Alaa Burhan

• Overseeing daily business operations.
• Developing and implementing growth strategies.
• Creating and managing budgets.
• Evaluating performance and productivity.
• Researching and identifying growth opportunities.
• Generating reports and giving presentations.
• Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings.
• Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.
• Researching organizations and individuals to find new opportunities.
• Increasing the value of current customers while attracting new ones.
• Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.
• Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.
• Developing quotes and proposals for clients.

• Overseeing daily business operations.
• Developing and implementing growth strategies.
• Creating and managing budgets.
• Evaluating performance and productivity.
• Researching and identifying growth opportunities.
• Generating reports and giving presentations.
• Contacting potential clients to establish rapport and arrange meetings.
• Planning and overseeing new marketing initiatives.
• Researching organizations and individuals to find new opportunities.
• Increasing the value of current customers while attracting new ones.
• Finding and developing new markets and improving sales.
• Attending conferences, meetings, and industry events.
• Developing quotes and proposals for clients.

• Handling projects that contribute to the organization’s success, such as opportunities for the organization to develop new products, troubleshoot problems or launch initiatives designed to reduce operational costs.
• Collaborate with the divisions heads to execute projects and new initiatives.
• Analyze the project portfolio to ensure that work aligns to strategic decisions.
• Publishing reports and conducting review meetings to keep projects on track.
• Evaluate the tools and techniques used by the organization to manage projects, such as initiatives tracker, dashboards, and other reporting tools.
• Ensuring that the applications provide the benefits and featured by the organization by ensuring data integrity, assuring scheduling accuracy, and maintaining consistency throughout the organization.
• Mentoring individuals to achieve the desired projects goals.
• Sharing tips, techniques, and templates that will help others know how to perform and finalize their tasks.
• Provide training and strategic initiatives, such as improving quality.
• Facilitate meetings with stakeholders to identify project requirements and ensure they align with the organization’s strategic goals.

• Developing NIDLP process for monitoring the performance of implementing the national strategy for the industrial and logistics sectors in Saudi Arabia, including identifying their strategic objectives, and identifying key initiatives needed.
• Define data collection methods and assist the government agencies to fill in the data collection with accurate and reliable data.
• Follow up with the government agencies for the timely submission of data.
• Collection, verification, and validation of data submitted by the government agencies in the data collection portal.
• Follow up with the government agencies to identify areas of information which require further investigation and clarity.
• Conduct field visits, team meetings and workshops to assess, verify and validate reporting of the Objectives and initiatives.
• Analyze the data submitted and develop recommendations.
• Prepare periodic reports and design, production, and dissemination of those reports.
• Conduct benchmarking studies and prepare benchmarking reports.

• Manage and run a wide variety of projects including but not limited to: Transformation Projects, Sport specific, Business Process Re-engineering, and Feasibility Studies etc.
• Identify project objectives, policies, procedures, and performance standards
• Organize the activities of specific program/project areas
• Monitor project budgets and prepare regular status reports
• Evaluate project outcomes in terms of quality, consistency, accuracy, overall value, completion dates and provider performance
• Coordinate with others to utilize learning and development tools and techniques to analyses, identify and communicate requirements for change
• Oversee Sport Coaching strategy implementation and track milestones and deliverables while measuring KPIs and realizing benefits

• Assist ADAA in developing the process for monitoring the performance of their dashboards, including identifying their strategic objectives, and identifying key initiatives needed.
• Define data collection methods and assist the government agencies to fill in the data collection with accurate and reliable data.
• Follow up with the government agencies for the timely submission of data.
• Collection, verification, and validation of data submitted by the government agencies in the data collection portal.
• Follow up with the government agencies to identify areas of information which require further investigation and clarity.
• Participate in field visits, team meetings and workshops to assess, verify and validate reporting of the Objectives and initiatives.
• Analyze the data submitted and develop recommendations.
• Help prepare Periodic reports and design, production, and dissemination of those reports.
• Conduct benchmarking studies and prepare benchmarking reports.

• Building a Business Case describing the establishment journey to attain the bank upper management sponsorship
• Develop strategy and roadmap for the Division and practice of IT governance in the bank
• Develop the division basic documentations for each business unit (unit governance document, framework, competencies, service catalog)
• Raising the staff maturity through trainings and change management activities (soft skills, governance, project management)
• Establishing a temporary PMO to manage the roadmap projects and programs.
• Recruit and train a team of ten members to accomplish the establishment mission
• Create the capability of governing the Bank PMO and controlling the Bank IT investments.

• Study current status of project management practice in the government agency
• Determine the agency requirements and develop The RFP for the PMO set up or review the RFP if the agency created it.
• Estimate the budget of the PMO setup project and prepare the funding application.
• Supervise bidding invitations and prepare the response evaluation criteria and participate in the selection Committee.
• Audit the vendors’ deliverables during the setup project.
• Assess the government agencies PMOs and provide Improvements Plans.
In addition to managing the projects of supervising e-transformation plans (EA consultancy) funded by Yesser, and participating in building governance models for Yesser PPP projects (Public Private Sectors Partnership) and for Yesser PMO.

• Involvement and support in the development of the program proposal and program charter.
• Review all component Project documents to ensure dependencies and cross-project risks and issues are identified and recorded.
• Assist drafting of Program Execution Plan.
• Support the delivery of benefits and Program objectives.
• Support the delivery of Program outputs and drive schedules.
• Critically review Program status and make recommendations to Program team.
• Ensure accurate and up to date Program data.
• Draft Program Transition Report.
• Identify benefits to be realized after transition.
• Determine resources to manage on-going benefits and transition.
• Assess ongoing need for Program.
Achievements:
• Operating the PMO in the Ministry of Interior (NIC) in KSA

Responsibilities:
•Customize project management best practices to client's organization establishing a most fitting PM methodology.
• Implement a Project Management help desk for all PM practitioners.
•Support running projects of client's organization.
•Lead project teams composed of cross-functional representation from multiple business units.
•Provide project, program, and portfolio status reporting for various levels of audiences (including senior management).
•Guides teams to analyze and estimate feasibility, cost, and project timeline. Assists in the development of project plans specifying project objectives, tasks, staff requirements, identification of risks, and contingency plans.
•Accountable for assisting business in defining, maintaining and optimizing overall strategy.
Achievements:
•Tabuk University PMO: Setup a new Project Management Office PMO for Tabuk University including basic EPM system deployment, PMO setup, EPM Customization & hands on support.

• Define project scope and objectives, charter
• Draft functional specifications, create project plan, and schedule.
• Define and manage project stakeholders.
• Track, control, project changes, issues, risks, milestones etc.

Analysis and Solution Definition
•Understands client organization's direction, structure, and requirements.
•Analyzes client organization's industry and competitive position.
•Documents and analyzes required information and data.
•Prepares requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations.

Quality Assurance and Testing
•Leads testing efforts.
•Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
•Works with client personnel to identify required changes.
•Communicates needed changes to development team.
•Manage Software QA Human Resources.

•Develop Auditing and Testing Plans and Processes.
•Manage Auditing activities.
•Manage Testing Environment and activities.
•Manage Software QA Human Resources:
o Identify key skills and competencies for Team members.
o Select team members based on project goals and resource requirements.
o Define the structure and processes for the team.
o Assign team roles and responsibilities.
o Provide feedback and coaching to team members.
o Resolve conflicts and support effective functioning of the team.
o Assess effective use of resources throughout the project.
o Assess effectiveness of team processes and communication.
o Manage resource allocation during product development, testing, and release.
o Assess organization readiness for product release and make recommendations.

•Design and develop Test Cases & scenarios based on the new requirements or calls.
•Define Criteria for performing usability testing, analyses results of testing sessions, present results to development team.
•Prepare test environment and install new builds and releases.

•Attending the meetings with the customers for the purpose of gathering the requirements.
•Performing the test cases on the developed sections.
•Applying many testing types on the system (smoke test, End to end test, Acceptance testing…).
•Documenting the minutes of meetings with the ABSIS customers, and walk with them throw the system.
•Reviewing the user manual and put my feedback on it with the project management and the developer's team leader.