Ibrahim Alowis, General Manager for Execution Support

Ibrahim Alowis

General Manager for Execution Support

MCIT

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Strategic Information System
Experience
15 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months

General Manager for Execution Support at MCIT
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2020

Ensuring Telecom Deputyship strategic goals achievements through strategic planning, portfolio & program management, public & private partnership, initiatives & projects acceleration.

Working as a lead for a strategic PMO for Telecom & Infra Deputyship with MCIT

Coordination & Communication Director at Ministry of Communication & information Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2019 to March 2020
Program Manager at Ministry of Communication & Information Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2018 to March 2019

I worked with Telcom Infrastructure Deputyship team under Delivery Support department to manager & lead shared major tasks to ensure the delivery of numbers of initiatives with Visison 2030 VRPs & MCIT Strategy.

project manager at SAVC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2017 to November 2017

I have worked as Project Manager to number of Corporation & Privatization Projects. SAVC as holding company is establishing its subsidiaries through corporatizing GACA (General Authority for Civil Aviation) entities ( such as Airports) into a LLC ( Limited Liability Company). I managed the transformation of Dammam Airport into DACO ( Dammam Airport Company) ensuring that all necessary tasks are completed as planned such as ( Org Chart development, Process & Procedure development, Legal, etc.)
I have also worked closely with our consultants to privatize RAC (Riyadh Airport Company) which was planned for a private Stake Sale. My role was to lead & drive the major activities to complete Due Diligence Phase, manage & coordinates between multiple stakeholders; build the VDR (Virtual Data Room)

Project manager at Swedtel
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2015 to February 2017

I workred as a project manager to oversee Technical Monitoring Project which is a contract with Communications & Information Technology Commission (CITC) to perform all activities related to technical monitoring of Universal Services (US) sponsored by Universal Services Fund (USF). My main role to handle all project management activities starting from developing project plan (scope, schedule, quality, risk, resource, etc.), teams management on the fields, monitoring the progress update plans based on progress, develop reports of the progress, customer management.

Manager (A), Projects at AEC / BAE Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2015 to June 2015

AEC was established in 1988 under the directives of the Government of Saudi Arabia, the Advanced Electronics Company is an offset program company and now a recognized leader in the field of modern electronics manufacturing, system integration and repair and maintenance services.

AEC is one of BAE Systems sub-contractors that handling different military projects. As part of an industrialization project, I am working as BAE Systems employee within a project control team where projects are monitored for different project management elements (Planning, Governance, Risk & Opportunity, etc) then reported to projects director & VP reviews.
My main role is to support project managers in order to lead their projects to success in terms of compliance to Life Cycle Management (LCM) Framework. LCM Framework provides the effective management of projects, enables the sharing of good practice, effective corporate governance.

Project Manager,PMO Manger at National Center For Assessment
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2011 to January 2015

My main responsibility was to be in charge of establishing a whole new PMO in NCA starting by analyzing the needs of project management practices to implementing and running NCA PMO. the PMO has to include all its elements (People, Process, Tools).

In order to understand the needs, I have manged multiple projects since the begnning of my career in NCA. These project defer in type (IT, Educational), Size, Cost ( 2 - 50 M). Some of them can be considered as a Program rather than a Project.

During the management of these projects, the establishment of NCA's PMO has started. it's begun with hiring project managers as a quick-win strategy.
then, with a help of a consultant, the rest of PMO's components are built up, including:
PMO Charter, Processes (PMO Processes, PM Processes), PMO Strategic Plan, Change Managment Plan ..
and Finally, a Project Management System (EPM) has been developed and customized based on NCA's requirements to automate the PM processes as well as reporting system (dashboards).

the outcome experience so far:
- Project management
- PMO Set-up
- EPM Admin
- Business Process Management
- Business Analysis
- Change Management

Software Engineer at National Center For Assessment
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2007 to September 2008

I played a role of a Project Manager as well as Developer for many web applications for the organisation. Also, I have supported Qiyas' It teams in many applications development and implementation.
I have also manged number of contractors to deploy and upgrade new system to the organisation. such us Exchange server.

the outcome experience :
- Software Development
- Project Management
- System Administration
- Contractor Management

Web Developer at Oger Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2006 to February 2007

Developing Web application using .NET, developing Sharepoint application and webparts.

Education

Master's degree, Strategic Information System
  • at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
  • February 2011
Diploma, English Language
  • at Swansee University
  • August 2009

I have taken an ESL course to enpower my academic English language

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Saud University
  • January 2006

Specialties & Skills

Business Analysis
Project Management
MS Project & EPM
Project Management
Business Analysis( esp. IT)
Contractor Management
Program Mangement
Team Leadership
PMO Processes
Risk Management

Languages

English
Expert

Memberships

PMI
  • 2112163
  • June 2011

Training and Certifications

PMI- Schedule Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2016
Risk Management Professional (RMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
RMP prep. (Training)
Training Institute:
Sitespower
Date Attended:
August 2014
Duration:
30 hours
PMI Global Congress 2012-EMEA (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
May 2012
Building & Transforming the Next Generation PMO & Portfolio Management (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI
Date Attended:
September 2011
EPM User Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Method
Date Attended:
July 2012
TQI (Training)
Training Institute:
Institute of Leadership & Managment
Date Attended:
April 2012
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
TQM (Training)
Training Institute:
Institute of Leadership & Managment
Date Attended:
March 2012

Hobbies

  • Tennis