Senior Program Officer
IREX
Total years of experience :11 years, 1 Months
• Managing IREX education division programs in Iraq, working between Baghdad, Basrah and Erbil (Kurdistan region) offices.
• Managing financial and administrative divisions of IREX Iraq.
• Assist in developing and managing international research support and higher education development program
• Oversee logistical and administrative support for all aspects of the Iraq University Linkage Program, including the SELS and Universities career centers establishment.
• Liaise with the US and Iraqi higher education community, including administrators, faculty and scholars through development of capacity building program with over 175 faculty in both US and Iraq.
• Engaging with the private sector to gather the support for the universities career centers.
• Developing planning and implementation strategies for all program activities in support of the Linkages goals both in and outside of Iraq.
• Supervision of field office monitoring, evaluation and reporting on program activities
• Representing IREX in Iraq, cultivating strong relations with US Embassy staff, Iraqi government officials and beneficiaries of the linkages programs.
• Provided technical support and use of technology workshops to the Mass Media College in University of Baghdad as a consultant for IREX.
• Supervised and acted as an adviser for the design of Mass Media college website as a consultant for IREX.
• Conducted training to staff and faculty of universities to use new technology, projects management and marketing to support career centers and private sector engagements.
Implemented large scale ICT projects in different locations in Iraq.
Preformed installation and maintenance of CCTV wireless security systems in sensitive locations in Baghdad. Like the wireless CCTV system installed in Dora Power plant in Baghdad.
Managed the Project of Iraq Election Commission website. Donor funded project by UN.
Supervised the project of Link analysis system I2 to Iraq commission of integrity, this system
Provides financial reports and cash flow tracking to prevent frauds and money Laundering. Donor-funded project by US embassy.
Managing the overall project and progress for installing VTC to 42 government sites
Including the training of the technical staff in each site.
Leading the marketing team in several business meetings and conferences inside /Outside Iraq.
Managing project for the Iraqi postal services, to computerize the entire workflow by
Cooperating with NCR global and staff training in Jordan
Managed and directed a team of 10 engineers to accomplish one of the exceptional high impact projects in Iraq, the Iraqi Parliament Voting and conferencing system, providing a huge technological Step to the management process of the Iraqi Parliament sessions. Including the training of 15 personnel and VIP members of the Parliament. Donor-funded project by NDI
Oversaw several Security solutions projects to the NATO, UK Embassy, and Flour.
Responsible of establishing Trading business center infrastructure project to Ministry of trade. Donor funded project by Tatweer ( USAID )
Holding meetings with different foreign companies, NGOs, USAID for various projects and / or higher levels of management, by providing work reports of all daily activity.
Working as a team leader to market the company services in design and hosting websites, since this area of business was still fresh for Iraq business sector because of the previous Regime effect, I had a challenging career to market and contract with more than 1500 business and government websites projects. Earning 4000 $ worth of contracts in my first two weeks of work.
Maintaining strong solid relation between Ekur and the clients providing good reputation and bringing more contracts.
Bachelor degree in civil engineering / constructions engineering certifications : Certificate in DIS ( Danish Interpretation & Conferencing Systems ) – Dubai / UAE 2006 Certificate in GPS based applications by Spagieo – New Delhi / India 2009 Certificate in facilitating of PMP ( Project Management Professional ) – Dubai / UAE 2014 Wireless Trainer ( CCTV – WAN ) VTC trainer Certificate in Link analysis systems ( global software for tracking financial reports ) Training in wire/wireless CCTV systems