Soni Thomas, Senior Project Manager

Soni Thomas

Senior Project Manager

International Systems Engineering

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Diploma,
Experience
33 years, 11 months

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Total years of experience :33 years, 11 months

Senior Project Manager at International Systems Engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since November 2012

Currently working on delivering projects on the Future support solutions programme of BAE Systems.

Have also played the key role in the setting up of the PMO within ISE.

Worked on the upgrade of the existing ERP and for the implementation of the HR & Payroll, ESS,

Project Manager / Business Analyst at International Systems Engineering
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2007 to October 2012

7.Project Management of the Deployment of a secure virtual network to store “Restricted” documents for BAE Systems in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This high priority, high profile project had 7 Engineers flown from the UK. The hardware for the entire project, including blade servers (5 nos) and thin clients (100 nos), Secure ID tokens etc were also procured and shipped from the UK. Daily conference calls were established with key stakeholders in the UK to address issues and mitigate risks to the project.
No of Stakeholder:50+

6.Project Managed and Delivered a 2MB WiMax Solution.
The project was to deliver a WiMax solution between the HQ and a satellite office based 45 Kms away. The objective was this link was to be a secondary link to the existing MPLS and to automatically start functioning in the event of the failure in the MPLS.

5.LANDesk Implementation: The products were to be deployed to satisify an audit recommendation. Responsible for coordinating with various team including the Project Sponsor, IT Security, Vendor, Technical Team etc.
Responsibilities involved: Requirements Gathering, Vendor Management, Communication Mgmnt, Quality Mgmt and Reporting.

4.Responsible for Business Analysis & Project Management for our Customer, BAE Systems.
Web based work flow system spanning 3 organisations to keep track of correspondence from origination to closure.Stakeholders were:
oMinistry of Defence - (MODSAP)
oBAE Systems
oMinistry of Defence (UK)

3.Web based supply chain management system used by following stakeholders:
oRoyal Saudi Naval Force
oBAE Systems
oSMSCMC
oVT Ships (UK)

2.A web based work flow solution to manage RFQs on International Systems Engineering by BAE Systems.

1.SAP Router Decommissioning and Disposal Project. This project involved the migration of print services from an UNIX server to a WinTel server seamlessly and transparently without any disruption to the business in Saudi Arabia.

Business Analyst at British Aerospace Plc
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2005 to June 2007

Was responsible for Business Analysis and Project Management of the following systems:

•HR management systems
•Appraisal system for BAE SYSTEMS employees in KSA
•Action tracking system for recording and reporting on Aircraft. This system is used by BAE SYSTEMS to report to the Royal Saudi Air Force.
•Change management and asset management systems.
•An Online portal hosting various tools to support employees in their development.

Analyst Programmer at British Aerospace Plc
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 1996 to December 2004

The major development projects include:

•A Capability management tool which records and reports on employee skills available and highlights any shortfall. The system is currently being used by users in the Quality and Operational Support functions in KSA and the UK.
•Payroll analysis system, used by BAE SYSTEMS for invoicing the Al Yamamah project in KSA.
•The KSA Core data system that collates and holds data of Employees and Dependants in the Kingdom. This database forms the backbone of the BAE Systems intranet in KSA.
•A travel system for managing travel of all expatriates and their Dependants in KSA. The implementation of the system helped the travel team in manpower reductions.
•A Visa and document tracking system used across BAE SYSTEMS in KSA
All Saudi and other national

Technology Used:

Visual Basic, VBA, SQL, MS Access, ASP

Software Executive at Akhil Systems Pvt Ltd. New Delhi, India
  • India
  • September 1992 to August 1996

Was primarily involved in the Analysis and development of Hospital management systems.

The main projects involved were:

•Developed the Outpatient management and Payroll Systems for -‘Hospital for Orthopaedics, Sports medicine Arthritis and Trauma (HOSMAT)’, Bangalore
•Developed a reporting module for Apollo Mallya Hospital, Bangalore
•Developed a Hospital management and Inventory control systems for PVS Memorial Hospital, Cochin.
•Comprehensive Hospital Management Software for Ernakulam Medical Centre, Cochin.
•Outpatient Management Module for Healing Touch Hospital, New Delhi.
•Developed the Blood Bank Management System and Inventory Control systems for Shree Satya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences. Andhra Pradesh.
•Developed an Export Invoice Processing Solution for Coffee Exporters.


Technology used:

Clipper 5.01, Clipper Summer 87, Visual Basic 3.0
Novell Netware V3.11, V2.2, Windows 3.1

Network Administrator at Bharath Cancer Hosptial
  • India
  • August 1990 to August 1992

Responsibilities included training users, backup of the databases and development of ad-hoc reporting for the management team.

The Hospital had a LAN with 6 nodes running Novel Netware V2.2. The tools used were Clipper 87 and dbase IV

Education

Diploma,
  • at Project Management Institute
  • July 2011

PMI Credential Details are as follows: PMP No.: 1432268 Earned: 16 Jul 2011 Renewal Date: 15 Jul 2014

Diploma, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at DB Polytechnic
  • July 1990

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Database designing
Business Analysis
Software Project Management
Six Sigma Black Belt
Certified 6 Sigma Black Belt
Project Management Life Cycle
Business Analysis
Database Designing
Proposal Writing

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Kannada
Expert
Tamil
Intermediate
Malayalam
Expert

Memberships

Project Management Institute
  • Member
  • January 2010

Training and Certifications

APM - Project Scope and Quality Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2006
Valid Until:
June 2006
APM - Project Human Resources and Communication Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2006
Valid Until:
September 2006
Microsoft Project 2010 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2012
Valid Until:
April 2012
Six Sigma Black Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2008
Valid Until:
July 2008
APM - Project Management Framework and Integration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2006
Valid Until:
June 2006
Association for Project Management Exam Preparation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2008
Valid Until:
November 2008
APM - Project Time and Cost Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2006
Valid Until:
September 2006
PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2012
PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2012