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Bilal Abdel-Rahim, Release Manager / Technical Project Manager

Bilal Abdel-Rahim

Release Manager / Technical Project Manager·National Bank of Kuwait

Kuwait

Bachelor's degree, PMP

Work experience

Total years of experience: 25 years, 8 months

Release Manager / Technical Project Manager

June 2006 - Present

National Bank of Kuwait

Al Kuwait, Kuwait

June 2006 - Present

Complex, high paced and demanding project environment:
-Completed and delivered 18 IT projects
-Worked with diverse platforms of development teams for an Elaborative project life cycles
-Managed and maintained Production baseline for testing
-Managed software Release deployments and configurations for multi projects
-Designed, monitored and controlled Project release process to all project environments
-Managed change on seven production replicas for Testing and Training simultaneously
-Managed software deliveries from onsite and offsite vendors for over 150 system components
-Designed and implemented the ITIL strategies for Release management
-Managed and serviced deliveries on the critical path of projects by fast tracking and crashing
-Defined and managed Release Quality Check lists for operational and scope value
-Defined and managed Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
-Identified, assessed and Managed Project release Risk
-Assigned deployment/documentations tasks, and managed priorities.
-Planed and executed Third party vendor software packaging on site for rollouts
-Preformed Release process and packaging inline with QA and QC best practices
-Defined Operational Level Agreements (OLAs)
-Deployed releases to system Testing environments with minimal number of resources
-Planned, acquire, and trained External Resources for project team and product support
-Managed Integration of system changes throughout project life cycle
-Managed stakeholders expectation and requirements
-Managed the solution and execution of upgrades vs. data migration
-Developed. And implemented Organization AD Group policy changes for ISO requirements
-Defined built and developed project technical operation team
-Managed solution gaps to closure
-Designed and developed Release management System
-Integrated Defect management and Release management systems
-Detailed rollback options
-Designed, coded, and used RMS systems
-CMDB

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Information Technology

Application Administrator II

April 2005 - April 2006

Thomson Physicians world

United States

April 2005 - April 2006

-Defined and documented functional and technical specification
-Financial systems, Event Management Systems, Mass Marketing, Publishing Systems
-Maintains a variety of Applications, Provided support for Business team 24/7
-Speaker Management
-Centralized Payment Services
-Managed on going priority changes
-Analyzed & restructured Marketing and Operation Management systems for enhancements, Readability and reuse
-Migrated database Applications from MS-Access database to MS-SQL Server
-Built Ad-hoc complex reports for management
-Preformed query tuning through indexing and normalization
-Managing Application migration to Windows XP and Office 2003
-Built and Preformed QA plans for new releases

Company industry:
Other Healthcare Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Database/Application Developer

April 2001 - March 2005

George Little Management

United States

April 2001 - March 2005

-Managed, Designed, and built an enterprise web application utilizing MS-SQL 2000 and ColdFusion MX. (database driven pages, database driven user access)
-Re-architected and built Company's Canadian Web sites to utilize Macromedia Templates for restructuring Canadian websites for Multi Languages
-Modeled, Built and Maintained over 30 systems using DTS, and Trans-SQL
-Migrated data from SQL 7 to SQL 2000
-Built Ad-hoc complex reports for management
-Preformed query tuning through indexing and normalization
-Setup replication for data sharing cross a WAN
-Mastered MS-Access Projects environment to work and develop on SQL 2000 for optimal development time
-Analyzed & restructured pre-existing applications for readability and reuse
-Designed an enterprise database module that is scalable and expandable to serve as a centralized backend for a multi tier solution
-Designed, Coded, and maintained over twenty VB/VBA applications
-Event management systems (EMS)
-Company HR Services system (HRS)
-Financial System (EIS)
-Marketing and Broadcasting system
-Operation System
-Production System
-Provided support for Helpdesk and team 24/7
-Structured, customized, and executed technical Training sessions for company Employees based on their level of expertise and business needs
-Evaluated Software prior to committing company to any contracts
-expanded server functionality's to accommodate strong business need for faxing and Emailing
-Acquired all technologies needed for company on demand
-Standardized and implemented excellent methods to serve the MIS team environment (The do's and Don'ts in database and Application development)
-Migrated database Applications cross MS-Access database versions 97, 2k, XP, and SQL server
-Mined AS400-DB2 data on daily bases to MS-Access in-order to utilize its capability to generate dynamic and complex business reports

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Information Technology

Technical Consultant

July 2000 - January 2001

Chubb Computer Services for Ernst & Young

United States

July 2000 - January 2001

-Developed Quality Assurance migration programs (from Oracle to Excel)
-Researched and developed mathematical currency conversions for The QA of the Global Account Reporting system
-Performed system quality assurance and repair
-Assisted in System graphical and navigational interface design (Web)
-Evaluated and automated routine maintenance for improvement

Company industry:
Financial Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Project Management Institute

April 2009

April 2009

Bachelor's degree, PMP

United States

PMP Certified

Skills

Release Engineering
Expert
Release Engineering
Expert
Software Project Management
Expert
Software Project Management
Expert
Engineering Change Management
Expert
Engineering Change Management
Expert
Complex Systems
Expert
Complex Systems
Expert
Multi cultural Teams
Expert
Multi cultural Teams
Expert
Project Management (PMP, PMI)
Expert
Project Management (PMP, PMI)
Expert
Web development
Expert
Web development
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert
Systems Engineering
Expert
Quality and Risk Management
Expert
Quality and Risk Management
Expert
Release Management (ITIL)
Expert
Release Management (ITIL)
Expert
Multi cultural Teams
Expert
Multi cultural Teams
Expert
Complex Systems
Expert
Complex Systems
Expert
Engineering Change Management
Expert
Engineering Change Management
Expert
Software Project Management
Expert
Software Project Management
Expert
Release Engineering
Expert
Release Engineering
Expert

Languages

English

Expert

Arabic

Expert

Memberships

Project Management Institute - PMI

Certified Project management Professional

January 2007

Training and Certifications

Certifications
PMP
Project Management Institute - PMI
Jun 2009 - May 2012

Recommendations

Apr 2015

Apr 2015

Head of IT, NBKManager

Bilal, has been the main custodian of all changes made to NBK Hard & Software fo rthe last 3 years. Transition consisted of Chairing the CAB (Change Advisory Board, management of the CMDB (Config Management Data Base) and also ensuring releases were planne d& tested before releasing into Production. He is thorough, diligent & professional. He ensures his teams understand their demarcation lines, he plans, prioritises & endeavours to meet or exceed expectations.