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Director Program Management Office
HAWASABAHDirector Program Management Office
Mar. 2024Saudi Arabia, Riyadh.Established enterprise-wide PMO governance framework, aligning IT & business strategy. .Directed digital transformation initiatives across government and banking clients. Delivered operational cost savings of 37% via project portfolio optimization.
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ConfidentialManaging Director
Apr. 2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Senior Project Manager , Digital transformation
Al Rajhi BankSenior Project Manager , Digital transformation
Mar. 2022 - Jul. 2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia•Facilitating and leading main agile events, to ensure regular progress (sprint planning, retro, daily and Demo), as well as backlog sizing and planning. •Ensure setting the definition of Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for each feature along with Product Owner and Scrum Team, as well as the definition of done (DoD). •Avoid/Remove impediments preventing development progress. •Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the needed work is well understood so the team can continually make forward progress. •Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions. •Handling and facilitating communications and reporting. •Coaching the team, within the Scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality features for its product.
Senior Project Manager , Digital transformation
alrajhi bankSenior Project Manager , Digital transformation
Mar. 2022 - Jul. 2023Riyadh, Saudi Arabia•Facilitating and leading main agile events, to ensure regular progress (sprint planning, retro, daily and Demo), as well as backlog sizing and planning. •Ensure setting the definition of Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for each feature along with Product Owner and Scrum Team, as well as the definition of done (DoD). •Avoid/Remove impediments preventing development progress. •Helping the product owner maintain the product backlog in a way that ensures the needed work is well understood so the team can continually make forward progress. •Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions. •Handling and facilitating communications and reporting. •Coaching the team, within the Scrum principles, in order to deliver high-quality features for its product.
Senior Project Manager
Beta Information TechnologySenior Project Manager
Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2022Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaSystem integrator provides multi-technology solutions for enterprise customers who seek integration of complex systems. I am part of the company PMO who Manages and directs several projects medium to high complexity in Infrastructure areas for : •Networking (Mainly Cisco based technology; switching & routing, voice, wireless..). •Cyber Security (Next Generation Firewalls, WAF, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco FirePower, F5, Netscaler.. ) •Datacenter (Systems, Storage, Backup; EMC, Nutanix, VMWare, Veritas, NetBackup, CommVault..). •My duties include, but not limited to: •Successfully delivering IT infrastructure type project to agreed parameters of time, budget, scope, and quality. •Understand the project scope to ease managing the project. •Creating and preparing project management documents (Project schedule, scope, risk, communication..). •Creating weekly project status. •Creating and tracking project budgets. •Escalating promptly any issues that may impact the company. •Producing stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs and requests for change. •Delivering and managing major change and IT projects. •Managing resources among the projects.
Project Manager
Naseej AASProject Manager
Apr. 2016 - Jan. 2019Saudi Arabia• On time and budget, I closed successfully set up a Project management office (PMO)at the Ministry of commerce and investment MCI • Streamlined team processes to improve KPIs and accuracy to meet service request deadlines • Developed and implemented detailed Process Re-engineering plans to maximize the results of the new system. • Developed Test Scripts and managed Alpha, Beta, and UAT testing • Managed the software development and implementation of applications that integrated 28 government universities with a unified database residing at MOE. This hands-on role requires creating from scratch data integration tools. • Created teams consisting of off-shore and internal SMEs. • Introduced practical project management techniques such as Action Item Logs, Accountability Matrixes, Chunking, and Capacity Planning. • Monitored capital expenditures for all phases of projects. • Performed risk assessment, create RFP's, service agreements, and participate in and managed. • Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs; collecting operational data. • Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts. • Guides cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures; providing trends and forecasts; explaining processes and techniques; recommending actions. • Improves financial status by analyzing results, monitoring variances, identifying trends, recommending actions to management. • Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data. • Maintains database by entering, verifying, and backing up data. • Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; studying proposed changes in methods and materials. • Increases productivity by developing automated accounting applications.
Project Manager
ALROWAD IT SolutionsProject Manager
Dec. 2007 - Mar. 2016United Arab Emirates
Systems Support Engineer
NEW HORIZON ACC-JORDANSystems Support Engineer
Feb. 2006 - Jul. 2007Jordan , amman• Successfully managed analysis and mapping for legacy & new systems, design & development of solution, running of migration process, unit and integration testing, final data testing and user acceptance testing. • Functioned as member of the team working on data migration project for MALTRANS focused on CMS (Customer Management System), SOH (Sales Order Handling system). • Involved in mapping the structure and data of the legacy system for MALTRANS to the new system including databases, schemas, database objects and database columns of the legacy system to the new system. • Developed Oracle procedures, packages, functions, views, forms and reports for migration of data to new structure. • Involved in tuning of database, procedures, functions, packages, select statements, views & other database objects pertaining to migration of thousands of tables and terabytes of data. • Leaded a team which successfully implemented E-learning system across 4 sites. • Developed and executed basic functional and technical specifications and tested them for system configuration, mapping and reporting. • Developed 100+ customized reports, in addition to developing various graphs

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