عبد الرحمن الشقاوي

An IT Professional having 20+ years of diversified experience in leading and delivering a range of IT initiatives and contributing to wider business change programs with competencies in Managing projects; planning, prioritizing, and administering work, result oriented, seeking a senior IT management position to deliver value based programs with commitment, shared purpose and achievement of enterprise goals.
Build IT infrastructure (Data Center network)

Responsible of:
Oracle ERP Implementation.
Develop and implement policies and procedures
Meet with managers and stakeholders to discuss system requirements, specifications, costs and timelines
Hire and manage information systems personnel
Control systems budgets and expenditures.

Key Projects to Credit:
• Oracle HR Self-Service
• Oracle Fixed Assets
• Oracle Purchasing
• Oracle Payables B2B
• Upgrade Oracle ERP to R12
• EMC Archiving System(Documentum)
• Oracle BI
• Qlik View
• Postal Systems(Developed by .Net)

Highlights:
• Delivered technology solutions to support the business functions of Saudi Post, led and managed the application design, database management and guaranteed first class IT support and security.
• Deputed as Applications & Databases Department Director to handle additional responsibilities towards design, installation, implementation, maintenance and support of all Business Application.

Key Responsibilities;
• Analyzing business requirements and accounting for their potential impact on application, network, infrastructure and support level.
• Integrating and customizing offerings to address specific business challenges, delivering technical and business enhancements within the Business/IT strategy, maximizing opportunities to deliver synergies and building team and staff capabilities.
• Developing and managing application portfolios for each project and achieving all goals as per IT SLA's by the organization.
• Contributing toward executing various corporate governance procedures for strategic and legal compliance of the organization.
• Envisaging strategic and optimizing planning variables to achieve business goals by fostering development of cutting edge IT initiatives.
• Coordinating evaluation, deployment and management of current/future IT infrastructure encompassing areas of procurement, risk management and costing functions.
• Performing project management from initiation to roll out including documentation, work flow design, gap mitigation and providing team support.
• Drafting technical standards, executing application of updates and fixes in addition to leading knowledge transfer initiatives across different teams.
• Managed all administrative tasks including daily operations; assigning delegating and following up subordinates and preparing monthly and annually reports.

Key Projects to Credit:
• Oracle Application 11i (Financial - HR)
• Integrate TradeNet with Oracle GL
• E-Corp (Payment via Internet Banking)
• Reuters RMDS
• Self Service HR
• Oracle Authentication by Active Directory
• Send Employee Monthly Pay slip via Email
• Automate IT and Admin Processes
• Oracle Payroll Data Scrambling

Highlights:
• Monitored, managed and directed the IT project resources to over come “triple constraints”—project scope, time and cost, identified infrastructure requirements and planned development (beta) and production releases that meet quality assurance standards.
• Gained comprehensive knowledge in banking business, financial, HR functions life cycle & Project Management, whilst handling various projects of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:
• Evaluated and identified organizational needs to establish operating procedural standards/workflow, translated client requirements into specific functional briefs and improved existing business systems and planning for system implementation.
• Worked closely with customer management to understand the business requirement for projects, defined deliverables, resource requirements and work plan for the project, and ensured that project is delivered within established financial requirements, in line with industry leading quality standards.
• Monitored process optimization and documentation of information/process flows through the organization, submitted periodical reports to the senior management team and board.
• Guiding technical consultants for complex technical issues through implementation phase. Providing regular updates to senior management on implementation success, potential delays and resource adjustments in order to achieve targets.
• Hired suitable people to develop a strong motivated team, encouraged their professional developments by imparting continuous on-the-job training for accomplishing greater operational efficiency.

Designation Chronology:
• 2003 -2006:Applications & Database Department Manager
• 2001-2003: System Analyst / Senior Oracle Developer
• 1998-2001: Oracle Developer
• 1996-1998:COBOL Programmer

Inducted as COBOL Programmer and moved up career trajectories to merit promotion to the position of Applications & Database Department Manager

Key Projects to Credit:
• Student Record System
• Human Record System
• Purchasing and Warehouse System.
• Consigns System
• University Secretary Council System
• Scientific Council System
• Employee Training System
• Research Financial System
• Enable web inquiry for Registration system
• Upgrade Database from 8i to 9i
• KFU-ITC “Operation Contract” RFP as Project Member specify Application department needs (manpower, software, hardware, licenses and also estimate cost)
• Data Migration for Banner registration System

Overall Responsibilities:
• Provided technical vision to project teams and identified, defined and coordinated development activities, such as customization, interfacing with surrounding systems and requisite conversion programs.
• Supported, managed and enhanced of KUF systems, implemented robust databases and applications support systems for registration systems including; admission, registration, graduation and student financial aid
• Continually strived to improve the quality/efficiency of services provided by the Information Technology Department whilst adhering to educational industry compliance.
• Oversaw and supervised major issues pertaining to the planning, administration and security management, of all systems, databases and networks installations, of diverse service networks on various platforms
• Planned and devised ways of optimizing existent resources to improve throughputs thus enhancing system performance parameters.
• Evaluated performance and technical competency of staff. Scheduled training sessions for regular up-gradations in technology, services and products.