Sameh Elghzali Email Address

Director, Enterprise Business Applications and Architecture

About Interface Interface, Inc. is the world's largest manufacturer of commercial carpet tile. Its founder, Ray C. Anderson, served as co-chair of the President's Council on Sustainable Development during President Clinton's administration, from 1997-1999. For 42 years the company has consistently led the industry through innovation and now leads the industry in environmental sustainability. It is setting the pace for development of modular carpet using materials and processes that take less from the environment, and is well along the path to "Mission Zero," a 20-year-old company-wide promise to eliminate any negative impact it has on the environment by the year 2020. Interface's worldwide carpet manufacturing facilities maintain third party registration to the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System standard, and the company obtained the first-ever Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for the commercial floor covering industry in North America. The company is recognized globally for its commitment to build environmental considerations into its business decisions.

Over twenty three years in information technology doing Software Engineering, ERP Implementations, Project Management, Departmental Planning & Management and Consultancy, in USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and the Middle East, in government and private sectors. Energetic, innovative, leader and have an excellent strategic, tactical and operational vision and experience. Have extensive project & human capital management skills and proven broad knowledge and experience in multiple discipline IT areas. Experience Summary - Led/Leading many projects especially in software engineering from initiation throughout closing phase - Led/Leading many ERP implementation projects from initiation throughout closing phase - Broad knowledge and extensive experience of ERP software design, development, functional implementations and technical areas - Extensive knowledge and implementation experience in the financial, manufacturing and distribution cycles of JD Edwards ERP systems - Broad knowledge of Payroll and Human Capital management information systems - Broad knowledge and experience of secure Software engineering - Extensive knowledge of IT strategic, tactical and operation planning - Over 18 year of JD Edwards ERP solution experience (Financial, Distribution and Manufacturing) - Around 4 year of BPCS ERP solution experience (Financial, Distribution and Manufacturing) - Over 16 years of AS/400 software and system experience (Including system, database and application security) - (prior to 2008) - Over 15 years of project management/team lead & management experience - Very good knowledge and experience of Waterfall, Agile, XP and Scrum SDLC - Over 12 years of people management experience - Over 12 years of budgeting planning, execution and monitoring - Over 15 years of project management experience - Over 8 years of data warehousing experience - Around 5 year of Business intelligence software (Business Objects) - Over 10 years of IT Governance & SOX experience