Senior Project Manager, Acting PMO
Tawasol IT
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
• Develop or update project plans for information technology projects including information such as project objectives, technologies, systems, information specifications, schedules, funding, and staffing.
• Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
• Monitor or track project milestones and deliverable.
• Manage the project resources in addition to identify and resolve projects problems.
• Develop and manage work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects.
• Submit project deliverable, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Identify, mitigate and manage project risks.
• Identify and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Prepare project status reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Direct or coordinate activities of project resources.
Project Manager - Modern Telecom Systems
October 2009 - Present
Responsible for project management during the whole project duration, including project initiation/ proposals, project delivery, business contact/ stakeholders management, post implementation review and project close out / handover.
• Preparing project Initiation documentations.
• Setting the budgets and agreeing on the project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Producing project definitions to include validated functional requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• Conducting progress review weekly internal and external meetings.
• Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.
• Acting as a single point of contact for all communications between the customers and the company.
• Managing the staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Updating project plans to include agreed changes.
• Ensuring an effective quality control process.
• Maintaining relationships with stakeholders.
• Responsible for identifying, analyzing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Ensuring that the project conforms to the required standards.
• Conducting regular impact analysis to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other sections of the business.
• Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing and billing.
• Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including supplier base, use of internal and external resources.
• Maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators.
• Organizing and facilitating Project Steering / Operating Committees meetings.
• (May 2010 - July. 2010) Site Manager for implementation of fault clearance centers in Yemen Telecom.
• Define & analyze, and implement the customer requirements associated with the MTSRSB software application MTSRSB & SW Drivers (MTS Remote Service Bureau)
• Tune and Monitor the MTSRSB system performance to achieve the agreed upon KPI's (Key Performance Indicators)
• Update the MTS Project Manager with the technical issues/ problems and propose remedies and/or resolutions.
• Follow-up and assist MTS maintenance team in technical & tuning matters associated with the ORACLE Database Engine, Oracle Application Server and MTSRSB applications
• Site Manager for the implementation of MTSRSB in SUDATEL Sudan.
• Site Manager for the installation, updates, backup and data recovery for the Call Center Project in the Egyptian Military IT Lab; the project is a complete call center support system developed by J-Developer with & Oracle 10g application server as a middle tier and an Oracle 9i DB engine. In addition responsible for the update, migration and installation of TE FCC project into a multi-tier based system consisting of JDeveloper 11 as a development tool, Oracle WebLogic as an application server and Oracle 9i DB engine.
Implementation Manager - Modern Telecom Systems
July 2004 - September 2009
• Managing, supervising and participating in the technical activities of the MTS implementation team assigned to TE FCC project (Upgrade TE fault Clearance Centers "FCC")
Technical Coordinator - Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
August 2003 - June 2004
• Coordinated the technical aspects of the MCIT Geographic Information Systems Committee/ Workgroup, cooperated and communicated with the Committee/ Workgroup members from more than 23 various ministries and state organizations (including all sovereign and officially related Ministries, Governmental Departments and Organizations)
• Assisted the MCIT GIS management and participated in the development and revision of a proposed "Business Model" that aimed to streamline and regulate the Digital Maps/ GIS business & operational activities on the national level to achieve synergy and common understanding between participating organizations regarding Egypt's future strategy for Digital Maps and GIS in light of the MCIT National Plan.
• Reviewed and validated the technical presentations/ proposals presented to the MCIT by international GIS Technology Owner Corporations and national GIS Service Companies and GIS Product Distributors/ Representative Firms.
• Assisted the Manager of the "Minister's Office Operations Support" in the supervision, follow-up and support of six key national projects (Smart Village Project, IT Clubs Project, CIT Professional Training Programs, e-Government Program, Nile University and PC for Every Home)
• Assisted the Manager of the Manager of the "Minister's Office Operations Support" in the onsite visits and the preparation of the respective projects status / tracking reports for presentation to MCIT higher management and to H.E. the Minister of CIT.
Sales Technical Support - Modern Telecom Systems
February 2003 - July 2003
• Review and validate the engineering technical documents produced by MTS engineering team.
• Prepare & organize the technical and commercial offers in accordance with project coordinators.
• Validate, propose, and taking decisions for new tenders.
• Follow-up with international vendors/suppliers to compile company offer.
• Prepare and/or review project Schedules, Bill of Material, and Scope of Work for new in both pre-award and post-award stages.
Customer Technical Support - Modern Telecom Systems
March 2002 - January 2003
• Responsible for Level-2 support for Telecom Egypt engineering/maintenance staff to resolve technical problems in urban / suburban Wireless Telephone Networks (Lucent DECT System)
• Carry-out performance studies in view to suggest changes in network topology to enhance TE WLL DECT Network and achieve design targets.
• Coordinates with level-3 overseas support staff of SRT (the vendor of the SWING network) to resolve system problems and apply software fixes accordingly.
• Interface with different Telecom Egypt sectors/departments to resolve system problems and suggest alternate solutions.
Pre-sales Engineer, Engineering Department - Modern Telecom Systems
November 2001 - February 2002
• Prepare the technical / engineering package for new tenders as requested by sales department.
• Perform the preliminary system planning/studies using topographical maps and/or specialized software.
• Review and validate the output of the MW survey team in preparation for MW link design.
• Perform final system planning and link calculations using specialized software packages (Pathloss 4.0 and Linkit 3.0)
• Maintain an efficient and dynamic process for system design & survey in order to eliminate any non-productive activities.
Planning & Survey Engineer in Libya - Modern Telecom Systems
May 2001 - October 2001
• Employed by SR Telecom, to prepare the complete system study of the SR-500 point - to - multipoint microwave system for GPTC (telephone operator in Libya) . (200 sites)
• Carried-out the preliminary and final system planning using maps and specialized software (MapGrid 3.0, Pathloss 4.0 and Linkit 3.0)
• Ensure appropriate reporting of all activities on a Weekly and Monthly basis in view to conduct Program Review Presentations.
Transmission Engineer - Modern Telecom Systems
February 2001 - April 2001
• Participating in the installation of Vodafone BTS sites.
• Installing SR Telecom sites in rural areas and highways (TE projects)
• Testing and commissioning of SR-500 sites (Part of TE rural system project)
Research & Development Engineer - ALFA Electronics
October 2000 - January 2001
• Design of digital and analog circuits using specialized software (Orcad & Trax)
• R&D of currency exchange boards.
• R&D of power savers.
• Maintenance of currency exchange boards
• Maintenance of electronic PCBs of ALFA products.
• Maintenance and repair of colored televisions (White Westing House)
• Maintenance and repair of sound systems (PASSO)
MANAGEMENT COURCES: • Presentation Skills
• Communications Skills
• IPMA
TECHNICAL COURCES: • SWING Presentation (DECT Standard)
• IRT Presentation (TDMA Standard)
• MDL 2000 Presentation
• Using GPS for Telecommunications
• Fundamentals of GSM
• Introduction to Cellular and Personal Communications Systems & Technologies
• Fundamentals of 3G Networks
• IBM Rational Testing Suite
• Oracle Application Server 10g
• Oracle Weblogic
• Oracle 9i DB Engine