Bilal Abdel-Rahim, Release Manager / Technical Project Manager

Bilal Abdel-Rahim

Release Manager / Technical Project Manager

National Bank of Kuwait

Lieu
Koweït - Hawali
Éducation
Baccalauréat, PMP
Expérience
23 years, 6 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :23 years, 6 Mois

Release Manager / Technical Project Manager à National Bank of Kuwait
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • Je travaille ici depuis juin 2006

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

Application Administrator II à Thomson Physicians world
  • Etats Unis
  • avril 2005 à avril 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

Database/Application Developer à George Little Management
  • Etats Unis
  • avril 2001 à mars 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

Technical Consultant à Chubb Computer Services for Ernst & Young
  • Etats Unis
  • juillet 2000 à janvier 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

Éducation

Baccalauréat, PMP
  • à Project Management Institute
  • avril 2009

PMP Certified

Specialties & Skills

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

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Arabe
Expert

Adhésions

Project Management Institute - PMI
  • Certified Project management Professional
  • January 2007

Formation et Diplômes

PMP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
June 2009
Valide jusqu'à:
May 2012