Management Consultant & Enterprise Architect

Moataz Abdellateef, MBA

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Profile

A Senior IT leader with extensive experience in business/IT strategy, enterprise architecture, team leadership, negotiation

and IT management involved in the complete life cycle of diverse software applications, integrations, and infrastructures.

Extensive experience working with clients and senior management teams. Proven track record in aligning business

requirements and processes to provide overall solutions and strategy. Known for the ability to create clear

methodologies, analysis and execution against deadlines.

Areas of Expertise: Strategic Planning, Business Transformation, Process Automation, Operational Efficiency

Professional Experience

2007 – Present

SIRTTS Inc, Toronto

SIRTTS Inc is a privately held company that was founded by me to focus on business transformation and strategy from an IT perspective. The

vision of the company is fill in the space currently present in the business world for employing research based methodologies with great emphasis

in quantitative metrics in IT driven business transformation.

Management Consultant & Enterprise Architect

FITZII Inc –Management Consultant/Architecture ( Linux, Ruby on Rails)

IT Infrastructure Planning and Architecture

Architecture, Design and Development Management

IT Operation Planning (Blended model – In-house and outsourcing development and support)

EnerCare CIS Transformation – Enterprise Architect Consultant (Windows, Java, J2EE, PLSQL, Weblogic)

Performed process analysis and optimization to a number of their business processes for optimal solutions.

Performed CC&B interface architecture assessment and recommendations for performance and process

improvement.

Performed a TOU billing algorithms assessment, analysis, architecture, design and development.

Performed online billing display algorithm assessment, analysis, architecture and design.

Performed a CIS synchronization interface assessment, analysis, architecture, and design.

Led the integration with the vendors (banks and other systems).

Waggware – Enterprise Architect Consultant (Linux, Java, J2EE, Weblogic, Ruby on Rails)

Developed a developers’ guide for design and development best practices and standards

Developing a status communication template for EnerCare project and potentially future likewise initiatives.

W orking on a recommendation for a toolset to be used by Waggware for future CIS implementations.

WWL Strategy Boot-camp – IT Strategy Consultant (Windows, TIBCO, J2EE, Weblogic)

Conducted a two weeks boot-camp for architecture assessment and evaluation.

Created an architecture roadmap for three years IT driven transformation.

Online Refinement Partnership (Android, BB10, Java, HTML5)

Leading the technical research for the online refinement group for online business transformation.

Leading mobile and interactive web architecture and development.

2002 – Oct, 2011

Direct Energy, Toronto

Direct Energy is one of North America’s largest competitive energy suppliers of electricity, natural gas and related services. With approximately

6,000 employees, we are active in upstream production (electricity and natural gas) and downstream delivery. Direct Energy helps customers

effectively manage all of their energy needs.

Director, Architecture & Shared Services, Direct Energy Residential (2008-2011)

Reported to the VP IS. Responsible for overall leadership of the development and architecture team. Focused efforts on strategic alignment of IT

roadmap with the overall business objectives. Led teams with around 100 resources in total. Managed budgets over $15 Million cumulative.

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Strategic Planning, Architecture and Leadership (HP UX, Sun Solaris, Java, J2EE, Weblogic, TIBCO)

Championed IT Strategy (Platform Consolidation, Middleware Center of Excellence, Infrastructure

Optimization) and alignment with business objectives.

Created an architecture maturity and efficiency framework (unprecedented numerical architecture KPIs).

Oversaw Vendor, Technology and Tools evaluation and recommendation.

Implemented a QA Strategy across the IS Integration group to improve software quality and reduce delivery

cost.

Architected and led several initiatives for process improvements within Operation such as

Call Center Optimization, Renewal Automation, Financial Reconciliation, Transactions and Tracking

Systems.

Infrastructure and Deployment

Project budget planning and estimating. Provided estimates at various points on the projects with increased

accuracy.

Project managed 5 -10 concurrent projects with an overall average cumulative budget of 5M.

Led M&A Assessment and Integration plans and strategies

Reviewed, advised and approved production implementations for high risk/impact changes.

Department and Team Leadership

Developed plans for professional development for full time staff for career and training plans.

Co-led the implementation of development methodology and processes for the department.

Forecasted resourcing for projects.

Interviewed, hired, and involved in dismissal of development staff (full time and contract).

Managed vendor relationship and negotiation for various contracts (rates, services and products).

Negotiated a multi-million dollars contract for delivering Enterprise License for Middleware that saved the

company over 4.5M.

Development Manager (2005-2008)

Reported to the Director IS. Responsible for development deliveries within the IS Projects. Accountable for application solutions, efforts

estimates, projects planning, resources forecasting, and overall team management. Led teams with around 50 resources in total. Managed

budgets over $8 Million cumulative.

Sr System Integrator / Sr Software Developer/Analyst (2002-2005)

Reported to the Manager IS. Responsible for analysis, design, development, implementation and support of IS Solutions within Billing Systems

team. Developed a framework for Market interfaces that was standardized for Ontario Market and was adopted as a base framework for other

markets. The framework delivered 40% saving of time and cost for all developments based on it.

CertaPay Inc., Toronto (2001 – 2002)

CertaPay is a leading P2P Money Transfer in Canada; Currently Owned by the five major banks in Canada (RBC, BMO, TD, Scotia Bank

and CIBC).

Senior Technology Consultant – Reporting to VP of Development and Technology

Responsible for Technical consultation with clients within Canada, making recommendations for technologies in the development department and

leading international implementation projects. Actively answering clients’ technical questions and guided their technical team during the

implementation process. Involved in reviewing the design and requirements of new release.

Oasis Technology, Toronto (1999 – 2001)

Oasis Technology is a leading E-Payment/E-Funds solution provider in Canada. Currently owned by E-Funds Inc. Oasis has many clients

around the world ranging from major banks to national switch in different countries.

Technical Lead – Reporting to EMEA Regional Manager and E-Payment Division Director

Responsible for business analysis, design, architecture and planning implementation of e-Payment solutions for diverse clients, as well as leading

the technical team (7-10 members) during the implementation process. Sample Clients: Commercial Bank of Qatar, Central Switch of Turkey,

National Bank of Egypt.

ACC, Cairo, Egypt (1997 – 1999)

Software Manager – Reporting to General Manager

NCR Egypt, Cairo, Egypt (1995 – 1996)

Software Engineer – Reporting to Department Manager

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Education

June, 2009 Joseph L. Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada

EMBA - Executive Masters of Business Administration

June, 1995 Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt

B. Sc. – Computer and Systems Engineering (Graduation Project: “Arabic Text Recognition Using Neural Networks”)

Technologies

TIBCO, Weblogic, SUN/Solaris, HP/HPUX, Linux, Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, ANSII C/C++, Java/J2EE, Perl, SQLPlus, WinRunner, LoaderRunner,

UML, Design Patterns, Enterprise Architect, Together Control Center

Methodologies

Agile Unified Process, Scrum Agile and Waterfall Development. TOGAF discipline, Six Sigma/Lean Six Sigma, DMAIC, Porter Five Forces, Value Curve

Analysis, VRIO

Awards

Winner of the Sales Platinum Award in 2007 for delivering a renewal solution for Ontario Electricity Customers.

Nominated for Innovation Platinum Award in 2005 for re-engineering Ontario Usage Interface

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