Aram GHANNADZADEH, Project Manager

Aram GHANNADZADEH

Project Manager

3W Networks

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master of Sciences in Renewable Energy and Information Systems
Experience
6 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :6 years, 8 Months

Project Manager at 3W Networks
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2014 to August 2016

3W Networks is a system integration company deploying IT & Telecommunication and life safety systems to clients in the Middle East and Africa.

Lead Project Manager for the Energy/Power project sectors delivering complex IT solutions to tier one customers.
 Successfully delivering multiple systems integration projects and achievement of project milestones by identifying risks, maximizing Teamwork effectiveness and profitability of projects within the sector, achieving a 12% improvement in GP.
 Proactive Change management of project deviations and time critical activities, controlling projects financials and negotiating variation orders as a result of scope change.
 Supervising a team of Engineers & Technicians (15 people) to deliver solutions at site, submitting timely technical drawings and documents to the client using a proven Project Management Methodology framework to achieve repeatable execution, using established PMO standards and practices.
 Reporting to the Director of Projects, authoring monthly reports for the executive management team demonstrating achievement of performance in KPI’s and identifying emerging project risks.
 Managing internal and external stakeholders, creating an environment of collaborative team working.
 Approving and defining SOW, T&C’s in support of the Legal and Commercial team and assist in the negotiation of payment terms and contract delivery schedules to reduce the company’s exposure and risk profile.
 Define the procurement schedule and validate the purchase requisition and purchase orders, maximizing cash flow and predictability of budget achievement.
 Manage and liaise with in-house and client Logistic teams to achieve on-time and effective movement of project assets.
Clients and Project Values
 DEWA Project portfolio (15 projects of 132/11kV substations) - $3m
 DAELIM (Telecommunication, Telephony and CCTV systems) - $3m
 THALES KSA (SDH & PDH telecommunication and transport systems) - $1.5m

Project Manager & Technical Consultant Energy Middle East at itron
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2012 to November 2014

o Itron is one of the world leaders in Metering hardware and systems solutions for Electricity, Water and Gas sectors.
 Creating Work Breakdown Structures to quantify and assign tasks to achieve milestones successfully.
 Maintaining a trusted relationship and a regular communication with clients to enable our teams to sell additional services, software features to satisfy the final requirements and optimize the solution.
 Subject Mater Expert (SME) performing functional, technical and acceptance tests, deploying solutions to clients, successfully generating savings and product & system awareness to end users.
 Trainer for field customer maintenance staff, preparing and delivering structured courses, transferring system knowledge to reduce support requests resulting in improved system “up-time” and cost savings.
 Produced engineering document deliverables improving the site efficiency and quality of installation and procedures.

Clients and Project Values
 AMI Electricity Project in Pakistan (IRG) - $5m
 AMI Gas Project in Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE (AL FANAR) - $200k
 AMR Gas Project in The Avenues Mall, Kuwait (GFlame) - $150k
 Prepayment Gas Project in Al Bustan Towers, Abu Dhabi, UAE (AL FANAR) - $130k
 AMR Gas Project in Sharjah, UAE (SEWA) - $50k
 AMR Gas Project in Karachi, Pakistan (SSGC) - $50k
 Prepayment and AMR Gas Project in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (Uzbekenergo) - Pilots
 Smart Grid Project in Dubai, UAE (DEWA) - Pilots

System & Technical Support Manager Energy at itron
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2011 to August 2012

Deployed, installed, integrated, validated and supported the following systems:
o Prepayment and electronic banking / Self-service kiosk payment
o Advance metering Infrastructure (AMI) / Advance Meter Reading (AMR)
o Meter Data Collection (MDC) / Meter Data Management (MDM)
o Walk by and Fixed Wireless Network
 Providing management of the technical support team, driving design validation initiatives to ensure that managed services and delivered solutions are fully compliant with specifications and contract requirements.
 Lead a team in the creation of two private Access Point Network (APN) with the telecom Operator “du” providing the management of GPRS sim cards for test and implementation purposes which improved the percentage reading rates of the mobile devices.
 IT coordinator for regional users, acting as first line support with IT central management to support and troubleshoot the internal requests and supervise the regional Servers/Routers & Network to increase the productivity of the employees. (Products, Network, Active Directory, Software, Database...)

Project Manager Prepayment at CARTES CADEAUX DISTRIBUTION SERVICE (CCDS)
  • France
  • July 2010 to January 2011

CCDS is a Join Venture of SODEXO and CREDIT AGRICOLE CONSUMER FINANCE deploying complete electronic banking cards programs solutions in France.

Leading the B2B card programme project using web services and electronic banking applications to maintain the relationship and contracts with customers. (Canal+, San Marina)
 Defining specifications and operational costs and potential revenues based on forecasted client usage.
 Establishing project schedules and resources to meet client demand profiles.
 Executing functional and technical tests to validate solutions prior to operational deployment.
 Setting up an incident management tool to automate and accelerate the provision of support services.

Oil & Gas Consultant QHSE at Primagaz
  • France
  • October 2007 to April 2008

Primagaz is one of the leader of bottle Gas distribution in France.

Studying operational plant and creating safety models and assessment to measure compliance to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 by creating visual diagrams of the functional safety systems. Defined the SIL (Safety Integrity Level) and provided reports and analysis to the management with safety evaluations and scoring.
Carried out plant audits resulting in the preparation of tailored training presentations which address the critical findings of the audit to improve safety working practices.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Sciences in Renewable Energy and Information Systems
  • at ESIEA
  • February 2010

One of the top French engineering schools specialised in Information Technology and Electronics, offering a 5-year degree comparable to a Master of Sciences.

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Contract Documentation
Teamwork
Project Management
Microsoft Word
Customer support
Field audit and deployment
Trainer
Microsoft Excel
IT Support
IT setup

Languages

French
Expert
English
Expert
Persian
Intermediate
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

RF and Fixed network solution software and processes (Training)
Training Institute:
Itron
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
120 hours
End to End prepayment solutions software and processes (Training)
Training Institute:
Itron
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
60 hours
Oracle DBA Workshop Lvl 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
May 2011
Duration:
50 hours
Meter Data Collection solution for Subject Matter Expert Level. (Training)
Training Institute:
Itron
Date Attended:
May 2013
Duration:
60 hours

Hobbies

  • Games
    Backgammon, chess, poker, tarot. Using strategies, mathematics and probability to win in a competition.
  • Events and Communication
    • Organization of the Corporate Karting competition for 10 people. Mai 2013 • Weekly Project meeting 2012-2014 • Video conferencing for Workshop in Pakistan with 5 utilities(30 people) Sept 2012 • « The Birthd4y P4rty » organized weekend for 200 people. Mai 2009 • Communications and coordinator of Sailing club and student’s office of ESIEA 2004/2007
  • Sports
    Volleyball, tennis, soccer, sailing, squash, running, handball, basketball, golf. Regional champion of basketball. Several tournaments in soccer.