Director of Technology and Business Development
Taqnia Cyber
Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months
• Developing Decision support tools, including all phases of development lifecycle, from gathering requirements to testing, implementation, and support to the customer.
• Conduct technical research and make recommendations on products, services and standards in support of procurement and development efforts for the company or its customers.
• Provide high level Decision Support Solution (DSS) design & analysis, requirements definition, and solution architecture.
• Oversee the progress of Product/Solution development by defining the acceptance criteria and recommending areas of improvement and enhancement.
• Conduct training sessions for account managers in current and future products and services in Decision Support area including Business Intelligence (BI), Data Mining (DM) and Data Warehouse (DW).
• Assist account management in marketing efforts by presenting the company capabilities and respond to customer questions.
• Provide Consultancy services on Decision Support area to the company or its customers.
• Oversee technology transfer and company personnel Capability Development.
• Collaborate with end users, development staff, and other stakeholders to integrate proposed solution with existing systems.
• Lead & Manage multi-disciplinary project team in the Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Mining (DM) area that includes technical contribution to deliver expected results.
• Conduct multiple researches in pattern recognition, variable selection, experimental design and sampling techniques.
Achievements
• Lead and Mange the effort of design and development of reporting tool in the supply chain area between the company and partners.
• Develop a Cyber solution for that Ministry of Defense (highly classified project).
• Develop a business case for the business intelligence utilization and possible implementation in the field of low enforcement for Ministry of Interior (MoI).
• Develop and manage the partnership efforts between our company and other companies in the technology side.
• Develop and Manage the e-Government Business Intelligence Strategy.
• Build and lead the team to established Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing for the e-Gov program.
• Assess existing and available data Base technologies and methods to ensure our Data warehouse/BI architecture meets the needs of the e-Government Program.
• Manage multi-vendor project that include (IBM, Deloitte and Wipro) to implement the e-Government Business Intelligence Using IBM/Cognos IBM/Spss, ERwin and Oracle EDW.
• Conduct workshops to gather, review and give recommendations on the Departments requirements to connect them in a way to achieve the organization main objectives.
• Finalizing the Dim Fact matrix after collecting the business requirements for the e-Transformation system.
• Submitting and presenting multiple reports after implementing Data Mining techniques using IBM/Spss to find hidden patterns in the existed data.
• Supporting the Strategic & Planning department in implementing the Business Intelligence for the department main projects like the (e-Government Transformation measurement).
Achievements
• Develop the Business Intelligence Strategy for the e-Government
• Build the business intelligence unit including the team structure, job descriptions, interviews and hiring.
• Implement the business intelligence solution for the e-Government
As Project Manager I was required to oversee multiple projects in the field of Data Mining (DM), Knowledge Management (KM).
• Responsibilities included planning, monitoring project, budgeting and resource allocation, for important customers such as STC, RCJY and CDSI.
• Defines project scope, goals and deliverables in support of business requirements and works with senior leadership.
• Communicates with stakeholders project status, progress on deliverables, and risks/issues to stakeholders and leadership.
• Responsible to identify and hiring project staff.
• Leading the survey development using standardized methodology and scales like Carmen and Likert.
• Appling Data Mining techniques to find hidden patterns in customers behavior, which is used to lead the marketing campaigns and increase its efficiency.
• Responsible for delivering Market Intelligence reports to support customer enterprise strategic decision and business functions.
• Conducting multiple researches projects for several industries.
Main projects Managed :
• Survey Project covering mobile users over Saudi Arabia for STC(SAUDI TELECOM COMPANY).
• Knowledge Management Project for the (Royal Commission for Industrial cites).
• Saudi Arabia General Census of Population and Housing for CDSI (Central Department of Statistic and Information)
•Conducting Quality research to apply the quality procedures on the C.R.M.S. \[(Computerized Report and Management System)Data Base\] which is used mainly as a Business Intelligence system for Riyadh Municipality.
•Daily Supervision on the quality of the Data Base performance and contacting directly to the development team if there is any shortcoming in the data.
•Applying ''Sampling System'' by taking a random samples from the Data Base using ''Poisson Distribution''.
•Holding regular meetings with the Senior Project Manager and the development team weekly to approve the problems and solve them.
•Designing the Cause and Effect form for the System developers, to be able to trace back the sources that cause the system failure.
Achievement
• Reduce the error in the C.R.M.S. system by more than 80%.
•Working and leading Data Analysis and Business Intelligence systems for a 2 billion SR project.
•Applying advanced Forecasting using ARIMA model using SAS Base.
•Attending the meetings and giving technical advices about the analysis reports.
•Reporting daily to the General Manager about the projects performance.
•Contact via e-mail with other projects if there is any shortcoming in the quality of projects performance.
•Involved in Business Reports requirements gathering, analysis, design, development, deployment and user training.
•Developing Business Intelligence reports using Crystal Reports tool.
Achievement :
• Conduct an Efficiency Research (achieved to reduce the cost by 25 millions out of 180 millions).
Associate's Degree, Entrepreneurship The program period is two years of studying and implementing a real business projects, starting from an idea to operation. The program designed to give a strong foundation in each business disciplines. It consist of core classes in microeconomics, human resources (organizational behavior), finance, marketing management, operations management, statistics, business strategy and leadership with focus on technology innovation.
Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, awarded from the College of Science in King Saud University. Operations research is a discipline that deals with the application of advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. It is often considered to be a sub-field of mathematics employing techniques from mathematical sciences, such as mathematical modeling, statistical analysis and mathematical optimization.