AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Change management

Staff management

Project planning

Project reporting

Resource management

Risk management

Product development

Process improvement

Supervising

Managing project quality

PERSONAL SKILLS

Solution orientated

Detail orientated

Decision making

Attention to detail

Confident

Flexible & adaptable

Positive attitude

Francois Kassis

Digital products and infrastructure manager

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Francois Kassis

Gender: Male

Address: Ashrafieh, Beirut, Lebanon

Mobile: +(961-********

E-mail: acwuz0@r.postjobfree.com

Birth Date: 27 April 1974 (Age: 42)

Gender: Male

Nationality: Lebanon

Residence Country: Lebanon

Visa Status: Citizen

Name in Arabic:

Marital Status: Married

Career Objective: Seeking new opportunities and challenges. Employment Type: Employee

Employment Status: Full time

Notice Period: 3 months or less

Last Monthly Salary: USD 3,000

PERSONAL SUMMARY

A bright, talented and ambitious person, working for a leading market research company for more than 14 years. I have the required qualifications along with comparable experience of working to the highest standards. I have a good track record of ensuring projects are delivered to the highest quality, within budget by effectively organizing, managing and utilizing all resources. Always willing to be actively involved in all aspects of the project life -cycle, I ensure to deliver high-value projects for the organization and across different branches. I am willing to travel and/or spend long periods abroad, and currently looking for a suitable position with a leader company.

CAREER HISTORY

Ipsos (international leading market research company) DIGITAL PRODUCTS &

INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER May 2014 - Present

Managing digital products and cloud management department. Accountable for managing the delivery of critical projects, and for providing managerial support for all the digital projects conducted by the company. Also responsible for providing monthly financial and technical updates of any known issues/risks to Senior R&D Manager. Duties:

• Responsible for costing, estimating and planning projects.

• Preparing Project Initiation documentation and objectives.

• Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including supplier base, use of internal and external resources (out-sourcing).

• Maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators.

• Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.

• Managing a small team to ensure projects are delivered within time-lines.

• Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.

• Updating project plans to include agreed changes.

• Organizing and facilitating Project Steering / Operating Committees meetings. Ipsos

SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER May 2008 – Apr 2014

Ipsos

PROJECT MANAGER May 2007 – Apr 2008

Ipsos

PROJECT LEADER May 2005 – Apr 2007

Ipsos

PROGRAMMER ANALYST Apr 2001 – Apr 2005

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

C.E.C College 1996 - 1999

Computer Science Diploma

Sagesse University 1994 - 1995

Law 2 years only

Zahrat el Ihssan 1992 – 1993

High School

KEY SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Project Management attributes

• Good track record of managing complex multifunctional projects in various environments.

• Creating effective, informed and highly motivated team focused on delivery.

• Comprehensive understanding of project management methodologies.

• Experience of working with sponsors, stakeholders, and solution providers.

• Successful and demonstrable delivery of results from a client site.

• Producing and delivering project documentation, e.g. user manuals and support.

• Accurately identifying a client’s key requirements.

• Managing and supporting the testing and implementation of projects.

• Experience of web development and digital products for marketing projects. Personal attributes

• Possessing a responsible attitude, tact, patience, and courtesy.

• Comfortable working on numerous, smaller size pieces of work.

• Ability to operate under pressure and deliver to demanding deadlines.

• Achieving results through others.

• Able to self-start own improvement initiatives.

• Good team player.

• Capable of working under limited supervision.

• Motivating team to own and complete tasks assigned to them.

• prioritization skills.

Professional attributes

• Proficient in developing and administering resource plans.

• Good written communication skills.

• Computer literate, with high level of competence in the use of the new technologies.

• Full systems development lifecycle experience from requirements gathering through design, testing and deployment.

• Research and development skills to get the best and most recent solutions. IT SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Development skills

• Python Expert.

• Ruby on rails. Basic.

• Delphi intermedate.

• Power Builder Expert.

• Sybase DB (enterprise and anywhere) Expert.

• MsSQL server Certified.

• Ms OLAP solution Certified.

• MySQL, Postgress DB Advenced.

• NonSQL DB: Neo4J, Mongo, Redis Intermidiate.

• T-SQL.

• C#, VB, VBA, Visual Studio (2015) Intermidate.

• MVC .Net Framework Intermidate.

• Django Framework Expert.

• Javascript, Jquery, CSS, Angular JS. Expert.

• C++, Java Basic.

• PHP, ASP.NET Intermidate

• Restful APIs Expert.

• Windows APIs.

• ActiveX, COM.

• Microsoft Office. Excel Certified.

• DevExpress

• Business Intelegence Basic knowledge.

• Google charts, Dashboards, Map APIs.

• Cloud Management (Amazon).

• Apache and IIS Advanced.

Open source skills

• Audio and Video fingerprinting and recognition.

• Chromaprint.

• Comskip

• AVconv and FFmpeg.

• OpenCV.

• Crawling system using Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop with Carrot as visualization tool.

• OpenCV.

• Crawling system using Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop with Carrot as visualization tool.

OS and IT skills

• DNS server configuration on Linux Ubuntu.

• Mail server configuration on Linux Ubuntu.

• Windows.

• Linux (Ubuntu)

• Basic knowledge on Network.

Research skills

• Google is my best friend to search for new technologies, solutions and developments.

LANGUAGES

Arabic: Native

English: Fluent (read-write)

French: Intermediate (read-write)

CERTIFICATIONS

• The Better Ipsos Leadership School – Fundamentals of Management.

• Performance Management.

• Ipsos Leadership Framework.

• Giving and receiving feedbacks.

• Effective Delegations.

• Communications Skills.

• Practicing English in a marketing environment Module 0/1.

• Development at Ipsos.

• Microsoft SQLserver certification (Formatech).

• Microsoft OLAP certification (Formatech).

• Microsoft Excel certification (Formatech).

REFERENCE

Aida AbouZeid, R&D Manager, acwuz0@r.postjobfree.com

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