Profile Summary
• An objective-orientated; with roll up sleeves attitude; hands-on leader, with outstanding management qualifications and skills underpinned by diverse technical background, project management, organisational entrepreneurship, and long-term strategic and commercial insights, gained in demanding international business environments, over nearly 22 years of experience in Project, ICT Management, and Software Application Management.
• Enterprise Portfolio Management Officer, managed many long term multi-million dollar projects. Successfully led geographically dispersed, culturally diversified large teams into successful project completion.
• A strategist & experienced implementer of several business management solutions, ERPs, CRMs, EPMs, and Knowledge Management, including Strategic Planning, Task & Resource Allocation, Team Management, and Performance Monitoring
• Merit of associating with Forbes, PMI Magazine, Channel Middle East, and several other professional publications, writing on IT strategies, and Project Management practices and processes.
Key Accomplishments
• Setting up of PMO (Portfolio Management Office) and establishing its processes, methodology, systems, and teams.
• Spearheading Project Management Office and supervising the management of programmes and projects in 10 countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with a collective portfolio value of hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Founding delivery frameworks & new technology implementation projects for optimised partnership between ICT and business strategies.
• Perfected the utilisation of ICT systems to achieve crystal 360 view on business performance monitoring and reporting, which boosted management by exception, and enhanced planning and predictability based on trends and patterns.
• Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members to ensure efficiency of processes and operations, and evolving team’s performance.
• Managing the IT infrastructure of 16 offices, upgrading and ensuring high levels of Security, Disaster Management and Data Recovery plans.