IT Systems & Quality Assurance – Section Manager
alfanar
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :14 years, 5 أشهر
alfanar is primarily engaged in manufacturing electrical construction products, EPC solutions and major construction activities for conventional and renewable power plants, allied engineering services and design engineering. It has built up an international presence throughout much of the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Accomplishments:
Responsible for IT framework, strategy Alignment, tools, standards, Road Map Management, demand and capacity management.
Head-hunted by alfanar to manage huge landscape\workloads to be migrated and transformed onto the cloud.
Instrumental in re-furbishing the alfanar IT procurement department from scratch, within 3 months period, implementing world-class procurement systems by clubbing all contracts in a single management point.
Key contributor in transforming business activities whilst managing technically advanced cost-efficient, state-of-the-art systems & processes.
Successfully modernized IT capabilities and enabled alfanar to reach new and greater heights of business performance.
Key Responsibilities:
Managing large, complex IT environments, employing best-in-class standards through the development and implementation of strategies, innovative technical designs and quality projects.
Commanding robust process improvement projects and establishing IT Policies and Procedures for alfanar group focusing on the procurement and service delivery perspectives.
Key IT Strategist, contributing in streamlining IT vision, mission & goals based on business demands. Facilitating transformation/ delivering innovative concepts with a firm commitment to innovation, high-performance standards & ROI, SLAs Management KPIs Management, OKR Management.
-Commanding robust process improvement projects:
-Building alfanar IT Contract Management Master Tracker, CMMT to manage all alfanar GIT services and developing alfanar IT License Management Master Tracker, LMMT covering all alfanar technical, design and industrial licenses inside and outside Saudi Arabia.
- migrating current systems on primases DCs to Azure cloud platforms hosting SAP & NON-SAP systems.
Partnering with IT Owners and Operation Managers to deliver huge and complex transformation projects in alfanar IT.
Charged with resolving the maintenance costs and to mitigate operational risks. Leveraging best practices in the technology landscape whilst suggesting the following solutions SAP Hybris Commerce, SAP C4C, SAP IBP, SAP Success Factors to alfanar business.
Program Management and Portfolio Management, Facilitating Change Controls, Stakeholder Management, track deliverables.
NEOM is the world's largest architecture project. It's a $500bn (£366bn) project, part of Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 plan. Covering a total area of over 26, 500 sq km (10, 230 sq miles) - larger than Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar.
Accomplishments:
Successfully led a number of large-scale transformation IT projects/programs- the huge expansion and technology demands of NEOM as a project. Re-engineered processes that significantly delivered greater operational efficiency, effectiveness, and excellence.
Leveraged evolving new technologies for designing new IT infrastructure for NEOM corporate sites, 3 main sites were built from all technology perspectives. Teamed up with 1200+ geographically dispersed employees from different firms endeavoring to drive operational efficiency with an amplified focus on enabling next-gen operating models & technology landscapes.
Evaluating Techno-Commercial Comparisons, Vendor Management, RFC Compliance, Project Stakeholder collaboration, working with tendering and BID Management, estimation and costing sheets,
Key Responsibilities:
Steered digital change/innovation, built a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure and shaped the IT environment @ NEOM.
Instituted Enterprise Infrastructure Roadmaps for providing secure, scalable, reliable, future-proof standard solutions. Presided over day-to-day operations, reporting, infrastructure setup and platform management.
Established strategies for building and maintaining corporate network infrastructure, tested network performance and provided network performance statistics, reports and actions needed.
Drafted RFPs, bid proposals, contracts and scope of work reports for IT Operational and Infrastructural projects.
Guaranteed effectiveness of security solutions - firewalls, anti-virus solutions & intrusion detection systems.
PwC is a network of firms in 152 countries with over 327, 000 people who are committed to delivering quality assurance, advisory and tax services.
Accomplishments:
Key Member of PwC Security Team and the service delivery team globally for monitoring all Cyber Security reporting for the ME territory. Implemented next-generation security solutions/ driving world-class intelligence-driven security in the face of a constantly evolving set of potential threats.
Proven track record in leading all phases of Project Life Cycle, ensuring integrity and delivery of multiple projects concerning time, budget, scope, change, risk & resources in the most challenging environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Served as a trusted advisor to high-end customers, guided them to continually evolve IT infrastructure, analyzed IT Infrastructure needs for management information & functional operations, and determined the scope of projects.
Empowered team members with a deep understanding of the importance of customer satisfaction and the impact of service delivery on overall customer experience during the induction process in capacity of a key member of service delivery team.
Delivered high-quality IT Infrastructure, Services and Centralized Solutions.
Conducted business-based software testing, implementation & configuration. Reported to the management, on the IS threads\remediation’s, inventory reports, backup reporting, and active directory server backup systems.
Maintained up-to-date Cybersecurity across the organization. Exhibited excellence in HIPS (Host Intrusion Prevention), DLP (Data Loss Prevention) & McAfee virus scan enterprise and file/folder encryption.
