Emaar Misr
Head of IT Operations
I have 27+ years' experience in IT filed, I am currently leading Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Technical Blog https://azurecloudai.blog/, I started my career in LINKdotNET for "10 Years" (changed later to be Link Data Center "LDN") first biggest ISP in Egypt, start as customer support engineer, then moved to ISP system engineering department to build a new NOC department, then within 4 years I was promoted to be Infrastructure Manager managing team who responsible about Data-center infrastructure (H.W., AD, Hosted messaging solution, ISP DNS, ....), then I coordinated with management to build a new professional services team in LDN as a Microsoft Partner, and I build this team and assigned as a professional service manager, I am currently working as Principal Consultant in secure infrastructure (Azure Cloud and AI Domain) domain in Microsoft Services "14+ Years" focus on Data-center Modernization, Public Cloud [Azure Infrastructure], and Private Cloud [Azure Stack, Hyper-V, and System Center], with very deep experience in Business Continuity Architecture, and IT security. I was engaged in multiple mega projects (Ministry of Defense Cloud, Egyptian Government Cloud, Ministry of Communication Digital Egypt project), in the other side as Principal Consultant I am playing an architect role within multiple projects start from pre-sales, envisioning, planning, and delivery end of end of these mega projects, lately I joined Emaar Misr as Cloud Architect Manager, responsible about big Migration projects (Cross Forest Migration & Cross Tenant Migration) in addition to build brand new infrastructure for Emaar Misr and handle the full operation with my team, after one year at Emaar building new infrastructure (On-Premises & at Cloud) and successfully deliver two complex migration (Cross Forest & Cross Tenant) I was promoted to be Head of IT Operations leading 3 teams (Network & Security & Cloud/System & Helpdesk).
Moderator:
Mona Ali | Data Analytics and Insights Manager, AXA
Panelist:
Ahmed Wattar | Group IT Director, AMG- Alfa Medical Group
Eng Sherif Gad | CTO, Masary
Eng. Adel AbdelNour | General Manager IT CIO Digital Transformation and Smart Cities, Ministry of Housing
Eng. Maged Ezzat | Head of IT Operations, Emaar Misr