Yasir Diab, Senior Business Analyst

Yasir Diab

Senior Business Analyst

Aspire Zone Foundation

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Telecommunications
Experience
18 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months

Senior Business Analyst at Aspire Zone Foundation
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since March 2009

Key Projects:
▪ Events and Venue management applications.
▪ Microsoft SharePoint intranet portal (shared) services applications
▪ Customer Relationship Management applications
▪ Medical lectures and conference events management systems
▪ Android & iOS mobile applications.
▪ Electronic Document & Correspondence Management Systems
▪ Website, Web-based portals, & backend applications systems
▪ hospitality & asset management applications
▪ Contract Management & Maintenance Work Request systems
▪ Healthcare and enterprise resource plannning applications


Achievement:
▪ Successfully delivered Aspire Zone’s (LOGISTICS) first venue & events management application system.

Key Responsibilities: (Strategic)
▪ Mapping project scope, objectives and streamlining efforts toward attaining optimum project configuration in line with critical success factors.
▪ Maintaining highest standards of quality on deliverables according to envisaged implementation methodology and ensuring that escalation procedures are followed avoiding surprises by resolving all work issues.
▪ Managing operational aspects of the project including knowledge management, coordination of resources and project planning, status reporting, and delivery.
▪ Estimating and managing schedule, cost, duration and resource requirements, conducting system studies, business analysis, data migration activities and coordinating with business teams for requirement mapping.
▪ Collaborating with other functions such as procurement, vendors, architecture and infrastructure, network and security.
▪ Initiating, composing, seeking & attaining approval for projects’ business cases (BC) from project sponsor.
▪ Supervising the end-to-end systems development lifecycle process (SDLC) & inherent resources set.
▪ Leading a medium/large size team consisting of analysts, designers, developers, & testers.
▪ Formulating operating manuals and user guide documentation, carrying out end user training and ensuring adherence to strict change control board, ITIL, and ITSM guidelines across the project.

Operational:
▪ Preparing requirements packages: business requirements specification (BRS) for the technical teams.
▪ Drafting, reviewing with, & accordingly seeking sign-off on business requirement documentation.
▪ Closely involved in the prototyping activities with the user experience and user interface designers.
▪ Collaborating with the solution architects in preparing technical requirements specification documentation.
▪ Validating solution’s technical & functional designs & attaining stakeholder buy-in into the same.
▪ Setting quality assurance plan into the product lifecycle as part of the total quality management process and spearheading end-to-end testing with the developer/programmers team, testing team, and business.
▪ Creating all around test cases designed to test the system/application to the furthest possible limits.
▪ Delivering applications/systems training, creating the associated user manuals and guides.
▪ Assessing and validating the solution provided to ensure it fits the business need initially defined in the BC
▪ Handling various procurement management activities with Aspire Zone’s contractor list.
▪ Asserting Human Resources Management skills by acquiring & releasing AZF partner resource-base.

Data / Database Analyst at Andrew Coporation
  • United States - Virginia
  • May 2004 to October 2007

Achievements:
✔ Contributed towards Andrew Corporation winning a multi-million dollar contract in the form of the sale of a Serving Mobile Location Center by exceeding expectations of a Midwestern client.
✔ Effectively managed stakeholders at the executive level of a Fortune 500 company and the leading US carrier.

Key Responsibilities:
✔ Handled the data & databases of key markets in the Northeastern Continental United States.
✔ Analyzed the performance of E911 location-based network solution of these markets on a daily basis and reported performances using various reporting methodologies and data points.
✔ Facilitated internal communication with engineering and product development departments.
✔ Exhibited vigorous attention-to-detail skills in verifying the critical BCCH data loaded every day, demonstrated technical skills in executing command line (SQL), queries, & Cisco router configurations.
✔ Conducted routine system analysis activities to ensure network hardware health in addition to network analysis activities to ensure operating software diagnostics checks were carried out as well.
✔ Adhered to agree upon service level agreements (SLAs) & striving to meet or exceed expected SLAs.

Education

Master's degree, Telecommunications
  • at George Mason Univeristy
  • December 2007
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
  • at University of Maryland
  • December 2003

Specialties & Skills

Full SDLC
Ms Visio
MS Project
Business Analysis
Project Management
Team Management & Procurement Management
Time, Cost, and Schedule Management
Requirements Gathering and Management
Communication Management
Stakeholder Analysis & Management
Documenting Testing Strategy and Plans
Project to Business Alignment
Quality Management (Planning and Assurance)
New Application Implementation
Team Player
Attention to detail
Analytical Skills
Interpersonal Skills

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

International Software Testing Quality Board (ISTQB) Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
October 2017
TOGAF Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
September 2017
IIBA Business Analysis (Training)
Training Institute:
Boston Consulting
Date Attended:
May 2014
PMI Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012

Hobbies

  • Football (Soccer)