Senior Project Manager
Advanced Electronics Company
Total years of experience :20 years, 9 Months
-Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.
-Managing the production of the required deliverable
-Activity and resource planning
-Organizing and motivating a project team
-Controlling time management
-Cost estimating and developing the budget
-Ensuring customer satisfaction
-Preparing and maintaining project, stage and exception plans as required
-Managing project risks, including the development of contingency plans
-Monitoring progress
-Managing reports and necessary documentation
-Deploy a wide variety of training methods
-Monitor and evaluate training program’s effectiveness, success and ROI periodically and report on them.
-Manage training budget
-Provide opportunities for ongoing development
-Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project
-Helping the technology team to switch from waterfall to agile.
-Scrum Master for 3 products. Met goals for quality, schedule & cost
-Support the product owner with effective management of the product backlog.
-Supporting technology teams on agile principles, practices and tools to ensure efficient delivery.
-Coach the development team in self-organization and promote cross-functionality.
-Assist team in planning Scrum events and Sprints.
-Facilitate Scrum events as requested or needed.
-Work with other Scrum Masters to promote best practices and ensure productivity of team
-Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.
-Helped team to solve problems rather than provide solutions
-Manage projects in JIRA.
-Ensure that release deliverable are submitted and that quality standards defined by the team are consistently met (per acceptance criteria and definition of done).
-Demonstrated ability to mentor scrum teams on agile practices (processes, tools, artifacts and ceremonies), assisting the team to self-organize, leading the team towards a path of continuous improvement
-Facilitate Scrum events as requested or needed.
-Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.
-Lead the training team in AEC to Develop Training material, Simulations and conduct training to HRDF employees for NLG project “National Labor Gateway” www.taqat.sa .
-Manage the NLG training delivery for over +1, 200 trainees over the Saudi Arabia.
-Management the budget to train HRDF” Human Resources Development Fund” technical team on different technologies SAP, Oracle, IVLM, T5, Eliese and Data security and protection .
-Managing and organizing training venue, logistics to achieve effective training and attendance.
-Drawing up an overall training plan.
-Ensure the smooth and effective functioning of training events and special projects.
-Manage, design, develop, coordinate and conduct large or small scale training programs.
-Conduct organization wide needs assessment and identify skills or knowledge gaps that need to be addressed.
-Estimated costs of training operations and subsequently managed them in accordance with the budget to ensure maximum return on investments.
-Assess instructional effectiveness and summaries evaluation reports determining the impact of training on employee skills and how it affects KPIs.
-Provide train-the-trainer sessions for internal subject matter experts.
-Proven ability to complete full training cycle (assess needs, plan, develop, coordinate, monitor and evaluate).
-Establish and maintain relationships with external training suppliers.
-Working with external providers to develop specialist courses.
-Leading, designing and implementing multilingual thirteen versions, and counting, of the enterprise large-scale
WeightWatchers.com including English and non-English versions such as German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish
and Chinese.
- Assisting and supporting the Project Manager in their daily duties
- Worked in coordination with the project administrator and managers to complete the projects - Served as a point
of contact from project initiation to completion.
- Worked with project team members, clients and vendors to coordinate activities, provisioning, environment setup,
installation, and integration testing.
- Allocated resources to various departments and managers as per their needs and requirements.
- Maintained and documented reports on a daily basis regarding the projects
- Leading a team of 5 software engineer and 8 QA on Active Link and Fitbit project, which help the user to track their
weight using tracking device. And integrate those devices into Weight Watcher web site using API.
- Leading a team of nine software engineers on the maintenance project that aims to resolve more than 500 defects
accumulated from all previous website’s releases
- Conducting code review to ensure maximum quality of deliverable and compliance of the code with the internal
coding standards
- Understanding the business needs and drivers for the product/component(s). Making sure that
all code is well-written, well-documented, and well-tested
- Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives. Trace the progress of the team's work and make sure that
the team's resources are properly fully utilized
- Provide status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule, Keep the
project manager and product committee informed of task accomplishment, issues and status.
- Escalate issues which cannot be resolved by the team
- Motivate and inspire team members
- Responsible for interviewing of new teams.
WeightWatchers - NY, USA http://www.weightwatchers.com
• Provide necessary business information
• Responsible for leading complex technology initiatives from project initiation through delivery,
including business analysis, planning, design, and execution of new innovations for Weight Watchers
websites and mobile applications.
• Responsible for planning, processing and performing all jobs in an efficient manner with no assistance from the supervisor
• Creating designs for features and major enhancements
• Providing development estimates of the new features and enhancements
• Understanding the business needs and drivers for the product/component(s). Making sure that all code is well-written, well-documented, and well-tested
• Enforcing departmental coding standards and best practices for product/component(s)
• Performing thorough code reviews of all code
•Analyze system specifications and translate system requirements to task specifications for junior programmer
• Performing required unit testing using NUnit and writing proper building scripts using NAnt
• .NET Technologies/Tools: C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, NUnit, NAnt, NDoc
• Web Technologies: ASP, ADO, VBScript, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, XPath.
• Source control systems: Synergy
• Build .NET-based components to be used in Content Management Systems (GCMS)
• Developing new features and updates for the client’s web site (www.weightwatchers.com).
• Requirements gathering and analysis of client’s internal projects
• Development using C#, ASP.NET, and Oracle database.
• Implemented Test-Driven development using NUnit. Used Nant
• Build .NET-based components to be used in Content Management Systems (GCMS)
• Developing new features and updates for the client’s web site (www.weightwatchers.com).
• Requirements gathering and analysis of client’s internal projects
• Development using C#, ASP.NET, and Oracle database.
• Implemented Test-Driven development using NUnit. Used Nant for build processes, and used Synergy for source control and configuration management
Participate in INJAZ programmed which gives Jordanian youth tools to compete globally, and enhancing the technical vocational capacities of Jordan's rising generation of youth
Building & Programming different applications using Visual Basic.net, C#
Projects Involved:
•IVR System.
Role: junior developer.
Description: this system was develop for Islam Today website for helping people to call the system and leave their question and the system will call the questioner as soon as his\her question was answered
Technology used: C#, VBScript, SQL Server as backend Database
•Archiving system.
Role: junior developer.
Technology used: VB.net, VBScript, SQL Server as backend Database.