Esraa Al-Safadi, Data Governance Officer

Esraa Al-Safadi

Data Governance Officer

Saudi Electricity Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Diploma, ITIL Foundation version 3 for IT Service Management
Experience
22 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 8 Months

Data Governance Officer at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since June 2023

● Establishing, publish, and maintain data governance, and NDMO policies, procedures, and standards.
● Plan awareness, and communication sessions related to data governance by raising employee awareness of the importance of data and its governance.
● Ensure compliance with National Data Management Office (NDMO) regulations, controls and policies.
● Build the stewardship program across SEC
● Reporting to the Data Management Committee Data Governance performance.
● Manage, and track ministries request related to data sharing, and open data.
● Monitor the performance of NDMO domain, by taking the necessary measurement to manage SEC data
● Follow up on indicators of departments affiliated with the Data Governance Department and issue their reports

Digital Capability Development Manager at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • January 2022 to June 2023

● Building & Monitor Change Management & Customer Success Department. Defining roles and responsibilities, and place a plan for implementation to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
● Build & Monitor the implementation of digital capabilities development strategies and activities.
● Raise awareness of digital initiatives and build support for them across SEC. This includes creating communication plans, delivering presentations, and conducting awareness sessions.
● Manage a team of professionals responsible for developing and improving the IT Teams digital capabilities. This includes setting objectives, providing coaching and development opportunities, and ensuring that the team is aligned with the SEC’s goals.
● Work with management to identify the skills needed to build and maintain digital transformation projects
● Build and maintain relationships with external vendors and partners to support the development and delivery of training programs.
● Coordinate with HR, to evaluate and implement a training platform for SEC
● Member of the Digital Transformation team project.
● Responsible to build, and manage the roadmap of digitization some SEC departments

planning and development manager at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2019 to January 2022

● Involved in planning and directing work in the department and liaise with the organizational heads in preparing the general strategy, the operational budget, the executive work plans.
● Focus on implementing the plan to improve and develop the organization, preparation of strategies. and overall objectives of the activity.
● Prepare annual work plans and programs for accomplishing objectives of the activity and define basic performance standards.
● Set up the operating budget of the department. Develop a business continuity plan for the department; assess the potential impact on the department, and plan the risk mitigation.
● Manage day to day administrative aspects of the department based on the organizational policies and procedures.
● Coordinate with HR to identify the position needed, qualification, skill matrix including setting up interviews and restructuring of the department based on requirements.
● Assess and present various status reports to the senior management and other stakeholders to enable effective decision making

Quality Manager at Bank Aljazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • August 2012 to May 2019

Key Responsibilities:
▪ Earned a reputation as a change leader for driving the era of transformation and facilitating automation and the enhancement of change, release, and defect management.
▪ Providing direction and vision to accomplish task of maximizing organizational performance, improving quality, and service through development of KPIs and SLAs.
Enforce effective control over the quality improvement as well as quality control operations, ensured appropriate quality gates are in place and adhered to.
Accomplishments
▪ Developed and implemented a quality management system/ framework and evaluated the efficacy of standards through inspections.
▪ Successfully passed external and internal audits. Fostered a 'compliance culture' resulting in zero audit findings from regulators on technology.
▪ Singlehandedly automated and published IT MIS, as well as SLA reports.
▪ Played a key role in creating, designing and developing 70% of bank service catalog.
▪ Administered end-to-end implementation of ITIL/ISO9000:2000 throughout IT.

Process Re-Engineering Specialist at Bank Aljazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2012 to October 2012

Working in Bank Aljazira head office in Jeddah as Process Re-engineering Specialist. Reporting to Head of IT Operation

Main Responsibilities:
• Develop processes and document its policies and procedures
• Develop ITSM Processes, and implement them with process owners
• Ensure team members use Standard tools and guidelines
• Manage the development and implementation of Assyst ticketing system
• Plan ITSM implementation through Assyst system
•Define & Build IT Service Manager Roles & Responsibilities

Operation Business Service Manager at Hewllet-Pakard
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2010 to November 2011

Working in SADAD Payment System (SADAD) project that was established by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to be the national Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) service provider for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The core mandate for SADAD is to facilitate and streamline bill payment transactions of end consumers through all channels of the Kingdom’s Banks. SADAD was launched on October 3rd, 2004. The system operation is currently run by Hewlett Packard Company

Main Responsibilities:
• Manage 9 girls delivering service and support to customer
• Make sure tickets are opened and meet the SLA
• Escalate non-compliance and major issues to client
• Generate Reports for clients and Managers

Problem Manager & Application Support at Hewllet-Pakard
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2007 to February 2010

Working in SADAD Payment System (SADAD) project that was established by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to be the national Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) service provider for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The core mandate for SADAD is to facilitate and streamline bill payment transactions of end consumers through all channels of the Kingdom’s Banks. SADAD was launched on October 3rd, 2004. The system operation is currently run by Hewlett Packard Company
Reporting to Service Delivery, and Application Operation Manager. I manage problem analyst, who belong to different IT department.

Main Responsibilities:
• Monitor Application and business processes
• Consult and support Application support team
• Part of 24/7 on call shift support.
• Problem manager process owner, analyse incident, open problem ticket and escalate to problem analyst.
• Followed and track problem fixes, and then verify the fix.

Main Achievement:
• Implement Problem Manager Processes, document it policies and procedures, and maintain the process.
• Integrate the process with other processes
• Become Acting Manager for Application Support team, and manage 4 member of the team

Server Support Eng at Atos Origin Middle East
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2004 to March 2007

Working in SADAD Payment System (SADAD) project that was established by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA) to be the national Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) service provider for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The core mandate for SADAD is to facilitate and streamline bill payment transactions of end consumers through all channels of the Kingdom’s Banks. SADAD was launched on October 3rd, 2004. The system operation was running by Atos Origin Middle East.
Reporting to Application Operation Manager.

Main Responsibilities:
• Application Support for the following application: CheckFree, webMethods, & WebSphere.
• Incident Manager Process owner, receive ticket, fix issues and manager them with Application team
• Deployment support, managing the deployment on all environment and production. And automate the process
• Network and AIX support for period of time

Main Achievement:
• Implement Incident Management Process, document process and procedure.
• First Deployment support process owner, and first to implement automate procedure

Programmer at King Khalid University Hospital
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2001 to May 2004

King Khalid University Hospital KKUH, is an academic hospital associated with King Saud University.
Reporting to ICT Manager Department

Main Responsibility:
• Help desk support, receiving calls and report using ticketing system
• Technical and network support for hospital employees
• Programmer using visual basic +, and Hospital language
• Redesigning hospital website

Education

Diploma, ITIL Foundation version 3 for IT Service Management
  • at HP Education Services
  • February 2010
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at King Saudi University
  • January 2001

Specialties & Skills

Leadership
Science
Operation
Reporting
MS Office
Leadership
Quality Assurance & Control
Customer Services
Coaching

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Lebanese American University
  • Young Women Leadership Program
  • August 2009
King Saud University
  • Advisory Board
  • January 2011

Training and Certifications

Emerging Leadership Program (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
January 2023
Training of Trainers Program (Training)
Training Institute:
SEC
Date Attended:
January 2023
Digital Transformation: Platform Strategies for Success (Training)
Training Institute:
EMERITUS
Date Attended:
January 2022
Qiyadat Global (Training)
Training Institute:
Georgetown University,
Date Attended:
January 2020
Leadership Diploma, Sweden Institute, 2018 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018
Internal Service Customer (Training)
Training Institute:
Bank Aljazira
Date Attended:
January 2018
Internal Service Customer (Training)
Training Institute:
Bank Aljazira
Date Attended:
February 2018
Leadership Diploma (Training)
Training Institute:
Sweden Institute,
Date Attended:
November 2018
SHE leads Leadership Programe (Training)
Training Institute:
Swidish Institute
Date Attended:
November 2018
Leader in Action (Training)
Training Institute:
KCC
Date Attended:
July 2007
ISO-9001 Internal Auditors course (Training)
Training Institute:
epi
Date Attended:
July 2011
ISO/IEC 20000 Consultant Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
MCP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2002
Project Management Professional Trainning (Training)
Training Institute:
Hewellet Packar
Date Attended:
June 2011
Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Training)
Training Institute:
EXIN
Date Attended:
September 2007
ISO/IEC 20000 Consultant Certification (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Total Quality Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Meric
Date Attended:
February 2015