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Sharmeen Mir

Sharmeen Mir

Program Manager
Dubai

Summary

Detail-oriented Program Manager with 3 years of leadership experience to work with independent contributors to complete projects on-time and under-budget. Fantastic collaboration skills looking to bring multitasking and problem-solving to a prestigious gaming organization.

Overview

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years of post-secondary education
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years of professional experience

Work History

Digital Analyst

Etisalat
09.2019 - Current
  • Tested and rolled out 5G & 10G broadband speed profiles for the Etisalat fixed network, serving around 1.4 million customers.
  • Initial feasibility check with the end customer for any new requirements in the Etisalat broadband network.
  • Led cross-functional teams to analyze and understand enterprise-wide operational impacts and opportunities of technology changes in relation to fixed internet services.
  • Conducting thorough end-to-end lab testing for any new network developmental projects.
  • Applied problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations thereby achieving required milestone.
  • Creating & reviewing high level and low level design documents and other ad-hoc documents such as lab reports, method of statement and SOPs.
  • Planning and coordinating dry runs in production environment, followed by final rollout.
  • Monitoring progress of solution against stimulated benchmarks.
  • Achievements:.
  • Introduced a business solution “Video Surveillance as a Service” catering to customers with a surveillance requirement.
  • Reduced marketing costs by simplifying existing design and accounting for wastage of public IPs.
  • To be launched in Q3 2021.
  • Introduced “Happy Hours” or higher internet speeds for residential customers of low-speed profiles during Ramadan 2021 in order to encourage customers to upgrade their fixed packages.
  • Recognized and recommended rollout during peak hours of 4-6 PM and observed a hike in customer traffic during said hours as predicted.
  • Launched in April 2021.
  • Implemented private IP solution for residential customers that defaulted on their payments.
  • Surpassed initial KPI of reducing network load by 20% with a substantial margin of 50%.
  • Enhanced customer experience and reduced operational overhead by avoiding customer host lockout and allowing immediate reconnection post payment.
  • Launched in February 2021.
  • Installed 6 new DNS servers in order to expand customer base.
  • Liaised with multiple stakeholders, reviewed design documents, integrated system with multiple internal monitoring systems, troubleshooted connectivity towards the internet.
  • These servers improved service redundancy by bringing DNS resolution closer to the end user.
  • Drastically increased DNS capacity across the entire Etisalat network from a previous count of 1.8M queries per second to current 6M queries per second, hence improving internet response time and eliminating any bottleneck for the customer.
  • Launched in December 2020.

Data Analyst

Gulermak
06.2018 - 09.2019
  • Dubai Metro Expo 2020 Route Client: RTA Common Data Environment Team.
  • Identified the requirement and commissioned a mobile application “Field Data Collection Tool” aiming to digitize physical construction paperwork for over 400 employees.
  • Application is now used actively on all Metro Expo 2020 sites.
  • Consistently enhanced the mobile application to meet evolving functional and non-functional client requirements.
  • Recognized and documented detailed business rules and use cases based on requirements analysis.
  • Ensured outages, changes and critical incidents are communicated in a timely fashion to key stakeholders and business community.
  • Conducted weekly technical workshops for Parsons, Expolink & Thales Design on site Engineers that included step-by-step demonstrations of the software tool.
  • Eliminated backlogs by modeling a strategic workflow to essentially replace a physical request with a digital medium, incorporating inputs from each stakeholder-subcontractors/consultant/client.
  • Responsible for bridging the gap between the software development team and RTA using data analytics to deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to all involved executives.
  • Optimized statistical efficiency and quality by generating daily, weekly and monthly reports to quantify and analyze substantial volume of data (~17,000 rows) employing dynamic Power BI and Excel dashboards.Conducted weekly technical workshops for Parsons, Expolink & Thales Design on site Engineers that included step-by-step demonstrations of the software tool.
  • (See all these activities related to the app just club them in 2 points, try not to over explain the same activity in different points?).
  • Addressed support queries for all application users concerning workflows, templates and reporting dashboards.
  • Achievements:.
  • Built, customized and maintained a customized mobile application in July 2018.
  • Worked with RTA to build a software process adopted by the contractor for the Dubai Metro Expo 2020 Route, still actively in use as of June 2021 to clear project snags.

Education

MBA - Management Information Systems (MIS)

Girne American University
Cyprus (Online)
08.2021 - Current

Bachelors of Science - Computer Engineering

American University of Sharjah
09.2013 - 07.2017

Skills

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Certification

Cisco Certified Network Associate in Routing & Switching

Accomplishments

  • Built, customized and maintained a customized mobile application in July 2018
  • Worked with RTA to build a software process adopted by the contractor for the Dubai Metro Expo 2020 Route, still actively in use as of June 2021 to clear project snags.

Work Availability

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References

Available on request.

Quote

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Timeline

MBA - Management Information Systems (MIS)

Girne American University
08.2021 - Current

InfoBlox BloxOne Threat Defense 8.4

09-2020

Programming with Python

11-2019

Cisco Certified Network Associate in Routing & Switching

10-2019

Digital Analyst

Etisalat
09.2019 - Current

Data Analyst

Gulermak
06.2018 - 09.2019

Bachelors of Science - Computer Engineering

American University of Sharjah
09.2013 - 07.2017
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