Information Technology It Manager

Ifthiquar Hussain

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IFTHIQUAR HUSSAIN - Curriculum Vitaé

Permanent Address:

511E, 28th Street Brookly, NY 11210,

United State

Nationality: Srilankan

Marital status: Married with 4 kids

Date of Birth: 13th November 1964

Languages: Fluent English,

Basic Arabic,

Fluent Tamil,

Fluent Singhala,

Business E-mail : *********.*******@**************.*** Personal Email 1 : *********.********@*****.***

Personal Email 2 :

Present Tel (Mobile): +1-917-***-****

CAREER SUMMARY & OBJECTIVE

After a considerable odds in success with International career such as Inter*Continental Hotels & Resorts, RadissonSAS (Revenue & IT Manager), Marriott International, Movenpick Hotels & Resorts, Nobu Hotel Riyadh and currently at The Carlyle Rosewood Hotel New York City as Asst Director Information & Technology, I am a very versatile and adaptable individual, who had extensive cross training within the Hotel environment. I consider myself a leader by supporting internal/external customers and wanting to improve their IT skills strategic thinking, long-term vision, and applying positive influence on others. I am open to changes and I have a real passion for people. I wish to maintain a general management position, where I may continue to utilize my conceptual talent for establishing and fulfilling goals, while maintaining and balancing long-term visions, as well as short-term successes.

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PROFESSIONAL CAREER SUMMARY

Assistant Director of Information Technology Mar 2023 to Present The Carlyle Rosewood Hotel 34 Story iconic building with 192 rooms luxury collection https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/the-carlyle-new-york IT MANAGER Aug 2021 to Feb 2023

Rosewood Hotel Jeddah 20 Story iconic building with 127 rooms five-star luxury collection, four dining venues, prestigious event space and recreational facilities including a fitness studio and rooftop swimming pool with panoramic views of the Red Sea. https://www.rosewoodhotels.com/en/jeddah

IT & Systems MANAGER Dec 2018 to Sep 2021

Soaring and sparkling, sporting clean lines and casual elegance, Hotel is an urban oasis in the heart of downtown Riyadh. The very first five-star luxury boutique hotel in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia 23 story glass paneled skyscraper. Comprising 134 rooms and suites, 4 Food & Beverage outlets and a SPA Fitness Center, Meeting Rooms, two Banquet Halls,

https://www.nobuhotels.com/riyadh/

Further, actively involved in several POP ups around the kingdom to setup and maintain short term IT infrastructure for the operation,

Information & Technology MANAGER July 2005 to May 2018 Movenpick Resort Al Nawras and Sail Island Family Water Park Jeddah Saudi Arabia.

- Resort is a Man made island in Jeddah city, 2 KM long with 91 villas & studio, each unit consist of its own swimming pool over looking red sea, 4 F&B outlets, health club, 3 meeting rooms, banquet hall.

http://www.moevenpick-hotels.com/en/middle-east/saudi-arabia/jeddah/resort- jeddah-al-nawras/overview/

Achieved 92% IT audit May 2016

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- Sail Island is a water park for families with 5 F&B outlets. http://www.sail-island.com

SYSTEMS MANAGER April 2004 to May 2005

Head of IT operation for Marriott International, three properties with two assistant JW Marriott

380 Rooms Hotel, with 4 Food & Beverage outlets, health club and a large outside Catering Service division.

Courtyard by Marriott

178 Rooms Hotel, with 3 Food & Beverage outlets, health club Arraya Convention Hall

One of the largest convention hall in the city with outside Catering Division www.marriott-middleeast.com

REVENUE & IT MANAGER June 2003 to February 2004

Comprising 190 rooms and suites, 4 Food & Beverage outlets and a Fitness Center, my primary function at this Hotel was to supervising rooms reservation and revenue management.

www.radissonsa.com

SYSTEMS MANAGER April 1999 to April 2002

Head of IT operation for three properties located in three different cities, namely Taif, Makkah and Abha with two assistants

Inter-Continental Hotel Taif: seasonal leisure hotel with 155 rooms & 42 luxurious villas 3 Food & Beverage outlets

Inter-Continental Hotel Makkah: 178 rooms & 12 luxurious villas with 3 F&B outlets Inter-Continental Hotel Abha: seasonal leisure hotel with 205 rooms & 52 Villas 3 F&B outlets. Ifthiquar Hussain

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www.interconti.com

SYSTEMS MANAGER May 1992 to Mar 1999

Inter-Continental Hotel Jeddah, 280 Rooms, 17 luxurious villas, 6 F&B outlets, large banqueting and out side catering service.

www.interconti.com

Working as IT Manager: ability to communicate on a professional level with a variety of clients as well as employees, evaluating of IT products especially for hospitality industry. Work consist of both physical and administrative duties, including but not limited to: Running and terminating network cables, movement of computer equipment, re- imaging PCs, administering active directory IDs in Windows 2000 and 2003 server, setup and maintain Ms Outlook, working knowledge of HP open mail server. Front office systems: Opera, Protel, Fidelio, HIS, F&B inventory systems: MC materials control, Fidelio F&B Back office systems: Sun, Dataplus, Fidelio

Sales & Catering: Opera, Protel, Delphi

Point of sale: Micros 9700, micros 8700, NCR

Payroll & Personal: Hits,

Call accounting systems: Ring Master, TMS, Intersoft Door locking systems: Ving card, Tessa,

Time attendance: hand punch, finger print

Also, well converse in industrial standard packages such as Windows 98/XP pro, Msoffice 97/2003/XP, Novel Netware 4.12, 5.1 & 6, Windows Servers 2000/2003 OTHER INFORMATION

AWARDS

- Received 15 Years service PIN of inter-continental Hotels & Resorts

- Received the rotated trophy for Most Accurate Forecast for year 2003 at RadissonSAS

- Received 10 Years server certificate of Movenpick Hotels & Resorts Seminars & Workshops

Numerous Inter*Continental Hotels Group In-House Executive Management Seminars

- Craft training Certificate

- Managing Training & Development

- Group Training Certificate

- Appraisal Skills Workshop

- Accounting for Non Accountants

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Systems Managers Workshop

At Wien Inter-Continental Hotel – Feb 1994 (EMEA region) At London Inter-Continental Hotel – Jan 1995 (EMEA region) At Berlin Inter-Continental Hotel – Feb 1996 (EMEA region) At Shamiramis Inter-Continental Hotel Cairo – Mar 1997 (MEA region) At Dubai Movenpick Hotel – April 2007

At Bangalore Movenpick Hotel – August 2011

At Dubai Deira Movenpick Hotel – August 2013

At Bahrain Movenpick Hotel – Sep 2014

At Turkey Movenpick Hotel – April 2015

NB:

The systems managers workshop were conducted to know the latest development in information technology with regard to hospitality industry by inviting the vendors of the products, to share the ideas among systems managers of the company and to get the first hand training on the new development of the co-operate product. Executive Retreat

At Greece Inter-Continental Hotel – Jun 1998

NB:

The workshop was mainly to develop the communication skills of the management staff to deal with internal customers.

Revenue Management Foundations Program

At RadissonSas Humburg, Germany – Aug 2003

NB:

This workshop allowed us to familiarize ourselves with general philosophies and foundations revenue management.

Foundations of Lead ship

At JW Marriott Cairo – Jan 2005

Management Techniques

At Dead-Sea Movenpick Jordan – Feb 2008

eCornell University online

- Strategic Thinking (online) - eCornell University Certificate

- Introduction to Project Leadership - eCornell University Certificate Ifthiquar Hussain

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EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Passed General Certificate of Education O/L

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

- Diploma in Computer Science – 1 Year course – May 2002 May 2003

- Attended the following courses at the Novell Training Center – Certificate

- Netware 3.1x Administration - Nubase Technologies Jeddah

- Netware 3.1x Instn. & Config. - Nubase Technologies Jeddah

- Netware 4.1 First Class - Computer 2000 Jeddah

- Netware 4.1 Administration - Tauseal CIDC Jeddah

- Implementing MS Windows 2000 - NetAssist Colombo OTHER QUALIFICATION

Educational Institute of American Hotels & Motel Association Study method – Challenge Examination

- Hospitality industry in computer systems - Certificate

- Hospitality Supervision - Certificate

- Accounting & financial Management - Certificate

- Managerial Accounting for Hospitality - Certificate General

Holding valid

- New York State DL

- Srilankan Driving License Class A and D

- International DL

- Saudi Arabian DL

- Oman DL

- Kuwait DL

HOBBIES & PERSONAL INTERESTS

- Swimming

- Physical fitness

- Cricket

- Motor Cycle Riding

- Foot ball

- Listing to music

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PERSONAL / PROFESSIONAL REFEREES

Mr. Horst Walther-Jones – General Manager

Jummairah Beach Resort Dubai

Tel.: +971********* e-mail: *****.*******-*****@***************.*** Mr. Hossam Al Jamal – General Manager Movenpick Resort Al Nawras Tel.: +966-********* e-mail: ******.*******@*********.*** Mr. Refique Izhiman – General Manager

Crown plaza Hotel Jeddah

Saudi Arabia

Tel.: +966-********* e-mail: *******.*******@********.*** Mr. George Aoun - Country General Manager JW Marriott Hotel Kuwait City

Kuwait

Tel: +965-******* e-mail: ******.****@**************.***

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