MOHAMED  KASSAB, Project Manager and Academic Principal

MOHAMED KASSAB

Project Manager and Academic Principal

Virtual Vision

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, لغة إنجليزية
Experience
23 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :23 years, 3 Months

Project Manager and Academic Principal at Virtual Vision
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • My current job since November 2015

Key responsibilities:
• In charge of the Educational Program and Project life cycle (Initiation, planning, execution, operation, and closure) as the learning process is a live project.
• Ability to work using different project management methodologies such as: Waterfall and Agile depending on the nature of the educational process and programs and the expected changes within the project scope.
• Ability to work with, monitor and oversee cross-functional teams.
• Setting and managing strategic planning of the organization.
• Fostering healthy and creative learning and teaching environment.
• Excellent leadership and management and influential skills.
• Monitoring the effectiveness and efficiency of the training programs and introducing learning methodologies which fosters the excellent performance of the organization employees.
• Manage and monitor different organizational structures and cultures, and great asset for change management.
• Ability to create and develop SMART goals for the organization or institution.
• Ability to create and develop OKRs for the project, organization or institution.
• Ability to meet and achieve the Success Criteria.
• Ability to create and use the RACI chart.
• Ability to create stakeholder analysis and power grid
• Ability to use WBS to create project milestones and tasks.
• Estimate a project plan on a Gantt Chart
• Create Risk Management Plan and Mitigation Plan.
• Create Risk Register, and escalating issues.
• Managing quality planning, quality assurance (QA), and quality control (QC).
• Managing continuous improvement of the employees via data-driven improvement frameworks such as DMAIC to identify issues, reduce errors and optimize the processes
• Using KPI (Key Performance Indicators) as a measurable value or metric to measure the achievement of the key objectives.
• Establishing project charter specifying project’s objectives, goals, deliverables, scope, duration, cost, resources, stakeholders, criteria of success, opportunities, recommendations and OPA (Organizational Process Assets) including lesson learned.
• Making sure all project’s milestones are achieved successfully within timeframe and budget.
• Managing stakeholders efficiently.
• Managing all phases of the project from the award until the hand-over to end-user.
• Managing the team of the project.
• Ability to manage cross-functional teams (T-shaped professionals).
• Ensuring all project team members are aligned to the required goals and outcomes of the project.
• Monitoring the overall implementation and progress of the project on day-to-day basis.
• Identifying new projects depending on the company’s strategic plans.
• Managing risks and solving problems during the different phases of the projects to implement the project successfully.
• Escalating and following-up the unresolved risks or problems affecting the project’s cost, time and quality with high management and stakeholders.
• Collaborating with stakeholders during the implementation of the project to show progress and highlight any potential risks or problems.
• Having multi-functional project management experience.
• Having deep knowledge of business workflows and operations processes
• Having strong experience in project management and the execution of complex projects
• Having deep experience in aligning the organization goals along with project’s goals under the umbrella of the organization structure.
• Having excellent mentoring and coaching skills, communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Following up bids (tenders) since announcement.
• Analyzing the details of the bid (Introduction, Scope of work, Qualifications, Requirements, Rules and Regulations, Table of Prices and Quantities…etc.)
• Preparing the Financial (Commercial) Proposal.
• Preparing the Technical Proposal to show the best way for executing the project by our company.

مشرف المشاريع at المجموعة العربية للتعليم والتدريب
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2013 to July 2015

• Following up bids (tenders) as a member of the Project Management Committee at AETG.
• Helping in making the decision of participating in the bid or not.
• Analyzing the details of the bid (Introduction, Scope of work, Qualifications, Requirements, Rules and Regulations, Table of Prices and Quantities…etc.) as a step for preparing the Technical and Financial Proposals.
• Preparing all the materials and requirements of the bids.
• Preparing the Technical Proposal to meet the needs of the client and to show the best way for executing the project by our company.
• Preparing the Excel file for the financial proposal including all the elements affecting the pricing process.
• Preparing the Financial Proposal.
• Following up the implementation and execution of the project once our company receives the P.O. or (the Award Letter).
• Figuring out any problem and work on solving it, so the project isn’t affected or interrupted.
• Having the ability to expect future problems to be avoided.
• Making sure the project is executed within the budget.
• Making regular reports for my management and the client upon their request
• Following up the regular procedures connected to the project management such as sending invoices, following up payments, sending reports, checking up materials related to the project…etc.
• Writing final report about the project including recommendations.
• Attending meetings with personnel in charge of other companies (new clients) to present our company and figure out their needs for future projects.
• Evaluating each step of the project making sure the implementation meets the needs of the client regarding the manpower, time, quality…etc

مدير المشاريع at جامعة سلمان بن عبدالعزيز
  • Saudi Arabia - Alkharj
  • July 2013 to July 2015

• In charge of around 20 teachers of English (native and bilingual)
• In charge of academic and administrative responsibilities.
• In charge of designing teaching plans and teaching schedules.
• Leading regular meetings with staff for making clear all duties and responsibilities are well-defined for each single teacher and following up what have been achieved.
• Preparing reports, results and statistics.
• Having regular meetings with the college’s Dean, Vice-Dean and Students’ Affairs Manager to discuss all issues related to the educational process.
• In charge of following up the final results and upload them to the university’s official website.
• Writing final report including recommendations.

معلم لغة انجليزية at جامعة سلمان بن عبدالعزيز
  • Saudi Arabia - Alkharj
  • July 2010 to July 2013

(PYP) Preparatory Year Program

English Instructor & Academic Supervisor, Business Administration College

معلمة لغة انجليزية at أكاديمية الفيصل العالمية
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2009 to July 2010

Arabian Education and Training Group Holding Co ( AETG)
Al-Faisal International Academy _ Riyadh, KSA

English Instructor

معلمة لغة انجليزية at معهد هجر للغات
  • Saudi Arabia - Hofof
  • July 2003 to July 2009

Hajr Languages Institute _ Al Hasa, KSA
Hajr Health Science Institute

English Instructor & Courses and Curriculum Planner

معلمة لغة انجليزية at مدرسة أبو مشهور الاعدادية
  • Egypt - Menoufia
  • September 2000 to June 2003

Abu Mashhour Prep School _ Egypt
English Instructor

Education

Bachelor's degree, لغة إنجليزية
  • at جامعة طنطا
  • June 2000

Specialties & Skills

problem solving skills
Decision Making
Time management skills
Strategic Planning
Enterprise Management
إدارة المشاريع
التخطيط الاستراتيجي

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Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

OSEW (Training)
Training Institute:
Operating Starboard & Electronic Whiteboard
HBDI (Training)
Training Institute:
Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument
BBSA Basic Business Skills Acquisition (Training)
Training Institute:
AMIDEAST & Synergy
SQA Scottish Qualifications Authorities (Training)
Training Institute:
Forth Valley College
Google Project Management Certificate (Training)
Training Institute:
Google
PMP_PM Information House, Egypt (Training)
Training Institute:
PM Information House
Duration:
35 hours