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Mahmoud Elsaud
I- Personal Data:
Phone No. +201*-****-**** Address Al-Rehab City, Cairo, Egypt Birth Date. Mar1966 E-Mail ********@*****.***
Languages 1. Arabic, The native Language
2. English, Very Good (Reading,
Writing, Listening and Speaking)
Marital Status Married
Education 1. M.Sc. in Computer Science from
Ain Shams University, Feb 1997
2. B.Sc. in Computer Science from
Suez Canal University, May 1987
with 'Excellent' degree
Certificates 1. PMP® certified, from PMI®, Aug
2004
2. ITIL® Foundation certified, from
AXELOS®, Jun 2017
Profile
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahmoud-
elsaud-pmp-cb-pmo-consultant-
pmogi-abpi-itil-65319038/
3. CB-PMO® Consultant from
PMO Global Institute®, Feb
2022
4. PMOGI-ABPI® (Authorized
Business Partner Instructor) from
PMO Global Institute®, Feb
2022
II- Professional Summary:
Experienced IT, Project Management professional, PMO Consultant. Skilled in Program Management, PMO, Project Management, Bid management, IT Management, Software Development, ERP Implementation, Quality Management, and Compliance Management. Aware of all technology trends such as Agile development, Cloud Computing, DEVOPS, Machine Learning, and IOT. Lead mega projects up to several million dollars. Experience in working in international companies with people from different cultures.
For a 2 minutes summary about myself, watch this video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kjQ7IMH4tHj7Per3IjIjlS7tf0R5gUud/view?usp=share_l ink
III- Detailed Skills & Experience:
i- Project Office Management/ Program Management:
• Supervised tens of projects for several business sectors including Banking, Government, Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Food & Beverage, Defense, Retail, Transportation, and Healthcare.
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• Supervised IT projects with different solutions, e.g. ERP implementation, Software development, Network, Security, Hardware, ELV, Data Centers, Digital Signage, and integrated solutions.
• Provided strategic leadership and managerial leadership for successful implementation of project/program activities.
• Ensures that the program is technically sound, evidence-based, and consistent with funder and stakeholders’ priorities.
• Created and maintained Project Management policies, processes, procedures, templates, and forms required to standardize best practices to all projects and programs.
• Provided oversight of program implementation including all activities, outputs, and outcomes related to project management and administration, including reporting, budget development and monitoring, financial transactions, execution of project plans, and project performance.
• Oversaw the selection and training of qualified program staff, assigning clear roles and responsibilities, providing effective supervision, and managing performance to ensure efficient operations.
• Ensured the project produces the specified results in the annual workplan(s) to the required standard of quality and within the timeline and budget parameters.
• Oversaw budget pipeline development and budget monitoring.
• Conducted regular reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well as the accurate and timely reporting of financial deliverables and obligations.
• Provided Project teams with consultations, training, organizational standards, and continuous support.
ii- Project Management:
• Managed IT projects from project initiation, planning, executing, controlling and, closing. In addition to all knowledge areas: Time Management, Cost, Quality, Human Resources, Communication, Risk, Procurement, Stakeholders and, Integration Management. In all, I’ve applied PMBOK® standard.
• Managed projects are in Egypt and Saudi Arabia
• Managed Projects covers different business sectors, namely, government, military, banking, oil& gas, hospitality, transportation, healthcare and manufacturing.
• Managed projects carried out by own staff and subcontractors as well as outsourcing.
• Managed Projects’ budgets ranges from thousands USD up to 4 Million USD
• Managed Projects are implemented in multiple sites over the country
• Managed Projects includes delivery, implementation, and support of several technologies including but not limited to ERP, Hardware, Network, Security, and Software Development.
• Expert in MS Office tools like MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint, as well as MS Project as a PM software tool.
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iii- Bid Management:
Deliver proposals as a response to RFP, RFQ, and RFI through leading a team of solution architects, pre-sales, sales, and IT consultants. The purpose is to deliver high quality proposal that gets the highest customer evaluation for the required technical solution. As a bid manager, I led delivery of more than 410 IT proposals in different IT business lines (Software, Servers, Storage, HPCs, Cloud Computing, PCs, Printers, Active network, Passive network, Network Security, Connectivity, Oracle ERP, SAP ERP, Virtual Solutions, Digital Signage, Surveillance, ELV, Training, combinations of all of these and, others), out of which, 95% proposal passed technically, my proposals win rate is more than 37%.
Typically, my responsibilities include:
• Create and maintain Bid policies, processes, procedures, templates, and forms required to standardize best practices to all bids.
• Manage/ take part the bid qualification (bid go / no go) process for new opportunities
• Manage virtual bid teams and inputs from a variety of stakeholders, typically involving contributions from sales, presales, marketing, product teams, finance, commercial, legal and delivery
• Preparing and reviewing the commercial aspects of the bid, ensuring all services are included in the final price to the customer
• Ensure the Completeness and integrity of the proposed solution
• Opportunity risk definition, tracking and management throughout the bid process
• Contributing to the written proposal - both in terms of content and presentation
(such as preparation of a management summary)
• Manage the bid budget
• Ensure timely delivery of compliant and commercially sound bids
• Direct the proposal issue and delivery on time
• Manage presentation session of the proposed solution to customer iv- Quality Assurance & Auditing:
Play the role of global Quality Representative who advise and make sure every department is following agreed upon processes and standards through audits. Preparing and executing Quality audit plans for all company departments are key activities to ensure company adherence to ISO9001 standard. 4 CV for ********@*****.***
v- Compliance Lead advisory:
Ensuring all employees adhere to company business ethics of fair business and fair competitive environment. This includes activities like: presentations, training courses, workshops, and continuous awareness events. vi- CMMI Experience and business process engineering: SEPG Leader responsible for implementing CMMI processes to get certify of CMMI staged representation certificate.
• Create, Review and issue the Quality Manual of all best practices and processes guiding business
• Lead team of professionals to implement best practices in all projects and functions.
• Participate in gap analysis, pre-appraisal and final SCAMPI appraisal of the organization.
vii- Solid experience in Oracle Technology for more than 20 years: Sharing around 40 successful installations of oracle database software of different versions ranging from Oracle Ver. 5.1 up to Oracle9i release 2 on different platforms including Windows, Novell Netware, Linux and different versions of UNIX, in addition to dozens of successful installations to other oracle technology products like Oracle Developer, Oracle Designer, Oracle Jdeveloper and so forth. Database Experience includes installation of client-server architecture and multi- tier architectures, design of large databases, planning and carrying out database backup & recovery strategies, support database maintenance& tuning, ensuring user security & privacy for tens and hundreds of users as well as installing and configuring Web Servers (Oracle 9iAS), and installing & configuring high availability solutions (Oracle Real Application Cluster & Oracle Failsafe). viii- System Analysis and Development:
Analyze project systems and subsystems (for more than 12 years), use of standards such as: Waterfall, Spiral, and Information engineering and using case tools such as IEF (Information Engineering Facility) and Oracle Designer. Have deep experience in more than 70 application systems in more than 30 different areas. Shared in around 14 applications as the analyst, some as designer, some as implementer, many as developer, and some as all of these roles.
IV- Soft Skills
• Self-motivated, creative, ability to work under stress, good team coach, excellent Communication skills, comprehensive problem analysis & solving, open-minded, flexible, cooperative, quality adherence, and great adherence to business ethics. 5 CV for ********@*****.***
V- Job History
1. Mar 2022 – Present: Co-Founder, CEO, and PMO Consultant in PMO Concept for Management Consultations.
2. July 2020 – Present: Freelancer PMO Manager, Senior Projects Manager and Bid Manager.
3. July 2021 – Sep 2021: Senior Project Manager in Informatique, Cairo, Egypt. 4. July 2017 – Jun 2020: Bids Department Manager in Intercom Enterprises, Egypt, Cairo.
5. Nov 2004 - Mar 2017: Project Office Manager, Principal Project Manager and Principal Bid Manager in Fujitsu Egypt, Cairo.
6. Feb 2004 – Aug 2004: Project Manager in Royah Co., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 7. Mar 2001 – Feb 2004: Senior Oracle DBA in National Systems Research, Cairo, Egypt.
8. Mar 2000 – Feb 2001: IT Consultant & Senior Oracle DBA in General Dynamics Land Systems, Cairo Operations.
9. Dec 1994 – Jan 2000: Software Dept. Manager in Electronic Concepts Co. Ltd., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
10. Jun 1992 - Dec 1994: Systems Analyst in InfoTech Co, Cairo. 11. Apr 1991 - May 1992: Senior Programmer in ICL Egypt, Cairo. 12. Apr 1990 - Feb 1991: Instructor & Senior Programmer in Zamzam center for computers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
13. Aug 1987 - Mar 1990: Senior Programmer in Automation software house, Cairo. VI- References
i- Walid Gad, Chairman of Eitesal Association, Tel +201*-******** ii- Ayman Abdelrahman, General Manager, FSIT, Tel +201*-******** iii- Sherif Kamel, Bid Unit Manager, Fujitsu Egypt, Tel +201*-******** iv- Hussein Gabr, IT Consultant, Tel +201*-******** v- Hisham Fathi, Chief Commercial Officer, Fiber Misr, Tel: +201*-********