Ralph Askar

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About Ralph Askar

A highly motivated, customer-focused individual with a proven track record in providing effective leadership of cross-functional teams and successful delivery of a wide range of technology/ digital projects. A problem-solver and excellent communicator, I have over eight years’ experience in delivery across the entire project life cycle: from scoping, customer research, resource planning and stakeholder management to design, development (Front-end and back-end), UAT and launch. I have delivered software solutions in a variety of areas: Digital Web/ online solutions, Mobile Apps, User Experience, telecom, CMS, Finance, IT infrastructure and Digital marketing (Social media, web analytics). SKILLS ¥ 8+ years project management experience/ PMP Certified/ Agile certified (SAFe Agilest) ¥ Project Management using Waterfall, PRINCE 2, Agile with SCRUM, Hybrid and Kanban methods. ¥ Work closely with the CIO on technology roadmap and products evolution ¥ Excellent leadership and stakeholder communication management ¥ Manage multiple business & tech projects in a strictly governed and pressurised environment covering the complete project lifecycle ¥ Risk Assessment/Management. ¥ Change Control management and processing. ¥ Requirement gathering (Client facing), recording and monitoring. ¥ Budget control and planning (ranging from £30k to £2.3Mil) ¥ SLA Contract management and agreement ¥ Third party supplier management ¥ Extensive use project management tools: MS Project, Jira, Rally, Wrike and other Agile tools ¥ Service/ Operations Outage management, issue resolution and root cause analysis management. ¥ Familiarity with dev tools/ frameworks and programming languages: C#, Java, WPF, HTML 5, ASP.Net MVC, UI HTML toolkit (Bootstrap), PHP, CSS, SSRS, DB Store Procedures, JQuery, Service Brokers/ Listeners