Research and Innovation Manager
SSS Process
Total years of experience :26 years, 4 Months
Duties and Responsibilities:
Setting roadmap of company products and initiatives; including definition, prioritization and selection of initiatives
Setting and managing the unit budget
Managing unit resources
Acting as a project manager for internal process initiative
Acting as a project manager for one product in development (still confidential)
Escalation point to unit resources, projects and products
Achieving unit KPIs (based on balance score cards)
Reporting directly to the CEO
Revising and approving business researches and feasibility studies
Revising and approving all products' related marketing materials, including presentations, videos and write-ups etc…
Achievements:
Created the R&I department structure
Set the R&I roadmap
Successfully set the vision and branding for a big product in development; including having a full prototype available
Working as a free lance as a consultant/trainer in the following areas:
PMP Trainer
PgMP Trainer
PMO Consultant
Project/Program Management Consultant
Duties and Responsibilities:
Led the efforts of implementing CMMI-dev ver1.2, level 3 model
Owned and implemented 11 CMMI process areas our of 17 including project management, business analysis, quality control, quality assurance, configuration management, organizational training, organizational measurements, and process planning and management related process areas
Conducted PMP trainings
Conducted process trainings and awareness
Acted as a coach for all project managers to assist them implement and follow the new processes
Acted as an auditor both on the projects and organizational levels
Reported directly to the COO
Achievements:
Successfully achieved getting Estarta CMMI level 3 certified
Organizational Project Management and PMO business unit owner (includes setting the Business Plan and Implementing it)
Organizational Project Management consultancy (Portfolio, Program and Project)
Project Management
Writing Technical Proposals
PMP and PgMP Instructor, includes writing and enhancing training materials and case studies
Managing Projects from procurement along to closure
Managing contracts in terms if contract administration, payments, closure, etc…
Managing Vendors
Communicating with different stakeholders including governmental entities
Preparing RFPs (Request for Proposals) and setting evaluation criteria for tenders
Evaluating technical and financial proposals for different tenders
Scoping and cost estimation
Business Case building including SWOT, Gap analysis, and ROI.
Project Management including resource and time management
Leading QA Teams on various projects and providing required support
Business Analysis and reverse engineering
Quality Planning and Organization
Preparing Test Plans, User Acceptance Criteria and User Acceptance Plans
Preparing Test Cases/Test Scenarios
Creating Automated Test Scripts
Reporting and tracking bugs
Project Management responsibilities including resource, time and cost management and estimation.
Business Requirements Gathering and analysis, this includes setting use case diagrams, use cases, functionality matrices, and user requirements documents
Leading Quality Engineering Teams in different Projects
Participating in writing Proposals-owning the Quality sections to respond to different RFPs including e-government Qatar
Planning and designing testing, this includes setting test/quality plans, test methodologies, traceability matrices, test cases/test scenarios.
Bug tracking system administration
Testing
Reporting and tracking bugs
Quality Assurance and assuring the process is being followed for the different phases of a project
Business Requirements Gathering and analysis, this includes setting user requirements documents
User Interface Design and setting user interface and functional specifications
ERD and DB tables design
Testing and reporting bugs
Localization (English to Arabic)
LQA (Localization QA)
The PgMP is a high level credential issued by the Project Management Institute starting October, 2007, I am the fifth PgMP certified person in Jordan.
