Rami Odeh, Senior Manager

Rami Odeh

Senior Manager

KPMG Saudi Arabia

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
21 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months

Senior Manager at KPMG Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2021

Performance improvement, operation excellence, digital transformation office management, organization change management and project management office management consulting services.

Lead Consultant at Saudi Aramco
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • July 2015 to June 2021

360° Digital Transformation Office (DTO) setup, operate, management, quality assurance & control consulting services

Program Manager at Saudi Information Technology Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2011 to June 2015

Responsible for Program/Project Management Practice Consulting & leading various government IT, Telecom & Government engagements and projects and Programs :

-Perform all aspects of Project management
-Develop costing proposals for projects, perform risk analysis and manage change control
-Make sure that the risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies across the project/s and work streams are being identified and actively managed.
-Make sure that all project’s RAIDs are visible, and there is a consistent method to measure RAIDs
-Capture all Risks that may impact a project at the start of a project on the Risk Register, make decision on what Risks to worry about, Performing Risk Ranking, Scaling, Capturing the probability of Risk occurring and then to capture and balance mitigating actions and place a monetary value on the Risk (Pricing the risk).
-Perform Project Quality planning by defining the standards, and implementing quality plans (QA), and performing periodic checks to make sure the quality indicators is improving (QC) by inspecting and verifying the project’s product & work performance data using the quality metrics and by applying the suitable one or more from the “seven quality control tools” and techniques.
-Perform detailed analysis of service provider or supplier proposals, contracts, amendments, and terms
-Develop, document and implement project strategies that will provide optimal results for the client balancing key operational, technical, financial and contractual requirements
-Develop and manage client and supplier communications, maintaining the integrity of client policies and practices
-Present recommended strategy and detailed analysis throughout the engagement lifecycle
-Support special projects as well as routine and ad hoc reporting requirements
-Develop and cultivate relationship across various levels of the client organization
-Actively participate in account planning and solutions development within current engagements
-Expert knowledge in the spec, pricing and contracting processes related to Clients Government, hardware, software & IT Engagements and projects
-Assist with the development of clients information management standards and evaluation of technology trends
-Assist with the comprehensive cost/benefit analysis and preparation of business cases for new projects
-Contribute to business area assessment, user needs analysis and business systems design

Assigned Program/Projects:

-KSA Public Security: Networking Solution-(Active/Passive), Project Budget is15 Million SAR
-KSA Diplomatic Special Forces: Total Integrated Solution- (Data Center, Business Process Management, Workflow and Portals), Project Budget is 12 Million SAR.
-Riyadh Municipality: Total Integrated Solution-(Networking, Oracle Apps), Project Budget is 25 Million SAR.

Senior Project Manager at Hoshan Integrated Systems
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2009 to September 2011

•Responsible for providing Project Management expertise, and working closely with the client, and internal Consultants/Developers, to make sure all project milestones are met.
•Driving the SDLC process for overall project and multiple sub-projects
•Clarifying and communicating project objectives and success criteria.
• Coordinating with stakeholders to ensure that project scope and requirements are clearly defined and documented.
•Forecasting and tracking team work hours against project budgets.
•Establishing and maintaining clear and consistent project communications and timelines.
•Managing project scope and risks, resolving and/or escalating issues, as necessary.
•Maintaining detailed project logs and providing timely project summaries and reports.
•Implementing and monitoring quality standards on all project deliverables.
•Contributing to ongoing process improvements.
•Interface with various department heads and Head Business Process Excellence to identify key success levers that are critical to the achievement of the business objectives
•conducting audits to highlight issues and gaps in processes at all Al-Hoshan Integrated Systems Company branches in KSA
•Implement the process excellence strategies in the zone as per the business needs across the value chain of Sales and Operations

*Some of my assigned Customer projects: Saline Water Conversion Corporation, Saudi Electricity Company, Ministry Of Culture and Information, Ministry Of Interior, Ministry Of Education, Ministry of Health, Security Forces Hospital, Mobily Teleco. Company.

Project Manager at Omnix international L.L.C
  • Jordan - Amman
  • April 2008 to May 2009

• Responsible for project execution and delivery of projects that may be fixed price, large, or complex in nature, or a number of smaller projects running concurrently.
• Provides overall leadership to consultant and/or customer teams to ensure project completion is within budget, on schedule, and has met or exceeded customer expectations.
• Utilizes project management methodologies to effectively plan, monitor, control and report on project(s) of high visibility.
• Responsible for Project budget and margin.
• Provides leadership for the development of product enhancements and new business process support. Facilitates creation, capture, packaging and sharing of knowledge capital that is easy to use by consulting teams on project sites.
• Identifies current and projected gaps in ability to deliver integrated business solutions in strategic business partnerships with clients (i.e. Skill gaps, availability of resources, technology gaps, third party relationships etc.)
• Projects managed such as:
Public services and security solutions for Government, Telecommunications, Hospitality, Healthcare and Energy using Oracle utilities (Seibel & SPL Customer care and billing systems)
Some of my assigned projects :(Passport Management System-Iraq, E-passport Management System-UAE)

IT project Manager at iHorizons
  • Jordan - Amman
  • May 2006 to April 2008

•Project Management (visioning & scoping, project planning, controlling team activities, defining milestones, controlling and estimating costs & budget, controlling business requirements and functional specifications, observing timeframe, delivering on deadlines and control deliverables) based on MSF and best practices using EPM - Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution.
•Business Consultations for developing content management solution for ASP Model and other powerful features to support the industry standards and qualify the product to compete with similar solutions in the market.
•Projects managed such as:
 Enterprise Content Management Solution
 Share Point Intranet Portals
 Internet Portals and e-services.
 Customer relationship management solution.
•As a member of the PMO (Project Management Office); many contributions and participations took place such as:
 Participating in Project management processes enhancements.
 Participating in exploring new businesses lines and effective projects selection process.
• Leading many other tasks: Tenders evaluation, technical and financial proposals writing, projects budgeting, projects plans preparation.

Some of my assigned projects :( Aljazeera Bank, Qatar Islamic Bank, QFC, QFA, ASPIRE, QYGA)

Senior Developer/system analyst/Team leader at Asal Technology
  • Palestine
  • August 2002 to April 2006

ASP.NET Internet Application Developer -Delivered e-Learning system (MyClass)
•authored requirements and specifications
•Built system architecture and design for e-learning web applications using Microsoft Visio Professional/ Enterprise Architect (UML Use Case, Sequence and Class design diagrams)
• Intra-net web applications using Visual Studio .NET with Visual VB.NET
Technology used, Microsoft .NET Framework, ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET, C#, C++, VB, XHTML, XML, Web Services, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IIS5.0, Perl, UML and Visio Senior Application Developer
•Lead enterprise architecture team, produced software product architecture and roadmap for enterprise
•Identified and selected enterprise software application development technologies
•Designed and deployed application design patterns for new products
•Designed and implement application design patterns for Clinical Application
•Developed and delivered ASP.NET/ C#& VB.net training for application developers
Technologies used, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 beta, ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server 2000, ADO.NET, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Windows 2003 Advanced Server, IIS6.0, Visio Enterprise Architect, Sharepoint.
Some of my assigned projects :( MyClass eLearning system, Ministry of Higher Education HR & Workflow systems, Hadara group CRM system)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at An Najah National University
  • June 2002

Specialties & Skills

Digital Business
Agile Project Management
Change Management
PMO Management
Program Management
Management-PMP
Business Process Management
Change Management
Digital business transformation program manager
Digital business strategy
Digital innovation
Cloud Computing
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligent
Internet of Things
Big Data
Blockchain

Social Profiles

Personal Website
Personal Website
adigitizer.com

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Digital business transformation management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Implementing ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2014
ITIL Continual Service Improvement (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2015
ITIL Service Operation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
ITIL Service Transition (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
ITIL Service Design (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015
ITIL Service Strategy (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
ITIL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2015
Valid Until:
February 2018
Change Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2017

Hobbies

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