Ahmed Kamal

Current

ISP & Broadband Manager at Etisalat

Past

Business Applications Manager at Etisalat Egypt
Business Applications Manager at Etisalat
Senior Business Analyst / Senior Project Manager at Vodafone Egypt

Business Analyst / Project Manager at Vodafone
Project Manager at Asset Technology Group
Senior Analyst/Programmer at Asset Technology Group

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Education

Cairo University

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Ahmed Kamal’s Summary

IT Manager with 13 years of experience in the IT and Telecommunications industries. Built and managed competent teams to achieve hi-tech projects and programs with focus on the business targets.

• Business oriented strategic thinking
• Building skillful and target oriented teams
• Project management expertise (IPMA certified)
• Experienced in the full software lifecycle
• Skilled leadership – performing through people
• Communication and presentation skills
• Vendor management and negotiation skills
• Demand management and analysis expertise
• Standards literate (ISO, SOX, CMM, eTOM, ITIL, etc)
• Multinational working experience

Currently ISP & Broadband Manager at Etisalat Egypt:
responsible for all ISP IT in addition to Etisalat Broadband/Data products & services (ADSL & 3G).
Previously was Business Applications Manager at Etisalat Egypt: responsible for IT Demand Management for the Marketing, Marcom, Commercial Planning and Engineering departments. Previously was senior business analyst in Vodafone Egypt: resposible for Vodafone live! and Mobile TV services.

Ahmed Kamal’s Specialties:

IT management, Project management, IPMA, Software development, Portals, Web development, Content, video streaming, 3G, Data services, VAS Applications, Messaging, ADSL, Broadband, Internet, ISP.

Ahmed Kamal’s Experience

ISP & Broadband Manager

Etisalat

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Reporting directly to the CIO. Responsible for leading the IT efforts required to:
- Build the commercial Broadband & Data products & services involving 3G & ADSL
- Merge four ISP companies acquired by Etisalat Egypt
- Build new commercial products & services for the merged ISP
- Automate the merged ISP company
- Manage Internet, content & data services and systems

Achievements:
- Built new IT organization structure and team for the ISP merger
- Built IT road map and merger plan for the new merged ISP company
- Established Etisalat ADSL new line of products totally converged with the 3G products
Business Applications Manager

Etisalat Egypt

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — March 2009 (2 years 1 month)

Responsibilities:
• IT Demand Management for the Marketing, Marcom, Commercial Planning and Engineering departments. This includes business analysis, technical project management, and relationship management through managing team of project managers and business analysts.
• Plan the roadmaps for the owned platforms and ensure proper support and SLAs in place
• Align the IT plans with the business plans and calendars
• Build and implement a business process automation plan for the mentioned departments
• The typical projects include:
- Portal projects: Web portal, WAP portal, and SIM toolkit
- Self services: Internet Bill browsing, Bill e-payment, Balance recharge, etc.
- VAS applications: SMS broadcasting, MMS applications, and Mobile applications
- Promotions: Bonus on recharge, reduced minute rates, handset bundles, etc.
- Enterprise solutions: GIS, Mobile Number Portability, and business process automation
Business Applications Manager

Etisalat

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — March 2007 (1 month)

Achievements:
• Participated in launching Etisalat Misr
• Built the Business Applications Demand Management unit
• Launched “Choose your number”, the first service for Etisalat Misr in the market
• Built and managed key platforms including the web portal, mobile portal, SIM menu toolkit, alerting engine, content delivery engine, promotions subscription system, and others.
• Launched aggressive time to market promotions and commercial products and services
• Introduced the IT Demand Management process and other processes
• Established strategic partnership deals with technology and services vendors
Senior Business Analyst / Senior Project Manager

Vodafone Egypt

(Public Company; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

March 2005 — March 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Responsibilities:
• The demand & roadmap management, technical solutions selection, vendor selection, and project management & delivery for:
- Vodafone live! mobile portal
- Mobile TV and VoD platform
- Vodafone Music platform (full track music downloads)
• Research 3G portal technologies and evaluate their business value and application
• Coordinate with Vodafone group the global intranet roadmap

Achievements:
• Program management for launching the new 3G mobile portal including system architecture, Mobile TV and VoD platform and java client, 3G bearer detection, user experience for different device types, event/subscription based charging for all content types, DRM, and on-net/off-net search. The program required integration with 6 vendors. (2007)
• Participated in the 3G services network design and integration of Vodafone Egypt. (2007)
• Launched the first BPEL SOA platform in Vodafone Egypt. (2006)
Business Analyst / Project Manager

Vodafone

(Public Company; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

March 2003 — March 2005 (2 years 1 month)

Responsibilities:
• Project management of Vodafone live! portal projects (on GPRS).
• Define new business processes.
• Evaluating projects for implementation including developing RFP’s and business cases.
• Research new technologies and evaluate their business value and application as per the business needs.
• Supervise technical implementation done by other team members and by the vendors.
• Design and set procedures to maintain complex highly available production environment, with providing tools for safe maintenance and development and for quality monitoring.

Achievements:
• Launched the first Mobile TV platform in the middle east (2004)
• Launched a new revamp version for Vodafone live! Portal (2004)
• Launched a full new version for Vodafone live! Portal (2005)
Project Manager

Asset Technology Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2000 — March 2003 (3 years 3 months)

• Delivered a powerful web-based search engine for SiliconExpert (2003)
• Project management in terms of planning, time estimation and follow up.
• Lead the technical activities of the project in terms of design & implementation.
• Supervised a team of 12 software engineers in terms of planning, task assignment, follow up, technical guidance, coaching, etc.
• Managed a tailored application and participated in two commercial financial packages – one of them is an enterprise web-based application. The technical activities of the three projects included requirement analysis, architecture, design, etc.
Senior Analyst/Programmer

Asset Technology Group

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1996 — January 2000 (3 years 5 months)

• Worked in data gathering, analysis, design & development of more than six customer’s tailored applications and solutions; some were integrated with ready-made packages. The process of pre-sales analysis preparation and prototyping for many customers using various development tools was a common exercise. In addition for being exposed to multiple data migration and extraction processes among various databases, data formats, and character sets, and including ASCII/EBCIDC conversion, Arabic code pages, etc.
• Outsourced to Siemens for analysis, design and implementation of two software projects (fixed line traffic measurement tool and fixing charging post processing Y2K bugs).
• Participated in the analysis, design and implementation of MobiNil sales applications.