Firas Ayyash, Projects and Design Director

Firas Ayyash

Projects and Design Director

Automation United

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication and Software Engineering
Experience
15 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 4 Months

Projects and Design Director at Automation United
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since April 2012

Reporting to the GM annually and quarterly, solving strategic problems, maintaining clients relations before and after project delivery, managing VIP clients, looking for new leads and clients. Monitoring projects progress and reviewing project department reports maintaining schedules and budgets. Maintaining international relationships with manufacturers and solutions providers, taking advanced trainings and attending international events.
Designing professional and effective Low Current Solutions and Home Automation Systems. Maintaining professional and strategic relationships with clients and end users for potential future projects.
On hand experience with Control4, HAI, iNels, Lilin, HikVision, Leaf, Televes, DLINK, and many other solutions, designing, installation, programming, testing and delivery.

Projects and Design Director at ALSAGGAF SONS CO LTD
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2011 to April 2012

-Manages the strategic aspects of large engagements and mitigates any risk.
-Schedule and update projects
-Oversees senior managers and managers working on client engagements
within practice.
-Reviews high-level deliverables across practice.
-Ensures engagement reviews and quality assurance procedures take place
for all practice engagements.
-Develops, implements, and maintains sound business practices.
-Develops and implements strategic objectives for practice that are aligned
with the region's strategic initiatives
-Reports profit and loss figures.
-Helps create pipeline forecasts and broad-based financial picture for
practice.
-Ensures practice meets or exceeds budgeted financial objectives, including
revenue and margin.
-Home Automation projects designing

Junior SAP MM Functional Consultant at Saudi Information Technology Engineering Copmany (SITEC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • July 2009 to April 2011

 Junior SAP Functional Consultant - Material Management
Jan 2011, Saudi Information Technology Engineering Co. (SITECpi), AbuNayyan Group (AAG), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities & duties:
- Gathering requirements in coordination with customer.
- Identifying and resolving business processes gaps and weaknesses, and perform process reengineering.
- Design, configure and implement MM organizational structure and business processes.
- Implementing and customizing Procurement Process, Goods Receipt and Logistics Invoice Verification.
- Supporting knowledge transfer and SAP MM training to end users (technical and managerial).

Projects:
- WITECO project, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, April 2010; procurement and warehouse management processes reengineering and redesigning. Human Resource duties identification and reallocation. Effectiveness, accuracy and well designed processes and duties were delivered. It was two team member work, and we delivered well defined processes and best practice with documentation for each process.

 System Analyst / Project Engineer
Jul 2009, Saudi Information Technology Engineering Co. (SITECpi), AbuNayyan Group (AAG), Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Responsibilities & duties:
- Managing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC); Requirement Analysis, System Design, monitoring the Development, implementation and validating requirements.
- Scope management, Time management, HR management, Communication management, Risk coordination and monitoring, Procurement Management, Cost planning and Quality assurance. Small projects.

Projects:
- SITECpi Pick-to-Light Software Project, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia, November 2009; complete software package design and development to ease the picking and replenishment processes inside the warehouse.

Telecommunication Engineer / Project Engineer at United Telecom
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2008 to April 2009

I was responsible about programming, installing and maintaining Ericsson switching systems.
I was also involved with Fiber Optics projects, as project leader. Planning for fiber optics projects, monitoring, testing and reporting.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication and Software Engineering
  • at Al-Balqa Applied University
  • August 2008

I graduated with GPA 3.71 out of 4, I was the second on my class. My graduation project got awarded from King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau (KADDB) and funded by King Abdullah II Fund for Development (KAFD). The project was about a new system to be installed in the restaurants (environment where ordering service is required), the project name is Electronic Customer Service for Restaurants (ECS-R), and it was an embedded device with PIC microcontroller, Graphical LCD, keypad and wireless unite. This device can be on the table where the user displays an electronic menu to select the order, after finishing the user can review his order and then send it, E-Server will receive the order through wireless network, the order will be split and sent to the kitchen's parts, get prepared and then collected and sent to the customer. My team and I, we designed a prototype of this project and we presented it for the KADDB where the adopted the idea and got funded by the KAFD. A future vision for this project is to be able to pay the bill through the device using credit cards, also to add advertisements that can be displayed for the customer while waiting for the order to be prepared.

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Business Development
Marketing
Key Management
MS project
PIC Microcontroller and Ropotics
MATLAP - Telecommunication
Project Management
SAP Material Management / Procurement
Microsoft Office; word, excel, powerpoint and visio
Process Analysis and Design
AutoCAD 2011
iOS Programming
Home Automation
Low current systems design
Web Design and Online Marketplaces

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Engineering Association (ID: 4/26506)
  • Member
  • November 2008
PMI (ID: 1996500)
  • Member / User
  • March 2011
SAP (ID: S0008178938)
  • Consultant
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

iOS 9 Programming (Training)
Training Institute:
Udemy
Date Attended:
July 2015
Duration:
30 hours
Control4 Designing and Programming (Training)
Training Institute:
Leaf
Date Attended:
April 2012
Duration:
30 hours
Web Development (Training)
Training Institute:
Udemy
Date Attended:
July 2015
Duration:
30 hours
SAP MM (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP
Date Attended:
September 2009

Hobbies

  • Learning
  • Follow up with technology