Abed Al Rifai, Project Manager

Abed Al Rifai

Project Manager

White Mountain Technologies

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
20 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months

Project Manager at White Mountain Technologies
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since April 2010

Manage software development projects and teams in education sector; Student Information System for higher education and KG-12.
-Plan, schedule and track project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.
-Mentor, motivate and supervise project's team members.
-Set and continually manage project expectations with team members and other
stakeholders
- Define client needs, business requirements. Develop fit cap analysis document.
-Define scope and deliverable that support business requirements in
collaboration with management and stakeholders.
-Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
-Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the
appropriate recruitment if necessary during project cycle.
-Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate project team member

Senior Developer / Team leader at White Mountain Technologies (lebanon)
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2006 to March 2010

responsibilities:
- Development, business and database analysis.
- Analyze customer requirements and needs to provide best solution.
- Develop an architecture that supports these requirements.
- Identify project modules and processes.
- verify that the implemented design meets customer requirements
- Set project schedule, assigning tasks to team members.
- Also writing Code.
Projects working on:
. SIS (Student Information System): Web application under .Net 3.5:
- Manage University processes Ex. Student Application, Admission, Course Catalog, Course offering, Course Pre-Registration and Registration, Contract Sheet, Transcripts and many other University processes.
Responsibilities: Team leader, Business and Database analysis, Development.
• Universi tools: Web application under .Net 2.0, it includes 4 modules:
- CRN scheduler: generate schedules for course sections.
- Class Room Scheduler: Assign course sections to rooms taking into account course time, course requirement, course capacity/room capacity etc.
- Exam Schedule: generate Mid or Final exam schedule, taking into account student course registration, maximum number of student per exam session etc.
- Common time Locator: help the instructor/admin to find common free time for students of a course and suggest available rooms during this time.
Responsibilities: Team leader, Business and Database analysis, and writing Algorithms for all above modules

Web Developer at White Mountain Technology
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2004 to July 2006

Project worked on:
• Skoolee Tools: Asp .Net application for schools management. The application includes modules like:
- Administration Module:
- Mange school general structure.
- Human Resources: Manage students, parents, guardians, staff s
- Other sections like Communication and Alerts, Student Registration,
Library Management, and Security and profiles management.
- Scheduling Module:
- Automatic scheduling of class section courses by teacher.
- Teacher Module:
- Assignments: Daily or weekly, creating online exams.
- Student Performance: Exams and assignment grades, attendance,
conduct
- Other modules like Principal and Director, Student and Parent.
Responsibilities: Team leader, Business and Database analysis, Development.

• Item Life Cycle: C# .Net windows application for Manufacturing. The application includes modules such as:
- Development Log: Controlling, tracking and managing items during
their sample design.
- Cost Breakdown: Controlling labor breakdown cost, material cost,
packaging and supply cost, factory cost and other costs.
- Costing Center: “Price Request” section mange customers’ price
requests. “Worksheet” section used by production to give best price.
Responsibilities: Business and Database analysis, Development.


• Retail Suite: Asp .Net application for retail business decision makers. The application includes modules such as Promotion, Pricing, Deal and Price Execution Management. (More details and explanations are upon request).
Responsibilities: Development and Database design

• CLMS: Asp .Net application that help HR to manage and controls all information related to employee. Create courses, Course Calendars, Course Catalogs for training. Online course registration for learners, and other features related to online learning.
Responsibilities: Development and Database design

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at American University of Science & Technology
  • February 2004

AUST (American University of Science & Technology) it is a private institution, follow an american system.

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Team Management
Solution Architecture
Web Applications
Analysis
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2
C#, VB coding
Java Script
Reporting on Crystal Report
Problem Solver
Leadership
Creating and analyzing specification documents
ADO.NET
Visual Studio
Infragistics Win and Web Components
Silverlight
.Net Frame Work 3.5
Mobile Development under HTML5 and Jquery
Native Mobile Application using Phone Gap API
Project management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Fishing and Camping