Management Project

neil KabBany

********@*****.***

Irvine, California 949-***-****

Profile

More than 7 years of experience in the

software management, and IT industry in the

engineering, procurement, health, and

banking domains

Effective negotiator & initiator, strong

leadership & interpersonal skills with high

attention to details coupled with team work

experience in a multi tasking, multi cultural

environment.

Strong management level presence and

experience in facilitation, management,

coordination, delegation, planning, and

analysis.

Strong team building skills with the ability to

motivate and improve team efficiency to

deliver successful projects.

Professional strength

Management of multiple cross functional

projects onsite or remotely

Led concurrent different sizable teams on site

and remotely in America, Canada, Europe,

and overseas, projects ranged from $100K to

$1.2M.

Certified Scrum Master CSM

Change management control, and risk

management control

Client relation management, and expectation

management control

Conflict resolution management among

different teams.

Entrepreneurial skillset in marketing, SEO,

sales, and negotiations

Experience

JULY13- ON GOING

Unique Performance Construction, Inc.

O range County, CA

IT Project Manager

Managed and delivered a company bidding

invite application with reporting tools. The app

saves time, resources, and increases frequency of

submitting bid invites to thousands of

prospective bidders.

Manage software application project

throughout the entire project life cycle from

initiation to delivery.

Review and managed the different business

scenarios with the BAs.

Communicate project plan, goals, resources

required with management

Review wireframes, processes, & work

follows with owner and teams

Manage and lead a BAs, team leads,

developers, and QA.

Reviewed and managed project timeline and

resources.

Prepare risk mitigation plan and discuss with

teams for actions.

Schedule resources, meetings, action items,

responsibility matrix.

Review testing plan, failure scenarios, and

recovery scenarios.

Regular meetings with project stakeholders,

vendors, and owner.

Plan product transition to support

Initiate enhancement plan for next project

phase

Reduce time and increase efficiency with the

improved process

Enhance the business processes in the

estimating and bidding department.

FEB12–MAY13

SciQuest

E dmonton-AB, &North Carolina

Project Manager

As one of the PMs in the professional

services department, I led and delivered multiple

concurrent implementation projects in contracts

management software for different industries in

health, banking, and public services.

Simultaneously manage multiple

implementation cross functional projects in

the US & Europe from initiation, contract

sign off, to execution & transition to support.

Participate and lead GAP analysis meetings

with clients on site.

Prepare SOW (Statement of Work) for all

projects and discuss it and approve by

department director.

Manage resources and staffing with PMO for

all projects, resolve resources conflicts and

share pool of resources with other PMs.

Interface with different departments;

development, QA, support, sales.

Negotiate the SOW with director and clients

and get sign off from both.

Meet financial objectives by forecasting

milestones accordingly.

Manage and document changes to project

scope that have an impact on company’s

resource, time and/or financial commitments

via a change order process.

Responsible for scheduling tasks, resources,

work hours using MS project software for all

projects

Adopt agile process instead of the waterfall

practice.

Focal point of communications between all

stakeholders & different cross functional

teams from different departments.

Report to directors level, PMO & senior

management

Responsible for identifying, analyzing, and

managing project risks

Assign & coordinate tasks/resources using

MS Project software to different team

members working on multiple projects.

Responsible for progress/costs/milestones

delivery/COR/delivery of sub project &

projects.

Ensure a successful client transition from

Implementation to Support.

Provide appropriate work direction and

mentoring to other team members, assisting

and counseling as required, resolve conflicts.

Report to director level management

internally and externally.

MAR08- JUL 11

LEAD Ltd.

D ubai & Damascus

Project Manager

Worked for a large contracting company

specialized in the oil and gas industry with

regional project locations. Led requirement

and development phase effort to deliver the

company procurement application. The

application helps mangers & engineers make

critical procurement decisions, saves time &

resources, and increases efficiency in the

supply change process.

Engage and help in requirement analysis

process, workflow process

Devise a process to collect scenarios from

different stakeholders with different use

cases.

Review use cases and wireframes with

business analysts before communicating them

with end users and finalizing them for

functional specs.

Schedule, manage, and coordinate meetings

and teleconferences with internal clients at

different locations locally or remotely.

Focal point of contact among different

stakeholders, management, design team, &

procurement team in different locations.

Weekly progress meeting with team and

weekly report to management

Monitor progress via project plan timeline

Travel to different sites to discuss

procurement workflow with personnel.

Daily meeting with teams to remove any

obstacles.

Proactively manage changes in the project

scope, identify potential crisis, and devise

contingency plans as required.

Responsible for projects milestones delivery

and quarterly output

Prepare monthly report progress to director

level

Meet with director and management to

resolve any issue causing project delay either

financial, technical, or resources.

Follow up on action items from all involved

teams.

Prepare launch plan of the product in head

office and one site

Train personnel on site and in office to use it

and gather feedback

Release live version to office and other

locations and transition to support

Initiate enhancement plan for pending

application features.

Coach, mentor, motivate, and supervise team

members

NOV06 – APR08

FTR International, Inc.

Los Angeles, California- USA

Project Engineer & Systems Analyst

Specialize in contracts software

i ntegration with existing management

systems. Managed different sites

i ntegration, schedule new releases,

upgrades, & consultant

Enhance project workflow process and

introduce software solution for contracts

management using primavera solution

contract edition.

Customize the contract management software

(Expedition v.11) based on engineers’ needs

to optimize the work process

Improve engineering and management reports

by integrating the contract software with

existing management system.

Meet with project managers & engineers to

explain the new contract app.

Serve as the SME (Subject Matter Expert) for

anything related to contract management

software or integration with primavera

Train different engineers and managers on

using the contract software solution to initiate

contracts or modify contracts.

JULY05 -JUNE06

Motorola, Inc.

Montreal, Canada

Applications Engineer - License

P roducts

As the Subject Matter Expert in licensing

department, I was responsible for all technical

issues related to licenses required for all

Motorola engineers.

Managed engineering software licenses

(Comprehensive Software Asset

Management CSAM) within Motorola

worldwide

Communicated with project managers at

Motorola worldwide to decide on the business

needs of the department’s licenses.

Resolve any technical issue with the software

license.

Communicated & counseled with

management to reach the best utilization of

licenses and decide on purchase of new ones

Interfaced with all licensing vendors for any

technical issue.

2004

Silanis Technology, Inc. Montreal, Canada

Software Product Specialist Digital

Signature Software

Specialized in contracts and document digital

signature application on premise and online.

Joined the consulting team and interfaced

with clients for any technical user issue of the

deployed application.

Provided advanced development technical

consulting to clients before & after sales, and

support desk staff support analysts for the

digital signature web application product.

Language used: Java, oracle, weblogic, sql.

Communicated & presented technical

presentations about Silanis technology to

clients, VPs, and different stakeholders.

Interfaced & communicated with the R&D

and the testing department to change product

requirements according to business

requirements of clients

2002 – 2004 Microsoft Inc.

Montreal, Canada

Microsoft Software Consultant

Mainly provided support on MS products to

US clients.

Provided technical consulting & support of

Microsoft software products to end users in

the United States & Canada

Communicated and met on a regular weekly

base with management to improve agents’

performance with clients

2003 – 2004 Concordia University

Montreal, Canada

Software Engineering Tutor

Tutored undergraduate software engineering

classes

Prepared presentation slides, class materials,

and communication website

Education

University of California, Irvine.

2007

Irvine, California

Project Management Training (PMI)

2002 – 2005

Concordia University Montreal, Canada

Masters of Applied Computer Science

Software Engineering

2000 – 2002

Concordia University Montreal, Canada

B.Sc., Bachelors of Computer Science

Major in computer Applications

Honors & Awards

2006

Sole recipient of the annual Masters of Applied Computer Science Prize,

named “The most deserving graduate student in the faculty of engineering &

computer science” at Concordia University, Montreal – Canada.

core competencies

Project planning, MS project Responsive & proactive PM

Full Project Life Cycle SLDC Team communicator

Water fall and Agile methodologies Delivery focused PM

Resources & cost management Initiator & positive attitude PM

Quality control management Quality, budget, time driven

PM

Professional Training

2015

Agile Certified Scrum Master Training Platinum Edge Los Angeles

2013

Agile development & methodology onsite training SciQuest

2012

Sprints and product backlogs training SciQuest

2010

Primavera P 6 Project scheduling software training LEAD

2007

Primavera Contract Management Training at DrMcknatty Primavera

partner office Irvine California

2005

Project Management training Core course PMP

UCI. Irvine California,

2007

Internal Motorola company training on business

2000 2014

& IT processes

Knowledge of different software management

app from MS project to Basecamp app,

primavera, programming languages,

databases, frameworks, methodologies, web

technologies, and business processes through

past formal education and trainings.

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