
Project manager at ING Real Estate
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands

Project manager at ING Real Estate
Rotterdam Area, Netherlands
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I am a senior project manager (coming PMP and MBA) with a strong analysis and organizational skills with demonstrated capability for problem determination and resolution. Straightforward with a friendly disposition and a good sense of humour, I can work well under pressure, can adapt to any environment and can use my skills to contribute positively to any work situation.
My last assignments consisted of the project management for outsourcing, in-sourcing telecom and financials firms, integrating, migrating and upgrading Data centres, and international telecom lines and succeed to deliver several IT projects to budget and timescale where numerous technologies have been used. In conjunction with this, I played the same role for several other moves and network upgrade for various offshore platforms and sites in Europe, Asia and Africa.
In conjunction with above, I am a business developer uses developed techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service.
Experienced manager; strong leadership and communication skills; effective team builder; tactically astute in managing a complex projects; pragmatic; hard working; approachable; Dutch, English, Arabic and French language.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ING; Real Estate industry)
April 2008 — Present (5 months)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UPCOY; Telecommunications industry)
November 2007 — Present (10 months)
As a Project Manager, I am responsible for directing all activities from project initiation, design, build, deploy, up to operations hand over.
Main activities are:
• Work with the CIO to define business objectives, drive communication of the project, and monitor implementation of the project strategy
• Assist the business in setting up the requirements
• Create project management plan, schedules and milestones to ensure timely project delivery at requested quality and UPC standards
• Manage development of the conceptual, detailed design and user acceptance tests based on project charter and assess required resources and material for execution
• Reviewing all types of design / planning / functional & Technical documents and provide meaningful feedback
• Align assigned tasks and actions with team members
• Provide feedback and guidance to all stakeholders
• Review / Prepare Progress Reports / Schedules / Presentations
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)
September 2000 — Present (8 years)
Inter Capital Finance B.V. is a management consulting and an executive search firm headquartered in Rotterdam (NL) with a finance component responsible for insurance.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
March 2007 — November 2007 (9 months)
As a Customer Project Manager, I am responsible for managing an IT, Tools and Security in-souring program. Mobistar outsourced its mobile services to Ericsson IT organization. My responsibility is to manage the IT, Tools & Security transition to Ericsson Organization.
Major tasks and responsibilities are:
• Produce plans and budgets for the overall project deliverable
• Identify potential work packages owners/agree appointments with Line Managers
• Agree work package specifications with their owners
• Ensure interface between work packages are defined and agreed
• Track/Review progress against plan
• Track/Review expenditure against budgets
• Ensure that deliverables are reviewed against specific requirements
• Manage Project risks, Manage Project issues
• Manage & Approve Change Requests
• Identify issues and risks to the completion of the Project and make recommendations for resolution, actioning the recommendation where appropriate
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2006 — March 2007 (7 months)
As a project manager, I am responsible for managing several telecom/infrastructure projects such as:
· Delivering a managed office in Jordan (building, telecom, systems, support, etc)
· Managing third party audits
· Managing telecom studies
· Managing infra/telecom projects
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Major tasks and responsibilities are:
· Pro-active involvement during the tender phase of contracts and signs off on project do-ability.
· Prepare and participate in contract negotiations. Identify any potential area of exposure and initiate appropriate actions.
· Manage the end-to-end project execution in line with Shell project management method.
· Build and manage an effective Project organization.
· Develop Project implementation strategies, budgets and schedules.
· Responsible for Risk Management and change management for the project(s).
· Supervise the performance of all project planning, controlling and reporting functions and run project steering meetings.
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
September 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 1 month)
Technical Project Manager responsible for upgrading the international links between Shell data centres worldwide:
a. Europe – Asia Pacific
b. Asia Pacific – Americas
c. Malaysia – Singapore
The responsibilities are:
· Investigate, plan and manage the commercial and procurement activities to explore and upgrade the I-WAN core links to 155Mbps or 622Mbps
· Evaluate the supplier responses and advice the management for supplier selection and contract award for bandwidth upgrade
· Procurement of hardware and lines including lab testing
· Recruit a migration team in each region for the upgrade
· Vendor Management activities
· Customer relationship
· Manage the implementation of the chosen solution(s) in different regions (EU-AP-AM)
· Financial and progress reporting to the steering team
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 3 months)
Technical Project Manager for CFS, responsible for leading small/medium projects in Middle East and Africa:
- Infrastructure projects in Africa:
o Offshore projects
o International lines upgrades
o VPN projects
o Migration projects
- Offshore project in Noordzee (UK/NL)
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
July 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 2 months)
Technical Project Manager for Shell International Exploration and Production (SIEP) in Rijswijk participating in large project: EpiCentre. EpiCentre is a project building new (net)work environment in Rijswijk for all EP disciplines. The roll describes the following target:
- Design and migrate users/systems from current (slow) network to a GIGA network
The main responsibilities were:
- Investigate, design and building new network environment for all EP disciplines
- Migrate users and systems to the new network
- Obsolete old network
Participated in building and testing Voice over IP (VoIP) for SIEP. The main responsibilities were:
- Investigate, implement and test the infrastructure for Voice over IP
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
November 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 9 months)
Investigate, plan and roll out Shell network standard in many countries. The roll out is meant to provide Windows 2000 platform in this countries with the necessary infrastructure to communicate with Shell central organization. I managed to roll out and complete network projects in the following countries:
- Malaysia
- New Zealand
- Austria
- Sweden
- Ireland
- Gabon
- Cameroon and
- Puerto Rico
The main responsibilities were:
- Make site surveys
- Examine, investigate, design and integrate network(s)
- Plan and present the implementation/integration of the new networks
- Execute and guard the planning
- Report to client and management
- Hand over the project to Shell central organization and close the project
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)
September 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Design, install, monitor and troubleshoot GPRS (General Packets Radio Services) network within several sites (Nokia’s customers). GPRS is an IP platform, which is used, to permit sending/using IP packets through GSM networks.
Performed as IP specialist within the GPRS team. Support and consult the customer with design issues and migration(s) form circuit to packets switched network. Those activities are precursor for the 3G (the third generation). The following activities give an overview:
- Design dial-in concept
- Designing a Roaming concept
- Implanting and testing WAP facilities
- Configuring Cisco boxes
- Doing research to several performance mechanisms
- Testing VPN connectivity’s
- Testing the tangent plane with Radio and IP section
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
September 1999 — August 2000 (1 year)
Design, install and maintain LAN/WAN installations and migrations from flat Token Ring to fully switched Ether/Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet. Also install, configure and manage Cisco routers, switches as well as non-intelligent devices.
Troubleshoot monitor and proactively manage 150+ node Frame Relay network with multiple service providers including KPN telecom and SITA. Perform monitoring, documenting performance and errors across heterogeneous networks as well as capacity planning for both local and remote sites. Perform as 3rd line support team member for all networking issues world wide in KLM, Amsterdam. Coordinate with 3rd parties when outsourcing is necessary.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
May 1999 — September 1999 (5 months)
1. Design dial-in concept for KLM information Services (KIC) to let management and control organization to dial in worldwide. The solution forms a part of the Corporate Remote Access project. The target is to write down a capital investment (CI) document describing all the technical details and the total budget.
2. Design a part of the KLM Bunker infrastructure. The proposal meant to provides a sufficient network ports for the present-days and the comer KLMs systems and projects. This network is a combination of an ATM and a Gigabit networks which is connected to the Central Facility LAN (CFL), CFL is the KLM corporate backbone.
3. Doing research to prioritizing and queuing the SNA packets from remote KLM offices worldwide to the central mainframe in Amsterdam. Several meetings are organized with Cisco to discuses the possibilities to implement a solution to prevent the starvation of SNA packets.
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