wissam Bekdash, Project  Manager

wissam Bekdash

Project Manager

Freelancer

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, PMP
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Project Manager at Freelancer
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since January 2015

• Highlighting project risks at the appropriate stage of the project.
• Managing a development team to successful project completion.
• Meeting clients and stakeholders face to face.
• Defining the scope of a project.
• Scoping and planning entire projects.
• Preparing Business Plans
• Cost management for entire project
• Managing multiple concurrent projects simultaneously.
• Maintaining a positive atmosphere in the project team.
• Interviewing and Recruiting the right staff in the right position
• Driving project progress.
• Keeping teams focused and on task.
• Managing the content creation team.
• Ensuring that projects are delivered on time, to budget, and to brief.
• Helping the company to win new business by working in partnership with the marketing department.
• Targeting new markets and new lines in business to increase company’s profile and profits.
• Managing third party suppliers.
• Ensuring that project documents are complete, current, signed off, and properly filed away.

Projects Fields:

• Telecommunication (Mobile Vas)
• 3D printing House

Project Manager at Ebda Solutions
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2012 to October 2014

• Contacting KSA Mobile Operators(STC, Mobily, Zain) and finalizing direct connectivity with them
• Studying KSA market for new business plans and projects
• Preparing and studying business plans for new services
• Developing new interactive concepts
• Contacting and Finalizing agreements with content providers
• Contacting marketing department in all 3 operators in KSA for preparing business and marketing plans for services
• Managing services for launching, marketing, advertising and payments collection
• Meeting with clients and gathering requirements.
• Studying new clients potentials and capabilities to present the suitable marketing plans for services
• Directing technical team to develop applications for the services


Projects/Clients:

• Star Academy 9/Endimole
• X-Factor / FremantleMedia
• Manchester City Mega Promo / Manchester City Club
• Manchester City Subscription service / Manchester City Club
• Al Hayat Newspaper Mobile Service /Al Hayat Newspaper
• Sky News Arabia Mobile Service / SKY News Arabia Channel
• Al Qimma / Rotana
• Al Bir / Rotana
• Interactivity / Rotana FM

Senior Technical and Project Manager at Rotana Group/PAC Limited
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2009 to May 2012

PROJECTS:
• STAR ACADEMY 8
• 1 MILLION COMPETITION
• ALBOOME
• KOORA
• GOAL GOALAK
• ROTANA RADIO
• ROTANA WEBSITE
• NOKIA OVI APPLICATION

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Preparing and studying business plans for new services
• Developing new interactive concepts
• Managing and planning the promotions and advertisement of services on LBC and Rotana TV Channels
• Managing the content creation and collection team for interactive and online services
• Working with Sales. Marketing, Graphic Department and Agencies to assure the goal of the launched services
• Creating and implementing new interactive ideas and competition through online medium
• Following up with the finance department and with the concerned companies and parties for the revenue collection
• Dealing with service providers - Telecom operators (Establishing Direct SMPP Connections)
• Supervising the design production
• Developing PUSH and PULL application for SMS
• Developing a Full SMS Moderation Tool (SMS Filtering, Statistics, Managing services and voting competition…)
• Responsible of the moderation team
• Developing and supervision of the character generators for all Rotana Group including the networking and the maintaining of the servers
• Integrating and production the design/Graphics and promoting them using character generators(RTX/INCA) (Games-Automation-Overlays-Breaks)
• Connecting all Rotana TV’S to the automation system (CONFIGURATION AND DEVELOPING)

TECHNICAL AND SOFTWARE ENGINEER at MT2/DARTS OFFSHORE
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2006 to August 2009

• MANAGING AND DEVELOPING V.A.S SOLUTION AND WEBSITES
• MANAGING AND CONTROLLING THE PROCESS OF ANY NEW CLIENT (TV) AND HIS SERVICES
1. REQUIREMENT GATHERING
2. IMPLEMENTING AND SETTING UP DATABASE, WEB AND WINDOWS APPLICATIONS
3. REQUESTING SHORT CODES FOR SMS TO TV SERVICES (FROM OPERATORS OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS)
4. CONNECTING SHORT CODES TO TV STRAIGHT FROM OPERATORS THROUGH GATEWAY OR THROUGH OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS
5. TESTING AND FINALIZING THE CONNECTION AND GIVING THE APPROVAL ON LAUNCHING THE SHORT CODES ON TV
• DEVELOPING PUSH AND PULL APPLICATIONS FOR SMS TO TV BASED ON .NET DEVELOPMENT (WEB & WINDOWS APPLICATIONS)
• DEVELOPING STATISTICAL WEBSITES
• DEVELOPING INTERNAL WEBSITES FOR INTERNAL ARCHIVE
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT AND TUNING
• IMPLEMENTING AND SETTING UP WEB AND WINDOWS APPLICATIONS ON SERVERS(Locally and Remotely)
• CUSTOMIZING SERVERS (Locally and Remotely) BY INSTALLING SERVICE PACKS, .NET FRAME WORKS AND ALL OTHER NEEDED SOFTWARE (ANTIVIRUSES, UPDATES, ETC…)
• CUSTOMERS’ RELATIONSHIPS (SUPPORT, TRAINING, ETC.)

SOFTWARE ENGINEER at RAFIK HARIRI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – RHUH
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2005 to May 2007

• FRONT OFFICE MANAGER: PATIENT REGISTRATION, APPOINTMENT SYSTEM, ORDER, MEDICAL RECORDS, SYSTEM SETUP
• ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
• WEB DEVELOPMENT USING ASP.NET 2.0+ (using VB.NET)
• GENERAL NETWORKING AND IT SUPPORT

TRAINEE at BEIRUT GOVERNMENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL – BGUH (NOW RENAMED TO RHUH)
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2004 to December 2004

• Networking, maintenance
• Downloading software
• Active directory

Education

Diploma, PMP
  • at Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • August 2014
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Communication
  • at C&E American University
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Telecommunications
Business Logic
Programming
Project managment
Communication Skills

Languages

English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014

Hobbies

  • Basket Ball, Swimming, Attending GYM