Samiya Abdi Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Canada Area

Senior Program Specialist (2018- Present)Public Health OntarioToronto, Ont. Leads initiatives and projects that require a senior level support due to a variety of factorsincluding engagement with multiple partners, multiple jurisdictions, significant visibility,urgency, and/or substantial complexity of the subject matter. Identifies research opportunities, develops research proposals, funding applications. Provides technical and scientific interpretation and consultative advice on behalf of PHOto health units, local/provincial working groups, community agencies and otherstakeholders Prepares or contributes to policy briefs and issues letters, speeches, presentations,reports, summaries, and position papers Participates in issues management through providing technical input into the response topublic inquiries and crises communication Chairs inter-governmental committees/task forces and maintain ongoing liaison withcolleagues, the MOHLTC, other ministries, professional associations, and universities,and provincial counterparts to develop partnerships with key stakeholders

480 University

• Design and deliver in-person and virtual training events aimed at building core public health competency and capacity of health promotion practitioners across Ontario• Conceptualize research and synthesize new and emerging evidence on best practices and create resources and training modules/curricula.• Provide expert-level technical advice and consult to Ontario health units with the implementation of the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care’s Ontario Public Health Standards and the Foundational Standard.• Provide strategic advice and support on health promotion capacity building at individual, organizational and system levels • Chair or participate in inter-governmental committees, advisory committees and working groups and maintain ongoing liaison with PHO colleagues, ministry staff, professional associations, and universities to develop collaborative relationships and partnerships to address health promotion issues.

Canada

• Strategically plan and set priorities for an integrated critical care system• Strengthen system accountability through performance management and data collection• Manage project development and execution, including project deliverables and timelines, on a range of public health policies, strategies and programs• Develop strategies for performance measurement, systems analysis and policy implementation• Manage stakeholder relationships and lead working groups and stakeholder teams on monitoring and evaluation of provincial policy implementation and uptake • Develop Knowledge Translation methods to integrate best practices across the critical care system• Advance policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation

770 Bay St

Currently I am a Project Manager with IBM Global Technology Services, Services Delivery Excellence Team.• Participated in the developing and delivering training modules for new Project Support Officers• Represented the PMO on the command center and technical meetings. • Intiated and developed new project intake process and presented it to both PMO and the client. • Provided subject matter expertise including scope definition, risk identification and project plan creation. • Guided a team of 30+ technicians and directly managed 2 project co-ordinators • Reviewing all documentation to ensure that the project has proper approval and sign-offs, facilitating proper tracking of expenses, capitalized hardware purchases, capitalized software development costs• Maintaining the Project Change Request database• Leading weekly project team meetings • Managed 2 Personal Support officers • Served as IBM’s single point of contact for the client • Planed procurement lead times; scheduled resources to meet project deadlines• monitor ed and controlled project deployment issues• Maintained a project dashboard and RACI and highlighted any potential risks• Maintained organizational process assets• Created and documented lessons learned and Quality assurance process • Delivered on a project large scale complex projects involving internal and external teams with over $8M budget though the life of the projects:  1099 new POS lanes 2300 workstations/laptops 833 Printers 578 Scanner Scales 876 Garden Center lanes Installed 134 New Time and scheduling systems installs

• Revised and updated curriculum • Assisted in delivering lectures and supporting students• Graded and proctored exams and assignments • Developed and administered course evolution surveys

Graduate Diploma In Social Innovation And Systems Thinking, School Of Environment Enterprise And Development

Transdisciplinary, collaborative research focused on promoting innovation and resilience within the complex adaptive systems.

Master'S Degree, Public Health

Master of Public Health (2010)

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Public Health

Bachelors of Science – Public Health