rawad kuwidir

Independent Project Management Consultant at Consultyon

Bio Summary

Diversified experience in Engineering and Project Management within the Electronics, Semi-Conductor, Telecommunications, Automotive and Industrial Consumer Electronics Industries.

Experienced in Agile, PRINCE2, PMI, Waterfall, ASPICE V-Model, CMMI and APM, in complex and challenging environments across multi projects, throughout entire projects life-cycle, from estimation and bidding, to inception, execution, delivery and closure.

A promoter and an advocate of best practices and processes improvement. Who is strongly believes in empowering team members, sharing knowledge and applying adaptable leadership. Key player in turning risks into opportunities, and driving opportunities through dynamic project environment factors.

PROFILE An Electronic Engineer with an MSc in Mobile Satellite Communications ; A Certified SAFe® 5 Agilist and Advanced Scrum Master (SASM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) and Prince 2 practitioner; More than 14 years of diverse experience in Project Management of R & D, implementation of Embedded System Software within the Electronics, Semi-Conductor, Telecommunications and the Automotive Industries. An effective communicator at all levels within an organisation ; A self-motivated and highly energised Engineering Project Manager who is equally at ease with both Management and Engineers.

ABILITIES/SKILLS An assertive but fair people manager ; Very quick to pick up new skills ; Very flexible and accommodating to new requirements as and when they come up ; At ease working both independently and within a team ; Great inter personal skills; Bi-lingual in Arabic and English.

Employment History

Independent Project Management Consultant

Consultyon

November 2013 - present

Ascot SL5, UK

Providing project and programme management consultancy and support, freelancing through my own limited company. Clients: Dana - Mechatronics products development for Automotive solutions. Mercedes Benz AMG - Powertrain cont ...see more

Project Manager

Capgemini Engineering

November 2016 - June 2019

Coventry, UK

Capgemini Engineering (Formerly Altran) specialised in engineering engineering and management consultancy across the engineering disciplines. As a project manager in a customer facing role working closely with Account Manage ...see more

Project Leader

Spirent Communications

July 2013 - November 2013

Reading, UK

Led Spirent Managed Consultancy Services Projects of up to £150k budget. Achievements: Reducing project costs Introduced a system to monitor Project budget and delivery

Portfolio Analyst

Intel

July 2012 - June 2013

Nuremberg, Germany

Assistance and support to the Project Management Business Unit for the Protocol Stack (2G, 3G and LTE) Modem; System on Chip SoC Software projects. Achievements in this role were, but not limited to: Created and rolled out a ...see more

Team Lead

Renesas Electronics

August 2011 - August 2012

Farnborough, UK

Led the test engineers, by coordinating and supervising the various team tasks and activities for testing wireless mobile modem platforms, for 2G and 3G CS Voice, PS Data and FTP, Data Throughput, Inter System Hand Over and L ...see more

Project Manager

المدار الجديد

October 2010 - August 2012

Tripoli, Libya

As a member of the PMO, Rawad deployed MSPE (Microsoft Project Enterprise) Server, managed €15m+ complex project, the CBS (Convergent Billing System) provided by Ericsson based on CBiO (Charging and Billing in One) technolo ...see more

Wireless Test Engineer

Nokia

January 2010 - October 2010

Farnborough, UK

In a support to product managers in Agile environment, defining test cases and designing test suits. Supervising the Engineers during testing activities, assigning task ownership for fixing faults. With the responsibility to ...see more

Hardware Engineer

Sharp

January 2007 - December 2009

Bracknell, UK

As a Software Release Coordinator part of the Project Management Team in PRINCE2 model, the responsibility was to manage, build and release software to customers, liaising with management in Japan and customers as well as hea ...see more

Technical Research Consultant

FirstPartner

August 2006 - September 2006

Guildford, UK

Research on FMC (Fixed-Mobile Convergence) business development, provided a briefing to the First Partner Team, as contribution to draw out a market map for the FMC. This was part of consultancy offering from First Partners t ...see more

VSAT Technical Design Assistant

Modern World For Telecommunication Sloutions

July 2005 - August 2005

Tripoli, Libya

This role involved basic technical support for a case study designing a VSAT network for Data banking as well as sourcing information on equipment solutions.

Student Summer Internship

Ericsson

June 2001 - September 2001

Tripoli, Libya

Country Experience

United Kingdom Germany Libya