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Yasser Hosny

Sr. Program / Project Manager | MBA, PMP, PRINCE2 and Agile Certified | Professionally manage Commercial, Corporate, Regulatory and Digital Transformation Programs | Accelerate Your Success Today
38.5 yrs experienceTelecommunications
Sep 2014

The move

MoveBusiness systems House Etisalat
TitleTeam Leader/Senior System Analyst Senior Director / Corporate Program Management Office
LocationDubai United Arab Emirates
Career arcRecent arrival
Cross-border moveNo — same country
Native languageFrench
Years in UAE16.7
Total experience38.5 years
Etisalat headcount10,001+ employees
Etisalat industryTelecommunications
Etisalat HQAbu Dhabi
Etisalat typePublic Company

Career arc

  1. Senior Director / Corporate Program Management OfficeSep 2014 — Present
    Etisalat
  2. Director/Corporate PMOFeb 2011 — Aug 2014
    Etisalat· Abu Dhabi
  3. Senior Programme ManagerJul 2009 — Feb 2011
    Etisalat· Nigeria
  4. Senior Project Manager - Information TechnologyJun 2001 — Jul 2009
    Etisalat· Abu Dhabi
  5. Team Leader/Senior System AnalystJul 1994 — Aug 1999
    Business systems House· Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  6. Electronic Data Processing ManagerNov 1991 — Jul 1994
    Rajaa Commerce· Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  7. Senior Project ManagerSep 1991 — May 2001
    ICL Fujitsu· Cairo, Egypt
  8. Project LeaderSep 1987 — Oct 1991
    ministry of Industry - Information Technology Center· Cario, Egypt

Education

Languages

  • English · Full professional
  • Arabic · Full professional
  • French · Native or bilingual

Top skills

Corporate SustainabilityArtificial Intelligence for BusinessManage Complex ProjectsSustainability ReportingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Supervisory Skills

About

Here I am a “Successful” Program Manager. Since my early days at school, I was very firm about my future career, I wanted to be an “Architect”, and I was very talkative and loud about my dreams for most of my family members and friends. Ultimately, I faced the hard truth of my life and ended up being a “Telecommunication and Electronics graduate Engineer - amazing study and granted me a great career”. Starting my career as an IT programmer was the complete opposite, I loved the profession, and I can say that I’ve pioneered on what I was doing. To all my IT colleagues in the 80’s, I managed to navigate the screen fields using the “Mouse” for COBOL language (if you know how hard this was to achieve). I’ve changed career (and country – moving to KSA), and I’ve successfully managed to deve

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