A h m a d E l s h e i k h a h m a d . e l s h e i k h q @ g m a i l . c o m

Ahmad Qasem

Phone: 312-***-**** Email: addgg2@r.postjobfree.com Chicago, IL

PMP Certified / Scrum Master Certified

Synopsis

A Postgraduate with more than four years Project Management experience, following the PMI best practices methods, working simultaneously across multiple projects. Experience started in Project Management as a Project Manager for three years in professional services and IT solutions companies. The second step a Project Manager, with LigaData, worked on different project simultaneously using different Project Management tools/software, applying Agile/Scrum Master methodology. Employment History

IT-Project Manager (September 2019 – April 2020)

Safwayws – Memphis, TN

Safewayws is a wholesale company, import and export goods globally, a new project initiated to update the IT- Infrastructure and to implement new technologies in a way that will take the company’s systems to the next level that would matches with the business needs, my main responsibilities as the following: Responsibilities

o Plans, executes, and finalizes projects according to strict deadlines, delivering projects on time and within budget

o Coach, guide and mentor teams on Agile / Scrum practices and techniques o Responsible for providing written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.

o Evaluate how system changes will affect workflow, data, and reporting. o Research design problems as they arise and propose solutions. o Develop and track project requirements with the implementation teams. A h m a d E l s h e i k h a h m a d . e l s h e i k h q @ g m a i l . c o m o Develop and track project phasing and schedule with the implementation teams. o Document, communicate, and manage changes that surface during design and implementation with the related stakeholders.

o Monitor and manage functional, schedule, and cost risks for the project. Project Manager (May 2019 – August 2019)

Ligadata Solutions- Menlo Park, CA

LigaData pioneers open-source big data technology for Continuous Decisioning. Founded by Yahoo! execs, LigaData collaborates with some of the world’s largest finance, security, and communications companies to help them to select and deploy custom solutions addressing their specific business challenges. Main role as Project Manager beside managing the company projects –new/ existing, masterminding, outlining and developing projects, managed a Project to create a new tool to support and handle the main issues for the partially processed/missing files and folders, this was a critical project for both the customer and the company. The team did a great job, ensured the project remains within the agreed constrains (time, budget, quality,,,) and help motivate team members to hit their goals. Acting as a liaison between the project team and upper level management. Prepare and present progress reports and ensure the project is furthering organizational, as for the other projects responsibilities as below:

Responsibilities

o Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects. o Coordinate on/off board of new resources into the Finance Systems Organization. o Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget. o Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility. o Ensure resource availability and allocation.

o Develop a detailed project plan to track progress. o Control the budget and Finance for the project and make sure to get the leads approval. o Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs. o Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques. o Report and escalate to management as needed.

o Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders. o Perform risk management to minimize project risks. o Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors. o Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation. A h m a d E l s h e i k h a h m a d . e l s h e i k h q @ g m a i l . c o m Project Manager (04/2015 – 11/2018)

EtQ – Tucson, Arizona

ETQ is a leader in enterprise software applications and over 20 years of experience in compliance management, application development technology allows power users to create, configure, and personalize powerful enterprise compliance applications.

AS a Project Manager role at ETQ was to work closely with Technical and Infrastructure team members, managers and leads to help deliver major organizational projects efficiently and to manages the administrative tasks, such as document and information distribution, report collation and communication support as per the following: Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Technical & Management globally contacts with different time zones (Australian Red Cross, South Africa Coca Cola, American Airline, Al-Mara’I KSA,.. Etc.) And all Operations departments on scheduling projects and on breakdown the tasks and defining dates for the major milestones.

• Work with medical industries taking care with all FDA regulations.

• Going through good documentations practices – GDP for Pharma/Life Science cGMP projects.

• Coordinate on/off board of new resources into the Finance Systems Organization.

• Coordinate with department managers and team leads to ensure having the needed field resources booked for projects.

• Defined and planned various projects which tailors each customer needs and application while also creating project schedules which included materials estimates for submission to the management.

• Recorded project risks and issues and assist in the coordinating of project documentation, issue management and field/administration tasks.

• Provides support and guidance to Finance business leads.

• Lead complex programs delivering milestones on schedule and within the agreed project constrains with quality, U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.

• Strong experience managing projects under Quality System Regulations (QSR) 21 CFR A h m a d E l s h e i k h a h m a d . e l s h e i k h q @ g m a i l . c o m Additional KPIs:

• Change Control procedures

• Risk and Issue procedures

• Meeting Packs, Minutes and Actions

• Presentation Packs

• Resource management

Education

I. Bachelor’s Degree of Computer Engineering

Applied Science University (2014)

Certificates

I. Project Management Professional (PMP) ®

II. Scrum Master Certified.

III. CCNA certification.

IV. Customer Interfacing.

V. First Aid.

IT Skills

Software Packages: Jira Software, MS Project, strong skills with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Project Management Tools:

• MS Project / MS Booking (highly used with full plan driven projects)

• JIRA (used with small projects).

• Planview (highly used to manage project teams specially remotely realizing agile scale) Infrastructure: installation and implementation specialist. A h m a d E l s h e i k h a h m a d . e l s h e i k h q @ g m a i l . c o m Languages:

English: writing / reading / speaking – excellent

Arabic: writing / reading / speaking – excellent

Personal Skills

Reference

References available upon request.

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