Ra'ed Abu-Laban, Technical Manager / Consultant

Ra'ed Abu-Laban

Technical Manager / Consultant

Statistics Center - Abu Dhabi (SCAD)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
24 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :24 years, 3 Months

Technical Manager / Consultant at Statistics Center - Abu Dhabi (SCAD)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since May 2013

Project Management & Technical consultancy for statistical projects (surveys) automation

- Manage development team
- Requirements specification
- Design the solution architecture and its components, which include:
•iPad application (for survey collection)
•Web-based (ASP.NET) back office application for review & audit collected surveys, data sync (webservice), reporting, administration (users, centers, samples, ... ) ... etc.
•Oracle DB
•Oracle BI dashboard (to monitor field work)
- Database design + building the final datasets for output & processing teams
- Coordinate with project stakeholders for business requirements, UAT, project updates/meetings ...


Participate in e-Statistics project, which based on the following Oracle products

Oracle 11g Database
Oracle SOA, ETL, BPEL, B2B, Weblogic ...
Oracle ODI & EDQ
Oracle BI & Data warehouse
Oracle Exalytics
Oracle Linux

Technical Delivery Manager at CADD Emirates
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2011 to May 2013

Projects management
Presales
ECM Technical Consultancy

Solutions Manager - Presales at ITQAN - Al Bawardi Computers
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2010 to October 2011

Presales
ECM Consultant
Solutions Consultancy, demonstration and proposals preparation

Project Manager / Technical Consultant at ITQAN - Al Bawardi Computers
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2002 to November 2010

Project Manager / Consultant in the following:
1-Document Management Systems - ECM ( OPENTEXT Livelink, MS Sharepoint ) implementation & customization.
2-Business Processes Automation, e-government projects (analysis, design & integration).
Skills : .NET (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#), SQL Serve, Oracle, ECM skills - implementation, customization & development on top of it, and Database systems & Reporting
++ Projects:
-GASCO: Analyze customer’s requirements for documents & information management (on corporate level and projects level). Managing, analyzing & designing an Interface application between GASCO and its EPC contractors for exchanging documents & transmittals (uploading / downloading documents with their metadata), using Livelink EDMS as backend for documents archival and notification
-Household Expenditure & income survey: Managing & leading the project team + analysis & design the system, using: Oracle, .net (Web & PDA App.) + OLAP
-Executive Council of Abu-Dhabi: Analysis, design and implementation for web-based system which automate all council processes (Correspondence management, legal affairs, sessions planning, procurement), along with document management system (Livelink) implementation for archiving & retrieval. Technologies used: Oracle 10g, Livelink, .NET
-Dept. of Planning & Economy: Automated HR / ERP web-based system, which automate the department’s processes workflow for HR activities (Appointments, Leaves, Allowances, Promotions...
Technologies used: .NET, Livelink, SQL 2000, MS Reporting Services, IronSpeed (forms building tool).
- Organization & Management Dept. : Automation for Dept's processes & workflows thru web-based system (using .NET) integrated with Livelink.
- Dolphin Energy Ltd: Implementing a complete EDMS Solution based on Livelink & its Modules. Building a system for upload/download documents with their metadata
-Participated in many presales activities and Demos preparations for acquiring business.

Software Engineer at AE ReSolutions
  • Jordan
  • April 2001 to June 2002

- Worked as SQL Server DBA in building a Payroll System for the company.
- Worked as UI Developer in building Al-Bawardi Enterprise Portal (www.ae.co.ae).
- Worked as UI, ASP, VB COM and Database (SQL Server) Developer in building a collaborative web based system that customize and integrate multiple third party systems ( RightFax TM, Livelink TM, ABBYY TM and MS Exchange Server ).
- Worked at Dubai E-Government project, specifically at Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing ( DTCM ). This is a web based project that integrate multiple third party systems ( RightFax TM, Livelink TM ) trough their API’s, Using VB, ASP, SQL Server 2000, Crystal Reports.

Software Developer (part time) at ONEWORLD Software Solutions
  • Jordan
  • September 2000 to March 2001

Software Engineer
1-) Worked as a part-time GUI Developer in building Sprockets.com.
2-) Worked as a Java/Oracle Developer in building an Airlines Reservation System (this was my second graduation project). The used Java technologies are RMI, JDBC, and Swings. The database was implemented using Oracle 8.

Software Engineer (intern) at ONEWORLD Software Solutions
  • Jordan
  • March 2000 to August 2000

Trainee in Web Development
1-) Built a web solution for recruiting new employees (Recruiting, Resigning, Reports, Statistics . . .). This web application is being used now by the human resource departments overall the company's centers.
2-) Worked as a GUI Developer in building Sprockets.com (bugs fixing, enhancements, adding new features . . . ).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Yarmouk University
  • February 2001

- GPA : 78.4 %. - Rating : Very Good. -Ranked First on my class in Computer Engineering Dept. among 17 graduate students

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Consultancy
IT Solutions
Solution Design
Management & Leadership skills - PMP
.NET Technology (ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#, XML & WebServices)
Database Design & Programming - SQL Server 2008/2012 & Oracle 10g
Business Processes Automation
Reporting Tools (MS Reporting Services & Crystal Reports)
Document Managment Systems ( EDMS / ECM ) - OpenText Livelink
Portals - MS Sharepoint (SPS)
Visual Basic, COM/COM+
HTML/DHTML , JavaScript
Java stuff, Advanced Java Technologies (RMI, JDBC, Servlets, . .)
Records Management
Systems Analysis & Design
HR / ERP Systems
Presales

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Engineers Association
  • Electrical / Computer Engineer
  • February 2001
Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • December 2007

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional - PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
SmartGlobal
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
35 hours
ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
Adept
Date Attended:
July 2015
OpenText ECM Certified Consultant (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Valid Until:
February 2008
Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2000
Valid Until:
September 2000