organizational Growth Program (Arab Academy) o Strategic Planning o Marketing Management (Cesim SimBrand) o Building a Creative Team.

      2015
    • Innovative Organizational Growth Program (Arab Academy)

      2015
    • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management

      2014
    • Microsoft AZURE Cloud(Microsoft)

      2014
    • Agile for software development

      2013
    • Software Project Management SECC

      2013
    • Mini MBA (RITI Regional IT Institute)

      2009
    • Project Management Diploma(PMD)

      2007
    • Sun Certified java Programmer (SCJP).

      2002
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