Akram Ibrahim, Business Architect

Akram Ibrahim

Business Architect

ITP

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecomunication engineering
Experience
9 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :9 years, 0 Months

Business Architect at ITP
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since December 2022

reengineering processes of Saudi National Security Project:
- Studied and assess current Business Processes.
- Created As-is documents for current business processes.
- Created business work flows to all processes with respect to external parties.
- Created Target (To-Be) documents for the desired business processes (Modifying existing processes, creating new processes.
- Modeling processes using tools such as ARIS.
EA SWCC Project:
- Assessed internal functions, business development strategies, and IT processes.
- Created Business Reference Model (BRM), which is a framework facilitating a functional view of the SWCC lines of business (LoB) in compliance with NORA (National Overall Reference Architecture), including its internal operations and its services for citizens, independent of the agencies, and offices performing them.
- Creation of the Business Architecture Baseline document in compliance with NORA, this document contains the principals (which contain the ground rules to reach and achieve the enterprise strategic goals) as well as the as-is business areas, Line of Businesses, functions and Sub-functions of SWCC as well as the service catalogue (if available)
- Creation of Targeted Business Architecture document, which include the Gap analysis and suggested initiatives in order to improve the enterprise functions as a whole.
- review all document with key stakeholders and get the approval on the documents.

Senior Business Analyst at Perfect Presentation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2021 to December 2022

Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces Project | RSADF
the project aim was to study and re-engineer 40 systems in RSADF
Ministry of Finance | SARF Project:
SARF is a system built to handle payments of workers in the government sectors.
The project aim is to cover more governmental sectors and improve the process.
Sehati Project:
The project aim is to build a module that operates as a managed service system for the council of cooperative health insurance (system) Naphies.
• Elicited requirements for IVR, defined and wrote the high-level requirements.
• Delved further into details and produced a BRD consisted of the following:
 IVR Tree Process Map
 Process Description
 Business Rules
 Scripts

Business Analyst at Dxc.technology - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2019 to February 2021

• Elicit requirements, write the High level requirements, have it
• reviewed by all stakeholders and then approved.
• Delve further into detailed requirements after the approval of
• the High Level Requirements (HLR).
• Writing the Functional Specifcations Document (FSD) using
• artifacts such as: Activity Flow Diagrams, User stories, State
• Model Diagrams, Use case and use case Diagrams.
• Define Basic Flow and Alternative Flow Scenarios.
• Identify the Business Rules.
• Identify Business and Systems actors.
• Identify Risks and errors.
• Conduct a review session with all stakeholders.
• Work Closely with all stakeholders to incorporate all changes and comments to update the drafted FSD and then have it approved.

Business Analyst at Stingray Consultation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2018 to October 2019

• Collecting requirements from the business to establish KPIs that would allow us to analyze the business behavior from a 360 point of view.
• Catch the possible opportunities and participate in business case initiation.
• Seeking best practice solutions.
• Gather requirements to create a BRD and have it signed by the client and goes the extra mile to manage implementation and testing.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into tangible deliverables such as use cases, user stories, workflow/process diagrams, data flow model diagrams.
• Evaluating risks related to requirements implementation,
• testing processes and project communications.
• Communicate clients business requirements by constructing easy-to-understand data and process models.
• Partnering with developers to automate manual processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholder groups across the organization to ensure business and technology alignment. proposed solutions meeting defined specifications and needs.

IT operational support Engineer at Stingray Consultation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2014 to August 2017

Operational engineer | NPG Operation Team
JUN 2014-present
Stingray Company-Zain Project

• ¨ Responsible for MNP system operations which will be included the following:
Ø Operation:
§ Ensuring application processes are up, running, and efficient.
§ Resolving any problems with system processes.
§ Ensure that business flow is streamlined according to the standards and requirement
of MNP business users (MNP customer care team).
§ Extracting system reports.
§ Reporting system bugs to 2nd L & 3rd L Support teams.
§ Following up on issues/tickets list with vendors (2nd L & 3rd L Support teams).
Ø Support:
§ Troubleshooting for problem isolation and resolution, along with the required
investigation through the following areas to determine the root cause of any failure
related to:
¨ Web
¨ Application
¨ Database
¨ Third Party Software
¨ Integration scripts and solutions.
¨ Network
§ Handling 1st and 2nd level of system support on iConectiv/Telcordia MNP
application.
§ Resolving operational bugs and issues due to incorrect configurations.
§ Applying software fixes and patches.
§ Automating the operational tasks.
§ Development of full scope cross-system health checks and having the operational grip of
the system.
§ System Performance Tuning.

Responsibilities:
• Checks for Mount Point Space availability.
• Monitoring and generating KPIs & Reports for Server performance & processing speed, the KPIs are
based on agreed timing (Daily, Weekly, Monthly, ..)
• Monitoring Number of pending files
• Monitoring Number of processed files
• Monitoring Rejected Files & Rejection Reasons
• Periodic application restarts and refreshment
• Monitoring file archiving and file retention periods and optimizing available file system space in
order to store backups for the longest periods
• Reference data integrity and maintain Lookup tables.
• Daily OS Monitoring and Health check
• Monitor the daily backlog
• Monitor daily file trend
• Monitor Zero Byte Files

IT operational support engineer at Stingray Consultation
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2014 to August 2017

Operational engineer | Revenue Assurance & Fraud Management Operation Team

Roles as RAFM Technical Support Engineer:
¨ generating weekly reports for business operational activities.
¨ Reviewing system functionality and features, and introducing and developing operational
health checks to maximize utilization and efficiency:
§ Data Collection
§ Data Loading
§ Data Validation
§ RA KPIs
§ Fraud Alarms
§ Case Management
§ Reporting Module
§ Stingray’s iView 360 Dashboard for business users.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecomunication engineering
  • at El Mashreg College For Science and Technology
  • September 2010

I've been awarded the bachelor degree with honors in telecommunication engineering.

Specialties & Skills

UNIX Shell Scripting
Telecommunications
Unix OS
Gap Analysis
Microsoft Office
Communication Skills
Requirements gathering
User stories
planning
agile project management
requirements analysis
analytics

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker
Spanish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CBAP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2023
Valid Until:
August 2026
CPOA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2021
Business Analysis for RPA (Training)
Training Institute:
UiPath
Date Attended:
June 2019
Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) (Training)
Training Institute:
Milestone Training Center
Date Attended:
April 2018
Duration:
35 hours
ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2017

Hobbies

  • Organizing Events
    - worked as a translator and organizer in YES (Youth Excellence on Stage) international Academy. -organized many Social Events and conferences in Khartoum and Riyadh. -worked as a host and presenter with Timeout company located in Sudan.