New Zealand: Freelancer profile Aby Ghassim from Kaarst, IT & SAP Beratung (Test-Management, Projekt-Management und Qualitätsmanagement) | Profiles from freelancers and companies

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Abilities, knowledge, experiences:
Subject areas:
Test Management, Projectmanagement, Quality Assurance, Training
Test Management & Change Management, HP Quality Center, Load Runner, Win Runner, IBM ReqPro/ ClearQuest, TMap/TPI, SAP Solution Manager & eCATT, RUP, ITIL, ISO, CMMI, V-Model 97/XP, Prince 2, ARIS, Visio, TeamRoom, MS-Project, MS-Office

SAP R/3, Netweaver • Since 1996 participation in numerous SAP R/3 implementation and rollout projects. Very good application and user skills in the modules FI/CO, SD, MM, HR, CRM, SCM, PS . Deep knowledge of business processes and information flow within the SAP R/3, Netweaver System, SAP-CRM, SAP-BW. Good uunderstanding of all the interfaces and related issues of EP with ECC and BI, Knowledge of SAP Solution Manager and CCMS within the context of system monitoring and availability management; SAP & platform technical certification, Solution Manager Diagnostics –Implementation/Configuration, Wily Introscope – Implementation/Configuration, CTS plus, Sizing, Clustering and High Availability, Enterprise Services Architecture
Tasks and responsibilities:
• Coordination between various teams responsible for Environment, Training and development of SAP FI/Co, PS, MM, SD, CRM,BW
• Mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing verification and validation activities
• Preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies
• Responsible for technological relationship between SAP and Non-SAP
• Coordination with the IT Operations organization in Europe and USA
• Preparation for Testing (Mercury Tools and SAP Solution Manager)
• Preparation for Roll Out, Migration, Training and Interfacing
• Preparation for HW planning, Training and roll out planning
• Preparation and participation in the definition of the pilot- and post-project support structure, Training Management and Training
• Plan, steer and monitor rollout and release projects
• Preparation of all information material needed to support go-live
• Support management and project sponsors in project initiation
• Process all necessary analysis to build the organization through SAP
• Preparation and presentation of communication plan
• Verification and validation of Change maps and related business roles and business responsibilities by mapping As-Is to To-Be SAP module related roles and organization units

Project- / Interim-Management (PMI) RUP, Pince 2, PMP, Very good project management skills gained through various experiences as project manager and team leader in IT and quality assurance in Financial & Accounting, in Telecommunication, in airline & tourism affairs in Retail, in Trade and in Commerce related projects in an international environment. Projects managed in German and in English.

Data warehousing and Business intelligence Very good knowledge of DWH and BI Methodology and Tools. Very good skills gained through various experiences as DWH - project manager and team leader. Expertise in Business Objects, Micro Strategy and Cognos

CMM /CMMI-Process Optimizing Good knowledge of the principles of Business Process Optimizing and Reengineering. Participation CMM / CMMI, SPICE and ISO

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References:
Projects / Tasks:

09/08 – 12/08
SAP-ERP (FI/CO, MM, HR, PS, SCM, CRM) Test Management, Defect Management and Quality Assurance for Swisscom IT Services

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Testing strategy & concept for very complicated tests
• Administration and Configuration of HPQC for project specific needs
• Management of Trainers, Training Concept and Training
• Mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing verification and validation activities
• Preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies
• Communication with Top Management, IT and Business Departments
• Responsibility for coordination of internal and external test teams
• Presentation testing strategy for management and all responsible teams
• Coordination and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project team
• Unit, Scenario, Integration, E2E & UAT, Migration, Regression, CutOver
• Defect Management using HP Quality Center
• SAP-ERP, Mercury (HP) Quality Center 9.2

12/07 – 08/08
SAP-ERP (FI/CO, MM, HR, SCM) Test Management and Quality Assurance for a worldwide leading company in telecommunication (Vodafone, Duesseldorf, Germany and GB)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Testing strategy & concept for functional, non-functional and load performance tests
• Management of Trainers HPQC, Training Concept and Training HPQC
• Mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing verification and validation activities
• Preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test non functional testscripts, and implementing automated testing strategies
• Communication with Top Management, IT and Business Departments
• Responsibility for coordination of internal and external test teams
• Presentation testing strategy for management and all responsible teams involving worldwide
• Coordination and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project team consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Functional, non-functional and load performance testing (Unit, Scenario, Integration, End2End & punkt2Punkt and UAT)
• Defect Management using different Test Tools for IT and Business Departments
• SAP-ERP, Mercury Quality Center 9.2, IBM RecPro / ClearQuest, SAP-Solution manager, Load Runner,Winn Runner, PVCS, Visio, MS-Office
• WebSphere 5.0, ETL Tools, Monitoring Tools für SAP and NoN-SAP


06/07 – 11/07
Test Manager for a very large telecommunication / SAP and NonSAP mobil project (NetColone Megaflat and Joker Mobil)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Testing strategy & concept for internal and external companies
• Mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing verification and validation activities
• Preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies
• Management of Trainers, Training Concept and Training of 70 people
• Communication with Top Management, IT and Business Departments
• Responsibility for coordination of internal and external teams (10-100)
• Presentation testing strategy for management and all responsible teams involving worldwide
• Coordination and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project team consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Unit, Scenario, Integration, End2End & punkt2Punkt and UAT testing Business process re-engineering
• Defect Management using different Test Tools for IT and Business Departments
• Billing-Tests (Mobilfunk, Festnetz and Breitband)
• TestLink, SQS-Tools, PVCS, J2EE, Oracle 9i, Visio, MS-Office
• WebSphere 5.0, ETL Tools, Business Objects, PL/SQL, JAVA

01/07 – 05/07
SAP Change Management (FI/CO, MM, QM), Organizational Change management (Car Industry, Automotive, Teheran-Iran)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Organisationnel Change Management (SAP & Non-SAP Enivrement)
• Communication Management, Training Process
• Professionalism of Practitioners Focused on Organizational Change and Development
• Presentation and Training of 60 manager for OCM strategy
• Management of Training for all responsible teams
• Coordination and communication with all responsible members of project teams consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Change Management, Unit, Scenario, Integration, System and UAT testing Business process re-engineering
• Training for 80 user, project manager, coordinators and Testers
• Training management, Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing

01/06 – 12/06
Process, Release and Test Management / Quality Management for a very large Datawarehouse Project, Car Industry (Ford AG)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Training Management and Change Management
• Testing and Release Strategy & Release Management Concept
• Auditing Quality Management System, Testing Process
• Presentation and Training of testing strategy for management and all responsible teams involving worldwide
• Coordination and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project teams consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Unit, Scenario, Integration, System and UAT testing Business process re-engineering
• Training for user, project manager, coordinators and Testers
• Training Management, Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing
• Test Director 8.0, PVCS, J2EE, Oracle 9i, Visio, MS-Office
• WebSphere 5.0, ETL Tools, Business Objects, PL/SQL, JAVA
• S-OX404, SCRP (System Control Review Program)

08/05 – 12/05
Test Management & Quality Management: Implementation of a new central Template for Project planning and controlling in SAP and Non-SAP Environment (Deutsche post, international project)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Test- and Change Management , SAP ERP2004 Financials/PlanView
• Training Management and Coordination international teams (1500 User and 150 Tester)
• User and Project administration for Mercury TestDirector 8.0
• Migration Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center 8.2
• Presentation testing strategy for management and all responsible teams involving worldwide
• Coordination and Training and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project teams consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Unit, Scenario, Integration, System and UAT testing Business process re-engineering
• Training for 100 user (project manager, coordinators and Testers)
• Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing
• RUP, CMMI and V-Module 97, TMap/TPI analysing and optimizing testing strategy and concept, using and Implementation of different tools at the worldwide area of Deutsche Post, DHL, …
• Mercury TestDirector 8.2, Load Runner, Win Runner, Quick Test for SAP, eCATT, TMap/TPI, SAP R3/FI/CO, SAP-CRM, SAP-BW, PlanView, MS-project, Visio, MS-Office

05/05 – 07/05
Internal Audit /Quality Assurance (Finance/Insurance)
• Auditing Quality Management System, Testing Process
• Review testing concept
• Presentation and visualization QM-System

01/05 – 05/05
Test management & Quality management: Implementation of a new central Template for accounting system at MetroGroup (Kaufhof, Saturn, MediaMarkt, Extra, Metro Cash&Carry, …)

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Testing strategy & concept , SAP ERP2004 (Modules FI/CO, MM)
• Presentation testing strategy for management and all responsible teams involving worldwide
• Coordination and communication testing strategy with all responsible members of project team consisting of internal staff and external service providers
• Unit, Scenario, Integration, System and UAT testing Business process re-engineering
• RUP, Prince 2, CMMI and V-Module 97, TMap/TPI analysing for optimising testing strategy and concept, using and Implementation of different tools at the worldwide area of Metro Group
• Mercury TestDirector, Load Runner, Win Runner, Quick Test for SAP, eCATT TMap/TPI/TSAP, SAP Solution Manager, In-Step, ARIS
• Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing, Increase stage of maturity from CMMI-Level 1 (Is) to CMMI-Level 3

09/04 – 12/04 Test Management & Release Management, UBS Bank in Frankfurt

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Test planning using TestDirector, MS-project (RUP, V-Model)
• Defect Management using Clear Quest and TestDirector
• Coordination between the project team in using Mercury TestDirector, Visio, powerpoint and other tools
• Consulting for UAT (User Acceptance Test)
• Reporting test results to management and other project members

06/04 – 08/04 Concept Data warehousing Process, DB-Telematik, Eschborn

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Review Concept for developing and implementation of a very large Data Warehouse incl. Voice over IP based on Oracle Database, using ETL-Tools, ETI and Enduser-Tools Business Objects & MicroStrategy
• BI (Business Intelligence) & MIS (Management Information System)

11/03 – 05/04
Netweaver Technology and SAP R/3 (4.7) FI/CO, SD and MM at DEKRA Academy (Duesseldorf – Germany)

Task:
• Project Management for Managerial & Financial Accounting

04/03 – 10/03 Total Quality Management (TQM), Johnson Controls Interiors GmbH

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Auditing JCI-Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2000), ITIL
• GAP-Analyse, Management Review, Change management
• Responsibility for planning, directing and leading Audits
• Coaching & Training 500 Staff for using the QM-System
• Presentation and visualization QM-System
• Insure policies and methodology are followed in performing recovery audits within the Region
• Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing, Increase stage of maturity from CMMI-Level 1 (Is) to CMMI-Level 3
• Proactively initiates programs to increase revenue, decrease expenses, improve client service, and/or build client loyalty
• Develop all operational audit plans and time lines and ensure all objectives are delivered


01/03 – 10/03 Studying and certificating as Quality auditor and Quality manager
TÜV and DGQ Academy (Duessldorf – Germany)

04/02 – 04/03 Financial Consultant & LAN/WAN Consultant (Brokerage offices)
Consultant for trading with options (Citibank-CATS, Commdirect)

04.1995 – 03.2002 LTU International Airlines in Düsseldorf (Germany)
Project Manager for LTU reservation systems PROVIT, LTU airline system, LTU-Data warehousing & quality management, Project Manager and Management consultant in airline & tourism affairs

• Project Manager for LTU Data Warehousing
• Developed and implemented a very large Data Warehouse using DWH-Tools PRISM Solutions from CA/USA, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Cognos, SAP/R3, ABAP4, Oracle , Informix and Non-Stop-SQL, W-NT, HP/UNIX, VAX/VMS and Tandem/Guardian
• Project responsibility for $2 million and 5-10 internal and external
• Mentoring junior programmers, staffing testing efforts with resources, performing verification and validation activities
• Preparing for audits of testing results, managing the execution of test scripts, and implementing automated testing strategies
• Risk-Management and process-optimizing, Increase stage of maturity from CMM-Level 1 (Is) to CMM-Level 3
• Reduced Database costs of Oracle by 40% by optimizing DB-module
• Achieved 50% cost reduction in using Data Warehousing concept to optimise the Information System of the LTU-Group (5000 Employees and 5 Companies in airline and tourism industry and travel agencies)

• Project Manager for Reservation-System PROVIT, the largest project of the LTU Group, with a budget of over 60 million dollars developed under joint leadership of LTU and external companies
• Responsible for technological relationship between SAP and Non-SAP
• Coordination with the IT Operations organization in Europe and USA
• Preparation for Testing, Migration and Interfacing
• Preparation for HW planning and roll out planning
• Preparation and participation in the definition of the pilot- and post-project support structure
• Plan, steer and monitor rollout and release projects
• Preparation of all information material needed to support go-live
• Support management and project sponsors in project initiation
• Process all necessary analysis to build the organization through SAP
• GAP-Analyse, Task Manager Project PROVIT
• GDS and CRS-Systems: SABRE, Galileo, Amadeus, Worldspan
• Interfaces with Product Manager, Development
• Coordinating product development and documentation phase with development team; organising the functional walk-thru of products
• Elaborating functional specifications for new / existing products
• Writing functional design documents in UML for use by other Teams
• Project management SAP R/3, quality management and documentation of Cobol, Visual Basic, ABAP4, SQL-Scripts, UNIX-, VMS- and Windows for HP, SUN and Tandem-Host
• Testing products In order to ensure compliance of the delivered functionality and system integrity, and signs their acceptance
• Supports other Project Manager and teams of Customer Care
• Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing, Increase stage of maturity from CMM-Level 1 (Is) to CMM-Level 3
• Know-how transferred from external companies to internal staff
• Responsibility for 15 internal and external staff members

• Project Manager for LTU-project planning and controlling
• Developed and implemented a project management tool using Visual Basic, Oracle, Cognos, Microsoft Project, SAP/R3, ABAP, ARIS, HTML,
• Risk-Management and Process-Optimizing, Increase stage of maturity from CMM-Level 1 (Is) to CMM-Level 3
• Reduced project costs by approximately 60% by optimising the planning- and controlling process
• Optimised and centralised reporting for project and costs controlling of all projects and departments depending on security demanded

• Project Manager for LTU business with Iran (appointed by the top management of LTU International Airlines and Tourism Affairs)
• Analysed & prepared a feasibility study on relationship with the then newly elected Iranian government (1997) in airline & tourism
• Acquired traffic rights for LTU Airline service to Iran 3/weekly
• Analysed and prepared a feasibility study on realising the acquired traffic rights for doing business with Iran

04.1993 – 03.1995 Data Consult Kraus and Sikra-Finanz-Service (Frankfurt a.M.)

Tasks and responsibilities:
IT-Leader and Financial Consultant, Management Consultant
• Implementing, installing and providing technical support for software products of Data Broadcasting Cooperation/USA to get through the “Signal” real time information via satellite, VOIP, ISDN,…
• Sales Manager for financial products of Sikra-Finanz / Frankfurt
• Responsibility for training all clients in stocks and options trading
• Responsibility for all software, hardware and market research
• Exceeded sales targets each year by more than 30%

12.1990 - 03.1993 Deutsche Terminbörse (DTB) Frankfurt (German Stock Exchange)

Tasks and responsibilities:
System Analyst, responsible for DTB and Banking Systems
• Implementing, installing and providing technical support for DTB
• Developed software for banking environments using Cobol, VAX/VMS, RDB, UNIX, MS-DOS and networks, DECnet, TCP/IP

1/1987 - 11/1990 Index Datensysteme (Langen - Germany)

Tasks and responsibilities:
Software Engineer and IT Management Consultant for Industry
• Implementing, installing and providing technical support
• Developed a software for personnel and project management
• Responsibility for marketing and acquisition
• Exceeded sales targets each year by more than 40%

09/1980 - 12/1986 Freelance Consultant

Tasks and responsibilities:
• Technical and professional responsibility for all office solutions running at different countries in Europe and North America.
• Responsible for further system rollouts and enhancements.
• Building and Civil Engineering

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Temporal and spatial availability.:
100%, from January 2009

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Other:
I am ready to work worldwide.