Bilal Ruby, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Bilal Ruby

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

AlGIHAZ Holding - Telecom / IT Sector

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
Experience
21 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 5 Months

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER at AlGIHAZ Holding - Telecom / IT Sector
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2011

 Demonstrate sound knowledge of sales management practices and best practice management principles, and provide measurement and action to support the activities of the sales.

 Managing the telecom business and driving sales on the defined territory within Saudi Arabia and Gulf region and generating revenues of more than 51 Million SAR.
 Meets financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
 Research and build relationships with new clients and suppliers.
 Plan approaches and work with team to develop proposals that speaks to the client’s needs, concerns, and objectives.
 Position the costing & pricing appropriately through effective customer, competitive and market knowledge.
 Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
 Handle objections by clarifying, emphasizing agreements and working through differences to a positive conclusion and use a variety of styles to persuade or negotiate appropriately.
 Penetrating a large key account in Saudi securing a startegic deal that generated recurring long term business.
 Accountable for the end-to-end delivery performance in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and client satisfaction.
 Identifying of time, cost, resource limits, and risks prior to starting projects.
 Reporting P&L reports to management and maintaining the main management targets in terms if project scope, project budget and project timeline.
 Evaluate staffing metrics, and Service Management performance to determine and manage to an optimal Service Management staffing plan.
 Interact with customer to ensure Project/Service Management and Delivery goals and objectives are clear, and ensuring that these delivery expectations are met.

PROJECTS MANAGER at AlGIHAZ Holding - Telecom / IT Sector
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2006 to December 2010

 Managed the review procedures for verifying BOQs, project plans, and requirement statements, in order to devise procurement, implementation, and management strategies.
 Handled all activities related to the monitoring and control of the project work, against pre-defined measurement baselines.
 Led and managed the development of various project progress and team performance reports for the reference and review of the senior management team.
 Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
 Evaluate staffing metrics, and Service Management performance to determine and manage to an optimal Service Management staffing plan.
 Accountable for the end-to-end delivery performance in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and client satisfaction.
 Interact with customer to ensure Project/Service Management and Delivery goals and objectives are clear, and ensuring that these delivery expectations are met.
 Reporting P&L reports to management and maintaining the main management targets in terms if project scope, project budget and project timeline.
 Liaise with Mobile network major vendors and other suppliers used by MYCOM customers to establish the overall solution requirements and ongoing evolution, such as upgrades, integration, and local customization.
 Identifying of time, cost, resource limits, and risks prior to starting projects.
 Compile and review feature specifications requested by Customer and review with PLM (Product Line Management) in MYCOM.

TECHNICAL LEAD ENGINEER at AlGIHAZ Holding - Telecom / IT Sector
  • Saudi Arabia
  • August 2004 to December 2005

 Responsible for customer systems and own all aspects of support and maintenance of performance management solutions for Mobile Operators from the point of customer acceptance.
 Assuring that the installation completed is according to required quality level, without any discrepancies.
 Take ownership of all issues and ensuring that steps are taken to deliver the services in an efficient manner (writing & providing all support bulletins).
 Handling the quality processes and make quality a priority in the delivery of solutions to customer queries.
 Participation in out of office hours support as required.
 Proactive review and periodic checks of assigned installations and recommending fixes/solutions.
 Perform system health checks and performance tuning as well as capacity planning if it necessary.
 Providing daily system reports with explanations of any abnormality.
 Understanding the working practices and taking ownership of using the tools and infrastructure to effectively deliver the service.
 Provide on the job training for Customers if anything necessary. Advise customers on the use of product features, functions and interfaces.

Networking Security Engineer at .Manhal Computer Service and Trade Co.
  • Jordan
  • August 2003 to November 2004

 Planning and designing Networking security solutions.
 Installing and Configuring of encryption devices from THALES-eSecurity (Datacrypter and Host Security Module (HSM) for Banking System).
 Installing and configuring Cisco router and NTU low and high speed units.
Main Achievement:
 Installing and configuring Datacrypter as well as Cisco routers to securing JNB network (JNB: Jordan National Bank).
 Installing & configuring HSM and gaining preventive maintenance agreement for HSM for top 8 banks in Jordan.

Trainee – BTS & Transmission Division at (FASTLINK) Jordan Mobile Telephone Services
  • Jordan
  • November 2002 to February 2003

 Configuring, installing and commissioning Base Transceiver station.
 Installing microwave system
 Frequency planning.

Trainee – Telecom Division at QuickTEL and Egyptian Electronic Technology Company (EETC)
  • Egypt
  • August 2002 to November 2002

 A full scholarship from Hijjawi Faculty and the Scientific Foundation of Hisham Adeeb Hijjawi (SFOHAH) as a Trainee.
 Telephone set assembly: worked in production line of telephone sets, including assembly, quality control and production management.
 Telecommunications Networking Solutions: Hands-on experience on installation of new switching modules and courses about switching and telecom technologies.
 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO qualifications and quality control.
 Research and Development (R&D): attended lectures about researches to get a better product, and development of systems according to sites requirements.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering
  • at Yarmouk University
  • June 2003

Telecom engineering program that focuses on both the theoretical and practical aspects of telecommunication engineering. Totaling 167 credit hours that offer an engineering program that provides skills in the fundamental concepts of electrical engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, in addition to analog and digital communications. Specialized and advanced topics in telecommunications are also offered such as wireless communications, satellite communications, Microwave , antennas, data communication , computer networks, digital signal programming ,etc The telecom Engineering degree equipped with the practical experiences necessary for success in telecommunications industry, government service, or graduate schools.

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
Network Performance
Application Performance Management
IT Project Management
knowledge in OSS overlay systems such as performance management systems (NMS)
Planning and scheduling of projects by using Primavera P6 software and MS project.
Computer Skills: MS Office, MS Visio, MS Project & Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Skills involving managing, developing and motivating teams to achieve their objectives.
Very active to keep up-to-date with market changes and deals.
Sales and customer interface techniques.
Proposals and bids writings and preparations

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

IEEE
  • Active
  • March 2001
Jordan Engineers Association
  • Active
  • August 2003
PMI
  • Project Manager
  • April 2008

Training and Certifications

CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
4Tech international
Date Attended:
November 2003
Duration:
35 hours
LTE EPC (Training)
Training Institute:
Value engineering
Date Attended:
February 2012
Duration:
15 hours
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Training)
Training Institute:
Rawad El Etqan Institute.
Date Attended:
April 2008
Duration:
35 hours
Standard user, Advanced metrics and Data importation for Mobile performance management System (NIMS (Training)
Training Institute:
Mycom International Co.
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
30 hours
Primavera 6 Basics and Advanced levels (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Gihaz Training & Capacity Building Center.
Date Attended:
May 2008
Duration:
35 hours
ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Valid Until:
January 9999
Advanced Modules for Mobile performance management system (NIMS PrOptima) (Training)
Training Institute:
Mycom International Co.
Date Attended:
April 2007
Duration:
15 hours
Corporate Forecasting, budgeting & cost control (Training)
Training Institute:
Marcus Evens
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
10 hours
Report writing and documentation. (Training)
Training Institute:
Al Gihaz Training & Capacity Building Center.
Date Attended:
January 2008
Duration:
5 hours
SUN Solaris 10 Essential SA 100 (Training)
Training Institute:
SUN Training Centre
Date Attended:
October 2009
Duration:
25 hours
CCNP training (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
February 2014
Duration:
35 hours
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2011
Valid Until:
July 2017
SUN Solaris 10 admin part 1 SA 200 (Training)
Training Institute:
SUN Training Centre
Date Attended:
November 2009
Duration:
35 hours

Hobbies

  • Very active to keep up-to-date with current IT and Telecom affairs.