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Anwar Alhoushi

Anwar Alhoushi

Dubai,UAE

Summary

Dynamic professional with a results-driven mindset and a strong understanding of the ITIL, SDLC framework. Demonstrates a service-oriented approach and full understanding in cloud computing systems, complemented by proactive leadership and relationship management skills. Committed to leveraging these competencies to drive organizational success and enhance service delivery.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience
1996
1996
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

IT Project & Service Delivery Manager

Du Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, PJSC
Dubai
08.2010 - 11.2025
  • End to end project and service delivery management, on current and new IT systems like: (Siebel, BSCS, HPSA, IN, Net Cracker, DOC1, Stream Serv, ERP, EDMS, PGW, Power Bill, CLMS, SMS GW… ETC.
  • Own and manage the delivery of the demands generated from the Business Units (BU).
  • Play the role of a Single Point Of Contact (SPOC) from IT to all BUs and third party in a specific domain, e.g., Mobility Products, Fixed Line Products, Portals, Customer Care, Sales, Technology etc.
  • Owning all demand under the specific business domain and ensuring the demand is defined, rationalized, prioritized, categorized, assessed, and approved until synchronized into the Delivery cycle (requirements gathering, design, development, testing, and delivered into Production).
  • The first entry for all business demand to IT Department. and shall continue to be the owner of the demand and the SPOC to all BUs until demand is fulfilled.
  • Managing outsourcing team internationally to deliver projects, services and change request, to ensure on-time delivery with the expected quality.
  • Transforming demands from requirements phase into defined and agreed IT deliverables that meet the original demand constraints including; requirements, business rules and logic, branding and corporate image directives, as well as the company delivery capacity and capabilities.
  • Control all deliveries that should go to production, thought through the SDLC and PLM & Release Management and CAB processes.
  • Insure following the development process before going to production by check the test scenario, test result, development documents and business validation.
  • Provide the needed reports to my management about all deliveries (new development or fixes).
  • Ongoing enhancement on the development and delivery process.
  • Monitor the development KPIs.
  • Suggest new approach and mitigate in case any risk on the plan.
  • Very good command on Jira to manage Agile projects and delivery.

Senior Architect & Prepaid Project Manager

Du Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, PJSC
Dubai
05.2008 - 01.2011
  • Architect designer for all prepaid services on Oracle IN (Intelligent Network), MPOS (Mobile point of Sales) and VoMS eServ Global (Voucher Management system):
  • Analyze, understand business requirements.
  • Provide the design architect to development team.
  • End to end project management from initiation till implementation (gathering requirements, design, TQC, BRM, regression and deployment).
  • Support business post deployment issues to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Negotiate vendor design, quotation and project plan.
  • Provide weekly report to Steerco and top management about the delivery status.
  • Suggest new approach and mitigate in case any risk on the plan.

Head of IT/ MIS Prepaid Department

Syria-tel Mobile Telecom
Damascus, Syria
01.2004 - 05.2008
  • End to end project, service management for all new prepaid project / services and supplier transitions.
  • Support commercial to design, develop and implement new services & projects.
  • Propose and provide new services ideas and solutions.
  • Support, enhance and automate all business requirements from all Syria-tel departments.
  • Provide a weekly report to all Syria-tel management.
  • Focal point for all Syria-tel departments to ensure no conflict between all departments change requests.

Senior Architect, Senior development Engineer

Syria-tel Mobile Telecom
Damascus, Syria
01.2003 - 05.2004

Achievements:

  • Create -from scratch- an in-house developed CRM solution to support launching new prepaid line service as Prepaid Management System (PPMS) that managing day to day activities for all BUs, and interfacing Siemens IN platform to support all IN services and change requests saving millions of dollars.
  • Delivered PPMS (Prepaid Management System) application on-time within 6 months from project initiation, less than the initial plan and with the minimum budget, providing features that are exceeded expectations. PPMS use Java, J2EE and Oracle back-end. PPMS covered all business areas starting from SIM and voucher inventory management, provisioning (activation, reactivation, and SIM change), point of sale, call center customer care, dealer and sub-dealer management, and an integrated data warehouse for all call tickets and voucher recharges
  • PPMS incorporated high impact productivity boosters such as innovative use of barcode technology and a built-in report scheduling and delivery mechanism over the Intranet that fully automated daily reports delivery to customer service, sales, finance, logistics and marketing departments.
  • PPMS saved company over 2 million dollars compared to the price of alternative third party software.

Project Manager and Senior Developer

Vermeg, BFI Tunis - Tunisia, Cap Gemini Ernest & Young- Spain
Syria - Damascus, Tunisia - Tunis and Spain - Madrid
01.1999 - 05.2003
  • Company focusing on developing innovative Solutions for the global securities markets exchange, specialist in Fund Administration and Securities Processing promoting International Market Standard Practices.
  • Project Manager and Senior Developer:
  • Development for individual models in “MEGARA” product the comprehensive solution for stock market exchange purchasing transactions and project managements some modules:
  • Analyze, understand service requirements provided by Banks, Financial and Stocks companies.
  • Provide the design architect and develop the services.
  • End to end management till implementation (testing, UAT, regression and deployment).
  • Support business post deployment issues to ensure customer satisfaction.

Programming with languages:

JAVA and Enterprise Java Bean (EJB, Servlet, JSP, Java Script Xml…)

  • VB6 and COM+.PL/SQL, Crystal Report., UML with Rational Rose program, Corba
  • Messaging Q, MQ series

Achievements projects for below banks:

  • BBVA & BSCH Banks in Spain: developed in Spain Madrid, two huge models (Fixed income, Custodian) had been delivered to both banks, using PL/ SQL, VB6, COM+.
  • Taiwan Taipei project, developed in Tunis, developing the Clearing Module, PL/ SQL, VB6, COM+.
  • Morocco E-Banking Project: Products developed with java web application, buy and sell online.
  • Tunisian Banks, small modules were developed with C++, Visual Basic6 and Java, and using Corba as middle ware.
  • SG Paris bank: program to manage the Stock Lending process, with java web application.

Informatics Tuter (Computer science)

Damascus University
Damascus, Syria
01.1999 - 05.2000

Networking Engineer, Tutor of Microsoft, Computer Maintenance and development

Haikal computer Center
Damascus
01.1997 - 01.1999

Education

Bachelor Degree - Electronic Engineering

Damascus University
Damascus, Syria

Certification

  • SAFe DevOps- Certified
  • SAFe Scrum Master (SSM) – Certified
  • ILM - Leadership Management program - Certified
  • ITIL -Information Technology Infrastructure Library - Certified



Languages

Arabic: Mother tongue
English: Fluent
Germany: conversational

Training

  • AWS Amazon: Amazon Web Services (AWS) training Cloud Practitioner (Dubai- Du institute)
  • Project Management Professional PMP by SMG - Dubai-UAE
  • UCBS: unified charging billing from Huawei, Dubai-UAE
  • Advanced project management Dubai-UAE
  • 7 Habits in Dubai-UAE
  • GSM –IN training eServ Global (now Oracle). Dubai-UAE with
  • GSM-VoMS Voucher Management System for eServGlobal - Paris France
  • WebLogic & J2EE advanced training in BEA co. London - UK
  • GSM-CMP (Voucher) Card Management System Huawei China
  • GSM training for the IN prepaid services: IN network Vienna, Austria
  • Wireless Java conference for GSM London - UK
  • UML with Rational Rose Program by Vermeg Syria - Damascus
  • COM+ in Cap Gemini Madrid, Spain

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • Requirement Gathering
  • Process Improvement
  • Project Management
  • delivery Management
  • Change Management
  • Ris Management
  • Troubleshooting
  • Release Management
  • Agile Methodologies



SOFT SKILLS

  • Team Leader
  • Communicator
  • People Manager
  • Collaboration
  • Attention to details
  • Team Mentor.
  • Problem solver
  • Results-Driven mindset
  • ITIL framework understanding
  • Service-Oriented approach
  • Cloud computing systems
  • Proactive leadership
  • Relationship Management

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Saved more than 2 Milon Dolars by building In-House end to end CRM in Syira-tel telecom phasing out Siemens IN interfaces
  • Excellence in Project Management at Du for successful delivery of high-importance projects.
  • Multiple awards for contributing in major and strategic projects

Timeline

IT Project & Service Delivery Manager

Du Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, PJSC
08.2010 - 11.2025

Senior Architect & Prepaid Project Manager

Du Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, PJSC
05.2008 - 01.2011

Head of IT/ MIS Prepaid Department

Syria-tel Mobile Telecom
01.2004 - 05.2008

Senior Architect, Senior development Engineer

Syria-tel Mobile Telecom
01.2003 - 05.2004

Project Manager and Senior Developer

Vermeg, BFI Tunis - Tunisia, Cap Gemini Ernest & Young- Spain
01.1999 - 05.2003

Informatics Tuter (Computer science)

Damascus University
01.1999 - 05.2000

Networking Engineer, Tutor of Microsoft, Computer Maintenance and development

Haikal computer Center
01.1997 - 01.1999

Bachelor Degree - Electronic Engineering

Damascus University
Anwar Alhoushi