George Mohareb

Projects Portfolio Director with more than 20 years of experience managing multifaceted projects at all levels of delivery. Track record of delivering complex programs and leading projects portfolios. Armed with strong understanding of project management for banking and financial institutions, software quality management, process improvement, business implementation, issue resolution and process development. Experience implementing waterfall, and agile projects life cycle and software development life cycle (SDLC). Team player, gifted at meeting tight deadlines, navigating complexities, and rescuing failing projects. Insightful leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, application support and security services. Applies best practices, develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.

COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL BANK Egypt

Projects Portfolio Director – Corporate Banking and Risk    Dec. 2015 to Apr.2021 

• Employ set of strategies for risk mitigation while formulating program contingency plans to check alignment of budget with risks responses.
• Leading a team of project managers, business relationship managers, business analysts, and primary responsible for delivering of treasury and capital markets, corporate, institutional banking and cybersecurity projects, covering technical and business aspect of projects in the bank.

TATA Consultancy Services  Toronto, ON

CIBC Bank - Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master       May. 2021 to Mar 2023 

• Adopting Agile methodology to lead the Cyber Security and financial crimes technology implementation, coordinates all activities and team members.
• Gather information and documents, schedule resources, set deadlines and milestone and help ensure that everyone has what they need.
• Led the agile transformation initiative and introduced multiple agile methodologies like scrum and Kanban, also implemented and utilized various project portfolio management systems, like Jira, Microsoft EPPM, and PlanView

COMMERCIAL INTERNATIONAL BANK Egypt 

Director - Program Management                             Dec. 2015 to Apr.2021 

• Led the agile transformation initiative and introduced multiple agile methodologies like scrum and Kanban, also implemented and utilized various project portfolio management systems, like Jira, Microsoft EPPM, and HP PPM.
• Manage large-scale, complex, strategic projects full lifecycle to guarantee successful completion with regard to cost, time and scope, and according to the best fit and cost-effective methodologies.
• Planned Agile best practices and encouraged team cohesion, overcoming impediments and hurdles to productivity.
• Coached teams more than 50 team members and dealing with program conflicts along with Agile best practices and provided necessary training to create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
• Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
• Establish professional relationships with external parties encompassing vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Actively participated in establishing the Project Management Office (PMO), introduced multiple standard operating procedures improvements, created the quality assurance guidelines, change management, monitoring and control frameworks, and successfully achieved CMMi level 3.
• Successfully Delivered Projects:
• Murex Treasury solution implementation and migration program: Managed the program according to agile methodology in implementation of trading, risk management and processing for front office, middle office, risk and back office, along with migration from Kondor+, integration with core baking T24 application. 
• Moody's Corporate lending – CreditLens implementation including credit analysis, risk rating and workflow development, business process reengineering, project reduced turnaround time by 40%.
• IBM – Identity and Access Management (IGI, ISAM and PAM); Security and Operations Center (SOC); Obtained  PCI - DSS Compatibility Standards Implementation; Managed the implementation of PaloAlto next generation firewall and Cisco Next generation firewall. 
• Oracle EBS implementation 
• Various Storage and Encryption Tools (EMC Recover Point, Oracle Zero Data Loss, and Super Cluster); and Security information and event management (SIEM) Implementation (HP Arc Sight).

Egabi Solutions – Egypt 

Program Manager                                                                                                        Sept. 2012 to Oct. 2015 

• Administered and monitored numerous programs and project plans, scopes, and schedules to check their on-time completion in accordance to the specification, budgeted costs, approved timeline and set project plan and baseline. 
• Track contracts with vendors and customers to carry out project activities, resource allocation, and assignment, definition of roles and responsibilities, proactive risk identification and developing risk mitigation plan, problem solving.
• Created the documentation required like project management plan, progress report, and change management plan. 
• Obtained resources and made use of formal processes and tools in managing resources, budgets, risks and changes.
• Encouraged employees in attaining peak productivity and performance.
• Managed 7 senior-level technical project managers and more than 60 team members in creating solutions for divisional customers.
• Successfully Delivered Projects:
• Banque Misr OFSAA, Oracle ERP: HCM, Payroll, Accounting Hub and GL, and Siebel CRM Implementation.
• Export Bank Egypt – Oracle ERP: HCM, Payroll, and Performance.
• Misr Life Insurance – Business Process Automation.
• Ministry of Housing – New Urban Communities Authority Business Automation.

SAB COMMS (Technowireless) Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE.

Group Program Manager                                                                                                 Jan. 2012 to Oct. 2012 

• Headed the delivery of the IT teams, operations and support, developed the governance framework, reported to the group COO.
• Defined goals, staffing plan, monitored teams performance and created a development plan for their career progression.
• Determined resources and skills shortages and offered recommendations to board of directors with regard to recruitment and training to ensure operational effectiveness.
• Collaborated with 62 staff to define legal and operational parameters.
• Managed 13 senior-level technical project managers in creating solutions for divisional customers.
• Successfully Delivered Projects:
• Mobile Apps (iPhone, iPad, Android and BlackBerry) for OKAZGate; OKAZ, Saudi Gazette.
• Al Nadi, Arreyadi, BMW KSA, Mini Cooper.
• Bulk SMS gateway and platform.

LINKDEV, SUBSIDIARY ORASCOM TELECOM – Egypt

Digital Transformation - Project Lead / Agile project manager                                               Jul. 2008 to Jan. 2012 

• Directed large and complex set of interrelated projects including e-commerce web portals, systems automation and technical integrations.
• Supervised different cross-functional teams with orientation analysis, development, quality and delivery of web solutions in line with client requirements and according to the project scope and project plan.
• Ensured project delivery in compliance with standard quality and budget, implemented monitoring and controls tools and reporting framework.
• Generated necessary documents in maintaining project success with communication plan, budget sheets, project schedule and status reports.
• Developed project plans using MS Project, produced quality standards, checklists, report templates processes and reacted to audit finding.
• Provided ongoing cost and estimate analysis reporting and managed cost allocation.
• Successfully Delivered Projects:
• Arab Finance Workstation; mobile apps.
• Otlob,
• Online Reservation System; Cinema Reservation System, apps marketplace, Triple Play.
• Jawhara, Al Sharq dot com, Orange Payments Gateway, and SSO.

IT Project Manager                                                   Apr. 2005 to Jul. 2008 

OpenCraft – CAIRO, EGYPT – CAIRO – EGYPT 

IT Business Analyst                                                Mar. 2003 to Jul. 2005 

NIELSEN – CAIRO – EGYPT 

IT Research Executive                                          Sept. 2001 to Mar. 2003 

ALLIED SOFT – CAIRO – EGYPT 

Certificate in Technology Project Management,                           09/2021

Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada

M. Sc. Business Information Technology                                     07/2007 

Middlesex University - London, UK

Bachelor of Commerce, Business Administration                        05/2001

Ain Shams University - Cairo, Egypt

Certifications:

Project Management Professional PMP, Project Management Institute                                                     Since 2009

Certified ScrumMaster CSM, Scrum Alliance                                                                                          Since 2015

SAFe 5 Agilist, Scaled Agile                                                                                                                    Since 2021