Project Manager Sales

OMAR SAMAD

**** ****** **** ***, *********** ON L5V 2B8

Day: 647-***-**** & Evening: 905-***-****

Email: ****@*****.***

CAREER PROFILE:

IT Managament

IT expert with great experience in Management, Leadership, Project Management, Planning, Designing, Building and Preparing System Needs & Components, Ensuring the polices, standards, design and methods are all applied to the systems and projects. Testing, Installing & Training; Analyzing the Business Dynamics of companies and industries; Marketing, Negotiating and Closing Transactions; Gathering, Analyzing and Studying Business Requirements and manipulating it into a technical design; Managing people and team leadership; strong Technical Background with emphasis on Software; comfort and experience in working with senior level executives and high profile clients; Leading a team of developers, assigning tasks and following up on projects.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

More than ten years’ experience in the IT field dealing with Software Development, Business Applications, IT Management, project management & implementation, team leadership, business and system analysis, business process automation, process improvement, process modeling, workflow design, database design and support, data mining and migration, data warehousing and ETL, software development, testing, documenting, and maintaining computer systems.

Decision making, policies and strategies follow up and processing.

Business Analysis & Project Management experience liaising with Stakeholders and preparing Business Plans. Studying & analyzing Business Requirements, recommending changes and strategies that meets the business needs.

Planning, following up and implementing projects; providing regular reports to stakeholders and managers about project status.

Bachelor degree in Computer Science and Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA).

• Experienced in developing and implementing policies and procedures throughout the software development lifecycle and conducting reviews to assess quality assurance practices.

• Data Architecture: Analysis, design and extraction from work flow requirements.

• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, organizational skills and project deliverables in timely manner.

• Liaised with clients, managers, and executives on project status, manpower & resource requirements.

• My strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills, makes me able to understand and analyze business problems and needs and to apply new technologies to business settings.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Global Financial Associates, Richmond Hill, ON

Manager, Software Development and Business Applications / September 2010 to Present

IT Project Manager / Business Analyst / May 2008 to August 2010

Software Leadership and Management: Managing a team of developers; creating and assigning tasks; prioritizing projects and tasks; planning and building wok strategies; applying the executive strategy with new and updated systems.

Working with the CEO & Executive Team on building better systems to meet the company’s needs.

Working close with the developers on using the best technology available to meet the projects and tasks; following up on staff performance; find week points and discuss ways to improve; provide training to improve staff and update them on the new technologies.

Report to the CEO about the developers work; jobs; performance; and attendance.

Project Management and Team Leadership: Managing new and existing projects; Building Project Business Plan (Chart); assigning tasks and following up; ensuring design, policies and standards are applied to the systems. Leading a team of developers, motivating and coaching to reach the department and personal goals.

Business Analysis: Analyzing business needs for companies departments through meeting with decision makers, stakeholders and users and transforming business needs to technical requirements.

Collecting, analyzing and studying business needs and requirements; developing and designing business tools and policies; testing final changes and projects and making sure they meet the business requirements.

Acting as the middle level between Business People and IT Developers; setting the Change Request Process for IT Department; working with the IT manager on task schedules, priorities and assigning to developers.

Premier Consulting, Mississauga, ON

President (IT & Web Consultant) / January 2006 to May 2008

Building new systems for clients on a contract basis.

Marketing: Marketing the services of Premier Consulting and building connections though networking & web marketing.

Business Analysis: Analyzing business needs of clients through meeting with decision makers and transforming business needs to technical requirements.

Web Design: Designing, building & hosting web sites for small businesses.

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Software Development: Building an Insurance Brokerage Software to be used by Insurance brokers & agents.

Project Implementation: Implementing Projects done by Premier Consulting.

Global Educational Marketing Corporation, Mississauga, ON

RESP Sales Branch Manager / March 2006 to December 2007

Sales: contacting people through cold calling & sales leads to promote Global RESP.

Building Marketing Campaigns through having “Mall Shows”, “Flyers to buildings”, “contests”, etc..

Meeting with clients and doing a presentation about Global RESP.

Recruiting new sales reps and training them accordingly.

Business & Computer University College (Hawaii Center)

IT Business Development / Instructor 2004 to 2005

Upgrade and replace obsolete technologies associated with student affairs and business development resources and documentation.

Recommending, studying and applying new IT polices and methods.

Meeting with managers and users of student affairs to understand the business needs of the department.

Meeting with the Analysts and technical people of the outsource software company to describe the business needs and transform it to technical.

Done the analysis phase for data warehousing and reporting.

Worked as a part time Instructor in Management & MIS Courses

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

Team Lead / System Analyst 2000 to 2004

Head a team of developers responsible for enhancing, developing & implementing the Personnel & Payroll System.

Directed analysis, design, programming and implementation of a new HR & Payroll computer system using Visual Basic under Oracle db-engine and crystal reports. The system included, but not limited to, recruiting, salaries, deductions, benefits, reviews & promotions record of employment and automated direct deposits.

Finished the data warehousing for the Personnel & Payroll System and done an ETL procedure to do the transfer for the weekly reports.

Worked together with the Finance Team Leader on the Payroll & Finance systems integration.

Tek Soft S.A.R.L.

Software Developer (Project Implementation) 1998 to 2000

As a software developer, I was part of a team of developers responsible for analyzing, designing and developing an insurance system. I also had to go to the client’s place to follow up with their needs and do some reports or additional modules.

Worked as a team member developing Insurance System using Fox Pro 2.0 & Oracle – Developer 2000 under windows.

Duties included designing and programming, and onsite system installation, maintenance and after sale customer support.

EDUCATION:

Business & Computer University MBA Degree: 2002-2004

Major: Business Administration

Lebanese American University Bachelor of Science: 1994-1998

Major: Computer Science

OTHER:

Essentials of Project Management (Preparing for PMP Certificate) – A2Z Technical Institute, Mississauga, ON (March 2008 – Present)

Oracle 11i e-Business Suite, Essentials or Implementers (Preparing for Oracle Financial Certificate) (Present)

Branch Management: Global Educational Marketing Corporation (March 2007 – April 2007)

Income Tax Course: H& R Block (November 2006 - January 2007)

Financial Services – RESP: Global Financial (January 2006 – June 2006)

Sales Training: Global Educational Marketing Corporation (March 2006)

Oracle Developer 2000: Tek Soft SAL (1999)

VOLUNTEER WORK:

Member-at-large / May 2006 to Present

LAU – Alumni Association, Toronto Chapter

Secretary / October 2007 to Present

Lebanese Canadian Progressive Society

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