Walid M A Shat

Leading end-to-end delivery of IT projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scope, budget, and timelines for premier government and corporate initiatives in the UAE.

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of IT projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives, scope, budget, and timelines.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria in collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, resource allocation, budgets, and schedules to achieve project goals.
• Lead and motivate cross-functional project teams, ensuring clear accountability, collaboration, and timely delivery of assigned tasks.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests by implementing appropriate mitigation and governance strategies.
• Oversee project financials, including budget planning, cost control, forecasting, and resource utilisation.
• Establish project governance frameworks, conduct steering committee meetings, and ensure compliance with organisational project management standards.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business stakeholders, vendors, and third-party partners to support successful project outcomes.
• Monitor project performance using key performance indicators (KPIs), providing executive-level status reports and recommending corrective actions when required.
• Ensure all project deliverables meet quality standards, business requirements, and regulatory or organisational compliance obligations.
• Oversee solution testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), deployment, transition to operations, and post-implementation support.
• Conduct project closure activities, including lessons learned, benefits realisation reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance future project delivery.

Led the planning, execution, and delivery of digital transformation web initiatives and public sector portal implementations.

• Lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of IT projects in line with business objectives and agreed timelines.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans, including schedules, resource allocation, and key milestones.
• Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests, ensuring timely resolution and minimal impact on project delivery.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration and communication.
• Monitor project performance, track progress against deliverables, and implement corrective actions where necessary.
• Prepare and present project status reports, dashboards, and executive updates to senior management and stakeholders.
• Oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT), deployment planning, and production release activities to ensure successful project implementation.
• Ensure project deliverables comply with quality standards, business requirements, and organisational governance processes.
• Maintain project governance by managing project documentation, conducting steering committee meetings, and tracking key decisions and action items.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes by implementing project management best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Supported project planning, task tracking, meeting coordination, and cross-team communication to ensure on-time delivery.

• Assist in planning, coordinating, and executing IT projects in accordance with project schedules and objectives.
• Maintain project plans by tracking tasks, milestones, timelines, and deliverables to ensure progress remains on schedule.
• Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, record meeting minutes, and follow up on assigned action items.
• Monitor project progress and provide timely status updates to project managers and stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate project documentation, including schedules, risk logs, issue logs, and project reports.
• Facilitate communication between technical teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and other project participants.
• Track project risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating concerns to the Project Manager when required.
• Coordinate resource availability, project activities, and task assignments to support efficient project execution.
• Support testing activities, including User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scheduling, defect tracking, and deployment readiness.
• Ensure compliance with project management standards, processes, and documentation requirements.