IT Manager
Alijarah Holding Company
Total years of experience :25 years, 7 months
• Led the Oracle Fusion cloud ERP project implementation to achieve the transformational targets set by the management. Including complex integration with third party applications supporting the subsidiaries.
• Led the Alijarah Driving Academy project implementation with state-of-the-art solutions to provide competitive edge to our business.
• Conducted comprehensive GAP analysis to identify risks / issues in the current IT environment and suggested mitigations which was reflected on the strategic plan by incorporating key cost-effective initiatives that are aligned to the company’s overall strategic objectives.
• Established proper IT governance throughout the IT different services delivery.
• Spearheaded the business process reengineering across the entire company functions to enhance the overall operational efficiencies across different business verticals.
• Achieved an overall savings of over $ 240, 000 due to cost optimization initiatives that included substituting current IT products and services with more value for money to the business and through renegotiating main contractual obligations.
• Revamped the IT organization structure to reflect a more efficient operations and removed open redundancies
• Finalized the IT corporate policies and procedures and established required governance across the IT operations.
• Eliminated unnecessary redundant communication lines which results into around $ 60, 000 savings per year
• Key negotiator with local telecoms to reduce the current communication lines’ cost by over $ 460, 000 a year.
• Expedited agreements renewals which would result in around $ 250, 000 savings across 3 years
• Spear headed security setups and infrastructure assessment and implementation at the company to align with best practices and closed identified gaps.
• Established the disaster recovery setup in the company with all critical IT applications.
• Suggested process optimization across business functions to reduce cycle time and enhanced efficiencies.
• Reduced overall licensing cost by consolidating systems and infrastructures, Virtualization, and by introducing better, more efficient, and cost-effective technologies.
• Established the IT department with all its functions (Applications, Operations, Infrastructure and Security).
• Automated most of the company’s processes by multiple ERP implementations across various stages in the business growth to reflect a more efficient operations across all sections.
• Enhanced process efficiency by continuously coordinating with all stakeholders, business units and management and implementing required changes accordingly.
• Cut operational and capital running cost by more than 20% by introducing:
o Best of breed advanced technologies
o Establishing a multi-year strategic turn-key communication services agreement
o Virtualization technologies.
o Multi-year call-off agreements with most of our vendors.
• Established the company’s IT disaster recovery site and Business Continuity plan.
• Improved governance and compliance by establishing frameworks, baselines, processes and relevant policies and procedures.
• Achieved company set goals for high performance by ensuring continuous maximum systems and communications uptime.
• Established the company’s IT security practice and contingency plan to ensure proper security measures are in place and cascaded across all company operational units and to defend against cyber attacks that included all the possible mitigations in terms of people, processes and technologies.
Key results:
• Aljazeera Satellite Channel News website led the implementation team to develop a state-of-the-art Content Management System with all its sub-systems that was responsible for all media and news article management on the website.
• Aspire Information Management Systems (AIMS) Led the implementation team to develop this system which covered the sports analysis, medical and talent ID systems.
• Government and education, Key team member for business process automation, optimization, and implementation for several governmental and education institutes.