Sherif Amin, Cofounder / Director-Digital Advertising & Social Media

Sherif Amin

Cofounder / Director-Digital Advertising & Social Media

Groove Advertising & Integrated Communications

Location
Egypt - Alexandria
Education
Bachelor's degree, College of Management and technology, Major MIS
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Cofounder / Director-Digital Advertising & Social Media at Groove Advertising & Integrated Communications
  • Egypt
  • My current job since August 2006

- Managing the agency’s account managers/executives team and provide continuous training for them.
- Responsible for key accounts management (Amr Khaled, Right Start foundation UK, Olio frozen food, Segafredo, Al Forat real estate…)
- Acting as Architect/Account Strategist for agency’s clients by collecting requirements & developing strategies and offering fully integrated digital solutions including web design & development, content management, PPC advertising(Adwords, Facebook & others), SEO, SMS & Mobile advertising, Social Media Management and custom developed solutions like Facebook applications, mobile applications & Facebook custom tabs development.
- Managing digital & social media team and liaising between different agency’s departments to provide clients with the best level of service and maintain quality of service that reflects our agency’s image and position in the market.
- Participating in Google Engage for Agencies program, then Google Partners and introducing Adwords to many SMEs in Egypt by helping small accounts like doctors, travel agents and textile exporters to penetrate new markets and increase their market share by creating online Google Search campaigns.
-Keyword research, optimizing campaigns, generating performance reports and calculating ROI by tracking conversions.
- Maintaining relationship with other large digital advertising publishers and networks like Yahoo, Connect Ads & Sarmady.

Group IT Iseries Operations Supervisor at Mantrac / Unatrac Group
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • My current job since February 2013

Leading Administration and Operations team in Mantrac group delivering these services to the group:
- System i (Iseries) Administration
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity (High Availability & Replication)
- IBM i H/W maintenance and upgrade
- WebSphere Application Server
- DB2/400 Administration
- Business Applications Suits hosted on IBM i servers
- OS maintenance and upgrade, PTF management
- IT Governance & Compliance
- Security Management
- Performance Tuning & Capacity Planning

Sr. Iseries Administrator & Business Application Support at Mantrac Unatrac Group
  • Egypt - Alexandria
  • March 2006 to April 2010

- Administrating company’s multiple AS400 servers.
- Supporting the company’s ERP & other business applications.
- Designed and implemented a high availability solution for data and objects real time replication.
- Responsible for the company’s Disaster recovery plan on AS400.
- Responsible for Security, performance tuning and hardware maintenance.
- Responsible for Research & Development, integration & implementation of new technologies on Iseries platform.

Oracle DBA at CIL (commercial international life insurance)
  • Egypt
  • August 2005 to March 2006

Company Database administration for production, testing and development databases on oracle.
Security
Backup and recovery operations.
Batch operations
Performence tuning
Business and testing support
Data changes, migrations and configuration management.

Education

Bachelor's degree, College of Management and technology, Major MIS
  • at AAST-Arab academy For Science & Technology
  • July 2005

GPA 3.9/4.0 (Excellent with Honor) Awarded Full Scholarships due to academic achievements Got Straight A's in all major courses

High school or equivalent, General Secondary Studies (Scientific Section)
  • at Saint Marc college
  • July 2001

Head of student union for 3 years.

Specialties & Skills

Digital Marketing
Advertising
Account Management
iSeries
Disaster Recovery
Copywriting & editing (english and arabic)
Windows + Ms. Office
DBMS: DB2 UDB, DB2 LUW, Oracle, Ms SQL server, MYSQL, MS Access
Data Modeling & Systems analysis and design: InfoSphere Data Architect
Networking: TCP/IP, Telnet, FTP, SNA
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Replication and high availability, Backup and Recover
Software Testing: Software Testing and quality assurance Measures/Techniques(Testing Plans, Test Cas
Helpdesk and technical support: Troubleshooting techniques.
3rd Party S/W: SQL, Quest Toad
Configuration Management: Visual Source Safe
Soft Skills: Team Building and effective communication
Soft Skills: Core management, Leadership and motivation skills
Soft Skills: Total Quality management (TQM)
Soft Skills: Time management & Planning
Soft skills: Problem solving techniques
Soft Skills: Negotiation and effective presentation
Digital Advertising
Marketing Research - SPSS-
SEO -Search Engine Optimisation-
CLP Programming
IBM i (ISeries, AS400)
Marketing
Account Management
Robot for iSeries, Sequel Viewpoint, Esend, Taatool, PowerTech
Printing & PDF printing on iseries, BRMS, RAD, IBM Data Studio, HMC & HATS
- Big Data (Hadoop, HDFS, IBM Big Insights, Big Sheets, Data Explorer, Text Analytics, Streams, HBas
UNIX AIX, Linux
PPC Advertising (Google AdWords, Facebook Advertising)

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL Foundation V3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2013
System i application programming facilities workshop (OL490) (Training)
Training Institute:
Jupiter
BIG Data Specialist (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM Africa Academy
(Training)
System I Control Language programming workshop. (OL20) (Training)
Training Institute:
IT Valley
Date Attended:
January 2008

Hobbies

  • Playing Guitar
    Participated in several concerts & master classes performed by Royal School in UK.
  • Basket Ball
    Member of the school's Basket Ball team