Heba Shammout

Heba Shammout

Senior Client Project Manager | Retail Middle East @ Diebold Nixdorf

About

IT Portfolio Leadership: Dynamic and results-focused IT Portfolio Director with 17+ years of experience leading high-impact, multimillion-dirham technology initiatives across oil & gas, retail, and digital industries in the GCC. Proven expertise in aligning enterprise IT strategy with business objectives to improve margin, accelerate time-to-value, and drive measurable ROI. Strategic Delivery & Governance: Specialized in planning and executing large portfolios of programs—including digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, AI/ML, POS, CRM, and loyalty platforms—within complex, regulated, and cross-functional environments. I lead the full portfolio lifecycle: from demand intake and prioritization to execution, benefit realization, and governance. PMO Impact & Efficiency: Recognized for turning around underperforming portfolios, streamlining PMO operations, and embedding governance frameworks that enhance visibility, risk control, and executive confidence. Adept at balancing agility with structure to optimize cost, strengthen operational efficiency, and elevate service quality. Past Key Achievements: • Managed portfolios exceeding $10M with direct impact on revenue and operational savings • Established governance models that reduced delivery risk by 35% and improved executive reporting accuracy • Negotiated vendor contracts that delivered over AED 7M in cost avoidance • Enabled full portfolio transparency through PPM and JIRA-based KPI dashboards A UAE Golden Visa holder, bilingual (Arabic/English), and PMP-certified leader, I am currently seeking executive roles where I can shape enterprise portfolio strategy, lead PMO governance, and drive digital growth across the region.

Country

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City

United Arab Emirates

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

Project Management, IT Strategy, Troubleshooting, IT Management, Engineering, IT Service Management, ITIL, Change Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Root Cause Analysis, Risk Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Strategy, Mobile Applications, Strategic Planning, Budget Management, Resource Management, Business Strategy, Microsoft Office

Experience

Diebold Nixdorf

Senior Client Project Manager | Retail Middle East

Diebold Nixdorf

LinkedIn
2022-2 - Present · 4 yrs 8 mos
Dicetek LLC

Senior Project Manager

Dicetek LLC

LinkedIn
2021-8 - 2022-1 · 6 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Americana – Restaurant Technology Designation Chronology: ▪ August 2021– Jan 2022: Senior Project/Program Manager Designate – DICETEK LLC sponsorship for Americana), UAE Profile: Manage Restaurant technology projects in Aloha, SDM, new country brand launches, POS updates and any new technologies or system updates. ▪ Manage all aspects of the project life cycle from initiation to successful delivery scope, time, cost, resources, quality, issues and risks. ▪ Led Project Implementations ensuring outcomes are aligned with strategic objectives/Project ROI ▪ Streamlining and completion of long stuck Crucial Security Projects delivery meeting management commitments ▪ Guided and directed Project Manager Teams/ Technical Teams ▪ Liaising with various layers of management and respective presentations. ▪ Analysis the Change/Release, its Operational Impact across internal and external stakeholders; execution with minimal Business disturbance and ensuring Operational stability ▪ Quality implementation for 24x7 operations as per Service Transition / IT service management processes. ▪ Contribute to the development of appropriate IT security policies, processes, systems, standards, procedures in line with the corporate IT PMO framework.

Transguard Group

Senior Project Manager- out source project manager at ENOC

Transguard Group

LinkedIn
2019-11 - 2021-8 · 1 yr 10 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Manage projects in IT infrastructure and virtualization, IOT, CRM, DR, Security Information Management, and Security Infrastructure Projects that includes: security networks, access control, CCTV, ANPR , facial recognition , security control room , incident management, document management. - Manage the project’s scope, time, cost, resources, quality, issues and risks. - Plan, negotiate and allocate the required resources, track their efforts and timesheets through (EPM). - Motivate the project team to achieve deadlines. - Communicate timely project’s status to top management through project steering committees and review boards. - Plan and execute the vendor selection process including RFP development, technical evaluation, financial evaluation, final awarding and contracting. Manage & monitor the vendor during the project execution. - Initiate the change management activities by involving end users and change agents at early stages of the project to overcome resistance to change and get a smooth implementation. Adapt the change management techniques and best practices during the project execution. - Supervise the technical team / consultant to conduct security gap analysis and risks assessment. - Coordinate with consultants to deliver the design documents and performance specifications - Execute the projects implementation and take corrective actions when needed - Track vendor payments as per contractual terms, register and record payments for external resources, hardware and software. - Communicate project’s status to top management - Plan and execute testing & commissioning of the systems - Handover to operation

Global Technology Services LLC (GTS LLC- DUBAI)

Retail Project Manager -outsource project manager in Retail department at ENOC

Global Technology Services LLC (GTS LLC- DUBAI)

LinkedIn
2016-10 - 2019-10 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Manage projects in IT infrastructure and virtualization, IOT, CRM, DR, Security Information Management, and Security Infrastructure Projects that includes: security networks, access control, CCTV, ANPR , facial recognition , security control room , incident management, document management. - Manage the project’s scope, time, cost, resources, quality, issues and risks. - Plan, negotiate and allocate the required resources, track their efforts and timesheets through (EPM). - Motivate the project team to achieve deadlines. - Communicate timely project’s status to top management through project steering committees and review boards. - Plan and execute the vendor selection process including RFP development, technical evaluation, financial evaluation, final awarding and contracting. Manage & monitor the vendor during the project execution. - Initiate the change management activities by involving end users and change agents at early stages of the project to overcome resistance to change and get a smooth implementation. Adapt the change management techniques and best practices during the project execution. - Supervise the technical team / consultant to conduct security gap analysis and risks assessment. - Coordinate with consultants to deliver the design documents and performance specifications - Execute the projects implementation and take corrective actions when needed - Track vendor payments as per contractual terms, register and record payments for external resources, hardware and software. - Communicate project’s status to top management - Plan and execute testing & commissioning of the systems - Handover to operation

SLB

Senior Application Specialist/Project manager

SLB

LinkedIn
2008-11 - 2016-10 · 8 yrs

Dubai

o Providing eClaims support to SLB employees globally through the remedy o Managing and planning Solutions and Applications for the Company. o Provide assistance on failed expense reports to processors. o Extract reports for Audits from Cognos reporting tool o Working on a lot of upgrades or country configuration setup in eClaims. o Updating the SAMBA approvals based on the received requests. o Changing expense types, work flows, warning messages based on location business requirements. o Deal with employee complains and problems management. o Monitoring master data flow on the back end to make sure we have no failures. o Taking the lead in many projects PM Role o Project documentation, project briefs, end stage reports, highlight reports and business cases o Risk and issues management, quality checks and change management. o project planning, resource allocation and monitoring, estimating and budget management o Project communications, checkpoint meetings, project board meetings and communication plans o Stakeholder engagement o Managing project teams, both vendors and internal staff o Project Closure reports to assess the success of the project, identify best practices for future projects, resolve all open issues, and formally close the project.

Emirates NBD

Tele Sales Executive

Emirates NBD

LinkedIn
2008-9 - 2008-10 · 2 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Calling customers, collecting their documents for credit card requests, doing follow ups, writing progress reports, documentation and reporting to the manager with the up dates

Amlak Finance PJSC

Investor Relation Officer Temp

Amlak Finance PJSC

LinkedIn
2008-5 - 2008-8 · 4 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dealing with shareholders, giving them there dividend checks, solving there AMALK share problems with the DFM, and answering there requests Doing follow ups, writing progress reports, documentation and reporting the manager with the up dates.

IBM

xSeries Technical Internship

IBM

LinkedIn
2005-7 - 2005-10 · 4 mos

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Learning about the Different types of servers, Understand the different RAID levels Answers some customer’s questions about BladeCenter, Using the BladeCenter Configuration and Lotus Notes, Installing operating system Windows server 2003 Training in GBM, the training was about BladeCenter Lab work & installations. Working in Dubai Municipality e-service project, Writing tests scripts and scenarios and helping in translation the website from English to Arabic.

University of Sharjah

Computer Lab Supervisor

University of Sharjah

LinkedIn
2005-3 - 2005-6 · 4 mos

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Administration work such as Filing, documentation and internet search for the Dean office. Monitoring computers, fixing software problems, installing operating system, installing programs from the network, and Helping students & faculty on their computers problems.

Seraj

Audio translator for a marketing studies,Seraj,sharjah,2000 till 2003

Seraj

2000-1 - 2003-5 · 3 yrs 5 mos

sharjah

Audio translator for a marketing studies,Seraj,sharjah,2000 till 2003

Education

University of Sharjah

University of Sharjah

LinkedIn

Computer Engineering

1999-9 - 2003-2 · 3 yrs 6 mos

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