PMO Manager
Yas Holding
Total years of experience :16 years, 2 Months
Yas Holding is a renowned UAE headquartered investment company with a multi-industry business portfolio spanning 9 sectors, 7500 employees, and 60 operating subsidiaries. The group is in growth mode, with expanding business interests in agriculture, food, healthcare, education, aviation, real estate, FMCG, technology & services. Yas Holding’s diverse companies operate throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
Head Of Group IT PMO (May 2021 to Present)
▪ Established the centralized Project Management Office for YHL to manage and oversee the projects, programs and manage portfolios across all Yas Holding companies and divisions.
▪ Plans, coordinates, and implements new strategies for assisting in achieving the organizational goals and objectives
▪ Directs the managers and staff members of the information technology department for continuous improvement and development by using the latest techniques
▪ Supervises, hires, trains the existing as well as the new staff members and provides them with the knowledge on the latest developments in the information technology field
▪ Works in close association with the information technology team to implement effective plans to meet the business requirements and standards.
▪ Identifies new opportunities and makes recommendations to enhance the operational procedures
▪ Makes sure that the system is functioning properly and troubleshoots if there are any system errors.
▪ Identifies key prerequisites required from cross-functional groups and outside vendors. Develops and oversees budget for ventures and be responsible for conveying against built-up commerce goals/objectives.
▪ Continuously evaluates projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets and meeting deadlines.
▪ Works with other program supervisors to distinguish dangers and openings over different ventures inside the department. Analyzes, assesses, and overcomes program challenges, and delivers program reports for administration and partners.
Working closely with the senior management team to deliver a range of application projects. Selecting vendors and partners, onboarding, and upselling Digital Okta offerings to existing clients.
▪ Established the PMO office of a Yas Holding vertical and drafted PMI-compliant processes and guidelines.
▪ Led all application and cloud projects.
▪ Accurately documented the projects, creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification.
▪ Led the general procedure advancement and worked on the plan of the innovation vision and guiding inside the work of persistent commerce and innovation alignment.
▪ Liaised with the commerce accomplices and the Official Group to get it the nitty-gritty prerequisites to plan and actualize technique, development, and engineering administration (e.g. forms and layouts, partners, and meetings).
▪ Led the design board gatherings and guaranteeing the innovation procedures get adjusted with the trade strategy.
▪ Ensured adherence to the IT technique, standards, and framework. Overseeing the advancement and alteration of the endeavor of engineering and closely observing the quality control of engineering ponders, proposition, and deliverables.
▪ Project budgeting, bidding, planning and implementation management.
▪ Oversaw and participated in the hiring, training and coaching of all new staff.
▪ Worked with our Engineers on custom project designs and implementation.
▪ Oversaw and participate in the hiring, training and coaching of all new team members
▪ Project budgeting, bidding, planning and implementation management.
Established first ever MENA branch, built an ecosystem of distributors and partners. Provided customized solutions to organizations to help in building alcohol and drug policies and ensured execution of drug testing programs as per client expectations.
▪ Promoting Saliva Based toxicology testing in the region.
▪ Working closely with the Commercial department of USA consulate to meet with strategic clients.
▪ Building an ecosystem of distributors and partners.
▪ Provide customize solutions to organizations to help in building alcohol and drug policy.
▪ Ensure execution of drug testing programs as per client expectations.
▪ Finding new markets for Mobility and Application Solutions.
▪ Presales consultancy and leading the delivery of Application Projects, Preparation of technical proposals, RFP replies, and POC’s.
▪ Coordinating with Customers and managing day-to-day tasks.
▪ Consulting organizations to mobilize them with best practices by identifying, investigating, and analyzing business processes, procedures, and work practices they follow.
▪ Define and present an Architecture proposal for infrastructure implementations.
▪ Analyzing clients’ needs accurately and developing functional specifications for use by system developers based on it.
▪ Organize and deliver technical presentations and workshops on ITQAN Application Portfolio which includes not limited to Enterprise Applications, Mobility, Portals, etc.
▪ Working closely with management in defining and executing project deliverables and day-to-day management of the project and acting as a central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system project decision-making process.
▪ Partner Eco-System management and add new valuable partners.
▪ Finding new products to add to ITQAN offerings based on requirement and value.
▪ Managing of the development team and allocating them tasks with constant mentoring.
▪ Finding new markets for Sybase mobility products.
▪ Presales consultancy.
▪ Preparation of technical proposals, RFP replies, and POC’s.
▪ Coordination with Customers and Managing day to day tasks.
▪ Providing technical consultancy for Sybase Mobility products, especially SUP and Afaria.
▪ Consulting organizations to mobilize them with best practices by identifying, investigating, and analyzing business processes, procedures and work practices they follow.
▪ Defining and presenting Architecture proposal for infrastructure implementations.
▪ Analyzing clients’ needs accurately and developing functional specifications for use by system developers based on it.
▪ Organizing and delivering technical presentations and workshops on Sybase Mobility Products.
▪ Working closely with management in defining and executing project deliverables and day-to-day management of the project and acting as a central reference and information source, providing guidance and assistance in the system project decision-making process.
▪ Creating user support and training documentation, and conducting training on Sybase Mobility products
▪ Management of the development team and allocating them tasks with constant mentoring
• Optimization of BSC of STC (VIVA)for South Region Bahrain.
Includes parameters adjustment, retuning, new trials, and consistency checks.
• Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the Handover, Location Update, Paging & CSSR in the designated area, issuing capacity requests whenever needed.
• To initiate improvement projects in area assigned.
• Routine neighbor, frequency and parameter audits.
• To figure out hardware problems (faulty TRX, antenna VSWR etc) causing KPIs degradations in network by analyzing TRX level statistics and alarms information.
• Analysis of routine Drive Test of area assigned or issue-based DT using TEMS investigation and prepare DT analysis report with recommendations
• Performed different types of drive tests including SSV, GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA/HUDPA Testing, Cluster Drive tests for Routine Optimization activities
Coordination with Customer and Managing day to day tasks.
Supervising RF Antenna Installations for Batelco.
Supervising O&M Team for Mena Tel sites(Motorolla Sites).
Coordination with Customer and Managing day to day tasks.
Preparing Data Transcripts (OSS Executable files containing initial parameter settings and neighbor
additions) for site integration, upgrades & parameter modification.
Frequency planning (Baseband and synthesizer hopping) using frequency planning strategies.
Monitoring respective BSCs to improve contractual KPIs.
Frequency, BSIC, MAIO, neighbors planning and initial parameter settings.
Propose change of standard parameters to meet the growing network
Responsible for Location Area plan implementations, parameters, site integration.
Drive Testing for rehoming activities, new sites, BSC rehomings/cutovers, MIP (MSS in Pool)
Physical optimization to propose antenna height/tilt/azimuth changes after site visits and drive tests.
Network Quality analysis and benchmarks after major optimization process.
Communicate with relevant Departments to resolve problems
Interference scanning & identification of reasons for bad radio conditions.
Benchmark between different operators and making analysis reports.
Creating Drive Test & Walk Test Reports and highlighting issues.
Maintain Network Data Base for new & old sites.
GPRS-EDGE Testing.
Walk Tests for Indoor Building Solutions and highlighting issues.
Creation of coverage plots on TEMS Cell Planner.
Conducting BARN (Brief Audit of Radio Network) activities.
CNA Consistency Checks
Creation of MapInfo/MCOM Workspaces and TEMS Cell file.
Creation of Excel Macros.
Model tuning (9999- Model).
MRR analysis and health check requests.
NCS Analysis and PAR Generation
Monitoring TCH Availability Issues.
My CGPA was 3.24 Remained Member APDF(APCOMS Professional Development Foundation) Organized various events like sports, funfair etc Student Chief Editor APCOMS Magazine