User:Karimeldessouky/Mahmoud El Dessouky

Mahmoud Mohamed El Sayed El Dessouky, born on the 1st of July 1945 in Dakahleya-Egypt, is an Egyptian man who is mostly famous for forging the Information Technology (IT) industry in Egypt and in many parts of the Arab world. Mahmoud El Dessouky is known by his family, friends, colleagues, employees, partners and people to be a man of science, wisdom, knowledge, expertise, vision and love. Mahmoud El Dessouky's life has been mainly shaped up with his lifelong partner and love of his life: the late Souzan Samy El Dessouky, who was more than the love of his life, she was with Mahmoud in all the stages of a long life filled with challenges, success, failures and the making of a family of two boys (Islam, the eldest, and Karim) and with so many friends who shared their passion for life.

Dr. Mahmoud El Dessouky has over 40 years of solid experience in both Telecommunications and Information Technology (IT). Dr. ElDessouky has 2 Ph.D. degrees, his first Ph.D. degree (1977), is in Telecommunications while his second (1980), is in Computer Science. Dr. El Dessouky's experience extends to several domains including Academics, Scientific Research, Consultancy, Implementation Supervision, Projects Management, Procurement Management and several other domains. Dr. El Dessouky's research work at Paris 11 and Illinois universities in the fields of Distributed Computing and Computer Networks received international recognition and commendation. During his academic life (1967 – 1989); Dr. El Dessouky has supervised several Ph.D. students and tens of Masters’ students. Dr. El Dessouky has worked as a lecturer in the fields of Telecommunications and Computer Science for more than 15 years. During his military service for the Egyptian armed forces (1980 – 1989), Dr. El Dessouky lead and supervised the successful technical planning and implementation of some of the most important telecommunication networks for the Egyptian army. The first of these Networks is the Strategic Military Backbone ISDN Network incorporating SPC Switches, TDMA Multiplexers, Digital Line-of-Sight MicroWave Transmission Links and a National Network Management Centre. The second class of these networks was a set of Cellular; Mobile Tactical Networks with full mobility of its infrastructure and users, its infrastructure is based on Digital Switches, CDMA, Delta Modulation voice digitizers and a Mobile Network Management Center. Dr. El Dessouky has also participated as a Senior Consultant (1986 – 1988), during the Design and Implementation phases of the Egyptian X25 National data network, the first National Packet Switched Data Network in the region. Moreover, Dr. El Dessouky contributed, in the capacity of senior consultant (1989 – 2010), in building tens of Intranets carrying Data, VoIP and Video Conferencing Traffic. Dr. El Dessouky has considerable contributions in the field of Encryption since as he was a member of the Egyptian National Committee for Networks Security.

Dr. El Dessouky has extensive experience in managing huge in- scale and multidisciplinary projects based on multinational firms. As a result of working for 8 years as the Project Manager for the C4I project (1981 – 1989), Dr. El Dessouky expanded his skills, exposure and expertise.

In the field of IT, Dr. El Dessouky, as Founder and CEO of Automation Consultants for software development and IT consultancy, has achieved more than 400 contract assignments under his span of technical management and control throughout the Middle East region (1989 – 2010), Decision Support, BI, GIS, Data Warehousing, Unstructured Data Processing, Portals, ERP, Manufacturing, Banking, Retail, Document Management, M2M, disaster recovery, Network Security, Physical Security, IT Governance, IT Strategic Planning, IT Auditing are some of the targeted IT domains. Dr. El Dessouky has contributed in achieving major IT projects for plenty of diversified clients: Defense, Security, Government, Legislative bodies, Banks, Manufacturers, Oil and Gas… and others. Dr. El Dessouky is a well known team leader. He is fully knowledgeable of PMI, SEI, CMM, COBIT and many other frames of work.

in 2010, Dr. Mahmoud El Dessouky was honored to be welcomed by his lifelong friend and business leader Dr. Saad Hamad Al-Barrak, who had shared with Dr. Mahmoud a long record of success in the IT industry in the Arab world, to establish and drive together the technology investment and management company of ILA Group. Dr. Mahmoud El Dessouky has been managing a part of ILA Group: ILA Advanced Technology as well as managing Automation Consultants.