Maher Ahmed Abou Samrah is seeking a challenging career-oriented position that utilizes his combination of business, project management, and IT expertise. He has over 8 years of experience in real estate, facilities management, and IT companies in the United Arab Emirates. His skills include business systems strategy, application solutions, interpreting business needs, and network administration. He holds qualifications in business management, project management, and information technology.

1. Maher Ahmed Abou Samrah
United Arab Emirates –Sharjah
Mobile: 00971-50-8161722 email maher4you@gmail.com
Profile
To obtain a challenging and career oriented position in dynamic organization that utilizes my skills
effectively and provides me opportunities to grow and appraise my skills through using combination of
business, project management and IT expertise to drive business systems strategy in support of the
business strategy and advocate, develop, implement and maintain application solutions that maximize
benefit to assigned business units, functions and/or projects.
Skills
 Considerable experience in leading business systems related change
 Combination of business project management and IT expertise
 Using I.T concept for implementing new policies and strategies which will enhance the work
progress and increase the benefits
 Selected, developed or implemented enterprise applications, including Property Management,
Sales, Finance, HR, Maintenance ,Inventory and Legal ,modules based on Oracle 6i,9i and 10g
 Skilled at interpreting customer and business needs and business process modeling
Environments
Internet
Windows 95/98/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7
Oracle 6i ,9i and 10g
Microsoft Networking
Cisco

2. Achievements
 Successfully design and implement full integrated solution for real estate business including
Property Management, Finance, Human resources, Maintenance and Inventory with new core
design and the architecture of the solution allow modules to be operated independently or as
integrated.
 Successfully established VPN connectivity for more than 4 sites including Site-to Site and
Remote-to-Site connectivity
Successfully developed and implemented strategies ,SOP and policies to increase the benefits
for real estate, facility management, and IT companies.
 Participate in developing a range of real estate services which covering the full spectrum
required in such a dynamic industry, from property development, advisory services through day
to day management of property assets and leading to adapt and react to any market changes
Experience
For more than 8 years from experience in City Properties Group (City properties Real
Estate, Royal City Building Maintenance, City Properties Building Cleaning and Yes
Solutions) in United Arab Emirates I have applied my skills to a variety of different
environments such as Real Estate, Finance, Maintenance, Inventory, Business
Development, Software Development and I.T
2007/01 up to date: Project Manager /Real Estate Consultant
Acting as business systems manager in charge of developing both of IT strategies and software
also enhancing the business performance to increase the benefit of the company
Establish lead in planning, specifying, designing and deploying business process or systems
change and enhancement to existing applications. Set up and actively participate as a senior
member of project boards to provide advice and consultancy and ensure project activity supports
the business and IT strategic visions and is aligned to project management and technical
standards so as to ensure successful implementation and benefit delivery.

3. Manage complex relationships with stakeholders, customers and suppliers to influence key
decision makers and secure investment.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external suppliers.
Manage and develop a team of I.T professionals from Oracle Programmers, web and media
Designers
Establishes and maintains an effective system of communication within the organization, and
establishes and maintains effective working relationships with diverse groups and individuals
 Compare a property with similar properties that have recently sold in order to determine its
competitive market price.
 Analyzing market trends to determine competitive market prices.
Appraise property values, assessing income potential when relevant, convince the clients to buy
and sell properties at the right price and close deals.
 Have a detailed knowledge of property, contract and agency laws relevant to Buying, selling and
leasing property as well as knowledge of the building industry.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to work as a team member.
Advise prospective clients on Market conditions, Prices, mortgages, legal requirements, Trends
etc.
 Prepare documents such as representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements,
deeds and leases
Strong organizational and analytical skills.
Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to customers
Responsible for working in target driven sales environment to maximize the opportunity of sales,
brokerage, property leasing, property evaluation to high net worth client
Source property inventory from owner and real estate agents
Source potential investors and establish /maintain a goal work relation
Attend to inquiries leasing, sales, resale, property valuation to maintain high standard of service
Assemble detailed property portfolio and present it to client

4. Collect full details of property which includes photos, arrange viewing, meeting..
Prepare documents such as purchase agreement, closing statement, and lease agreement
Arrange meeting between buyers and sellers when details of transaction need to be negotiated
Rent, lease and sell properties on behalf of client
Performing building evaluation
Calculating properties NOI,CF,ROI,COC and AVR
2006/09 to 2007/01: I.T Manager
Design, implementation, and operation of all active components of the company network,
including network services such as DNS, WINS, DHCP.
Network system analysis and performance monitoring on regular bases
Make backup plans to avoid disasters, ensure maximum network up-time, performance, server
stability and growth.
Determines when software, security and antivirus upgrades are required ;ensure that all upgrades
are completed as scheduled ;and ensure that appropriate documentation exists prior to
implementation
VPN installation and configuration for more than four sites
Planning , design and implementation of the network architecture to meet current and future
needs
To support, monitor, test and troubleshoot hardware and software problems pertaining to LAN.
Install, configure, maintenance and troubleshooting of server, workstations hardware and other
networking devices
2005/12 to 2006/09: Oracle Software Testers and Designer
Obtain requirements, functional design, and internal design specifications and other necessary
documents.

5. Obtain budget and schedule requirements.
Determine project-related personnel and their responsibilities, reporting requirements, required
standards and processes.
Determine project context, relative to the existing quality culture of the organization and business,
and how it might impact testing scope, approaches, and methods.
Identify application's higher-risk aspects, set priorities, and determine scope and limitations of
tests.
Determine test environment requirements (hardware, software, communications, etc.).
Determine test input data requirements.
Identify tasks, those responsible for tasks, and labor requirements.
Set schedule estimates, timelines.
Determine input equivalence classes, boundary value analyses, error classes.
Prepare test plan document and have needed reviews/approvals.
Write test cases.
Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases.
Prepare test environment and testware, obtain needed user manuals/reference
documents/configuration guides/installation guides, set up test tracking processes, set up logging
and archiving processes, set up or obtain test input data.
Obtain and install software releases.
Perform tests.
Evaluate and report results.
Track problems/bugs and fixes.
Retest as needed.
Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and testware through life cycle.

6. 2005/07 to 2005/12: Accountant
Preparing the Chart of account according to the company policies and requirements.
Preparing of monthly and quarterly group accounts and subsequent reporting analysis.
Preparation of financial reporting and management information systems.
Maintaining Financial Transactions, Journal Voucher, Bank Receipt, Bank Payment, Petty Cash
Receipt, Petty Cash Payments, and Balance Sheet.
Follow up of Debtors and Creditors and reconciliation of their accounts.
Monitoring Receivable accounts, Debtor's Ledger, Statement of accounts, Invoice outstanding,
Debtor's Ageing Analysis and Post Dated Cheque Received.
Monitoring Payables accounts Creditor's Ledger, Statement of accounts, Invoice outstanding,
Creditor's Ageing Analysis and Post Dated Cheque Issued.
Preparation of bank Reconciliation statements, transactions corresponding to Bank.
Maintaining General Ledger accounts , Bank Book, Bank Position, General Ledger Account,
General Ledger Subleger, Post Dated Cheques Received and Postdated Cheques Issued
Education &Qualifications
 1999-2004 B.Sc. of Engineering
 Certification in Business Management
 Certification In Office Management
 Certification in Project Management
 IBM Certification in Microsoft Windows/Office
 Cisco ICDN-CCNA Certification
 MCSE

7. Language & Computer knowledge
 Tongue Language: Arabic
 Very good Command of English
Personal Profile
Name: Maher Ahmed Abou Samrah
Age: 32 years of age
Marital Status: Single
Address: UAE, Sharjah
Mobile Number: 00971-50-8161722
E-mail:maher4you@gmail.com
References

8. References will be provided upon request