Please turn on your javascript Shaher Elnour - IT Project Manager - Sahabah Technologies LLC - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Summary

A Post Graduate turned seasoned IT Professional holding more than 10 IT/Project Management related international certificates and having over 20 years of rich amp extensive experience, covering (SUDAN, SAUDI ARABIA, and INDIA), in Project Management for software development for different industries. Now I am seeking to take a step back for project leadership challenges, to utilize acquired skills to drive IT Projects for Comprehensive Growth.

Projects

Establishment of the Information Technology Department
Establishment of Offshoring Software Development Centre (SDC)

Experience

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IT Project Manager
Sahabah Technologies LLC
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 Contracted by the Managing Partners (a client from KSA) to establish an off-shoring Software Development Centre (SDC) in Pune, within 12 months.
 Conducted a business model study to prepare the TO-BE blue print and received approval for the partners in two months from starting the project.
 Led a team of 18 resources, the project involved IT Infrastructure design, procurement, deployment & configuration as well as process & procedures for day-to-day operations.
 Implemented agile (SCRUM) software development/project management framework, enabling the organization in software solution development & deployment function.
 The organization was also expected to provide service delivery and thus implemented IT Service Management (ITIL guided) framework.
 Built a Indian team to take care of the day-to-day operation involving staff interviews, selection, hiring, assigning of roles and responsibilities to the hired team.
 Complied with all Statutory/Govt registrations, by appointing a CS and CA and negotiated Third Party contracts, with 100% transparent bids and deals.
 Project closing process was achieved involving project documentation, monitoring compliance by operating staff with SOP and team mentoring, before handing over the operations to senior staff from India..

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IT Project Manager
The Sudanese Insurance & Reinsurance Co. Ltd.
Jan 2014 - Jun 2017 | Khartoum, Sudan

 Reported to the General Manager and led a team of 12 resources to set-up the IT department from scratch and motivating them for appropriate team work.
 Participated in design & configuration of a suitable Infrastructure for the Data Centre, to connect twenty two branches, one hundred offices and more than one hundred agents with the same.
 Led the team in deployment of a fully integrated system for operating various business functions, including call centre, business intelligent modules and dashboards.
 Developed a proper team, by planning, staff interviews, selection, hiring, assigning of roles and responsibilities to the hired ones for output.
 Further guided the team to execute projects based on all the functions of project life cycle from initiation to the closure of same.
 Engaged, further, in multiple tasks like Vendor management & contract negotiation, procurement, implementation of ITIL framework for IT Service delivery, etc.

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General Manager/Co-Founder
Wizard Computers Co. Ltd
Oct 2000 - Dec 2013 | Khartoum, Sudan

 Co-founded this enterprise, reporting to the Managing Director and led a team of 22 resources for implementation of ERP & other solutions as well as establishing IT Department.
 Established the IOT department by designing, procuring, deploying suitable Infrastructure as well as plan, interview/recruit, training and assigning of roles/responsibilities.
 Led the Team in multiple (9) ERP Solution & Insurance System Deployment for various clients based on the functions of project life cycle.
 Coordinated implementation of Agile (SCRUM) methodologies for software development/integration/project execution, at same time manage vendors and negotiated contracts.
 Engaged in guiding different technical teams, while supported business development including plan, management of marketing and customer contracts.
 Implemented ERP Solution for different clients in diverse sectors like manufacturing factories, trading companies, petroleum companies and insurance markets

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Software Development Section Head
Computer and Information Technology Co. Ltd
Jul 1998 - Sep 2000 | Khartoum, Sudan

 Held 20% share and was deputed, dedicatedly to Macro-Hard, for total cycle of software Development, with the responsibilities of Technical software engineering, planning, analysis, development, documentation, deployment and customer contracts management.

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Teaching Assistant
The Future University
May 1997 - Aug 1999 | Khartoum, Sudan

 Reported to the Head of Computer Science Section, as individual contributor for teaching subjects like Programming Languages, Data Structures, etc as well as assisted other lecturers in Lab assignments and in end of semister result operations

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Software Engineer
Sudanese Telecommunications Co. ( SUDATEL)
Oct 1997 - Jun 1998 | Khartoum, Sudan

 Initiated the IT career with this service provider, reporting to Software Development Section Head, with the responsibilities of development of device driver, using C++, for the American DIALOGIC PCI card.

Education

Sudan University of Science and Technology
Master, Masters, Masters in Science, M.Sc‎
Computer Science
CGPA 3.5/4
2016
The Future University
Bachelor, Bachelors, Bachelors in Science, B.Sc‎
Computer Science
CGPA 3.4/4
1996

Skills

Beginner Cooordination Skills
Beginner WinCVS

Languages

Expert Arabic
Expert English