Waleed K. El-Naggar, MBA, PMP

El-Rehab City, Cairo, Egypt

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Mobile (Egypt):+20106 346 1858

Career Objective

Seeking achallenging management positionwithin an established organization utilizing my knowledge and experience in IT/software development management; my educational background, as well as my technical and interpersonal skills.

Education

  • MBA, the American University in Cairo (AACSB accredited),May‘08.GPA: 3.78
  • B.Sc. in Computer Systems and Automatic Control Engineering - Ain Shams University - Faculty of Engineering 1996 with an overall grade of Very Good with Honorsand ranked 5th of class 1996.

Graduation Project: Development of a Geographical Information System, project grade:Excellent

  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) in Feb 2005(score 90%).

Work Experience

ITWorx (): Dec 2011 – Present

Senior Project Leader/Program Manager, Education Department

  • Program manager of Qatar Supreme Education Council (SEC) LMS program (4 projects with a budget of $6.6 million). Technologies: SharePoint, TMG, FIM, DPM, & Hyper-V.
  • Proposal revision, project change management and P&L analysis of the different projects.

Convergys (): Jan 2011 – Dec 2011

Project Manager– Middle East & Africa

  • Manage implementation projects for major clients (Zain, Telecom Egypt & QTel)
  • Support the presales (initiation) of projects for MobiLink Pakistan & Telecom Egypt.

International Turnkey Systems (ITS): Apr 2010 – Dec 2010

Senior Project Manager (Acting as PMs Team Lead), Banking Department

  • Build a timesheet reporting operation to provide a control mechanism for the management, improve resource utilization, and decide resource needs.
  • Manage Rational ALM deployment in the banking department.
  • CMMI process owner of project management processes (Define processes needs, analyze measurement data, recommend process improvement & provide coaching for the processes).
  • Delivery of 2 projects in Islamic banking and core banking solutions.

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services (HP): May 2005 –April 2010

Senior Project Manager, Vodafone UK e-Shop: Oct ‘08 – Apr 2010

  • Manage 14 Agile sprints of VF UK e-Shopongoing release programand third line (L3) support with a budget of £1.75 million. Technologies: ATG, JavaScript, & Oracle.
  • Manage the knowledge transfer, environment setting, connectivity establishment deploying the governance model to coordinate between UK, Egypt & Indian teams.
  • Achievements: Successful migration, on-time delivery, and many thank you letters.
  • Manage other project simultaneously (Business Shop Aug-Nov and SVAP Dec – Feb)
  • Act as the program manager of Vodafone UK account in Egypt during its startup.

Project Management Office Member (PMO): Feb 2007 – Apr 2010

  • LeadMicrosoft Project Server (EPM) Subject Matter ExpertsGroup (Front End) - Play a key role in the MSPS Deployment, deliver MSPS training and integration between MSPS & SAP
  • Co-author “EDS Schedule Management Guidelines”
  • Review and audit different projects’ plans & coach junior project managers.
  • Monitor the governance (offshore model) to ensure projects successful delivery.

Project Manager/Sourcing Migration Manager: May‘05 – Oct ‘08

  • Planning and execution of 3 projects: IPACS, Integrated Billing System (production support) & FOX (Development) with budgets above $0.5 million teams with 25 resources
  • Ensure process standard compliance & Participated in the CMMI level 3 appraisal.
  • Achievements: CMMI L3 appraisal, compliance with SLA, & excellent client survey results.
  • Migration of 3 support projects from Netherlands and UK to Egypt for ABN AMRO bank
  • Manage CRS (incident/problem management operation) & ensure compliance to SLA.

Mentor Graphics Egypt,: April 1998 –May 2005

Team Leader of the WorkXpert Group (April 2003 – May 2005) and Analog Simulation Group (Feb 2001 – April 2003)

  • Lead the development teams of the WorkXpert/Analog Simulationprojects.
  • Successful delivery of 5 releases, 5 service packs and 10 patches for Mentor Graphics’ workflow management tool, WorkXpert and AccuSim.
  • Develop functional specifications & project plans for all releases.
  • PortWorkXpert tools to Linux Red Hat 7.3 and re-write WorkXpert GUI to be in Java

Software Development Engineer (April 1998 – February 2001)

  • Develop maintain FlexSim QuickSim Coupling Environment (A digital co-simulator).
  • Port the former products from the UNIX platform to the Windows Platform.
  • Develop and maintainQSPro (integration of2 different digital simulators).

Trends Solutions & Systems: December 1997 - April 1998

Software Developer

As/400 RPG & CL programming –worked in the packages:Stock-ControlCar-Sales.

Freelance Jobs

Knowledge Academy: Mar ’09 – Present: Management Trainer

  • Participate in the design & development of operation management mini MBA program
  • Teach operations Management
  • Teach Project Management and PMP Preparation.

EMAK Academy / RITI: Mar ’09 – Feb ’10, Project Management and PMP Instructor.

Institute of Professional Managers, Mar ’09 – Dec ‘09:Mini MBA / Management Trainer

Mini MBA program in cooperation with Missouri University (Management Information Systems, Business Process re-engineering, and International Business)

The American University in Cairo: Sep ’03 – Dec ’04, IT Trainer

Microsoft Project Trainer: Jun ’09.

IT Trainer (Visual C++ & HTML): Sep ‘03 – Dec ‘04

Provide C/C++/Visual C++ courses at Inform (IBM-Authorized): Sep 1999 – Jul 2001

Course Work

  • Received instructions in virtual team management, function point counting CMMI & six-sigma.
  • MBA:Received instructions in:

-Operations design and planning, Quantitative Analysis for ManagementBusiness Dynamics

-Cross-culture Management, Human Resources Strategy, Managing Organizations.

-Financial Management, Financial Markets, Corporate finance, International Finance, Financial Reporting and Project Finance

-Marketing Management and Marketing Research

-Strategic Management

  • Professional Training
  • Train the Trainer (360 Solutions, 2012)
  • Middle Management (Be Consult, 2012)
  • Coaching Skills for Leaders (Global Learning and Development, EDS, 2008)
  • Project Leadership, Management, and Communications (ESI International, 2006).
  • Advanced Project Leadership (Management Worlds, 2005)
  • Managing Projects (ESI International, 2005).
  • Project Management Start-up & Planning, Execution & Close-down(EDS)
  • Fundamentals of Project Management for IT Projects (American University 2003).
  • Introduction to CMMI (2004)CMMI® Implementation Essentials(2005).
  • Business Foundation (EDS Global Learning and Development, 2007)
  • Communication Skills and Effective Report Writing (American University, 2001).
  • Skills for business(British Council 1999).
  • Presentation Skills (American University in Cairo 2000).

Verticals

  • Education Technology
  • Banking (Islamic Banking, Asset control)
  • Telecom (Rating & billing, e-shopping)
  • Billing & Cost Allocation
  • Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

Computer Skills

Very good knowledge of:C, C++ & Javafor Windows, Linux & UNIX (Solaris & HPUX).

Good knowledge of:HTML,JavaScript, SQL, AS/400 (System Administration / programming), and Visual C++, Shell scripting - ASP, VBScript, Pascal,Assembly VHDL.

Very good experience with: Microsoft Project Server, MS Office, SAP, Borland StarTeam, Rational ClearCase, Visual Source Safe (VSS), Business Plan Pro & SPSS

Language Skills

Native Language: Arabic

Very good in spoken and written English.

Business Travels

Qatar, Jan ’12 – Apr ‘12

United Kingdom, Oct ’08 – Nov ’08.

Netherlands, (Jan 2006 – Feb 2006) and July 2005.

The United States, Oregon -Mentor Graphics HQ (Feb ‘01 –May ‘01), California, Silicon Valley (Aug ‘00 – Sep ‘00) & Oregon - Mentor Graphics HQ (Jun 1998 –Oct1998).

Awards

HP Top Achievers, Nov 2009

The “Best Financial Plan” – MBA program (Strategic Management course), AUC 2008.

The “First Ten Pioneers of Mentor Graphics Egypt” award (2005).

The “Teaching Honor Roll” for 3 semesters, the American University (2004).

Listed in the list of honors of General Secondary Education, the best 30 students (1991).

Honored and listed on the highest 10 scores in Cairo in Preparatory Education Certificate (1998)

Biographical Data

Date of birth: February 24th, 1973

Place of birth: Cairo, Egypt.

Nationality: Egyptian.

Military Service:Completed (October 1996 - December 1997).

References

Furnished upon request.

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