Amjad Al Qawasmi, IT Project Manager

Amjad Al Qawasmi

IT Project Manager

BOTIM

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Computer Networks
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

IT Project Manager at BOTIM
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since September 2021

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IT Project Manager at Workforce Holding
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since September 2020

- Lead the project team to develop public government services and utilities services of United Arab Emirates throughout the project life cycle starting from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, closure.
- Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track the progress of the project.
- Manage the relationships between PMO of the government and project stakeholders.
- Perform risk management analysis to reduce project risks.
- Monitor project progress and communicate project issues, scope changes that may arise during the implementation of the project and ensure changes to project baseline are applied through appropriate change control processes and tools effectively.
- Create and manage project communication plans and ensure the appropriate information is exchanged among key stakeholders and PMO of the government.
- Undertaking status review meetings among project team members and PMO of the government. 
- Participate in Agile/Scrum meetings such as iteration planning, daily stand ups meetings, planning, reviews and retrospectives.
- Supporting product team in writing product requirement documents (PRD) including features, system & environment requirements, wireframe, user stories, assumptions, constraints & dependencies.
- Manage vendors and suppliers relationships, review and evaluate proposals and develop performance evaluation.

IT Project Manager at MultiBank Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2020 to September 2021

-Lead project team to develop applications starting from requirements gathering, planning, coding, testing and deployment of enterprise applications using Agile/Scrum Methodology.
- Identifying company's business needs, analyzing requirements, creating business case and defining the scope of the projects.
- Develop project charter, creating project schedules and detailed project plan.
- Track and report the status of projects to the stakeholders on weekly bases.
- Monitor project progress and communicate project issues, scope changes that may arise during the implementation of the project and ensure changes to project baseline are applied through appropriate change control processes and tools effectively.
- Facilitating daily stand ups meetings, sprint planning, retrospective meetings.
- Support product owners to handle project backlogs and new requests and changes.
- Ensure deliverables are up to quality standards at the end of each sprint.
- Assist release team to plan, implement, and test new releases into production systems.

Application Development Manager at Arabtec Holding PJSC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2013 to December 2020

- Lead application development team, outsourcing companies and solution architect to develop applications starting from requirements gathering, planning, coding, testing and deployment of enterprise applications using Agile/Scrum Methodology. - Organize and facilitate daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint planning, demos and other Scrumrelated meetings. - Work closely with business managers and stakeholders to understand business issues and recommending solutions. - Translating stakeholder requirements into functional specification, use cases, user stories, workflow/process diagram and data flow/data model diagrams.
- Track and report the status of projects to the stakeholders on weekly bases.
- Monitor project progress and communicate project issues, scope changes that may arise during the implementation of the project and ensure changes to project baseline are applied through appropriate change control processes and tools effectively.
- Participate the Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings to support the change manager in the decisions for major changes and evaluating Requests for Change (RFCs), the available resources, impact of change, facilitating priorities and permanent corrective actions.
- Define, execute and monitor the implementation of standards, policies, and procedures.
- Conduct internal/external IT audits regularly. - Recommending system solutions, and tools that best serve Arabtec Holding and its subsidiaries' goals and objectives based on business requirements.
- Manage IT contracts and agreements signed with external vendors in line with the company's expectations.

Projects and Applications Manager at Arabtec Construction LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2008 to September 2013

- Identify organization's business needs, analyzing business requirements, creating business case and defining the scope of the projects. - Develop project charter, creating project schedules and detailed project plan and estimating project costs.
- Monitor project progress and performance.
- Control project changes.
- Manage and controlling project delivery, post implementation review. Project close out / handover.
- Manage supplier relationships, reviewing proposals, developing performance specifications, and serving as a liaison with the organizations.
- Troubleshooting and resolving any problems with all company applications.
- Monitor the roll-out of new applications.
- Manage application support team to provide applications technical support to the company’s global employees (4, 500+ employees) starting from applications administration activities, installation, configuration, apply update and patches, troubleshooting and solving issues.
- Plan, implement, and testing new releases into production systems environment.

Senior Software Developer at Special Systems Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2006 to January 2008

- Develop Online trading system for Brokerage companies in Jordan, Qatar and UAE, starting from requirements gathering, planning, development, testing and deployment of enterprise applications.
- Ensure changes to project baseline are effectively applied through appropriate change control processes and tools.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts and code comments.
- Perform unit and integration testing of the application and identifying, troubleshooting and solving application code-related issues and bug fixes.
- Identify the impact of the changes in existing product features and functionality.
- Provide user training and support as required.

Software Developer at Global Computer Networks
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2004 to January 2006

- Meeting the stakeholders and management regularly to understand and refining business and functional requirements and determining project scopes and specifications.
- Develop applications starting from requirements gathering, planning, development, testing and deployment of enterprise applications.
- Writing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts and code comments.
- Preparing and installing solutions by determining and designing system specifications and standards.
- Preparing reports and other documentation on the projects status.
- Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
- Estimating, prioritizing, planning and coordinating testing activities.
- Create reports, documenting errors and issues for fixing. - Working closely with other developers, UX designers, business and systems analysts.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science And Computer Networks
  • at Applied Science Private University
  • October 2004

Specialties & Skills

Time Management
Teamwork
Web Development
Software Development
Project Management
Project Management
Cost Management
TimeManagement
Change Management
Quality Management
Scheduling and Time Management
Risk Management
Project Planning
Communication Management
Procurement Management
Stakeholder Management

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Native Speaker

Memberships

PMI
  • Member
  • June 2022

Training and Certifications

ITIL Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2013
PRINCE2® Certificate in Project Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2017
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2022