Yara Aji, Project Manager

Yara Aji

Project Manager

SHUAA Capital

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

Project Manager at SHUAA Capital
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since July 2008

o Program / Project Manager (in the PMO Office):
§ Implementation of all aspects of project management framework: preinitiation
and vendor selection, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring,
controlling and closing processes
§ Responsible for the co-ordination and completion of projects, which
included setting deadlines, assigning responsibilities, monitoring and
summarizing weekly projects’ progress presented to senior management
§ Business processes improvement through the introduction of workflow
automation and elimination of manual intervention
§ Major projects management included a Trading Platform, a Customer
Relationship Management (MS Dynamics), the automation of a monthly
dashboard presented to senior management and a major business initiative
which required coordinatio

Team Leader and Network Engineer at Nokia Siemens Networks
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2007 to July 2008

Team Leader: (Feb 2008 - July 2008)
Performing all management related tasks, from resource allocation, time
management, cost monitoring and project management perspective
Mobile Network Security Auditor: (Jan 2007 - July 2008)
Network Security Assessment and Audits performed on VAS platforms involved in the telecommunication network, including Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Analysis & Management, Reporting, and OS Hardening.

o Location Based Services Solution Engineer: (May 2007 - July 2008)
§ HP-UX installation and iGMLC Commissioning,
§ Acceptance Test Plan: Quality Assurance process included development,
documentation and execution of test plans and test cases in order to ensure
high quality in service launch.

o Mobile IP & Network Engineer: (Apr 2007- July 2007)
§ Full documentation for IP backbone: site diagrams performed, CISCO
routers/switches and PIX firewalls configuration was documented
§ Project Management & Technical Documentation (including Solution
Architecture Document, Project Management Plan and Project Schedule) for
various projects:
§ Instant Messaging and Presence Server (IMPS)
§ Location Based Services (LBS)

System Integration Tester at Nokia
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2006 to January 2007

Testing, reporting and solving defects related to provisioning (of subscribers and/or services, through HLR, NPM, NPS, Eserv), charging (analysis of Charging Detailed Records), and specific VAS services (such as SMS, MMS, Portal, Voice and Video Mail, Ring Back Tone) provided by the network.
Reporting and Tracking defects was performed through QC (Quality Center), defect management tool

Project base at SIEMENS
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2005 to June 2006

Project for Oil and Gas wells monitoring and control, using Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC).
The system was developed with high-availability remote monitoring and control of oil and gas wells, using SIEMENS PLCs technology. The project was properly managed, applying the Project Management Framework, and was delivered ontime, and within budget.

Education

Master's degree, Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management
  • at American University of Sharjah (AUS),
  • January 2011

American University of Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates Master of Science in Engineering Systems Management, graduated in Jan 2011, with a cumulative grade point average of 3.91/4.0

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering
  • at American University of Sharjah (AUS)
  • June 2006

On the Dean’s List during my university studies; graduated in June 2006 with a cumulative grade point average of 3.96/4.0 . Graduated with SUMMA CUM LAUDE Honor (June 2006) · Government of Sharjah Award for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Achievements (May 2006)

Specialties & Skills

Systems Management
Integration
Network Security
MS Word, Excel, Power Point
Microsoft SharePoint
MS Visio and Project
Programming Languages: C/C++, Java and Visual Basi

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert
Spanish
Intermediate
Italian
Intermediate