Abdullah Al Ali, Senior Project Manager

Abdullah Al Ali

Senior Project Manager

Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineer
Experience
26 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 8 Months

Senior Project Manager at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since June 2013

Professional highlights:
• Large-Scale Project Management, Project scope definition and controlling, Project Planning, scheduling and resources planning.
• Strategic Planning, Tactical Execution, Business Transformation Solutions & Business Continuity
• Analytical Problem Solving Abilities, Team Collaboration, Coaching, & Motivation.
• Direct and manage project development life cycle in all stages.
• Comprehensively handling project scope definition, identify the goals and deliverables with senior management and stakeholders.
• Identification of work packages/activities for all of the phases, needed to complete the project.
• Define the roles and responsibility or the project team. Listing all the assumptions and possible constraints.
• Develop project plans.
• Monitor and control project schedule to ensure work is progressing as per the identified project milestones on time and within budget.
• Effectively managing project communications with all stakeholders in a timely and clearly.
• (Risk Management) Identify, managing and mitigate project risks.
• Manage project dependencies and critical path.
• Handling Project documentations (progress/status reports, proposals, requirements documentation).
• Incidents/change request management, and troubleshoot problem areas.
• Managing and controlling project scope changes, and prepare contingency plans.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Principal Functions (Major Areas of Responsibility):
-Ensures optimal staffing of teams in alignment with Sr. Manager Products and IT Testing groups.
- Manages projects, responsible for defining the project plans in coordination with other areas, like Products and IT Testing.
- Ensures end-to-end delivery of IT solution by managing time schedule and ensuring coordination between IT Development groups.
- Provides professional guidance and support to subordinates in carrying out the assigned functions.

Duties:
1. Keeps abreast of latest software development methodologies in order to be able to program or customize best-in-class IT solutions
2. Analyzes technical specifications, logical structure and design components in order to understand programming requirements and help Project Management and Planning & Coordination in their estimations
3. Ensures quality and efficiency of generated code, by providing tools, training and other required items to the staff in the department
4. Ensures that all EDCH/ IT standards, processes and guidelines are followed by the subordinates while programming
5. Prepares various reports in order to support decision-taking processes of management
6. Manages, monitors and evaluates the section’s on-going performance and quality of its output and services
7. Provides clear direction, sets targets, prioritizes tasks and assigns responsibilities for the Development teams i.e. allocates resources to projects in coordination with Director/IT Development 8. Provide technical leadership to all development teams
9. Collaborate and coordinate with other cross functional groups
10. Need to work closely with Project Management group to create future delivery schedule/project delivery schedule that meet delivery target
11. Interface with customers (if required) to address technical queries and after feedback for better alignment of requirements

IT Project Manager at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2011 to June 2013

Roles and Responsibilities:
Project Management | Project Team Excellence | GSMA compliance
• Managed projects teams including up to 15 direct and indirect project members.
• Managing Developed staffing plans, managed workloads, defined deliverables, hired resources, conducted performance reviews, and ensured compliance with established company policies.
• Managed several GSM related project, which kept the services to EDCH clients with the latest GSMA standards.

Manager Product Support at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2009 to January 2011

Roles and Responsibilities:
IT Strategy | Business Expansion | Client support Excellence
• Championed delivery of the new EDCH India data center, which will give door step services for 15th GSM operators in India, which was the 1st EDCH office serving from outside UAE.
• Responsible to manage and supervise core technical support functions for Roaming Data Control, Fraud Control, Data Rejections and Investigating Settlement Disputes.
• Maintain Agreements, Tariff checking / maintenance and providing feedback to International EDCH Clients and ensure seamless support 24/7.

Senior Specialist at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2007 to January 2009

Roles and Responsibilities:
Core System Migrations | Services optimization | Resource management
• Ensure the efficiency, integrity and consistency of new ORACLE system after upgraded from legacy Ingress system.

• Diagnosing and solving user incidents in the new ORACLE system.

Senior System Analyst at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2004 to January 2007

Roles and Responsibilities
• The analyst of Ingress to Oracle migration project, EDCH strategic project.

System Analyst at Etisalat, Emirates Telecommunications Company
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2001 to January 2004

Roles and Responsibilities:
•GSMA Tadig documents analysis.

• All TAP (TAP1-TAP3.11) and RAP releases (Analysis, Decoding, encoding & validation).

• CDR to TAP2+ conversion, IOT Check development.

System Analyst at Omnix International
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • September 1999 to November 2001

Senior Oracle Programmer, for Ministry of interior, Naturalization and Residency systems projects, Using Oracle8i, and Developer6i.

هندسة وتحليل وأتمتت أنظمة وزارة الداخليه في دولة الإمارات(أنظمة الأقامه والتاشيره، الحدود والمنافذ، جوازات السفر، السجل الجنائي، ...).

System Engineer at CCS - Computers & Communications systems Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • August 1997 to September 1999

Oracle Development & Engineering for Hospitals Information Management Systems (CARE) & Shareholders systems.

تحليل وتطوير وتطبيق:
-أنظمة مستشفيات (Hospitals Information Systems).
-نظام مساهمين (ShareHolders).
-نظام شؤون الموظفين.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineer
  • at Yarmouk University
  • June 1997

المعدل التراكمي (73%) بتقدير (جيد)

Specialties & Skills

IT Management
Product Support
المعلوماتية
إدارة المشاريع
Leadership & Performance Enhancement
Project Managment
Service Desk management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

نقابة المهندسين الأردنيين
  • مهندس
  • July 2005
GSM Association
  • member
  • January 2005