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ahmad menkara, MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER

ahmad menkara

MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER·Danish Refugee Council

Lebanon

Master's degree, Computer and Communication engineer

Work experience

Total years of experience: 13 years, 6 months

MONITORING AND EVALUATION MANAGER

September 2021 - Present

Danish Refugee Council

Tripoli, Lebanon

September 2021 - Present

 Oversee the implementation and coordination of MEAL-IM strategy and activities at field level, and ensure alignment of MEAL-IM activities with DRC Beirut and other Areas
 Ensure MEL plans are implemented according to schedule, including through regular field trips and physical observation at project sites
 Support the development, design and writing of proposals and concept notes in terms of MEAL input (logframe, budgeting for MEAL activities and staffing, MEAL narrative plan, etc.)
 Facilitate monthly monitoring meetings with Sector Managers to review monitoring findings and validate indicator performance, database system and key reporting tools
 Design and test quantitative and qualitative data collection activities, assessment and profiling tools at field level
 Produce periodic timely MEAL reports for internal and external stakeholders to ensure programmes have accurate and useful data to improve quality and inform project development, and support other internal and external reporting tasks, including donor specific monthly reports
 Facilitate organizational learning by ensuring lessons learnt from previous work are reflected in improved practices, feedback to sector specialists and the design of future work
 Provide support to beneficiary accountability mechanisms through existing systems
 Supervise MEAL/IM/Database staff for North Lebanon, leading recruitment, performance management, capacity building and training, and manage work plans and activities to ensure objectives and monitoring targets are met
 Provide support to implementing partners with best practices and the program M&E framework

Company industry:
International Humanitarian Organization
Job role:
Quality Control

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SENIOR OFFICER

January 2019 - August 2021

Danish Refugee council

Tripoli, Lebanon

January 2019 - August 2021

JANUARY 2019 - AUGUST 2021
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SENIOR OFFICER, DANISH REFUGEE COUNCIL-LEBANON

 Part of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team working mainly on designing/developing, testing, maintaining, supporting and improving the database and management systems;
 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support field staff,
 Implement database security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure;
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications
 Lead on follow up with partners on administrative details such as setting up and scheduling training, signing of data sharing agreements, gathering feedback and communicating challenges and issues to be addressed by DRC IM team and management.
 Coordinate and support the development of the user’s guide for the Referral system.
 Produce monthly reports on the developments of the Referral system implementation.

Company industry:
International Humanitarian Organization
Job role:
Quality Control

DATA SPECILIAST

September 2016 - March 2018

Mobinets

Tripoli, Lebanon

September 2016 - March 2018

 Perform Information and data management duties for MOBINETS project in Lebanon and abroad.
 Lead monthly Dashboard Analysis and provide monthly data to Clients
 Provide information management and data analysis of the Project Implementation Plans
 Support Project Manager to produce project data analysis as needed
 Oversee development of visualization of Mobintes Project data.
 Coordinate quarterly and yearly assessments for Mobinets project develop respective tools, sampling and be responsible for analysis and write-up of reports
 Support resource mobilization efforts by developing updated Project financial overviews;
 Provide data analysis for project KPIs and log frame.
 Support in quality assurance of communication products, as requested.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Quality Control

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER

May 2016 - August 2016

Danish refugee council

Beirut, Lebanon

May 2016 - August 2016

 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Implement database security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized damage, modification or disclosure;
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications
 Designing web application through wave maker using java programing language, ODK data collection/coding and Form hub, database systems (PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, MySQL, Oracle) as well in data security and encryption tools.
 Working on Tableau software for visualizing charts and data.

Company industry:
International Humanitarian Organization
Job role:
Quality Control

DATA MANAGER

January 2016 - April 2016

Handicap international

Beirut, Lebanon

January 2016 - April 2016

 Improving the effectiveness of the database tools and services and ensuring all the data complies with legal regulations
 Ensuring data protection procedures are monitored and applied in all HI project across Lebanon.
 Regular reporting to the teams, automate the reporting activity
and produce monthly progress reports
 Monitoring database performance and Improving the technology used in building new databases
 Monitoring data entry procedures
 Mainly working in ODK data collection/coding and Form hub, database systems (PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, MySQL, Oracle)

Company industry:
International Humanitarian Organization
Job role:
Quality Control

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OFFICER

December 2014 - December 2015

Danish Refugee Council

Tripoli, Lebanon

December 2014 - December 2015

 Participate in developing and designing a database that maintains and organizes activities data and provides support in reporting, project tracking and data analysis;
 Build the capacity of DRC staff in terms of database use (including basic analysis) through on-going support and training,
 Develop user access levels for each segment of the database according to IM Coordinator / MEL Coordinator specifications

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Quality Control

Instructor/Trainer

November 2011 - July 2014

higher technical institute of Tripoli

Tripoli, Lebanon

November 2011 - July 2014

Laboratory instructor in higher technical institute of Tripoli the main work in the institution is supervising on electrical and computer systems in new construction also troubleshooting, repairing and conducting routine maintenance of electrical systems (low current systems).

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Training and Development

Quality Assurance engineer

August 2013 - December 2013

MOBINETS

Tripoli, Lebanon

August 2013 - December 2013

quality assurance engineer at MOBINETS Company which is a leading provider of smart network solutions for Next Gen OSS. Based on a fully automated platform which simplifies and speeds up network planning, optimization, and provisioning and resource management by consolidating core, access, and backhaul network data into a real implementation. My main task was quality assurance for the operating mobile networks on different sites. In addition, working on an IP/MPLS project.

Company industry:
Telecommunications
Job role:
Engineering

Communication and instrumentation site engineer

September 2012 - February 2013

EPC

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

September 2012 - February 2013

Communication and instrumentation site engineer along with energy and power contracting company ltd “EPC “Main contractor for “ARAMCO”, our main work is to build and update substation for GAZ plant dedicated for ARAMCO company under the highest standards, and my main work is concentrated on building and maintaining FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS, DDC (direct digital control ), PSA ( power system automation ), fiber optic installation and splicing.

Company industry:
Construction & Building
Job role:
Civil Engineering

Education

Lebanese International University

June 2014

June 2014

Master's degree, Computer and Communication engineer

Lebanon

GPA (point): 2.6 out of 4

GPA (point): 2.6 out of 4

My master thesis focuses on the Image processing for catching the unaware drivers while driving , i git an A grade on the Thesis and I've published different Papers related to my search topics and being presented in several international conferences

lebanese international university

July 2011

July 2011

Bachelor's degree, computer and communication engineering

Lebanon

GPA (point): 2.2 out of 4

GPA (point): 2.2 out of 4

through the years of education I've succeeded in different telecom fields mainly in microwave studies and Radio frequency and Programming on different languages, My final project was inventing a demo board from scratch and programmed on PIC chip

Skills

Engineering
Expert
Engineering
Expert
Engineering
Expert
Engineering
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Certification in java programing and mobile application development
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018

Training
Certification in Oracle database administration (primary course)
EduDMG center, order of engineering, Tripoli-Lebanon
Oct 2016
CCNA
Formatech
Jul 2009