Belal Al-akhrass, Senior Manager

Belal Al-akhrass

Senior Manager

PWC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Bachelor's degree, IT - Software Engineernig
Experience
19 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 10 Months

Senior Manager at PWC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since December 2018

Management and Consultancy

Senior Projects Manager at IDEMIA Identity and Security
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2011 to November 2018

Mission:
Full responsibility of the implementation
- Manage the delivery phase according to the project plan and per the defined SAFRAN Morpho methodology to reduce overall risks and maximize productivity.
- Regularly track progress in activity, deliverables completion and quality levels against the plans, and take actions to recover any discrepancies.
- Generate Change Request Forms as required and obtain appropriate customer and internal approvals, in line with project governance standards.
- Update project plan as needed and manage scope changes so that profit margins are maintained or increased.
- Represent the project externally and internally by communicating and reporting on project status to customer and internally to all stakeholders.
- Produce regular and accurate progress reports and present the project status, reduce miscommunication risk and ensure traceability of decisions.
- Manage project budget including P&L during the full life cycle to ensure budget is met.
- Manage 3rd party suppliers, both internal and external, in order to secure the delivery targets.

Participation in pre-sales activities to:
- Review and ensure proposals and contracts are realistic and achievable from a cost, quality, and time perspective.
- Generate project plans and develop detailed business processes documentations.
- Prepare detailed implementation schedules and cost estimates. - Identify, analyze and quantify risks ensuring steps are taken to mitigate them.

Major Achievements:
Project Manager for the following projects
1. Population Registration and ID Card project (PRIDC).
2. E-Border Project for Abu Dhabi airport (IRIS, Face Recognition, Finger prints, ePassport and e-ID Card
3. Visa system project

Business Solutions Manager at InfoFort Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2010 to February 2011

Mission:
• Responsible for the oversight, planning and managing all activities of one or more projects, from conceptual planning to final acceptance by users.
• Establishing and updating plans with actual and forecasts.
• Ensuring project objectives are in line with both program objectives and organizational goals.
• Executing and managing the InfoFort Solutions Site Survey
• Assist in forming the solution process for business opportunities.
• Provide and oversee solutions and operations response
• Closely work with Local IT Team to provide the technical Solution before signing the contract.
• Closely work with Regional Business Solution Team to follow the company standard solutions.
• Report to the Country Manager
• Quality and cost management
• Maintaining and developing relationships with Partners and Customers project members
• Constantly monitor and report on progress of the project
• Responsible of the project scope, goals and deliverables
• Interface directly with the client
• Procurement and utilization of project resources.
Business Task:
• Assist in maximizing sales order leads.
• Provide sales and marketing support in terms of product literature, tender response and product demonstrations.
• Leading and coordinating requirements elicitation by outlining the system's functionality and delimiting the system.
• Costing, Proposal Writing, Solution Design, Vendor Negotiations
• Handle the Proof of concepts (POC) & POT.
• Provide Leadership & Support
• Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities.

Senior Solutions Consultant at Omnix Internationl
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2009 to September 2010

Mission:
• Ensuring all project requirements and/or objectives is properly documented in a business case and/or project brief and vigorously pursued.
• Ensuring project objectives are in line with both program objectives and organizational goals.
• Establishing and updating plans with actual and forecasts.
• Understand the company products and product lines.
• Technical coaching on IBM Products (Rational, Cognos & InfoSphere)
• Determining and understand Functional and Non-Functional requirements for IT solutions.
• Create high-level and detailed system design for software projects specially Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) e-services.
• Enhancement of existing customer operations System-Components.
• Object Oriented Software Engineering Methods specially RUP methods.
• O.O Analysis & Design systems using Rational Rose, Requisitepro and RUP 7.
• Design and implementation of Configuration Management and Change Management Projects using Clear Case & Clear Quest V.7.

Business Task:
• Leading and coordinating requirements elicitation by outlining the system's functionality and delimiting the system.
• Proposal Writing and Solution Design
• Handle the Proof of concepts (POC) & POT.
• Prepare Technical specifications of IBM Rational CM products
• Identifying and understanding problems and opportunities.
• Identify and design the most appropriate Rational, Infosphere, Cognos and Mendix solutions to meet the customer's requirements and close the business to deliver the solution.

TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANT / Rational Specialist at GTFS-CLIENTSOFT / BIN ZAYED GROUP
  • United Arab Emirates
  • February 2007 to January 2009

Mission:

•Specifying and Eliciting Software Requirements.
•Design and implementation of Configuration Management and Change Management Projects using Clear Case & Clear Quest V.7.
•ClearCase MultiSite Configuration and ClearQuest Integration Solution.
•Administer ClearCase, ClearQuest and BuildForge under Windows and UNIX.
•Object Oriented Software Engineering Methods specially RUP methods.
•Use-Case modeling by outlining the system’s functionality using UML.
•O.O Analysis & Design systems using Rational Rose, Requisitepro and RUP 7.

Business Task:

•Giving presentation and demonstrations of IBM Rational CM products.
•Handle the Proof of concepts (POC) & POT of SCM pillars.
•Prepare Technical specifications of IBM Rational CM products.
•Identify and design the most appropriate Rational solution to meet the customers requirements and close the business to deliver the solution.
•Provide product education to key customer and Business Partner reps.
•Involved in installation and implementation of the product.
•Organizing seminars and training for mid & senior-level employees.
•Support for Rational Software, maintenance, delivery and troubleshooting.

Software Engineering – System Analysis & Design at Riyadh House Company (AL-Jeraisy)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2005 to January 2007

Mission:
•Specifying and Eliciting Software Requirements.
•Object Oriented Analysis & Design systems using Rational Rose, Requisite pro and Rational Unified Process 2003.06.13.
•Designing and implementing Electronic Library Software involved in entire software lifecycle and VS. Net.
•Design and implement a content management system project for Al-Jeraisy web site.
•Organizing seminars and training for mid & senior-level employees.

Business Task:

The assessment, design, and implementation of Requirements Management and Change Management Solutions for Riyadh House Est. - KSA (6 Months): A change management solution and requirements management solution are designed and implemented for RHE, on Rational ClearQuest for the purpose of managing change requests. For change management and requirements management, a standard process is designed for each one of these modules based on software engineering best practices. These processes are enhanced by customized implemented Rational RequisitePro and Rational ClearQuest for better applying and empowering the designed processes.

Support for Rational Software and the EL Project troubleshooting.

IT Consultant - Software Engineer at Method Technology,
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2004 to April 2005

•Specifying and Eliciting Software Requirements and Targets.
•Object Oriented Analysis & Design systems using Rational Software 2003 such as Rose, Requisite pro, Clear Quest, Clear Case, SoDA, and Rational Unified Process.
•Object Oriented Software Engineering Methods specially RUP methods
•Use-Case modeling by outlining the system’s functionality using UML Notation
•Designing and implementing Project Management Software involved in entire software lifecycle and VS. Net.
•Design and implement a content management system project for a Method Technology web site.
•Organizing seminars and training for entry-level employees.

Business Task:
•Customer side visit & fast response for the client complains.
•Support for Rational Software, maintenance, delivery and troubleshooting.

Education

Bachelor's degree, IT - Software Engineernig
  • at Philadelphia University
  • June 2004

My study focus on Software Engineering Methods such as Jacobson RUP, and learning the development life cycle such as waterfall , spiral etc. and how to develop (Engineering and Re-Engineering) the SW and services within the whole project life cycle. GPA : Good

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Microsoft Office
Object Oriented Design
Rational Rose
· Proficient in all Windows Applications such as MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Flash.
· Designed and implemented part of a Flight reservation system
· perfect programming knowledge of: object oriented c++ (cpluzpluz), visual c++ (cpluzpluz) 6.0, visual basic 6.0, visual st
· CASE Tools such as; Rational Rose 2000, Requisite pro, for system analysis & design.
· O.O Software Engineer Methods such as Jacobson, RUP methods And UML Notation.
· O.O Software Engineer Methods such as Jacobson, RUP methods And UML Notation.
· PCs Hardware/Software systems and components specifications Skills.
· Good Knowledge in Networking Standards, Technologies and protocols: OSI & TCP/IP.
· Good Knowledge in Networking Standards, Technologies and protocols: OSI & TCP/IP.
· Excellent Knowledge in Solaris 8 Operating System, installing SUN Hardware & Software.
· Excellent Knowledge in Solaris 8 Operating System, installing SUN Hardware & Software.

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
November 2012
IBM Certified Administrator- Rational ClearCase (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2007
Valid Until:
July 2007
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2011
Valid Until:
February 2011

Hobbies

  • Reading High Tech Books