
Hani Mahmoud
Senior Program Manager | Agile & IT Operations
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Can come onsite
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
PMO Director & Agile Coach with 25+ years leading IT transformations across MEA region. Delivered 100+ successful projects including cloud migrations, ERP implementations, and digital transformations for Fortune 500 clients. Expert in scaling teams, reducing costs by 40%, and driving revenue growth through strategic program management.
Work experience
MD | Delivery & Operation
SCloud Technologies LLC
Jan 2020 - Present
6 years 10 months
United Arab Emirates · Hybrid
In my role as MD | Delivery & Operation at SCloud Technologies LLC, I spearheaded regional operations within UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt with a focus on achieving business objectives and driving profitability. By developing new business strategies and managing budgets effectively, I successfully led teams to deliver innovative solutions that resulted in revenue growth and operational efficiency improvements.
Snr. Program Manager
eProseed
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
6 years 4 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Manage different types of teams (Support, Development & Projects) to deliver successful projects and managed services to different customers, projects are varying between System Development, Cloud Transformation, FMW (SOA, OSB, WebLogic, OHS) Projects. * Project Management: - Leading the Agile process to ensure adequate planning, skills and motivation among Agile teams - Successful delivery of Falcon Project (Health Care) - Successful delivery of IT Auditing projects for different banks (ADIB, ADCB, Mashrek Bank, NBD, UNB and Al-Ahly Bank). - Accountable for the effective, cross-functional delivery of products using Agile/lean techniques/SAFe. * Operation & Support: - Successfully managed cross functional teams (24/7/365) to meet SLA matrix - Successfully managed Incident/Operation Management reaching "zero" "P1" support tickets. - Created clear Release Management Processes based on ITIL Process Management
Sphere Consulting (SCIS)
Jan 2017 - Dec 2018
2 years
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Director, PMO
Nov 2017 - Dec 2018
1 year 2 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Director and oversees of the Program Management Office (PMO) with responsibility for the overall project management function (using different frameworks) to ensure meeting organization's strategy, goals and maximize revenue. - Establishing the PMO organization as a center of excellence enforcing common structures and guidelines for agile delivery - Rolling out Agile Culture within the organization - Leading Agile teams (Scrum Master, Product Owners, PMs) - Developed and enabled process improvements, strategic governance and portfolio management capabilities with delivery team - Successful delivery of projects ERP Implementation, Cloud Transformation, B2C, BI, FMW - Enhanced projects funding cycle by 40%. - Successful delivery of customer's projects in different business domains: ** H.H. Royal's Court, Sharjah Media Bureau, Al-Nakheel Property ** Commercial International Bank (CIB), Etisalat Egypt, Vodafone, Orange ** Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry (JCCI), The Royal Commission for Jubail & Yanbu (RCY).
Professional Services - MEA, Senior Practice Development Manager
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
1 year
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Manage Pre-Sales and Sales teams utilizing the effort to sell services/products and deliver successful projects to different customers, projects are varying between on-premises and cloud implementation, migration, upgrade, support and transformation. Managed business for different business domain. - Manage selling processes for company services catalog, penetrate new business markets and new Large/corporate accounts - Created new revenue streams through new line of business: “Informatica” - Secure existing accounts renewals with 70% up sell - Increased company's business by 20%. - Increased company's profit by 30% through a new business opportunity. - Strengthened company's footprint in UAE market by leading implementation of Emirates Transport's Project - Maximized ROI for customers in different business domains
Snr. Principal Technical Account Business Manager
Oracle
Oct 2006 - Mar 2017
10 years 6 months
MEA, GCC & Levant
Managed ACS (Advanced Customer Services) business and mega projects within (GCC, EMEA, Levant) for strategic customers in different business domains (Banking, Government, Education, Telco, Aviation, Media, Healthcare and Oil & Gas). * Project Management - Managed high profile of various IT projects/services delivery ERP, Cloud, Digitization, Infrastructure) - Successful delivery for GACA (Saudi Arabia) project (Exadata Implementation, ERP implementation) - Successful Implementation for Exalogic project in Hamad Medical Corporation (Qatar) - Successful Implementation for Cloud (SaaS/PaaS) in different business domains in GCC, MEA * Business Management & Development - Increased ACS footprint/market share in MEA from 1 to 15 accounts - Increased ACS footprint/market share in GCC from 2 to 20 accounts - Increased ACS footprint/market share in LEVANT from 1 to 5 accounts within 8 months - Successful Up-sell ACS business for GACA (Saudi Arabia) from U$ 100K to U$ 1M+ * Operation Management - Participated in ACS Auditing process ISO 9000 for two (2) auditing rounds - Achieved highest customer satisfaction percentage among the team - Achieved 95% business renewals for 7+ years in different territories - Improved profitability achievement by 10-20% of the agreed margin
Head Of Information Technology
Magrabi Group (Hospitals & Centers) – GCC
Mar 2002 - Oct 2006
4 years 8 months
Saudi Arabia - GCC
Managed MIS department of Magrabi Group (Hospitals & Centers) in GCC (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Oman). - Successful implementation of Hospital Management Information System (HMIS) in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain - Successful implementation of Financial Management Information System (FMIS) in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain - Successful implementation of centralized BI through connecting all branches (inside and outside Saudi Arabia) - Successful implementation of centralized Medical Record System - Successful implementation of centralized help desk applying ITIL Incident & Operation process - Successful implementation of new data center infrastructure and DR sites matching latest technologies in HW, DBs, Applications and Security
Product Owner
Ragab & Silsilah Group (IT Division)
Jan 2001 - Jul 2002
1 year 7 months
Al Qurayyat Saudi Arabia
Managed Development process for different projects to automate group's business functionalities. - Successful delivery of Back Office (Financial, HR, SCM) Systems - Successful delivery of Retail application to cover the group retail operations - Successful delivery of Construction and Project Monitoring System
Snr. Project Manager
Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia
Dec 1998 - Mar 2002
3 years 4 months
Al Qurayyat Saudi Arabia
Managed several projects to automate and enhance ministry daily business operations Headed the process of designing integrated solutions, analyzing and developing applications - Successful delivery of multiple types of projects achieving timely delivery, end user satisfaction, optimal cost and final success: • Personnel & Payroll System • Accounting System • Purchasing System • Budget Management System • Custody Management System • National Families System • Archiving Management System
System Development Manager/Scrum Master
KnowledgeNet – The Live Learning Company
May 1999 - Dec 2000
1 year 8 months
Al Qurayyat Saudi Arabia
Managed Development Project of Shares Trading Platform (TradeNet) in the Saudi Trading & Exchange Market using (Agile/Scrum). TradeNet – is an ultimate electronic trading platform streaming live market prices and financial situations which facilitate to all stakeholders (such as: traders, financial intermediary [brokers, Market Decision Makers, Investment Banks, Stock Exchanges],…etc.) to access a wealthy-functionality platform to manage all trading process and shares investments and other different financial products. - Successful delivery for Share Trade Management System (TradeNet) within eight (8) months - Successful Go-Live support and customization development phase within three (3) months - Covering of all functionality of Shares Trading System for Saudi's Stock Market - Successful delivery for different projects in Health Care, Education and Retail business domains
Program Manager
Team Engineering & Consulting (Team Egypt)
Dec 1996 - Dec 1998
2 years 1 month
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Oversee and heading the team responsible of developing and delivery of different type of projects - Successful Delivery of “El-Khalil Municipality" Project – Hebron, Palestine (Financial, HR and SCM) - Successful Delivery of "UN - United Nation" Project - League of Arab States, Egypt - Successful Delivery of Fleet Management System
Senior Systems Analyst & Designer
Nile Soft International
Aug 1996 - Dec 1996
5 months
Egypt & UK
Managing team of analysts and designers to design and develop different type of systems - Successful analysis and designing of Installment Selling System ( Goldi Project) - Successful analysis and designing of OTL System ( Goldi Project) - Successful analysis and designing of Online Shopping System ( Goldi Project)
Analyst / Programmer
Arabic Computer Establishment (AceSoft) - Saudi Arabia
Oct 1992 - Aug 1996
3 years 11 months
Al Qurayyat Saudi Arabia
Handling Analysis, Development and Programming activities - Successful delivery of Financial Auditing System - Successful delivery of Spare Parts Management System - Successful delivery of Fleet Management System - Successful delivery of Printing Cost Management System - Successful delivery of Performance Monitoring System
Education
Paris ESLSCA Business School
Master’s Degree
2010 - 2011
1 year 1 month
The American University in Cairo
Postgraduate Degree
1996 - 1998
1 year 11 months
Ain Shams University
Bachelor’s Degree
1988 - 1992
4 years 1 month