Fadi Qaisi

FADI AL QAISI
PROJECT MANAGER

Key skills

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS

• Creating realistic and achievable project plans.
• Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
• Have managed budgets up to 1 million SAR.
• Good working knowledge of PM methodologies and tools, such as Agile, Waterfall, MS Project and Basecamp.
• Managing diverse teams of professionals.
• Resolving/escalating issues in a timely fashion.
• Ability to lead and develop teams.
• Quite familiar with contractual terms of projects.

PERSONAL SKILLS

• Having a client focused approach.
• Results driven; forward thinking with a problem solving mentality.
• Willingness to accept responsibility when delegated.
• A high level of business acumen.
• Able to manage significant inputs & relationships with third parties throughout the full lifecycle.
• Possessing a firm understanding of multiple project management methods.
• Can mentor and coach project managers in modern methodologies and techniques.
• Comfortable working in a changing environment.

REFERENCES

Available upon request.

PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth         : 7 March, 1978

Gender                  : Male

Nationality             : Jordanian

Marital Status        : Single

Languages             : English & Arabic

Driving License     : International Driving License
 

CONTACT DETAILS

Fadi Al Qaisi

Riyadh, kingdom of Saudi Arabia

T: 00966 54 128 4590

E: Fadi.Qaisi@Gmail.com [1]

Career summary

Visionary, results-oriented technology leader with strong history of implementing effective technical solutions to achieve sustained, bottom-line growth. Consistent record of analyzing business processes and implementing enhancements to control costs and streamline operations. Expert communicator, able to partner with management, negotiates with vendors, collaborates with cross-functional departments, and leads highly productive teams. Proven capacity for troubleshooting issues, mitigating risks, and managing budgets.

Work experience

Ministry of Higher Education, Riyadh ,KSA     
PROJECT MANAGER - PMO                             November 2012 – Present
Responsible for providing tactical management and administration / leadership support to project teams, ensuring that the projects proceeds within the agreed tolerances of time / budget, and deliver a fit-for-purpose outcome to the customer.

• Managing IT projects and driving project teams from the start through to completion.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary global project teams to deliver technology projects of varying size and complexity, focusing specifically on software projects.
• Creating and maintaining project plans, budgets and forecasts.
• Taking ownership of customers concerns, and rectifying them.
• Negotiating the use of resources in matrix management environments.
• Bringing to the attention of senior managers any circumstances causing concerns, delays or requiring higher level authority to intervene.
• Identifying business development opportunities.
• Managing projects reporting, reviews and steering meetings.
• Negotiating and influencing up to Director/VP level.

Academic qualifications

Al Yarmouk University 1997 – 2001

B.Sc. in Computer Science 

Training Courses

• PMP - Project Management  by Cambridge - Dubai
• CBAP- Business Analysis Certificate Program by Transition Tech - Amman
• Microsoft Solution Framework by Microsoft Consultancy Services
• Oracle DB 10g, Introduction to SQL by Knowledge Cube – Dubai
• Introduction to Java  - 2009 by Sites Power –Dubai
• J2ee by Sites Power –Dubai

FADI AL QAISI
PROJECT MANAGER

Additional Information

List of Projects I Managed

Comprehensive Solutions for Management of Service (COSMOS):

Implemented in the company's distributor networks and customer care centers in MEA.  (31 distributors and 200 service centers across 17 countries)

The solution is tailor-made to address the complex requirements of pre and after sales services operations.

In addition to the basic service-related processes, COSMOS is capable of efficient data management, data interfacing, supply chain management, inventory management, quality management and service performance evaluation. COSMOS software, due to its collaborative nature, completely integrates with SAP R/3, an ERP platform that has been globally adopted by Samsung.
 

Real Estate Management Solution (Tabu):

Tabu allows real estate authorities to monitor and control every real estate operation, creating a trusted market enforced by rules and regulations.

This system guarantees the rights of every professional in the real estate industry, such as investors, brokers, owners, developers and authorities.
 

Budgeting System Project:

A web based system built using ASP.NET and VB.NET for creating budget and managing budgets.

This system deployed in many financial departments of UAE emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and SHARJAH).

Government Accounting System Project:

A web based system built using ASP.Net for creating budgets, balances, storing and supply requests.

This system deployed in many financial departments of UAE emirates (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and SHARJAH).

HR & Payroll System:for many governmental and private organizations.
 

Embassies System:for Emirates Embassies.
 

ERP System:for 4 Factories in Abu Dhabi.
 

Content Management System ProjectCMS:
 

Designed to hold and manage sites for materials and services provided within the site. It is compatible with the company structure, so as all work flows for process within the CMS.

IT TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Java Script ,VB Script ,Classic ASP
• ASP.NET 1.0,1.1,2.0, VB.Net ,C#,ADO ,ADO.NET
• HTML,DHTML,XHTML,DOM,CSS,XML,XSL,XSLT,XSD
• OOD,OOP,UML, ,SOP,SOAP
• Visual Source Safe VSS ,SDLC ,IIS 5.0+
• ORACLE, Microsoft SQL Server (7,2000,2005, 2008) 
• MS Reporting Services, Crystal Reports
• Media Streaming Server ,Microsoft Indexing Services

Previous Work experience

Samsung SDS , Dubai -UAE    
IT WEB MANAGER                                      October 2010 – October 2012

Responsible for running various IT departments in a MEA region. Responsible for efficiently balancing the businesses needs with its IT capability; constantly reviewing processes and identifying ways to improve efficiency & service, and proactively managing all areas of technology within the company. 
 

• Effectively planning and executing all IT related projects.
• Ensuring that all IT systems, infrastructures, servers, networks and security are running at an efficient level.
• Delegating work to and supervising the activities of junior IT staff.
• Recommending and implementing technological improvements and enhancements.
• Planning each stage of any IT project in detail, and investigating how it it can affect a business.
• Ensuring that all IT changes are managed so that they result in minimum downtime and risk of any inconvenience.

Dubai Land Department, Dubai -UAE

Business & System Analyst                     November 2007 – October 2010

• Elicit, validate and translate business requirements into systems definitions, Use Cases and software requirements documents.
• Analyze, organize and create functional and non-functional requirements, gather and document business rules, design and propose software solutions.
• Act as a liaison between the user community and the technical applications development staff.
• Support software development efforts by providing clarifications on requirements and design to application development teams.
• Write User Acceptance Test scenarios and support business users through the UAT cycle.
• Maintain the documentation associated with internal software applications (use case courses, requirements, business rules, user interface specification.)

Galaxy International Group, Abu Dhabi – UAE

Software Developer - Senior Software Developer  Aug 2002 – Oct 2007

• Building the application architecture, Components designed and developed, auditing and analyzing legacy code, systems, and processes, requirements gathering and translating into
  development tasks, contributing to and specifying requirements
  from a business analysis.
• Receiving CR (Change Requests) and managing bug fixing process.
• Development of a VS.NET (ASP.NET / VB.Net) web application.
• Developing code components including HTML, ASP.NET, SQL views and stored procedures ,deploying of the applications
• Developing, understanding and debugging existing and new features.
• Team Supervisor, the team consisted of 10 members.
• Training and supervision other employees.