Senior IT Manager
LEO A DALY
Total years of experience :23 years, 11 Months
• Manage the Company IT projects in the Middle East with a total value of $50, 000, 000.
• Lead IT team in analysis and consultancy of projects to design, implement, and test end users IT solutions.
• Engage with clients in the project early phases to put the initial solutions requirements and design.
• Lead and manage the preparations of IT tendering documents.
• Review Technical projects proposals and take part in the evaluation and selection process of the qualified vendors.
• Mentor Project Vendors, providing overall direction and oversight in the creation of client work products
• Effectively communicate project status with supervisors and clients.
• Manage work in such a way that the results are both of distinctive quality and useful to the client in terms of productivity and ease of use.
• Provide specific guidance to engaged vendors to ensure that project focus is on target and work is accomplished on time and of the highest quality standards.
• Conduct periodical system reviews and status meetings.
• Review project technical submittals documents.
• Take part in the solutions architecture design and integration between different systems.
• Manage the UAT and Client Handing over plan.
•Manage mega size projects with large development teams in different courtiers (UAE, Italy, KSA, and Egypt).
•Responsible for meeting revenue and capacity targets.
•Collaborate with senior management and sales teams on sales, pre-sales meetings with clients.
•Proactively involved in the sales and pre-sales lifecycle to allocate resources and/ or recruit timely.
•Develops demand forecasts with sales team on large accounts to assist department in planning and delivering end-to-end services.
•Support direct management in other business and operational development initiatives, as required.
•Grows long-term relationships with clients and capitalizes on equity and partnership opportunities.
•Plan, execute, control, and deliver Enterprise projects throughout their life cycles.
•Clearly define project scope, constraints, assumptions, and risks working on their mitigations and contingency plans.
•Lead development of requirements, data models, and all documentation throughout project lifecycles.
•Translate project requirements into project objectives and tasks.
• Lead team of 40+ members from Requirements gathering to deployment and support.
• Assemble, maintain, and develop project team.
• Oversee development of support systems, encompassing management reporting, payment approval, and accounting interfaces.
• Drives automation and maturity to the PM’s supporting systems together with the process improvement department This includes but not limited to other functional areas resources/ processes, capacity, budget and expenses management as well as revenue reporting
• Plan, execute, control, and deliver Enterprise projects throughout their life cycles.
• Deliver projects within allocated budget, planned schedule, and as per identified quality standards.
• Manages the day-to-day operational and tactical aspects of multiple or large scale projects.
• Manage projects based on different technologies with various development teams in different courtiers (UAE, Italy, KSA, and Egypt).
• Anticipates clients’ needs and proposes alternative business solutions.
• Clearly define project scope, constraints, assumptions, and risks working on their mitigations and contingency plans.
• Lead development of requirements, data models, and all documentation throughout project lifecycles.
• Translate project requirements into project objectives and tasks.
• Mentor the project team throughout the life of the project. This includes providing guidance to the team on tasks, task dependencies, techniques, and deliverables and task roles.
• Highly interact with client, onsite consultants and the offshore team to exceed expectations and mitigate project risk.
• Review detailed analysis, functional specifications, and technical specifications ensuring requirements are properly addressed and communicated to the offshore teams.
• Assemble, maintain, and develop project team.
• Manage projects design and implementation phases based on the client given business requirement.
• Investigate advanced technology, document and deliver training for others to use in their delivered systems.
• Lead the development team during the different project life cycles and till the project delivery.
• Participate in the planning process of eBusiness solutions.
• Develop high quality functional modules that meet the business requirements of the project.
• Research and track new web technologies, develop service applications, and analyze business requirements as they pertain to web-based systems.
• Monitor and review developers and provides constructive feedback to ensure a high level of quality.
• Coordinates with the QC department to resolve issues and integrate enhancements as needed
• Develop, implement and deliver high quality internet and intranet portal solutions within an allocated time frame. Design and document complex databases of eBusiness Solutions. Create Database objects, discuss and refine database schemas.
• Work to build applications and enhancements that meet functional specifications, application development standards, and support requirements.
• Develop and build XML Server-side web-scripting using ASP. Uses knowledge of web technologies, including C#, VB .NET, Java Script, HTML, XML, ASP .NET, database modeling tools and/or database interactions.
• Certified Project Management Professional; Project Management Institute. • Employee of the Year 2008 – Dedication award. • Microsoft Award; Excellence in Technical Team Leadership 2005. • Employee of the Year 2005 – runner up – best implementation award. • Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. (MCSD .NET). • Master of Science in Information Technology preparation.