Ruba Shafie, High Touch Operations Manager

Ruba Shafie

High Touch Operations Manager

Cisco Systems

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Project Management
Experience
17 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 7 Months

High Touch Operations Manager at Cisco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since November 2014

♣ Responsible for providing high touch relationship management services to Cisco strategic customers
♣ Formulate continual improvement strategies to optimize customer’s perceptions of service and support.
♣ Understand customer’s business, vertical market trends, financial complexities and monetary flow.
♣ Identify, build and maintain relationships with customer’s internal management.
♣ Act as single point of contact for operational issues
♣ Provide customers with updates on escalated issues.
♣ Act as single point of contact for operational issues
♣ Provide customers with updates on escalated issues
♣ Coordinate and conduct weekly conference calls to provide status reports to customer.
♣ Create and present quarterly reports to customers with analysis of customer’s support needs.
♣ Proactively assesses customer issues, needs and program implementation
♣ Manages high profile critical technical and political issues both within the customer’s organization and throughout the Cisco internal escalation chain.

Management Consultant at Merit Consulting
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2014 to October 2014

♣ Perform analysis on customer's requirements and identify/propose a solution
♣ Perform Market & Research Analysis
♣ Contribute to client communications and develop key messages
♣ Review internal procedures, mechanisms or policies, and ensure these procedures are adequate and functional.
♣ Ensure that procedures comply with industry standards, top management's directives, human resources policies and regulatory guidelines.
♣ Assist in industry, competitive and company analysis (strategic, financial, operational) as well as market research for benchmarking
♣ Assist in analysis and documentation of as-is capabilities about business processes, people, and technology in order to develop solutions for potential growth strategies, market entering strategies, and Due Diligence.
♣ Assist in implementation activities related to new solutions.
♣ Collect and document information on client's current business environment (revenue, profit, market share).
♣ Organize research materials; creating an audit trail; documenting assumptions.

PMP, ITIL and Microsoft Technology Trainer at compubase
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2011 to December 2013

o Responsibilities
 Carrying out training needs analysis
 Carrying out performance assessments to determine the skills gaps between current and desirable learner skill levels
 Designing training programmes appropriate to the skills needed
 Developing an appropriate mix of formal and informal development activities
 Ensuring the learning environment and resources support learner needs
 Designing course materials and other documents such as handouts, manuals and exercises
 Preparing the learning environment and resources, including setting up IT equipment where appropriate
 Delivering training programmes in both a formal (e.g. a classroom) or informal (e.g. floor-walking) setting
 Supporting and coaching learners using learning technologies to deliver skills
 Evaluating the effectiveness of training programmes and learning outcomes
 Maintaining appropriate records of learner development
o Courses Include:
 ITIL Foundation
 PMP Exam Preparation
 ITPM - Project Management for IT professionals
 Programming with Visual Studio .NET 2010
 Visual Studio 2008
 ASP.NET
 Installing and Maintaining SQL Server 2008
 Sharepoint 2010 Overview for IT Professionals
 Configuring and Administering Sharepoint 2010
 Programming with Java
 Oracle 11g R2 Administration
 CRM 2011 Administration and Customization
 SQL Reporting Services


o Clients Include:
 Ministry of Presidential Affairs
 GASCO
 ADCO
 ADMA
 ZADCO
 INJAZAT
 ADEWA -Abu Dhabi Electricity and Water Authority
 AD Municipality
 Ministry of Presidential Affairs - National Canter of Meteorology and Seismology
 Emirates ID Authority
 C4 Group

Project Management Office Coordinator at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 2009 to June 2010

o Responsibilities
Progress Reporting; Produce and compile reports on progress and status of programme activities according to an agreed schedule
RAID Management Process; Ensure all RAIDs are captured and that all required information is captured when RAIDs are submitted
Plan Management; Ensure, through follow-up with project and programme leadership that plans are updated in accordance with the agreed schedule
Document Management; Ensure efficient version control of key documentation
Change Control Process; Serve as the repository of change requests as well as co-ordinate impact assessments required for the change requests
Project Finances; Compile project finances as submitted by project managers and aggregate to Programme Level on an agreed periodic basis

Senior Project Coordinator at dot.jo
  • Jordan - Amman
  • September 2007 to June 2008

- Communication point between the customer and the assigned team, training and documentation.
- Managing projects starting with the requirements gathering phase and ending with the delivery of the website to the customer.
- Supervise the work of the assigned team and follow up on the schedule.
- Report all projects handled to the Team Leader.
- Hold meetings trying to solve any existing problems.
- Writing tasks and sending them to team members.
- Writing minutes of meeting.
- Client follow-up and attention by phone, email, and visits.
- Manage work between coordinators and development teams to ensure highest quality of work and in minimum time.
- Supervise the work of developers, designers, data entry, and business development teams in coordination with the schedules.

Teacher Assistant at NYIT
  • Jordan
  • May 2006 to September 2007

Conducting labs for the undergraduate cmputer science and IT courses such as Java, Oracle and Assembly.
Help students get better grades by organizing and giving learning tips.

Instructor at IEEE-Student Branch-University of Jordan
  • Jordan
  • April 2006 to May 2006

Programming in C# training course instructoe.

Software Developer at Syndian Technologies
  • Jordan
  • September 2005 to December 2005

A developer for a web application, an interface to a vehicle tracking system that uses the received position via email or SMS and draws the track traveled on an online map.

Trainee-Software Developer at Fastlink
  • Jordan
  • July 2004 to September 2004

A software developer for a windows application, E-Library system, user interface using C#.NET

Education

Diploma, Project Management
  • at Project Management Institute
  • April 2010
Master's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at New York Institute of Technology
  • June 2006

GPA 3.94 Honor student of computer and electrical engineering department at NYIT.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at University of Jordan
  • June 2005

GPA 3.52 A prize worth of 450 JD (corresponding to 30 credit hours) as a partial scholarship in recognition of good work

High school or equivalent, Scientific Branch
  • at Rosary College
  • June 2001

GPA 96.7% •Achieved the fourth place on the national level in the DELF (Deplome D'Etude de Langue Francais) levels 1and 2, and the seventh for levels 3 and 4

Specialties & Skills

MS Word, Excel, Access, Power Point
Visual studio .NET frame work including C#.NET, VB.NET, ADO.NET, and ASP.NET
Teaching
public speaker
Job Organizing and Division

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
CCENT (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2018
ITIL Expert (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2017