Salahuddin Syed Kazi

Manager, Bids & Proposals Management, ICT and Mega Projects (Specialist), Ooredoo (formerly Qtel), Doha, Qatar, December 2012 to Present
• Formulated matrix teams as required for developing and preparing the Technical, Commercial and Contractual components of the proposals in accordance with the quality management procedures
• Accountable for preparing and submitting more than 20 Tenders, Bids, Proposals, Contracts, Pre-qualifications and responses to RFP in 2013
• Coordinated with cross-functional teams including Technical Solutions, Commercial, Business Development, Sales, Legal, Project Delivery teams, Partnership & Alliances, HSE and Quality Assurance teams to prepare the proposals
• Ensured that all the risks are identified and highlighted to the appropriate teams in order to take the business decision to select the bid; and ensured that risks are planned for and mitigated
• Analyzed customer documents and ensured that all proposal components are delivered and highlighted all additional cost impacts
• Liaised with technical solutions and project delivery teams for sub-contractor management
• Engaged Project Delivery Team to ensure feasibility and is planned in line with resource availability and Ooredoo process and procedures
• Facilitated the preparation of Agreements and Contracts for the Proposals won by the company by engaging Legal, Commercial, Project Delivery and Technical Solutions Teams

Senior Business Process Analyst, Ooredoo, Doha, Qatar, March 2011 to December 2012
• Framework Project Duration: 4 months Consultant : DETECON
o Established Ooredoo wide eTOM based Business Process Framework
• Re-engineering Project Duration: 6 months Consultant : DETECON
o Successfully reengineered the end-to-end Complaint Management Project and monitored and controlled the implementation of two processes and coordinated with focal points from each involved business unit (BU)
• Al-Manara Project Duration: 8 months
o Completed 100% of phase 1 of project for companywide Process update and published 30 processes and established KPIs
• Analyzed the process performance metrics including the KPIs and setup OLAs and other agreements between cross functional teams
• Facilitated ISO 9001:2008 certifications by making amendments to the existing processes

Technical Consultant / Project Manager, National Oil and Gas Services, Qatar, July 2010 to March 2011, (Freelance contract work)
• QNSP project (Qatar National steel Pipes) Duration: 3 months
o Engaged Design consultants to prepare site layout and plant design at MIC (Mesaieed Industrial City) and DC1 and DC2 package for a 100, 000 Sq. Meter plot based on MIC building regulations and requirements
• ICF project Duration: 4 months
o Coordinated project initiation and released RFP for Equipment requirements including all components necessary to operate an ICF production factory
• Developed relations with clients and gathered business intelligence to identify and pursue potential opportunities for the company and coordinated and managed projects

Product Applications Engineer, Product Portfolio Management, Synopsys, March 2008 to June 2010
• Applied the best practices of Project Management and worked with the design team and stakeholders in successfully managing the development and release of DesignWare IP Portfolio
• Managed the design quality validation of AMBA products and rollouts of upgrades and release of new product revisions
• Performed hands-on incident and issue management and performed root cause analysis of failures

Customer Applications Engineer, Customer Management, ViXS Systems, Toronto, Canada, 2006 to 2007
• Managed customers in Asia, provided technical support and assisted them in integrating Video Processor ASIC in PCI/PCIe based systems
• Liaised with the firmware and driver development teams to implement feature requests and tested firmware and drivers before customer release
• Assisted customers in the development and debugging of circuit boards (PCB) and developed proof of concept schematic designs and wrote application notes

Customer Applications Engineer, Customer Management, ViXS Systems, Toronto, Canada, 2006 to 2007
• Managed customers in Asia, provided technical support and assisted them in integrating Video Processor ASIC in PCI/PCIe based systems
• Liaised with the firmware and driver development teams to implement feature requests and tested firmware and drivers before customer release
• Assisted customers in the development and debugging of circuit boards (PCB) and developed proof of concept schematic designs and wrote application notes

Freelance Hardware Consultant, 2003 to 2006
• Configured Agilent ATE test equipment and Executed test vectors
• Supported IBM server customers with technical issues

Digital Design Engineer, Agere Systems (formerly Lucent Technologies), Atlanta, USA, 2000 to 2002
• Debugged timing issues by performing timing analysis of DSP processor
• Generated ATPG test vectors and debugged functional test failures

ASIC Design Engineer, Fairchild Semiconductor, San Diego, USA, 1998 to 2000
• Designed and coded RTL logic of Remote 8-bit I/O expander for I2C bus
• Designed FPGA error counter and entered schematic using ALTERA FPGA tools