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Personal Data Date of birth: 1st February, 1979

Place of birth: Riyadh – Saudi Arabia

Marital status: Married with two children

Military service: exempted

Nationality: Egyptian

Summary Currently Food Safety & Hygiene Manager with almost 9 years of experience supported

with a Master of Food Safety and Quality Assurance awarded by Cairo University.

Management skills and leadership enhanced with advanced certified set of courses by

HARVARD University. Fluent English Language with advanced English Translation

Diploma. Full command of computer skills. Professional History rich in remarkable

achievements in the food safety and hygiene field.

Professional History

Strand Beach and Golf Resort - Taba Heights, Taba, Egypt - Feb. 2015: present Title: Food Safety and Hygiene Manager

InterContinental Taba Heights Resort, Taba, Egypt - Oct. 2011: 31.01.2015

Title: Food Safety and Hygiene Manager

Main Achievements:

- Awarding SGS Trophy for Compliance with the Food Hygiene Standards for

the years 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014.

- Maintaining SGS Score above 90% for the years of 2012, 2013 and 2014.

- No single food poisoning case was detected since 2011.

- All swaps, food and water samples tested microbiologically against pathogens

and protozoa were successful with no single detection since 2011.

- This led SGS to classify InterContinental Taba Heights Resort as one of the best

hotels in Egypt in applying and Maintaining FSMS.

- Establishing effective IHG HACCP based system and maintaining an ongoing

record keeping policy.

- Establishing and maintaining a complying Pre-Requisite Programmes (PRPs)

- Developing and implementing training programme based on the

international food hygiene training levels.

- Training over 400 food handlers and 100 non-food handlers on food

Hygiene and HACCP Standards.

- Establishing, applying and Maintaining effective Pest Control Cycle

- Developing Suppliers Approved List to secure safe food product supplies.

- Auditing Suppliers to improve their performance and increase the quality of the

food products they supply to the hotel.

- Effectively maintaining the Food Safety Management System in the hotel

during the Flood Crisis that took place on May 2014.

- Building and Leading a HACCP Team that upgraded the Food Safety

Management System applied in the hotel into completely complying with the

Ayman Ibrahim Muhammad A-Hamid

Address: 6, Fahim Waziri St., Mataria, Cairo, Egypt.

Tel: +202 22536102

Mob: +20 1060520657

E-mail: aymanibrahim.cairo@gmail.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aymanibrahim1 Skype: aymanibrahim1279

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- Pest Control and Legislations

- Food Contaminants

- Food Inspection

- Applied Statistics

- Information Technology

- English Language

Codex Alimentarius Committee Guidelines.

Guest Satisfaction, Financial Benefits & Cost Saving:

- Reducing turnover of food which allowed the hotel to reduce food cost by at

least 5%. This was reflected on exceeding the budget planned target.

- Regular maintenance, implemented as per the HACCP action plans, increased

the shelf life of all equipment.

- Quality of guest is moving up as tour agencies started to classify the hotel as

favourite in the destination.

- Improving the quality of food products provided by suppliers due to

conducting suppliers’ audits which was reflected on improving catering service

introduced to guests. This led to increased guest satisfaction.

- The established good reputation of the hotel in food safety affected the guest

positively and increased business remarkably.

InterContinental Taba Heights Resort, Taba, Egypt - October 2009: October, 2011

Title: Food Safety and Hygiene Coordinator

Mena House Oberoi Hotel, Giza, Egypt – May, 2006: October, 2009

Title: Admin Assistant – F&B

Qualifications & Certificates

1. FOOD SAFETY & HYGIENE QUALIFICATIONS:

Professional Master in Food Safety and Quality Assurance – Cairo University

– Faculty of Agriculture – 1st October 2011 – 2015.

Courses included;

- Hazard Analysis and Critical Control point (HACCP)

- Total Quality Management (TQM);

ISO 22000 / OHSAS 18001 / ISO 14001

- Introduction to food Safety and Consumer’s Health

- Food Laws and Legislations

- Food Microbiology

- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)

- Food Analysis

- Food Recent Technologies

- Food Preservation

- Scientific Writing

Legislations of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Practical Study

– Florence University, European Food Safety Authority, FAO - Italy.

1st – 28th February 2013

ISO 22000:2005/Lead Auditor Certificate; accredited by the International

Register of Certificated Auditors (IRCA); SGS Certification Department.

6th – 10th June 2010

Intermediate Food Hygiene - based on International level 3 in Managing

Food Safety, Iain Millar, April 2010

HACCP in Practice – SGS Certification Department – August 2008

2. ENGLISH LANGUAGE QUALIFICATIONS:

English Translation Diploma – Cairo University – Faculty of Arts

General Grade: Very Good – (First year G.G: Excellent – Third in the list)

2005 -2006

B.A. in English Language and Literature - Helwan University – Faculty of Arts -

June – 2002

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3. MANAGEMENT SKILLS AND LEADERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS:

HARVARD University, USA, ManageMentor Programme; Online Certified Courses

2014 - 2015

- Decision Making

- Leading and Motivating

- Goal setting

- Team Management

- Strategic Thinking

- Coaching

- Developing Employees

- Innovation and Creativity

- Writing Skills

4. WORK ETHICS QUALIFICATIONS:

- Inside Information - Training Course, IHG Merlin, January 2015

- Anti-Bribery / Anti-corruption - Training Course, IHG Merlin,

December 2014

- Data Privacy / Handling Personal Data - Training Course, IHG Merlin,

August 2014

- Anti-Trust / Competition Law - Training Course, IHG Merlin, March 2014

- Code of Conduct - Training Course, IHG Merlin, March 2014

Languages Arabic: Mother Tongue

English: Fluent (Speaking – Reading – writing)

German: Fair

Computer Skills

Full command of computer applications (Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,

Outlook Express, Internet)

References Available upon request

- Team Leadership

- Customer Focus

- Performance Measurement

- Meeting Management

- Time Management

- Performance Appraisal

- Stress Management

- Difficult Interactions

- Strategy Execution