PMO Manager
Hewlett-Packard
Total years of experience :20 years, 6 Months
- Directing project management processes including project planning, communication, risk and change control processes based on HP project management methodology
- Monitoring and control of project activities and supported the management of key projects issues and risks with the project managers and other stakeholders.
- Maintaining a central project dashboard and established a central platform for all project information using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
- Managing project initiation and assessment process with the purpose of alignment with key stakeholders requirements and the business objectives
- Providing support for shared resource management and resolving project conflicts based on business priorities
- Mentoring project managers and facilitated project management fundamentals training for SADAD HP Team
- Projects managed under the PMO Include (Business Continuity and DR Readiness, Application Modernization (SOA), SDLC implementation, Data Center Upgrade, ISO 9001 Quality Management System, among others)
Worked in Quality Assurance Team in STC Onboarding project.
• Led the efforts of testing SADAD new release with backward compatibility
• Acted as backup resource for Quality Assurance Manager
• Attended management sessions
• Provided support to operations teams on online business processes
• Evaluated third party products for automated job scheduling
• Participated in Disaster Recovery and Fail Over tests
• Automated Integration Layer Tests using WMUnit
• Reported recommendations to improve software development process and service quality
• Participated in development of XML test data generators using Java
• Installed and configured JProbe java profiling and diagnostic tools on AIX servers
• Suggested the use of open source tool Grinder for load testing and wrote scripts to automate the call of external services with XML requests
• Executed automated load and concurrency tests and generated statistical reports that identified hot spots (bottlenecks and costly operations) in online transactions
• The collective effort of the performance team eliminated many costly operations in terms of time and memory usage, and reduced the response time of online transactions from 10 seconds to approximately 1 sec
Ministry Of Interior - National Information Center Portal
• Attended training on National ID Card Printing System
• Attended online training on J2EE architecture and Distributed Systems
• Started learning the technologies used in the project
• Worked on simple proof of concepts on JMS, Message Driven Beans, and WebServices.
• Reviewed the solution’s Service Oriented Architecture
• Helped in the setup of the development environment.
• Reviewed Business Processes, High Level Design Document, External Specifications Documents, and Low Level Designs
• Developed Test Cases, Test Scenarios and Test Matrices for various business processes
• Evaluated Test Tools, for functional and system testing of SADAD portal
• Participated in development of Automated Functional Testing Framework using JUnit, DBUnit, and XMLUnit
• Executed manual and automated tests and analyzed test results for various business processes and for SADAD Portal
• Deployed software builds on the testing environment
• Reported and tracked bugs using Issue Tracker and BugZilla
• Conducted knowledge transfer to business support and production control teams working under SADAD Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) contract
• Provided support for banks and billers during their on boarding to the system
• Participated in development of the UAT plan and attended the UAT testing conducted at Arab National Bank
A 2 Month Training Program, spent in the companies headquarters in Khobar, the training was mainly on Web Services, WebMethods Integration Server, WebMethods Broker, and WebMethods Modeler.
Bachelor Of Science from the College of Computer Sciences and Eingeering - Computer Eingeering Department. First Distinction Honor with GPA 3.9 / 4.0. Received the College Award of Merits for Excellence in Student Projects Certification from the IEEE Saudi Arabia Section for Excellence in Academic Acheivment Advaced Electronics Award for Oustdanding Academic Performance