Ahmad Mustafa, Business Applications Consultant

Ahmad Mustafa

Business Applications Consultant

Confedintial

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Applications
Experience
17 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 0 Months

Business Applications Consultant at Confedintial
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since March 2019

Key Responsibilities:
• Lead development of software applications in line with specific requirements of internal and external user departments to facilitate process efficiencies and provide superior service to all stakeholders.
• Defining the product vision and communicating with all stakeholders including Customers, Business and development and UI/UX design teams.
• Conducting market research.
• Develops products by identifying potential products.
• Generating product requirements.
• Determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction.
• Developing marketing strategies.

Project Manager at Galaxy International Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 2013 to March 2019

Key Responsibilities:
• Custom Software Developments: Managed all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for dozens of business applications which provide solutions to business problems.
• Being involved on business development and pre-sales activities
• Gathering business requirements, analyzing business processes and identifying technically driven solutions.
• Preparing detailed technical specifications, providing time/cost estimates.
• Utilizing established development tools, guidelines and conventions for programming a multiple business applications using C#, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework.
• Maintaining systems concepts through all phases of design, implementation and integration efforts.
• Performing verification, validation and troubleshooting activities.
• Business application development, Integration and automation.
• Oversee and manage the development and maintenance of system and application documentation (BRD, ERD, Design Documentation and User Manuals).

Project Manager at Royal Group for Companies Management
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2009 to May 2012

Key Responsibilities:
• Spearheading various projects for various companies’ group applications including Access Control, Loyalty Card, BMC Self Service, Legal Assistance, School Registration.
• Liable for installation, configuration, development and support of various applications as per company policies and procedures.
• Instrumental in designing, modifying, developing and implementing software programming applications and components in adherence with organizational policies and procedures.
• Enhancing existing systems by analyzing business objectives, preparing action plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement.
• Implementing and configuring the Group Portal based on MS SharePoint Server to take advantage of internal web based collaboration solution and executed Shared Services over SharePoint.
• Responsible for creating the custom content types in SharePoint MOSS 2007/2010, managing SharePoint 2007/2010 customization to override default SharePoint functionality in adherence to organizational standards.
• Defining, analyzing and documenting application requirements, system architecture and frameworks, obtaining client consensus on project deliverables and schedules to delineate project approach/scope.
• Recommending upgrades to existing systems, troubleshooting software performance issues and extending technical support/ guidance to users, to assure smooth execution of software development process.

Senior Software Developer at Galaxy International Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2006 to November 2009

Key Projects to Credit:
• Governmental Budgeting System in Abu Dhabi Finance Department, Development and Support
• SharePoint Portals (Sharjah Finance Department, Zayed House), Development, Configuration and Implementation
• HR for Government and Private Sector
• Hand-shaking integration between Time Attendance System and Oracle payroll System Development
• ERP System using Oracle 9i (Database and Developer Suite) - Graduate Project (GL, Sales, Purchase, Cashes Flow and Checks Management, Stores, Employees Matters)

Key Responsibilities:
• Developed, produced, administered and configured .NET web based applications using MOSS 2007/2010, VB.NET, C#, Web Services, ADO.NET and ASP.NET. Established software standards and guidelines for application development in the department.
• Administered Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 Database and liable for using Crystal Reports and SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) as reporting tools.
• Developed business logic oriented aspx pages to use it in MOSS & K2 and accountable for installation, configuration, development and support of various applications in the organization.
• Managed entire project life-cycle by controlling project scope, meeting established time-lines/ expense budgets and service standards.
• Evaluated and defined project requirements, analyzed functions, determined appropriate solutions, monitored coding/testing for new/modified web requirements to deliver solutions that meet user expectations and aligned with business processes/strategies.
• Performed screen design, coding, unit testing, and documented web applications based on Microsoft Technologies according to specifications/standards and implemented customized client specific systems.
• Researched and kept abreast of emerging technologies to be able to deliver the most up-to-date solutions and automate processes.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Applications
  • at The Hashemite University
  • June 2005

http://www.hu.edu.jo/

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
IT Management
Blockchain
Project Management
Public Key Infrastructure - PKI
SharePoint 2007/2010/2013/2016 Implimantation-Administration-Development
Web Development ASP.NET and C#
K2 workflow
Office 365, Azure, Cloud
Penteration Testing and Security Analysis
Leadership, Team Building, Motivation, Communication, Ability to Work under Pressure
Analytical Ability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Time Management
Knowledge of Reporting Tools: SSRS,PowerBI, Tableau, Highchart
DFD and ERD by Microsoft Visio
Business Intelegince BI, Drill through Dashboards, Key Performance Indicators KPI
Short Message Peer to Peer - SMPP
Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
Blockchain
System Analysis and Administration
Knowledge of XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS,JQuery and Related Web Languages

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

PMI
  • PMP
  • January 2017
Oracle
  • OCA
  • June 2004
Microsoft
  • MCP
  • November 2009
K2
  • K2 BlackPearl Core
  • June 2015
K2
  • K2 for SharePoint and Infopath
  • June 2015

Training and Certifications

PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
ISO (Training)
Training Institute:
In house training
Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
Project Management Institute
Date Attended:
January 2017
Developing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Solutions (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
16 hours
Penteration Testing and Security Analytics (Training)
Training Institute:
Kqterpiller - Dubai
Date Attended:
July 2016
Duration:
10 hours
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
K2 BlackPearl (Training)
Training Institute:
K2
Oracle 9i (Training)
Training Institute:
ITCC Training Center
Oracle Database Administration 10g (Training)
Training Institute:
Administration, ITCC Training Center
ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
ITIL
Date Attended:
March 2011

Hobbies

  • Table tennis
  • Swimming