A people-focused, results-oriented executive with a successful track record leading multi-national, multi-discipline teams through complex, cross-geo business transformations; executing organization design, leading organization change & performance improvement initiatives. Skilled in collaborating with all members of the organization to achieve financial objectives. Instrumental in streamlining and improving processes, reporting methods and business insights.
Areas of Expertise
• Executive Leadership/ Coaching
• Business & Financial Operations
• Client Relations
• Budgeting & Financial Analysis
• Presentations & Dashboards
• Strategic Thinking/Business Acumen
• Interpersonal Skills
• Verbal & written Skills
• Organization Change Management: Mergers & Acquisitions, BTO, Agile Transformation
Key Roles & Achievements
• Chief Executive Officer with proven track record in over-achieving financial objectives for 20 consecutive quarters. Financial objectives include Cost recovery efficiencies, revenue growth, productivity measures, organization processes efficiencies using Lean, and HR metrics (hiring, retention, progression, succession, and attrition)
• Program executive with broad management & decision-making expertise, focused on organization change, process transformation (e.g., Agile), financial control, crisis management, customer relationship management and team management.
• Executive Project manager for large/complex projects with extensive experience in planning, tracking, problem solving and team motivation.
• Process Improvement Champion with proficient experience in assessment models, ISO 9001 and CMMI model
• Through ‘leading transformative change’ by Harvard business school in 2017, agile education & scrum master certification in 2018 led my organization to transform to agile in managing projects.
• As an Integration Executive, led an acquisition/integration of a 400 employees’ company in Morocco for IBM
• Successfully led ISO 9001 audits and follow-up process improvement initiatives in 2006, 2009, 2016 and 2018.
• Successfully passed CMMi certifications (CMMi L3 in IBM in 2006, CMMi L3 Valeo Egypt in 2007, CMMi L5 in IBM in 2013)
• Led the set-up of global centres in IT professional services – Software Industry: 2006 - 2008 – Valeo Egypt (laid the foundation of 300+ employees leading to 2000+ today), 2008 – 2019 IBM CIC (~1500)
Education and qualifications
* “Leading Transformative Change’, Harvard Business School, Boston, US – 2017
* Master of business administration with merit - Warwick University, UK
* B.Sc., Engineering - Electronics & Communication, very Good with honours – Cairo University
Certifications
* ICF ACC Coaching Certification – June 2022
* UPenn by Coursera Foundations of Positive Psychology Certification – January 2021
* Certified Scrum Master (SCM) by Scrum Alliance – July 2018
* IBM Certified Blue Core Coach – February 2018
* IBM Mentor – February 2018
* Enterprise Design Thinking – June 2016
* Automotive Insights and Solutions (Gold) – May 2016
* IBM Certified Executive Project Manager – August 2012
* PMP (Project Management Professional) by Project Management Institute – August 2003 and renewed July 2010
* IBM Basic Blue (Management onboarding) – April 2007