Mohammad Samara, Project Manager and Business Analyst

Mohammad Samara

Project Manager and Business Analyst

Al-rowad ITS

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management information System "MIS"
Experience
15 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months

Project Manager and Business Analyst at Al-rowad ITS
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since October 2013

My responsibilities as PM in Software development project for company’s client are:
• Develop Project management plan and other related project documents
• Organize the requirements gathering workshops with the stakeholders and the End users
• Prepare Requirements documents which include “functional Non-functional requirements, use cases and activities diagrams”
• Presenting project status updates and results to the management
• Work closely with the upper management and decisions maker in features and issues prioritization
• Create and maintain the Project Schedule and other project constrains
• Managing the Stakeholders and the commutations among all involved teams
• Manage Project Implementation (deployment, Training, Acceptance sessions)
Projects and Achievements
• UAE Civil defense System (Project Manager )
- New secure Platform for UAE- CD Department developed by using Agile Methodology, to facilitate the daily activities of CD-staff and increase the productivity of the employees & public satisfaction
• UAE - Ministry of interior (MOI) Portal / Business Analyst
- As BA I am responsible on the requirements gathering efforts
- Public portal that serve the UAE citizens and residence

Project Manager at aspire-Infotech
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2012 to September 2013

Project Manager and Business Analyst
• Develop Project management plan and the related tasks within the project.
• Manage the requirements gathering workshops with the end-users
• Gathering, analyzing and documenting clients and users requirements
• Prepare Requirements documents which include “functional Non-functional requirements, use cases and activities diagrams”
• Manage and follow up the development progress
• Manage Project Implementation (Production, Training, Acceptance)
Projects and Achievements
• UAE Civil defense System
Worked as PM on sub-projects on the system
• UAE - Ministry of interior (MOI) Portal
Worked as Business Analyst lead adopting Change driven approach

Project manager/Business analyst at Yahoo
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2009 to April 2012

• As JR Project Manager I manage all phases of the software development lifecycle (using agile methodology) for dozens of custom solutions.
• Collect requirements Analyze requirements
• Make an acceptance test periodically with the client
• Follow up all changes in Data Base, forms and reports
Projects and Achievements
• STC “Saudi Telecom company” web portal “Etisalat “Emirate telecom company ” web portal “Weyak Portal”
• Several commercial websites and campaigns

Product Manager at Maktoob
  • Jordan - Amman
  • November 2008 to November 2009

•Managing Web Consumer Portal Management “Portal for STC”
•Led the Business Analysis role for STC portal "M3com.com.sa"
•Gathering, Analyzing, and prioritizing client, business and user requirements
•Prepared the Business Analysis documents for M3com project

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management information System "MIS"
  • at Philadelphia University
  • June 2007

Specialties & Skills

Web Project Management
Software Project Management
Requirements Gathering
Business Analysis
Client Handling
Requirements Gathering and documenting
Software Project Management
Requirements Analysis
Business analysis
Software analyst
Project management
Quality assurance
Agile Project Management
Quality Assurance
Quality control
MS Visio
Websites development
web portal management
usability
System integration

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • Member
  • May 2015

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Writing effective software requirements (Training)
Training Institute:
Quality partner
Date Attended:
August 2010