Kareem Soliman Email & Phone Number

Cairo, Egypt

- Leading the IT department's strategic planning, budgeting, and resource allocation to support hospital operations and achieve organizational goals.- Managing a team of IT professionals responsible for hardware, networks, software, and system support, ensuring efficient operation and timely resolution of technical issues.- Spearheaded the successful implementation of SAP solutions, including SAP Business Suite and Cerner systems, to streamline hospital processes and enhance patient care delivery.- Collaborating with external SAP implementation partners and internal stakeholders to define project requirements, manage project timelines, and ensure successful project delivery within budget constraints.- Oversees the installation, configuration, and maintenance of IT infrastructure components, including servers, switches, routers, and access points, to ensure reliability and performance.- Managing vendor relationships and negotiated contracts for IT products and services, including software licenses, hardware procurement, and maintenance agreements.- Provide leadership and mentorship to IT team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and professional development.

-Prepares school’s information system strategy, objectives and budget in line with the company's vision to develop cost effective IT solutions.-Develop and maintain information technology policies and procedures manual to assure the standards relative to an overall strategy to an appropriate degree of standardization. (Assist in obtaining ISO 9001:2015)-Trained, supervised and evaluated staff, coached improvement management skills. -Passionate about people development, motivate team members to earn significant IT Certifications in Microsoft suite and more.-An excellent knowledge of Microsoft systems and products, including a comprehensive grounding in Microsoft Office 365, and Azure.-Manage the delivery and implementation of IT solutions (including ERP cloud based, Education platforms, website, email service) to meet the school business needs.-Develop Backup plan and procedures to ensure systems availability, security and disaster recovery.-Implement ManageEngine ticketing system to make sure all issues are monitored and resolved.-Install and manage Microsoft servers Domain Controller, DNS, DHCP, Fileserver, WSUS, WDS and Print Server. Virtual under VMWARE ESXi6.5.-Ensure highest level of security innovation and performance capabilities in virtualized and physical environments, deploying and setting policies for FortiGate Firewall rules setup, web security, web filter content, Also deploying of Bitdefender Gravity Zone.-Provide high speed Internet connection with WiMax solution with a backup 4G and ADSL using load balancer.-Planned long and short term plans of distribution and connectivity for Surveillance video cameras: 4 NVR’s, POE switches, 160 POE cameras indoors and outdoors.-Manage the school educational platforms for Academics, Teachers, and students : Renweb, Managebac, HMH Global Learning Platform (thinkcentral and Trunity.org), IXL, , Turnitin, Follett system, NWEA MAP tests and more.

- Provide management facilities, vendor contract negotiation and cost estimate.- Broad experience with implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESXi servers.- Successfully migrated physical servers to virtual servers using P2V converter.- Played a major role in the creation of the organization first in house Data Center.- Developed a migration plan for MS Exchange 2003 to 2007 assisted in performing mailbox moves.- Proficiency with MS Exchange 2007 Management Console, Power shell and OWA, implemented third party applications BlackBerry server and Forefront secure messaging services for exchange.- Enhanced the company security requirements protection from viruses/intrusions through Symantec Endpoint server and ISA 2006 with GFI web filter.- Implement a Backup plan using tape library and HP EVA backup systems.- Responsible for MS servers 2003/2008 implementation and troubleshooting running services.- Managing the tech. support team to serve 300+ user/customers with monthly work status report.

 Connected the company branches (15 branches) Domain Controllers through VPN & RAS using WAN technology ISDN and ADSL. Managing, troubleshooting and protecting MS Exchange Mail Server, through: (Anti-spam, Antivirus, Attachment filtration and other tools).  Provided support to the company’s sites and their affiliates and served more than 20 servers and 200 Users. Designed and implemented wireless network solution in the company. Supported SQL servers for the software installation and servers replication. Hardware server maintenance and assemble (HP, Dell, Intel, Comapq)

Diploma In Information Security, Business/Commerce, General, Finished

EC-Council certificates earned (CSCU/ECSS/CEH/CHFI/ECSA/CND)

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Business/Commerce, General