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• Successfully oversaw all aspects of IT delivery and enterprise infrastructure strategy for Apex International Energy, leading the development of the PetroFarah joint venture and the building of five early permanent facilities in Egypt's Western Desert. The initiative made the company Egypt's ninth-largest oil producer while keeping the business objectives aligned and enhancing the efficiency of operations at sites. • Led the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise IT infrastructure, including on-prem Data Center, telecommunication, Cloud hosted application such Azure Cloud and O365, Cisco Cloud e-mail Secuirty, Citrix Cloud storage and IFS IDEAS aligned with business objectives and by working closely with architectural teams to design fit-for-purpose solutions tailored to current and future needs. • Spearheaded the adoption of virtualization and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions by implementing innovative Dell EMC's VxRail HCI Solution along with fully VMware virtualized VDI, resulting in a 40% reduction in IT costs and improved resource utilization. • Developed comprehensive IT delivery roadmaps to ensure timely project execution and alignment with organizational goals, leading to a 20% increase in project delivery speed. • Provided technical leadership and mentorship to a diverse team of 12 IT professional contractors, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation that improved team productivity. • Managed Cisco Data Center, perimeter firewalls, LAN/WAN networks, security policies and appliances to ensure a secure IT environment, maintaining compliance with industry regulations and achieving zero security breaches over last 8 years. • Facilitated seamless integration of IT systems and services by collaborating with our Houston and Cairo cross-functional teams, enhancing communication and operational synergy across departments. • Ensure the adequacy and effectiveness of security policies, standards and guidelines to avoid any potential data leakage or loss. • Developed and maintaining an IT workforce with the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills and competencies that balance the needs between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable and efficient. • Managed an IT budget exceeding $3 million, optimizing resource allocation to achieve a 20% reduction in operational costs without compromising service quality or security standards. • Established and maintained productive relationships with external vendors, improving procurement processes by 15%, which ensured seamless IT operations and support for ongoing digital transformation efforts. • Fostered collaborative relationships with influential stakeholders from both IFC, Blue Water and At-Bay, driving increase in project alignment to business results, facilitating effective communications and collaboration with their audit and Cyber secuirty groups. • Provide direction and oversight for the design, development, operation and support of IT systems and programs that fulfill the needs of the business, including enterprise architecture management, application management, security and risk management, and infrastructure and operations support management. • Continuously monitoring and controlling the IT Infrastructure and applications across all locations, reducing the cost of providing services by reducing rework, lost time, improved resource management while increasing or maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction.

• Managed the IT and Telecom departments related activity of eight sites across seven Middle Eastern and African Countries to ensure a streamlined operation and alignment with business objectives, major duties are: • Manage IT projects and ensure projects are delivered per the agreed scope, schedule, and quality and in compliance with Group IT PMO framework. • Develop and manage a high quality of IT and communications infrastructure, identifying and satisfying the business needs, across international locations, including remote project sites, ensuring continuous service with minimal disruption and effective contingency and business continuity capabilities. • Manage Suppliers and their services to provide seamless IT service quality and ensure value for money. Negotiate Contracts, SLAs and alight with IT Service Continuity Management. • Improve Service availability that directly leads to increase in business profit and revenue. • Reducing the cost of providing Information Technology (IT) services by reducing rework, lost • time, improved resource management while increasing or maintaining service quality and customer satisfaction. • Responsible for the IT annual budget and business plan up to 7 million $ USD. • Organizing the work of technical team members and checking with them to ensure they are accomplishing their tasks. Duties also include coordinating the activities of third‐party providers. • Increase customer satisfaction and continuously improve IT offered services. • Working with functional and business leaders, identify productivity gaps and opportunities, priorities and gain approval for investments Satisfy a growing base of several hundred users in the Middle East and Africa at office and project sites, through delivery of timely and high‐ quality front‐line services to predefined service levels. • A strong motivation and ability to achieve work goals and quantifiable business results. • Work with diverse project teams to deliver on assigned projects. • Manage the daily operation of the IT Shared service team to provide expert support as required. • IT focal point for all internal business units for IT related issues, including providing regular updates for ongoing projects. • Stakeholder relationship management for key accounts.

• Perform a wide range of system and network administration, Configuring, implementation, planning and Helpdesk support brings in reliable, durable, and cost‐effective solutions for IT department at Apache Egypt. • Manage 2nd level of support and resolve escalated incident and problems management. • Responsible for ensuring IT reliability for Apache Egypt and maximize system uptime. • Perform daily system monitoring, using a combination of tools to ensure high availability and SLA’s, by verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems, and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. • Work on all IT related compliance activities such as internal audit and SOX. • Coach & mentor 4 staff to ensure proper competency development and highly effective IT support organization. • Managing different Communication and data links including Microwave, Radio, E1, Leased Lines, VPNs and VSAT to RIGs and insuring vendors provide the agreed service. • Coordinates with IT staff to meet the company objectives and works with them to monitor site stability and performance and continually improve the performance and scalability of the site. • Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements. • Manage vendor relationships and the purchases of hardware and software products, License, and IT infrastructure.