IT PROJECT MANAGER
Techies in Town
Total years of experience :11 years, 5 Months
• Conducting the feasibility analysis against the requirement framework and suggest the optimal solutions.
• Preparation of Project Documentation like Project Charter, Scope, Statement of work, Business Case.
• Analyzing the various complex business process, map and develop work flows and interdependency among various business entities for the project implementation.
• Preparing, planning, collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project, whilst adhering to quality assurance plan.
• Managing the communication strategy to ensure the availability of updated information to the stakeholders.
• Reporting the project progress against the time and budget baseline to the top management.
• Managing the communication strategy to ensure the availability of updated information to the stakeholders.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Generating actionable insights through the development of metrics, dashboards and deep dive analyses.
• Provide the data analysis that will enable multiple functional areas to hit key milestones on time.
AL ACCAD TRADING has 4 major sub business units:
Organic foods and Café, Nils& Abbas Trading, Arab beverages & Seafood Supreme
Al ACCAD is a pioneering organization in the field of Retail, Export and Distribution of Organic food in UAE.
Currently they are in the process of an ERP Implementation which includes Retail POS, HR, Finance, Sales and Procurement, Advanced warehousing, Production, Service and Project management, Transportation and Vehicle management modules.
Responsibilities:
• Coordinating and streamlining long term IT development and application strategies to align with management strategy.
• Analyzing the various complex business process, map and develop work flows and interdependency among various business entities for the ERP implementation.
• Recommend work flow improvement opportunities in the existing functional scenarios to top management for the business process optimization.
• Preparing, planning, collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project, whilst adhering to quality assurance plan.
• Working as ‘single point of contact’ for the project as well as coordinating with the various off shore project teams to ensure completion of all project phases as per required business and technical specifications within the scheduled deadline.
• Working with project teams to ensure adherence with project management policies, practices and procedures in all phases of the ERP implementation.
• Supporting creation and maintenance of operational procedures and solution specification documentation, as per project requirements.
• managing the communication strategy to ensure the availability of updated information to the stakeholder’s.
• Keeping track of the change request, making sure the change has been approved / rejected and subsequent change initiative has been conducted.
• Keeping abreast of latest technological advancements and advising management regarding necessary enhancements.
Key Responsibilities: • Formulating, streamlining long term IT development and application strategies to align technology for project roll outs, management systems and process enhancements.
• Preparing pre-requisites for collecting, understanding, and transmitting the business requirements for the project, and translating these into functional specifications and detailed test plans, whilst adhering to quality assurance plan.
• Coordinating with the project team to ensure completion of all project phases as per required business and technical specifications within the scheduled deadline.
• Directing project teams to satisfy client business needs in alignment with project management policies, practices and procedures, stakeholder management, risks and for delivery of high quality technical solutions.
• Supporting creation and maintenance of operational procedures and solution specification documentation, as per project requirements.
• Resolving all technical difficulties by identifying areas of obstruction and rectified ambiguities through application of trouble shooting tools.
• Providing a comprehensive overview of post-implementation scenario, identifying areas/ activities for further development, submitting periodic status reports to the senior management and allocated adequate resources for continuous maintenance.
• Keeping abreast of latest technological advancements and advising management regarding necessary enhancements.
DBA/Programmer at BinHendi Enterprises
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Company Industry: Retail/Wholesale
April 2005 - November 2006
Key Responsibilities: • Actively involved for entire ERP implementation project included detail technical specifications, estimated time / cost, prepared document code and conducted test plan reviews for final delivery of quality code for tests.
• Created physical database tables and design, worked with system administrator to ensure data integrity and security, recover corrupted data and eliminate data redundancy.
• Established standards/ procedures for modules/ product development materials, recommended program improvements, coordinated with members of the project team, followed the ERP project through project management lifecycle to ensure business objectives are met.
• Continually strive to improve the quality and efficiency of services provided by IT Department, maintaining the existing Retail Trading application, researched, documented and recommended upgrade of software/hardware systems.
• Installed, configured, upgraded and migrated software/tools as per requirements, administered security and access control policies to maintain database integrity.
• Ensured project design adherence to requirements, endeavored to deliver project within specified time/ cost limits, provided continual post-implementation technical support, liaised with suppliers to establish proper infrastructure.
• Devised/ implemented company's Intranet using ASP .net technology, and MIS reporting using crystal reports
Key Responsibilities:
• Provided quality instructions for students, interacted with new learners to help them choose courses which fit their practical needs. Generated reports for students and instructors' academic plans, examination plans and all allied administrative activities.
• Prepared and maintained all training materials, trained students on Oracle and Developer 2000, administered classroom setup and recorded evaluation results after completion of each training class.
• Restructured existent syllabi and developed teaching methodologies to suit average aptitude level of students in the class.
• Managed overall operations of the Computer Lab, configured PCs, printers and network management, helped students in using computers and latest software and performed regular system checks and preventive maintenance to ensure optimum system performance.
• Ensured a highly conducive atmosphere for learning through encouraging healthy competition
Key Responsibilities: • Managed entire application development life cycle including preparing detailed technical specifications, providing time/cost estimates, writing/documenting code, design/test plan reviews, testing and implementation.
• Oversaw major issues pertaining to development, testing customization and extension of Java applications, interfaces, data migration and conversions, whilst maintaining compliance with set standards.
• Ascertained that organization makes maximum use of installed systems by providing technical training to principal users.
• Kept abreast of latest technological advancements, computed departmental costing, monitored software use licenses and provided secure access to system users
Project Management methodologies: PMI, ITIL
Computer exposures:
Oracle E-Business Suite, Openbravo 3.0
Oracle 10g/ 9i, Visual Studio.net, Visual Basic, Developer 2000, SQL Server 2005/2008, MS Access
Microsoft Office 2010 with ( Project & Visio)
Microsoft ® ™, AIX
Windows7
IIS, Microsoft Products
IBM, compatibles Servers, Desktops and Laptops.
Crystal Reports, Oracle Reports, Jasper Reports
Professional Qualification • 2006- 2007, Cambridge International Diploma in Management at Higher Professional Level, From University of Cambridge, U.K.
• 1997- 2000, Cochin University Of Science & Techniologies - India. Master in Computer Applications (MCA)