Atallah Aljarrah, Senior Project Manager / Business Development

Atallah Aljarrah

Senior Project Manager / Business Development

Cisco

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, PMP
Experience
17 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months

Senior Project Manager / Business Development at Cisco
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2014

Managing 50+ Million$ large complex projects in MEA region.
Leading the project team and supporting them to have assigned projects delivered professionally.
Manage all delivery aspects from business development to pre-sales to delivery and closing, including Vendors and Stockholders.
Manage budgets and spending of the project in tolls and resources and evaluated reports.
Lead third party partner management and technical/business relationship governance
Technical lead for physucal inftastructure, passive design and datacenter facilty projects in UAE, KSa and Turkey.
Forecasting, defining objectives, structuring, team formation, defining job descriptions, functions / responsibilities, hiring and
evaluations.
Working in a fast-paced team oriented and entrepreneurial environment. Managing a client portfolio and having revenue and account
management responsibility for key accounts.
Identifying new opportiunities and translate them into successfull projects.
Strategic account investment planning.

Implementation Manager GCC at Ericsson AB
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2008 to December 2013

• Managing a 25+ team of Design, procure, deliver and implement FTTx Triple-Play Fiber Network to Home at du locations within UAE and GCC including Civil infrastructure, Fiber and cupper Backbone, network equipment implementation and voice service delivery platform through GOPN fiber to home.
• Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Responsible for the project delivery schedule, cost and quality and achievement of the finance target (Revenue, Profit, Cash Flow.etc)
• Estimate the resources and man-power needed to achieve project goals
• Plan and schedule project timelines and track project milestones using appropriate tools.
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations.
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises and devise contingency plans
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members; influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work.
• Determines KPIs for such areas, monitors the KPI’s within the agreed thresholds reporting any deviation, and conducts analysis to identify weaknesses/improvement areas.
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.
• Creating Customer\Vendors Work Orders and POs.
• Develops and establishes technical and operating standards, installation standards, corrective and preventative maintenance standards, civil infrastructure, Fiber and equipment site inspection standards and overall system performance standards.
• Negotiation of supply agreements, bilateral arrangements and/or alliances with key partners
• Manage budgets and spending of the project in tolls and resources and evaluated reports.
• Managing vendors, resellers and third party consultants.
• Ensures development of and adherence to Ericsson standards in all areas of network and telecommunication services.
• Part of Sourcing and Vendor certification team to hires, trains, and supervises the Network and Telecommunication Services staff; ensures that the staff is empowered to exercise initiative and work creatively.
• 5 IPMs (yearly Individual performance management) with a result of 4 excellent and one Outstanding.
• Produce, monitor and apply appropriate QA procedures to ensure delivery in line with requirements.
• Understand and ensure adherence to safety rules and use of PPE / Safety Equipment and Safe Working Practices, of personnel engaged on site activities

Senior Infra Structure Projects Engineer ISP, OSP planning & Design at DIFC GSS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2007 to August 2008

DIFC / Dubai International Financial Centre is one of Dubai's Government projects which consists of more than 50 units of towers and buildings. This job involved a lot of project managements, fiber route rings, and full redundancy network structure system.
Projects of Firms and Banks completed under my management:
(His highness Sheikh Majed al Maktoum offices, Allen & Overy Bank, Morgan Stanley Co & International Ltd, Herbert Smith invests Bank, Barclays Bank, National Bank of Dubai, Caterpillar Middle East, Society General Bank, Abn Amro Bank, Merrill Lynch Bank, FIM Bank, Schroeder’s Investment, Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd, American Life Insurance Company (Alico), ETC).

Education

Diploma, PMP
  • at PMI
  • October 2017
Diploma, Human Resources Management in Business
  • at NCC London
  • May 2013

International Certification in Human Resources Management in Business ( NCC United Kingdom)

Bachelor's degree, Computer system Engineering
  • at Mutah University
  • June 2004

Computer system Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Rational Portfolio Manager
Rational Team Concert
Team Leadership
Project Management
Problem Solving
Process Improvement/Automation
Project Management
Business/Corporate/Marketing Communications

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Russian
Beginner

Memberships

PMI
  • Member
  • April 2008

Training and Certifications

Initiating and Planning a Project (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
Valid Until:
June 2009
PROPS R4 project management Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2012
Valid Until:
July 2012
LTE RBS 6000 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2007
Valid Until:
October 2007
Infrastructure Build & Design Networks (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2006
Valid Until:
December 2006
Structured Cabling Design & installation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2007
Valid Until:
February 2007
Competence Management course (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
Valid Until:
July 2009
Business communication and correspondence skills (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
Valid Until:
February 2013
LCC Leadership Core Curriculum (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2011
Valid Until:
January 2012