Senior Project Manager
Sabre Travel Network
Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months
medium to large scale projects and programs in EMEA to deliver Sabre solutions and implementations.
•Manage teams across Europe and Middle east from Germany, UK, Greece, India, France, Sweden and Bahrain to deliver the projects.
•Develop project plans, project governance and projects documentation.
•Track the projects progress against the baselines, utilizing MS project to develop the plans and generate dashboards and reports to communicate the progress to higher management.
•Lead the steering committee calls with the customers and vendors.
•Participate in educating the junior project managers in EMEA.
•Manage risks and prepare proper mitigation plans.
•Play an active role in establishing the PMO in Sabre middle east through developing procedures, templates and processes based on PMI best practice.
Accomplishments:
•Awarded the technical excellence of the year 2019 on Sabre Online Global.
project information and accurately establish project scope
•Effectively lead and coordinate project teams
•Solve critical issues in a time-sensitive environment
•Develop project plans that identify key issues, approaches and performance metrics
•Manage vendor relationships including negotiating and controlling contracts
•Track project deliverables
•control project variances through root cause analysis and correction
•Implement and manage project changes and interventions
•Develop and present reports on project progress
•Maintain communication with project stakeholders and manage expectations
•Evaluate projects and assess results
•Resolving cross-functional issues at project level.
•Design templates, processes and procedures as member of the PMO
project plans & associated documents including identification & management of project dependencies & critical path in coordination with the senior leadership team, subject matter experts & stakeholders.
•Prepare & ensure compliance to budgetary allocations. Assist team members in Functional Testing.
•Coordinate activities related to project changes and implement contingency plans based on anticipated risks.
•Monitor performance of team members and render productivity enhancement feedback.
•Implement best practices & tools and project management methodology in the organization.
•Negotiate with vendors & suppliers and participate in the recruitment process.
•Update the senior leadership team on cash flow and project progress.
& implemented projects of varied dimensions in compliance to delivery schedules and other SLA parameters.
•Optimized resource utilization and monitored project deliverables using appropriate tools.
•Coordinated with team members & stakeholders to ensure alignment of project deliverables to business requirement of clients.
•Monitored & reported on project progress to various stakeholders.
•Managed change requests and other related issues.
•Liaised with implementers & suppliers like HP & Oracle.
•Generated various reports for the senior leadership team.
Some of the managed projects:
•Data Center Upgrade for The Government of Bahrain
•Disaster Recovery Project for The Government of Bahrain
•IP Telephony Implementation and Integration with Ministries of Bahrain
•Ooredoo Telecom Kuwait LV Implementation
•Disaster Recovery for Kuwait University
•CRM & ERP Implementation for AAA
•Kuwait University Smart Meeting Room Development and Implementation on iPad
•Oracle Database & Business Suite implementation for Kuwait University
•Sybase Implementation for Credit & Saving Bank
•Web based Java Portal Development & Implementation for Ministry of Defense
Accomplishments:
•Member of the team to travel to USA and migrate one of General Motors projects to HP Support.
Job Profile:
•Rendered second line support to ABN-AMRO bank & General Motors projects.
•Conducted Front End & Back End Coding and worked on various database systems.
& implemented smart algorithm to simulate browser behavior based on predefined actions to capture data based on open source API (Http Unit).
•Focused on backend coding using Java, Rhino (Mozilla Engine), SQL, reviewing conformity of developed portions of the application
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