Ramy Saad-Senior IT Project Manager – Transformation, Integration & Rollout

Senior IT Integration Manager for an international transformation program, focusing on IT integration, data migration, stakeholder management, dependency steering, governance and management reporting.

Bullet points

• Steering IT integration and transformation activities in an international enterprise environment
• Coordination between business, IT, specialist departments and external service providers
• Planning and tracking roadmaps, milestones, dependencies and risks
• Preparing status reports, decision papers and management updates

• Project coordinator and cutover manager for environment renewal.
• Overall project: migration of the current on-prem Teradata data warehouse to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Project coordination of two involved application environments.
• Defining and coordinating the setup and architecture of new infrastructure for DEV, TST and PRD environments for two application landscapes.
• Upgrading server operating systems from AIX and Sun Solaris to Oracle Linux.
• Discussing architecture, required licences and consulting work for the new SAS environment with the vendor.
• Coordinating development teams and vendors to adapt software from AIX/Sun Solaris to Oracle Linux.
• Planning the acceptance test strategy with financial business departments and technical users.
• Planning go-live and cutover.
• Preparing and maintaining project plans and management presentations.

• Technical project lead for setting up a new office in Germany.
• Coordination with supplier, landlord and contract partners.
• Ordering external support.
• Organising contract changes with the supplier.
• Preparing fallback plans and alternatives.
• Ordering hardware and preparing new VDIs and laptops, including all accounts and phone solutions for new employees.
• Planning and tracking technical implementation.

• Project lead for Chromeleon serverfarm renewal.
• Project initiation, including requirements, high-level plan and budget approval.
• Project setup.
• Ordering external support.
• Ordering hardware.
• Aligning technical architecture with technical operations teams and business.
• Planning and coordinating migrations.
• Managing highlight project installations with Thermo Fisher Chromeleon in a lab in Germany.
• Decommissioning old hardware.

• Project lead for Entrust Identity Guard upgrade.
• Project initiation, including requirements, high-level plan and budget approval.
• Project setup.
• Ordering external support.
• Ordering hardware.
• Planning and coordinating migrations.
• Decommissioning old hardware.

• Coordination of business unit migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10.
• Requirements analysis for BI business unit.
• Implementation of temporary workarounds.
• Clarifications with technical departments.
• Clarifications with security department.
• Communication and planning of migration activities (Windows drives move, ordering new firewall and NAT requests).
• Test coordination from end-user point of view.

• Leading agile transformation of the BICC department.
• Organising standard trainings on agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban).
• Implementing tools to support agile work (Jira plugins for project planning, project management templates, digital Kanban boards).
• Setting up agile working areas.
• Planning and supporting Agile Day (kick-off day for agile work in BICC).

• Technical project lead for the Value Add Programme.
• Initial setup of a new analytical environment (Hadoop, Aster, RStudio, SAS, Clintview).
• Implementation of prototypes (e.g. Household Match, Network KPIs, Social Network Analysis).
• Decommissioning of old tools.
• Defining RACI matrix with operations team.
• Ordering software deliveries and vendor support.

• Technical project lead during the Arcor integration for infrastructure and CPCOM (central product catalogue and order management).
• Defining requirements for new hardware and ordering hardware from the datacenter.
• Coordinating software deliveries with vendors.
• Aligning new processes.
• Planning datacenter moves.
• Planning new access options between the Arcor network and the Vodafone network.
• Aligning release cycles between Arcor and Vodafone.
• Setting up integration test environments for Arcor and Vodafone release test and production environments.
• Moving operational applications to other departments and vendors (managed services).
• Defining SLAs from an operational point of view and supporting AD&M contract discussions.
• Coordinating deployment activities and several new applications and modules.

• Project management for implementing a security layer in TI production.
• Setting up the project PMO.
• Initial setup of a project team with more than 40 team members.
• Defining requirements and scope for more than 180 affected TI applications.
• Budget controlling.
• Ordering software from different vendors.
• Aligning the architecture.
• Implementing new digital support processes.
• Setting up the software, infrastructure, and processes of SSGD (Sun Secure Global Desktop).
• Managing testing and implementation.
• Coordinating TÜV Rheinland testing and certification of the secure production environment.

• Administration and release management of zMRDB (central Master Routing Database).
• Setting up development and test environments for the zMRDB project (version and release management, delta builds, database administration, software delivery).
• Writing shell scripts and tools for administration and test automation of zMRDB.
• Setting up the initial production environment of zMRDB in Munich.
• Training the operational team in Munich.
• Providing test support for contact persons at German mobile companies.