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Ahmed El-Shahawy

Senior Solutions Architect - Delivery and Presales Leader

Summary

Ahmed is a Delivery and Presales Solution Architect with Strong Management and Leadership experience and overall 11 years of experience, 10 years in IBM, Selling and Leading teams to Deliver Solutions for large Enterprises.

Ahmed established Team Leadership and Delivery Management deep experience throughout leading teams of professionals in tough Environment, and applying best practices in delivery methodologies, dealing with top Technical and Domain experts globally was a key to build accumulative experience to establish solid delivery and management baseline developing visionary and Strategic Analytical and decision making capabilities.

Work experience

2015-10now

Senior Solutions Architect - Delivery Lead

Experian - Decision Analytics - Malaysia
  • Lead Delivery Teams to restructure and standardize delivery processes and reviewing existing Solutions Architectures.
  • Provided Technical advice and Client Management responsibilities throughout initiation of a Multi Country Decisioning and Data Integration Solution for a major international Bank for a 30 countries Implementation Delivery
  • Awarded by Experian Employee Recognition award for Outstanding Performance in Leading a Crisis Situation till remedy
  • Delivered a Successful Proof of Concept in a tight time line and constraints leading to the winning of a global Multi Country Deal.
20102015

IT Architect / Delivery and Presales Lead

IBM - Global Business Services - Egypt
  • Etisalat (Mobile Operator), Contact Center Implementation, Delivery Lead, June-2015 till September 2015
    • Restructured the Delivery of a Mission Critical IVR(Interactive Voice Response) solution by changing staffing and delivery model and following best delivery practices where client praised the quality and speed of delivery paradigm shift.
  • Commercial International Bank, Enterprise Document & Process Management Solution Support - Delivery Lead/Solution Architect, Jan-2013 till September 2015
    • Lead resources with different backgrounds and skillsets to provide support and upgrades including Architecture Changes and project change requests negotiations with the client.
    • Managed Project Financials and applied IBM project management methodology including Risk and vendor management.
    • Participated in Executive level agreements and extensions to scope.
  • Telecom, Public and Banking Offerings, IT Architect (Presales), June-2011 till September 2015
    • Transformed Complex Business Problems into technical and financial Solutions including aspects of Product & Technology Selection, Architecture and Services.
    • Participated in building and Enhancing IT Strategies of clients through Presales workshops and deep discussions with stakeholders gaining strategic and visionary experience of complex IT Systems in Banks and Telecom environments.
    • Lead different Technical and Functional Resources over the globe to provide end to end IBM offerings.
  • Egyptian Post, Business Intelligence Solution, IT Architect , August-2012 till March 2013
    • Performed Solution Design Technical Review as a certified internal Technical Delivery Reviewer for Service and Revenue Analysis Solution as well as leading Delivery Team.
  • Military Authority, Supply Chain Management and BI Tender, IT Architect, July-2011 to July-2012
    • Lead Customer Workshops to establish Solution Design and Architecture for a Supply Chain Modernization project.
    • Mastered IBM Processes for Effort Estimation and Staffing.
    • Built Strong Relationship with Customer Executive level leaders, and provided Technical and Business Expertise and identified major pain points from technology and business perspectives.
    • Allied with Experts in IBM to establish full Solution till winning a reverse Auction against recognized worldwide competitor.
  • Mobinil (Mobile Operator), CRM Data Migration to Siebel, Egypt, Data Migration Architect, September-2010 to March-2011
    • Extensively Explored through Mobinil CRM environment and built the Data Model and Entity Mapping for Migration.
    • Lead Technical Delivery Team during the Data Migration stream.
20072010

Technical Team Lead

IBM - Global Business Services - Egypt
  • National Archives of Egypt(NAE), Document Management, Project Manager/Team Leader, September-2010 to September-2011
    • Built Strong Relationship with NAE Executives to overcome challenging problems leading to  successful relationship.
    • Reviewed and lead the resolution of technical and operational issues in Document and Physical Records Management Solution.
  • Egyptian Ministers Cabinet, Electronic Document Archive, Project Manager/Team leader, September-2009 to December-2010
    • Directed the relationship with Cabinet IT Director till successful National Project delivery and participated to direct sell-on and rollout of the delivered project to another governmental clients.
    • Lead Delivery team throughout the Development and Testing of Egyptian Cabinet Document Management Solution having the Egyptian Prime Minister as a direct stakeholder.
  • National Archives, Document Management and Scanning Center Implementation, Team Leader, April-2009 to September-2009
    • Gained Technical Leadership skills leading the technical team in Requirements Analysis, Solution and Data Model Design.
20052007

IT Specialist

IBM - Global Business Services - Egypt
  • Participated in Design and Implementation of J2EE and ETL Solutions for Banks and Telecoms in Egypt and Gulf.