Project Management Officer
American University of Beirut
Total years of experience :15 years, 9 Months
• Report directly to the Vice President of Information Technology and assist her in handling, implementing, following-up, and monitoring projects and IT tasks.
• Consolidate information on all ongoing and planned projects, and coordinate with different IT teams to keep track of projects progress.
• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and build intelligence dashboards to help in decision making
• Perform various business and financial data analysis based on KPIs and metrics
• Review and analyze IT-nature initiatives for all departments within AUB and make sure they are aligned with the mission and vision of the IT Department.
• Prioritize and categorize IT-nature projects based on the 10 key strategic initiatives of the IT Department
• Work closely with the Office of Strategy Management to continuously assess the performance of the IT Department
• Introduce new KPIs to benchmark the performance of the IT Department against comparable institutions
• Track and screen all incoming /outgoing correspondence including preparation and analysis of progress and financial reports, and ensure the follow up and resolution of issues/action items.
• Coordinate various functions of the IT Department, including communication, contract negotiation, and vendor management with local and international suppliers and vendors.
• Manage all software licenses across AUB, as well as prepare annual operating expenses and capital expenditure budget drafts.
• Ensure systematic and structured contact with stakeholders through verbal and written communication channels, events, and news dissemination.
• Manage and organize the logistics of meetings, presentations, workshops, as required and record minutes of meetings.
• Part of the Evidence-Based Healthcare Management Unit (EHMU), a cross-disciplinary research unit that contributes to the development, improvement and strengthening of management and leadership at AUBMC and other national and regional healthcare services through the promotion of evidence-based decision making
• Collect and statistically analyze clinical data retrieved from electric registries at AUBMC
• Work closely with the clinical informatics team at AUBMC to identify KPIs and filter data
• Build excel-based and doctor specific optimization and simulation models to improve scheduling at AUBMC’s Surgery Department.
• Managing day-to-day duties in a cellular research lab
• Designing and performing experiments to test hypothesis (Viability and Cytotoxicity Assays, Cell Cycle Analysis, Ceramide Measurement, Cytochrome c release, and Immunoblot assays.
Key Projects: - Value of Corporate Governance in FamilyRun Firms: A Comparative Survey through the World - NPV Drug Simulation - Improving Appointment Scheduling at the American University of Beirut Medical Center using a Simulation Modeling Approach (MBA Thesis) Key courses: - Operations & Process Management - Performance Management - Models for Decision Making - Leadership & Behavior in Organizations - Marketing Management - Intermediate Corporate Finance
PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCES 1. Shahine et al. CD434, a promising synthetic retinoid, in the treatment of Adult T-cell Leukemia/ Lymphoma. (Submitted to Journal of Experimental Hematology). 2. Shahine, S., Abou-Lteif, A., Bou-Chedid, M., Nasr, R. , Bazarbachi, A., Dbaibo, G. and Darwiche, N. CD437, a promising synthetic retinoid, in the treatment of Adult T-Cell Leukemia/ Lymphoma. 2nd King Hussein Institute for Biotechnology & Cancer MENA Cancer Research Conference, Amman, Jordan, October, 2009. 3. Darwiche, N., Shahine, S., Abou-Lteif, A., Bou-Chedid, M., Nasr, R., Bazarbachi, A., and Dbaibo, G. The Synthetic Retinoid CD437 Induces Growth Arrest and Apoptosis in T-Cell Lymphomas and HTLV-I Associated Adult T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma. Keystone Symposia: “Cell Death Pathways: Apoptosis, Autophagy, and Necrosis” Vancouver, British Columbia, March 12-17, 2010.
