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Leading Middle East & Africa IT Support: Managing 9 IT Managers as direct reports spread across the region in 6 time zones for 49 Sites, 4 MTCs, 4 R&Ds and 3 HQ Locations in 29 countries with ~7,000 employees.

Led the IT Department in the IT services. The key responsibilities in addition to the dept management; Support to the Service Delivery Departments by implementing IBM Maximo Software Support to the Business Control & Operations for internal/external audits Leading the Information Security CommitteeKey Achievements: Built High Available Datacenter Infrastructure on VmWare environment Designed & Implemented Disaster Recovery Center Solution Led & Concluded… Show more Led the IT Department in the IT services. The key responsibilities in addition to the dept management; Support to the Service Delivery Departments by implementing IBM Maximo Software Support to the Business Control & Operations for internal/external audits Leading the Information Security CommitteeKey Achievements: Built High Available Datacenter Infrastructure on VmWare environment Designed & Implemented Disaster Recovery Center Solution Led & Concluded ISO-27001 Certification IBM procedures for Application Compliance & Regulations IBM procedures for IT Infrastructure Security & Certification Show less

Served as the head of the Financial Systems Department of a Multinational Airport Operations Company who employs 25,000+ worldwide. The key responsibilities in addition to the dept management; Coordination of the Consultant Team and the Management Committee Coordination of Outsourcing Services and Vendor Relations Proposal Preparation for international & Governmental tenders Contract/Account Management for Intercompany ProjectsKey Achievements: Managed… Show more Served as the head of the Financial Systems Department of a Multinational Airport Operations Company who employs 25,000+ worldwide. The key responsibilities in addition to the dept management; Coordination of the Consultant Team and the Management Committee Coordination of Outsourcing Services and Vendor Relations Proposal Preparation for international & Governmental tenders Contract/Account Management for Intercompany ProjectsKey Achievements: Managed Department Budget for 2 Million$ of Expense and 2.6 Million$ of Revenue Saved 1.9 million$ on license fees Held the ERP project management of a green-field airport construction budgeted to 440 million€ in Tunisia (French/English Environment) Experienced on Billing Applications Managed the Financial Consolidation Project on Hyperion HFM. Proof Of Concept workshops for the Budget Planning Processes on Hyperion Planning  CRM Requirement Analysis & CRM Suites (Microsoft/Siebel) Evaluation Show less

Managed the re-implementation of a previously failed ERP project in the transportation/logistics holding who had 29 Regional offices and 988 branches nationwide. The key responsibilities were ; Settling the consultant team Executing the implementation cycle Acting as a cross organization managerKey Achievements: Finished the Oracle Financials Implementation in 3 months Realized performance tuning for large volume transactions on Apps; 3 million… Show more Managed the re-implementation of a previously failed ERP project in the transportation/logistics holding who had 29 Regional offices and 988 branches nationwide. The key responsibilities were ; Settling the consultant team Executing the implementation cycle Acting as a cross organization managerKey Achievements: Finished the Oracle Financials Implementation in 3 months Realized performance tuning for large volume transactions on Apps; 3 million invoices/month 1.1million cash payments/month 8.2 million accountings/month Saved more than 200K$ in procurement Supported GPFS implementation on IBM-AIX cluster ware environment Show less

Co-founder of the software development company operating in 2 regions (Eastern Europe and Turkey) for the Financial solutions. The key responsibilities were; Product Development ERP Implementation Account Management Sales & Pre-Sales Activities Business DevelopmentKey Achievements: Expanded the company to 3 subsidiaries employing 70+ technical persons Founded an abroad organization in Romania Sold 50% of the company shares to a System Integrator… Show more Co-founder of the software development company operating in 2 regions (Eastern Europe and Turkey) for the Financial solutions. The key responsibilities were; Product Development ERP Implementation Account Management Sales & Pre-Sales Activities Business DevelopmentKey Achievements: Expanded the company to 3 subsidiaries employing 70+ technical persons Founded an abroad organization in Romania Sold 50% of the company shares to a System Integrator Company Have been Awarded as a Sales Champion Lead the Internet Banking & Call Center Desktop Development Project in Disbank (Fortis) as a success story. Project Management of international ERP implementations in different industries Show less

Carried out the Software Development Manager role for the financial applications. The key responsibilities were ; Product Developmento Banking, Factoring ERP ImplementationKey Achievements: Jun 1992 – Jun 1997 Developpment of Core Banking Apps Mastered Consumer & Personal Loans Experienced in ATMs & Credit Cards Established the SAP competency center Managed SAP Project budgeted to1.3 Mio$