Abdulrahman Zughbi, Senior Project Manager

Abdulrahman Zughbi

Senior Project Manager

Bahwan CyberTek

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Doctorate, Business Administration
Experience
20 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months

Senior Project Manager at Bahwan CyberTek
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since April 2012

• Involved in planning and implementing the team innovative activities and ensure business improvements continuity.

• Involved in design, configuration, and customization of systems aligned to client requirements.

• Conduct workshops to identify user requirements, design functional specification document, and plan for the improvements.

• Developing a Requirements Management Plan and disseminating the plan to all stakeholders.

• Study existing system practice and suggest business process improvements, including workflow design changes, system customization, etc.

• Provide detailed documentation of complex system specifications, including system scripts, system installation procedures, system backup and recovery techniques and system test methods.

• Defines system objectives and design specifications in collaboration with business analyst and establish complex operational databases, software configuration controls and system interfaces for computer systems.

• Assist in system administration activities, and design administration procedures, templates, and techniques.

• Monitor system licenses usage, and recommend corrective actions.

• Plan and design system innovation activities, and publish progress report.

• Involved in maintaining Maximo integration with other systems.

• Monitors project progress by tracking activity, publishing progress reports, recommending actions.

• Assist the team in investigating critical issues, and conduct root cause analysis for complex system problems.

• Conduct end user training (basic and advance), as well as developing user manuals.

• Conduct team knowledge transfer sessions.

• Ensure system modification quality by conducting unit testing and user acceptance testing (UAT), and define appropriate test scenarios and test scripts.

• Improve decision making process by planning and designing analytical tools.

• Improve and support the management vision by creating cross-systems’ KPIs and escalations in Maximo.

• Serve as primary contact for Maximo System Users and IT support.

• Leading, motivating and developing teams of junior consultants.

Senior Technical Consultant at eSolutions
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • August 2007 to April 2012

• Provide leadership to technical planning, design, configuration, customization and testing of MAXIMO projects besides guiding all levels of technical consultants in the project team
• Involved in design of technical & functional specifications, conducting GAP analysis for various technical issues like interfacing with other systems, new applications & modules apart from imparting on-site training
• Manage programming activities & customer MAXIMO upgrade apart from evaluation of evaluation of existing Maximo installations and recommendation of technical improvements
• Promotion of organization image & professional services function besides coordinating with application support groups to ensure implementation of global plan for post go-live support
• Guide change control and security set-up for a validated software system apart from developing strategic plan for staffing & skill development for the technical support staff
• Involved in creation of data schemas for application topology, maintenance of organizational standards, guiding & mentoring employees and ensuring completion of internal administrative documentation manual
• Development & maintenance of Skill Assessment Tests, guiding lower level consultants besides conducting performance testing of consultants to provide annual employee assessment
• Accountable for maintenance of organizational Source Code & Documentation standards apart from monitoring quality of source code and documentation
• Involved in design & configuration/customization of systems aligned to client requirements in addition to escalation of critical issues to E-Solution support and IBM

MIS Mediation Specialist at Syriatel
  • Syria - Damascus
  • January 2005 to August 2007

• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new Mediation system and suggest improvements to support and enhance our existing provisioning utilities.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and coordinating with all stakeholders.
• Lead programming practices for in-house Mediation projects, and apply best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and feasibility for implementing new services.
• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
• Investigate and resolve application functionality related issues and provide support.
• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Assist in troubleshooting software application issues.
• Assist in managing an outsource relationship for 3rd party application development and programming consultants.
• Plan and design service testing and stress testing methodologies and document the testing script.
• Analyze data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions.
• Write technical/functional documentation for the applications including operations, as-built document, etc.
• Serve as a liaison and facilitator between MIS and Marketing to assist in releasing or enhancing mobile services.
• Train staff and end users on working with new computer systems and programs.

Developer at Systems International SI
  • Syria - Damascus
  • July 2003 to January 2005

• Provide technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new Mediation system and suggest improvements to support and enhance our existing provisioning utilities.
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks and workflow analysis.
• Define project requirements by identifying project milestones, phases, and coordinating with all stakeholders.
• Lead programming practices for in-house Mediation projects, and apply best practices.
• Provide technical guidance and feasibility for implementing new services.
• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
• Investigate and resolve application functionality related issues and provide support.
• Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Assist in troubleshooting software application issues.
• Assist in managing an outsource relationship for 3rd party application development and programming consultants.
• Plan and design service testing and stress testing methodologies and document the testing script.
• Analyze data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions.
• Write technical/functional documentation for the applications including operations, as-built document, etc.
• Serve as a liaison and facilitator between MIS and Marketing to assist in releasing or enhancing mobile services.
• Train staff and end users on working with new computer systems and programs.

Education

Doctorate, Business Administration
  • at University of Atlanta
  • March 2012
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Faculty Information Technology - Damascus University
  • June 2003

Specialties & Skills

Technical Presales
Asset Management
Project Management
Software Engineering
Software Engineering
Oracle Database
Systems Integration
Asset Management
Project Management
Business Analysis
Oracle eBusiness Suite
Supply Chain

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2018