Gehad Ali

• Manage five large projects in poultry sector, insurance sector and financing sector with 100% success story and customer value exceed $100 M.
• Ensure assigned projects are fully scoped, have robust Business Case and key stakeholders are identified.
• Work closely with IT Leads and Business Relationship Managers, Tech communication Lead to ensure all Business Readiness, Communications and People changes are identified, planned and delivered.
• Ensure required business and technical architecture assessments and analysis is undertaken for each project, so there is clear vision for future state and change actions required.
• With Agile Tech PMO Lead, establish PMO and necessary governance framework and cadence.
  

• Establish department structure, resources acquisition plan, and service delivery SOPs.
• Hire, manage, lead and grow team of architects and software engineers (front-end, back-end, DevOps, QA etc)
• Discuss IT costs and internal processes for approval of major IT-related capital expenditures.
• Build Software Development CI/CD environments through implementation of Develops pipeline.
• Build Mobile Product Development Roadmap and backlog requirements.
• Provide continuous development and product releases through Agile approach.

Main Responsibilities:

• Develop high quality business strategies and plans, ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives
• Lead and motivate subordinates to advance employee engagement, develop high performing managerial team
• Oversee all operations and business activities to ensure produce desired results and are consistent with overall strategy and mission
• Build trust relations with key partners and stakeholders and act as point of contact for important shareholders
• Maintain deep knowledge of markets and industry of company
• Establish and Lead the company teams though three countries (Egypt, Pakistan & KSA)

Main Achievements:

• Upgrade all the software at the hospital and database besides applied DR & Business continue plans.
• Build hospital ITSM strategy, sustainability plan and align it with hospital strategy.
• Implement innovation radar and support board decisions by implementing data analysis systems.
• Helped in saving over than 7.5% of the cost of the yearly operation by implementing automation systems & ePayments.
• Discussed project progress with customers, collected feedback on different stages and directly addressed concerns

Main Achievements:

• Led team to create municipality's digital transformation plan and align it with national strategy for digital transition.
• Oversight over than 16 projects and initiatives with budget of over than $25m to digitize services and integrate municipality information with national systems.
• Implement quality management systems according to ISO 9001 & ISO 27001 and gain the accreditation.
• Helped to decrease cost of providing service to under 37%, increased productivity to 40%, train over than 3000 employees and increase municipality rate of national competitiveness in transformation of e-government services from 0% in 2012, to 85% in 2015.
• Won over than five awards locally and globally in customer services & digital initiatives.

Main Achievements:

• Revenue & Profit Growth: Delivered year-by-year revenue growth of 10–15% and expanded the business.
  
• Strategic domain: Developing new vision, mission, and strategic direction by conducting Five Force analysis, and guiding the stakeholders through processes to re-positioned company, differentiating from competitors, and adding value to clients. This allowed company to win second place in national selection of most developed company in 2015.
• Operations Re-engineering: Got board endorsement to re-structure the company portfolio by implementing new governance model to maintain visibility of risks and issues in projects, and controlling overuse of changes to scope and schedule. This reflected productivity of project managers, reducing cost by 9-21%, adhering to schedule for 88% of projects, and maintaining customer satisfaction by 89-95%.

• Developed project plans and managed project scope using methodologies to guide projects from conceptualization to implementation and maintenance.
• Directed changes to project scope and cost and implemented appropriate change management processes to keep project on track.
• Monitored contracts and service level agreements to identify potential risks and implement mitigation actions to protect development process from unforeseen delays and costs.