Program Manager
Mannai corporation (q.s.c), qatar
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :25 years, 1 أشهر
• Program Manager and Practice Head (IBM & BMC) with Mannai Corporation QSC, Qatar, handling national level program deliveries in excess of $15-20M. Responsible for the Delivery of Transformation Programs in Web-J2EE, BI, BPM, Mobility & EAI technology segments with a clear emphasis for making predictive deliveries. Am looking forward to an environment, which offers greater challenges in IT Strategy, Strategic Digital Program-Project execution/delivery & Business Development Function. A dynamic IT Professional, having over 21 years of rich and insightful experience, which includes on shore assignments (Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, the UK & the Middle East).
• Delivery Manager for multiple Mobility solutions for a spectrum of customers which included banking solutions as well
• Defined program architecture and road map for a large and diversified Retail player in Doha
• Multiple implementation of a packaged retail product RetailPro
• Technology space covers java/j2ee, mobility, SAS & packaged applications - RetailPro
• Responsible for pipeline/lead management & tracking
• Driving the sales team, Sales forecast and PnL
• Margin forecasts, margin projections and rate card finalization
• Currently working as Project Manager with a Fortune 20 company - Allianz’s IT division, instrumental in grooming Allianz’s offshore Java team right from its inception. Successfully oversaw the start-up and development of this team to 45+. Excellent track record of delivering value to organizations through effective strategy planning, and leading new initiative
• Responsible for the delivery of strategic projects for Allianz Retail \[AzR is £500m+ business division\] and Allianz Commercial \[AzC is a £1billion+ business division\]. Had been handling a portfolio of 8-10 projects for these divisions every year. Currently my focus is on AzC’s projects cutting across all technologies\[J2EE, VB/ASP, Mainframe, MessageBroker\]
• Had been consistent & successful in managing large teams. Proven expertise in handling large multi-site, multi cultural development projects for global corporates like Allianz, Unilever, GE, Canon & BMC, both at onsite and offshore. Demonstrated ability to engage in client interaction & business/lead generation. Had been to The Netherlands, UK, Brussels & Toronto on various onsite engagements
• Had been instrumental in strategizing & creating winning proposals. Was part of Patni’s Pre-Sales Team for Manufacturing Business Unit. Well versed in Pre-Sales activities with the objective of new business lead generation and target customer identification, proposals / capability presentation at customer location. Has good exposure in Pre sales in the areas of bid management, preparing response to RFP’s, RFI and RFQ’s.
• Experienced in working with Global Customers in several countries such as U.S.A, Canada, The UK, The Netherlands, Belgium and India and is adept to different business cultures
• Demonstrated skills in initiating and setting up of large development projects that included responsibilities as diverse as technology evaluation/planning, proposals, recruitment, team ramp-up, resource planning, infrastructure setup, end-to-end planning, training, delivery & release planning
• Handled onsite co-ordination and multi-site PRB (Problem Review Board) and programme board meetings
• Possess rich experience in offshore project execution with customer & relationship management, in-house team management, estimation, process & progress tracking and status reporting
• Possess broad competence in strategic management by participating and driving new corporate initiatives\[Propel location champion, i2s\] as part of organizational objectives
• Building & fortifying relationship with strategic customers that translates into business
• Design reviews as a Subject Matter Expert on IBM OOAD with Rational Rose/XDE
• Estimation & Design, coding & Unit testing
• Configuration Manager.
• Detailed analysis of requirements
• Test Case preparation, Mapping specification and detailed design specification.
• Detailed analysis of requirements
• Design, coding & Unit testing
• Test Case preparation and detailed design specification.
• Detailed analysis of requirements
• Design, coding & Unit testing
• Test Case preparation and detailed design specification.