Project Manager

Work in a leadership position with a mission to grow, enhance and lead the trend

2/2005 – Present Kuwait Oil Company – KNPC
Consultant - Project Manager: Lead a cross-functional team of consultant engineers to implement feasibility studies and establish proof of concept for Records Information Management (RIM) in KNPC. Planned and scheduled the design of the RIM system. Applied the DIRKS methodology and US Military standards to achieve efficiency and quality of the design. Performed risk and change management to steer the project within schedule and cost limits. Controlled the budget, distributed the WBS, Allocated the resources and monitored the progress. Performed change and risk management to keep the project aligned with its goals. Established the reporting hierarchy to keep all parties informed and ready for decision making process.


09/00-1/2005 Comverse Corp., Telecommunications Division, Boston, MA
R&D Director: Responsible for the business continuity and reliability of hardware and software products for telecom industries. Managed the development of products with technologies in E-commerce, provisioning, voice mail, security, and others. Staffed the sales and marketing department. Established product quality and process control and trained the sales & marketing teams to use this in their sales efforts. Integrated the document control system with the process. SEPG member and participant for software and process quality. Monitored sales performance and reviewed costing accordingly. Continuously re-align department managers with company objectives and mission. Changed testing vision from reactive to proactive role in system quality. Integrated TL 9000 compliance. Increased profits of 18% attributed to R&D performance.

06/86 – 9/2000 US Department of Defense Consultant Manager, Washington D.C.
Provided consulting expertise to Department of Defense (DoD) projects in different environments. Assessed and improved software processes. Performed gap analysis and instated military standards compliance with 2167a, MIL 490 and others. Supported the following programs:

RAH66 Comanche Helicopter program, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. (SAC)as a Software Dept. Manager:
B2A Stealth Bomber program, Northrop Grumman Corp. as consultant System Engr. Dept. Manager
AH64 Apache Helicopter Program, ITT Avionics Division as consultant Team Leader

In all cases I perfromed all aspects of project management.

Master Degree in Computer Science Aug, 1988
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey.
Post Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering July, 1987
School of Engineering and Logistics, US Army-Texarkana, Texas.
Systems Engineering Degree July 1986
Army Management Education and Training Activity, US Army-Texarkana, Texas.
Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical /Computer Engineering May, 1985
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.

System Engineering Degree, 1986
Ford Design Engineer, 1989

Skills:


Management and IT
• Consulting skills
• General Management and business setup
• Project management
• Staffing and HR management
• Business planning and marketing
• IT management and implementation

Development
• Software Development Management
• Requirements management and control
• Reviews and Audits
• Object Oriented Design and development.
• System integration and testing
• Web development
• Ada, Pascal, C/C++, HTML, Oracle, Access, Visual Basic, Fortran, etc


Quality
• Quality management and consulting
• Quality integration
• Process improvement and integration
• Software Quality Assurance
• Testing methodology and metrics development
• CMM, ISO, 2167A, MIL 490, TL 9000 standards

General
• Leadership qualities
• Excellent communications skills
• Team oriented
• Open minded and work under pressure
• Quickly learn and adapt to new environments
• Startup planning and setting up