Project Manager for Oracle E-business Suite & Support
Savola Group
Total years of experience :26 years, 0 Months
• Worked in SSIS section in a model to support various business units from a shared service point of view. Following on-going projects, and coordinating support on single instance for whole group.
• Participated in OPM Implementation and handover process for AFIA Oils Company.
• Provide support to various Savola business units in areas of consultancy, system errors and issues, business process re-engineering and applying best practices.
• Participated in major upgrade project of Oracle Apps version to 12.1.3, working different test scenarios, coordinating among business users and Oracle support.
• Completed project to fully automate Purchasing cycle in AFIA Unit.
• Audit on ERP Projects during handover and closing.
• Participated virtual support team across all Savola BUs, to enhance support, increase team collaboration, and encourage knowledge sharing.
• Worked on executing Auditors’ recommendations of SSIS dept., by proposing and building various security measures for Oracle EBS.
• Setup Purchasing sourcing rules for purchasing dept. to automoate purchase of some raw-materail items
• Risk and issues management, quality check and change management.
• Led International implementation project to setup Oracle for newly obtained foreign Bus, coordination with foreign oracle implementer and managed delivery and connection to central instance.
• Managed a team of 3 seniors in Oracle support team, organized tasks and projects, ensured circulation of tasks and improved knowledge sharing.
• Provided support and continuous improvement for Finance modules, SCM modules, and EAM module.
Technical Work
• Built several APIs to automate business flow & provide link to 3rd party solutions.
• Completed Full Finance Solution for newly joined BU units acquired by Savola Group; including GL consolidation setup to central ledger, Supported company international foreign currency ledgers and translation to local SAR currency.
• Implemented business requirements by utilizing Oracle Alerts, RDF Reports, XML reports, and Scheduled PL/SQL procedures.
• Communicate with company various business units to analyze IT requirements, identify new business planning ideas and strategy initiatives and derive IT strategy plan;
• Enhance IT services by: a) planning in-house projects; b) enhance documents sharing by implementing Share Point as communications platform and portal.
c) Implement SQL SSRS for management reports.
• Provide Oracle ERP support for existing modules, and enable new features and enhancements. Some support is coordinated with Corp-IT central helpdesk.
• Work on documenting and standardizing operations business process across different mining sites.
• Coordinated Helpdesk operations to remote mining sites will maintaining accessibility and support
• Worked on HR Process automation with coordinating requirements between MGMB office and Maaden Riyadh HQ.
- Worked as IT Projects consultant to several projects and tasks
- Project Manager for one client to build a complete (BRD) Business Process and Requriements Specification Document, as a base for future ERP bidding and implementation
- Delivery Lead for a project to code a customers complete Business Requirements in a coded MS SharePoint System.
* Manage IT operations and service to other departments through the external support agreements; the contracted specialists; and the existing IT staff.
* Carried out company's business need for an HR system. Initiead requirements scope and and contacted various vendors. Prepared a detailed and technical vendor selectios process. Arranged meetings with company executives to look at various products. I put together an RFP scope containing the major requirements as stated by executives and concerned department managers. Obtained various offers and approved qualified ones for top management decision.
* Provided management consultation to Finance Department in ERP external audit and improvement projects. Assisted the executing firm in gathering requirements and I oversee the projects progress. Mentored finance managers in utilizing system to best fulfill requirements of the company
* Coordinate with upper management to align IT goals with company objectives: Work to carry out company vision of high competency and automation. Assisted in projects of automation, workflow design and integration of various systems like: Net Faxing, with document archiving and workflow user approvals.
* Investing in information delivery by studying future possible BI solutions (Data warehousing, portals) to utilize current rich legacy systems and assist in company expansion projects and expedite decision making.
* Increase cooperation and service of IT by coordinating with other departments and actively gathering requirements to find best suitable business solutions.
* Oversee Integration of company's large ERP (Oracle Apps) with other systems; like Adobe Workflow and ADI Reporting
* Administer & Maintain Oracle ERP application in areas troubleshooting, advanced reports design required by executives, users training, prepare setup documentation, update upper management on progress of implementation.
* Project coordinator for Oracle E-business eAM (Maintenance Module) implementaion, Jun 2005. Led the delivery of one of the most successful ERP implementations in the copmany which continues to be used today by engineering department to view and best optimize cost of
maintenance operations, and achieve integration with Oracle finance modules.
* Project coordinator for Oracle E-business suite version upgrade from 11 to web based 11i. Was in charge of old platform stoppage and migration to the new 11i version.
* Manage team of 4 people, track pgress on projects and assign tasks.
* Maintain information as asset to the users, by seeking proper reporting tools, delivering designed reports, ensuring authority: proper access to the right people
* Translate business rules of purchasing and warehouse procedures and apply it to Oracle ERP system.
* Participated in planning strategy of IT department.
* Worked on implementing a workflow application to transform company internal papers to e-forms
* Made Implementation to install new software packages and align them with company business rules.
* Update myself with markets new technologies through conferences, show rooms, often meetings with vendors salesmen.
* Represent IT in company team for "Balanced Score Cards" strategy plan. Plan IT role in overall strategy using BSC, and follow progess of IT projects in that regrad
* Interview new applicants to IT department and send recommenations to HR.
Worked for the IT department in the main company branch. Worked in developing Oracle applications using Developer 2000 and maintian the in house developed Oracle reports, also programmed scripts to add functionality to the company website, using ASP scripting language.
Interact with students and troubleshoot computer related problems, Familiarize myself with various software programs to gather an experienced understanding to apply to the job requirements, also participate in training seminars on customer service, lab software applications, and network structure.
as a summer internship, I worked in testing setup, application installation, and Multi-lingual User Interface (MUI) support areas of the Windows 2000 Operating System, handled cases for Arabic MUI testing, Gained experience in working with MUI environment, and functionality of different Language Packs on the operating system. I also submint a regular report of all test data and work plan.
Obtained a Bachelor of Computer Science and a Minor in Mathematics
