Amr Saad, Information Technology Head

Amr Saad

Information Technology Head

Zawaya Real Estate

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Systems
Experience
18 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 3 Months

Information Technology Head at Zawaya Real Estate
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since April 2020

o Achieves great results with information technology staff by conveying job expectations, strategizing, overseeing, and assessing results, acting as a mentor, counselor, and disciplinarian, and implementing the procedures and policies issued by the company.
o Keeps IT staff at optimal capacity by seeking out candidates, selecting the best ones and familiarizing them with the company’s procedures to promote a safe work environment, while also presenting opportunities for personal growth
o Maintains efficiency and effectiveness of the company by creating and presenting plans for bringing new information technologies into the workplace.
o Organizes and oversees research subjects by examining plans, policies, and user projects as they relate to the goals of the company.
o Conducts audits of currently implemented technologies to verify the results of their applications in the workplace.
o Organizes IT department timetables and resources by coordinating with data center and user departments to complete projects.
o Makes recommendations for IT plans and policies by assessing the results of the organization, finding issues, determining requirements, and evaluating the feasibility of current industry trends.
o Maintains asset quality through implementation of control structures, information security and procedures for back-up and disaster recovery.
o Reaches the financial goals of the company by anticipating requirements, crafting a yearly budget, scheduling purchases, examining variances, and taking actions to implement solutions.
o Ensures high quality of IT service by creating and enforcing strong standards for the department.
o Keeps job knowledge current by taking part in workshops and professional societies, reading professional publications and networking.
o Encourages team dynamic among staff members.

Senior Technical Architect at Trax Group
  • Saudi Arabia
  • April 2015 to April 2020

o Designing and developing technical requirements on top of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain, Power Platform and BI.
o Build prototypes and proofs of concept (POC) to validate technical and solution decisions.
o Develop functional specifications including use cases, business scenarios and functional requirements for the product.
o Drive the effective transition of requirements and use cases to the designers and developers.
o Provide a clear and a complete understanding of the requirements for a successful delivery, and participate in testing, quality management reviews and training including designs, prototypes to ensure the requirements fulfillment.
o Participating in presales process by building and presenting customized product demonstrations of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and related ISV products.

Solution Architect at Key Car Rental
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • December 2012 to April 2015

o Designing and developing technical requirements on top of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
o End to End full internal implementation of Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012.
o Participate in designing and developing business process architecture.
o Collaborating with internal IT team to enhance and reengineer internal processes based on the business requirements and aligning with the edge technologies.
o Integrating IT systems with the back-end ERP and ensure the integrity of data flows.
o Developing custom solutions to serve enhancing the business processes of the deferent departments of the enterprise.
o End users training and support.

MIS Manager at Mitwalli
  • Saudi Arabia
  • September 2011 to December 2012

o Identify opportunities for greater efficiencies through process improvement, systems integration
implementation of enterprise applications.
o Collaboratively work with business and IT teams by offering technical expertise with current and future
implementations for enterprise applications including but not limited to accounting, supply chain,
finance, HR, payroll, and reporting.
o Define and develop the technical environment for all back-office enterprise software.
o Understand and support the data flow and data model for all enterprise applications.
o Ensure back up procedures designed and implemented properly for all enterprise applications.
o Administrate security setup for users and groups within enterprise applications and monitor security of
data to assure integrity and reliability of system stored information.
o Oversee system integration for all enterprise applications.
o Lead application team members in the design, development, testing, integration, and maintenance of
custom applications.
o Analyze business processes and data flow to create and expand on current internal applications.
o Provide specialized assistance in the planning and development of new projects, conduct research, and
recommend procedures for successful implementation.
o Integrate custom developed applications with third-party systems.
o Provide training and operational assistance to enable a positive end-user experience with custom
applications.

Senior Technical Consultant at Multiple Companies
  • Egypt
  • January 2006 to August 2011

o Dynamics AX technical consultant developing and customizing in deferent area of the system ensuring
the alignment with Microsoft best practices and sure step.
o Developed Localized Saudi Arabian Personnel module to meet the Saudi standards in the areas of human
resources management and personnel.
o Gathering requirements, analyzing and design the best fit to the standard system functionality.
o End user training and support.
o Determines operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem and requirements definition, solution
development and proposed solutions.
o Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentations, flowcharts, layout diagrams.
o Developing software solutions by studying information needs and work processes following software
development life cycle.
o Prepares and installs solutions by determining and designing system specifications and standards.
o Expert in E-Learning solution development and school management systems.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Information Systems
  • at Helwan University
  • January 2005

Software Analysis, Design and

Specialties & Skills

Product Management
Technical Presales
ERP design
Microsoft Dynamics
sharepoint development and administration
RESEARCH
CONSULTING
HUMAN RESOURCES
LAYOUT DESIGN
PERSONNEL
PRESENTATION SKILLS
PROCESS ENGINEERING
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Data Science Introduction / Fundamentals. (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
January 2019
Analyzing and Visualizing Data using Microsoft Power BI. (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
November 2018
Developing Business Applications using Microsoft PowerApps and Power Automate. (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
October 2018
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Knowledge Square
Date Attended:
November 2017
CSCP – Certified Supply Chain Professional (Course). (Training)
Training Institute:
Trax Academy
Date Attended:
January 2017