Walid Abou Khzam, IT Product Manager

Walid Abou Khzam

IT Product Manager

Adaa

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Business Management
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

IT Product Manager at Adaa
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since May 2019

• Managing core business product Adaa Integrated Platform (AIP).
• Develop product strategy, product roadmap, communication plan and RACI matrix.
• Manage communication between different stakeholders and teams regarding fixes, new features and release schedules.
• Manage product backlog, define features prioritization and develop user stories.
• Ensure product quality and review product test cases.
• Consulted with product development teams to enhance products based on customer data.
• Set goals, formalized policies and enforced operational standards to maximize team performance and keep project on-task to achieve targets.
• Defined and analyzed metrics to measure product performance.

Senior Project Management consultant at Devoteam
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2017 to May 2019

• Assist Adaa in developing the process for monitoring the performance of their dashboards, including identifying their strategic objectives and identifying key initiatives needed.
• Define data collection methods and assist the government agencies to fill in the data collection with accurate and reliable data for the initiative's performance reports.
• Collection, verification and validation of data submitted by the government agencies in the data collection portal.
• Participate in field visits, team meetings and workshops to assess, verify and validate reporting of the objectives and initiatives.
• Analyze the data submitted and develop recommendations.
• Conduct benchmarking studies and prepare benchmarking reports.
• Tracked project progress and updates and monitored deliverables, milestones and issues for accurate reporting

Sr. Projects Manager at ITS2
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2015 to December 2016

•Project execution and delivery for information security projects with net value of +20M.
•Develop project's master plan including dependencies (Project Charter, Project implementation Plan, project schedule, documentation etc.).
•Coordination between the technical delivery team and clients to ensure smooth and successful implementation.
•Monitor projects' progress and performance, tracking deliverables, updating plans and close follow up to ensure a successful completion within the planned budget and schedule.
•Address and raise the critical issues/risks during the project life cycle to the management and stakeholders where necessary.
•Drafting / scoping change requests to cope with client requirements and suggest added value changes that can be delivered within reasonable budget.
•Project documentation, sign-offs and lessons learned for archiving and future reference purposes for my existing projects.
•Development of standard workflow, reporting and project management document templates for the project based on PMI standards.

Projects Manager at SmartLink
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2013 to November 2016

+60 Million SAR projects with a total manpower of +200 employees.
•Determining call center operational strategies by conducting needs assessments & performance reviews
•Developing call center systems by developing customer interaction and IVR systems; developing & executing user acceptance test plans and controlling implementations.
•Maintaining and improving call center operations by monitoring system performance, identifying problems, preparing and completing action plans and improving quality assurance programs.
•Preparing call center performance reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.

Project Coordinator at Nesma Advanced Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2011 to May 2013

• Leading Red/Yellow project (part of Nitaqat program at Ministry of Labor).
• Work with the project sponsor and stakeholders to complete project charter scope, deliverables, required resources, budget and timing.
• Manage project development from initiation to closure.
• Effectively manage project scope by ensuring any changes to scope are document and approved with project change request.
• Clearly communicate expectations to team members and stakeholders.
• Sharing project status reports and progress with upper management.
• Effectively manage and resolve project team conflicts or escalations.
• Identify, track and manage project risk and implement corrective actions.
• Create, implement and update project documents.
• Lead, coach and motivate project team members on a proactive basis.

QA Engineer at HRsmart
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • October 2008 to June 2010

• Evaluated requirements from users, prepared change requests for approval from management with solution approach, with effort and cost estimates.
• Reviewed functional setups & configuration and take corrective action.
• Provided periodic status report to management (weekly, monthly).
• Worked closely with application development during the scope, development, and testing phases to ensure quality and timely delivery is achieved.
• Created Modify and Execute Test Scripts using manual tools in addition to updating project tracking tools.
• Established and maintain professional customer relationship.
• Troubleshooting reported software issues, scoping customization requests and offer process guidance.

Education

Master's degree, Business Management
  • at University Of Nicosia
  • February 2022

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Notre Dame University
  • January 2006

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Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Product Management
CRM software
Quality Assurance
Call Center
COACHING
PROGRESS
PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
QUALITY
APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
APPROACH
DELIVERY
DEVELOPMENT
FEATURES

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

ITIL V3 (Training)
Training Institute:
DevoTeam
Date Attended:
October 2018
Duration:
40 hours
Product Management (Training)
Training Institute:
General Assembly
Date Attended:
October 2019
Duration:
50 hours
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013