Faheem Zafar, Business Applications Section Head

Faheem Zafar

Business Applications Section Head

Dar Al Yaum Media House

Location
Saudi Arabia - Dammam
Education
Doctorate, Cryptography, IT Law and Computer Crimes
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

Business Applications Section Head at Dar Al Yaum Media House
  • Saudi Arabia - Dammam
  • My current job since June 2016

- Managing IT Applications section resources and team, with assurance of IT SOPs. This includes Dynamics AX ERP, Applications Infrastructure, Servers and Web-portals.

- In adoption of project life cycle; handling parameters project time-frame, dead-line, delivery, deployment and documentations. Ensuring ISO procedures compliance as well as SOP (Standard Operation Procedures) of organization. Adoption of ISO procedures with change management and new development requirement. Ensuring business application performance, backups, monitoring and maintenance is undertaken according to ISO practices.

- Administering ERP (Dynamics AX) with all perspectives, architectural, technical, functional and development (customization) as well as Microsoft Management Reporter (MRP). Ensuring business processes are aligned with best strategic plan with ERP system. Assuring ERP system is working with all functional perspectives according to business requirements; Sales and Marketing, Accounts Receivable, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Inventory and Warehouse, Cash and Bank, Budgeting, General Ledger, Master Planning and System Administration. Assuring best practices are adopted regarding development process which includes analysis, design and proposal for customizations with ERP system. Managing Management Reporter with application of financial reports which are Income (Profit and Loss) Statement and Balance Sheet.

- Assuring compliance with CRM (Customer Relationship Management) business processes as well as efficiency of system. Ensuring proficiency with Al-Yaum’s products subscription and distribution in CRM system. Moreover administering standard CRM processes (customer services, marketing campaign, sales analysis etc.) are handled with best practices.

- Managing Al-Yaum web portals which includes Newspress system (Editorial), News website (www.alyaum.com), Al-Moboba website (www.almobawabah.com) and Rawna (www.rawnaa.com) website. Administering web portals with strategic business design ensuring performance tuning of applications.

IT Manager & Dynamics AX Admin at Arabian United Float Glass Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • February 2015 to April 2016

- Managing Information Technology (IT) department, assurance to align IT services. This includes Dynamics AX ERP, Infrastructure & Network, Servers, Web-portals and Websites.

- Project management responsibilities; handling parameters project time-frame, dead-line, delivery, deployment and documentations. Project administration varies from in-house projects and 3rd party.

- Organizing and administering department according to Standard Operation Procedures (SOP). This assures utilization of quality of service according to IT policies.

- Administering ERP (Dynamics AX) as well as Techno-Functional perspectives. Resolving ERP functional issues specifically with Accounts and Sales department (as stated below in details).

- Managing team handling Data-center, Network & Infrastructure and System Support. Assuring integrity of information by Security applications (Anti-virus, Firewall). Providing support to team in order to complete task-based job.

Dynamics AX Techno-Functional Analyst, Admin at Arabian United Float Glass Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Yanbu
  • April 2010 to February 2015

- Administrating and managing Microsoft Dynamics Axapta 2012 and 2009. Besides, developing AX 2012 object using X++ devoted with Functional issues and Technical troubleshooting.

- Managing users in respect of their roles; therefore implemented fully customized/reconfigured user profiles from scratch as per company policy. The aim was to focus to configure each user precisely for data security reasons.

- Implementation done with AX 2012 from scratch by creating and managing users with AX after configuring master data. Setting their permissions in terms of their departments. Analysing and working functionally mainly on System Administration, Inventory and Warehouse, Production Control, Accounts Receivable and Sales, Accounts Payable and Procurement and General Ledger modules.

- Customized application with Morph-X, Intelli-Morph, X++ either upon support request or as part of extension.

- Handheld Terminal (HHT) application implementation in order to achieve maximum efficiency level within inventory and warehousing. The multi-app based program is written purely in C#. Where ASP .Net Web-Service is deployed on middleware server in order to communicate with AX 2012

- AOT layer. The HHT dedicated application is written/developed with C# to invoke and receive response from web-service.

Senior Software Engineer at Frizcon Web Solutions
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • August 2007 to February 2010

• Working mainly on ASP .Net and AJAX applications.

• Worked and managed various projects like DoctorSoft Technologies (http://doctorsofttechnology.com), Harbor Remodelling Inc. (http://harborinc.net), AASHTO Bookstore and TABB Group.

• Creating and Managing Databases with SQL Server 2005.

• Providing direct support to clients at America (because company takes only projects from U.S. and U.K.)

• Creating and applying deployments of projects on Development and Production Servers.

Web Developer/Programmer/Analyst at Kim Software Solutions
  • United Kingdom
  • February 2007 to July 2007

• Worked with busy software professionals in team. Developed PDR (Personal Development Review) system and PMS (Property Management System).

• Adoption of project life cycle, starting from components to deployment. Main technologies used
were SQL Server and ASP classic.

Software Developer at Usman International
  • United Kingdom
  • October 2004 to January 2006

Worked on Accounting software providing key functionality of managing flow of money exchange. My core responsibility was to design, test and deploy application.

Senior Programmer at Crystal Soft Technologies
  • Pakistan - Rawalpindi
  • June 2003 to August 2004

• Programmed desktop utility applications with Visual Basic 6, Ms Access, Ms SQL Server and Crystal
Reports IX.

• Design (ERP) and develop Oracle 6i database.

• Integrating project modules, combining to accomplish common task.

Lecturer at RSK Institute of Informatics & Management
  • Pakistan
  • January 2003 to April 2004

• Worked as teacher for BIT, BBA-IT & BCS classes.

• Delivering lectures for BIT, BBA-IT & BCS classes.

• Supervising projects in multi-technologies (VB, Ms Access, SQL Server 2000, Oracle, Forms Developer, and Crystal Reports 9). Also conducting supervised labs to provide training sessions.

Education

Doctorate, Cryptography, IT Law and Computer Crimes
  • at International University of America
  • February 2007

• GPA: 3.5 • Dissertation: Securing Relationship Databases with Symmetric Encryption • Project - The core of system is accessing relational database using encryption/decryption. - It gives accessibility to user to access database in secure channel. - Indeed it provides a layer over database which enforces robustness in system. - Along with these functions, software also gives as dictionary of data to user which is considered as goal of system also. Tools Used: - Java is mainly used for encryption/decryption. - Ms Access used as database system. - Ms Internet Explorer is used as reports explorer, generated by system.

Master's degree, Object Orientation, Advanced Databases
  • at University of Arid Agriculture
  • July 2003

• GPA: 3.01/4.0 • Project: PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION LTD (PTCL), LEGAL DEPTARTMENT AUTOMATION SYSTEM, PAKISTAN - It is multi dimensional software which has domain of Database as well as Web site. - It facilitates the users to update daily data on Centralized Database Server through Web. - Interfacing with PTCL users is also provided on Web site for report generation and search. - It provides applications of updating data as well as report generating utility. Tools Used: - Oracle 8 NT Server & Developer 2000 for database management. - DLLs in Visual Basic 6 for communication with Oracle. - ASP for Server Side Web language. - Flash for animation purpose and designing loader on web.

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Dynamics
SQL Server 2000 2008
ASP.NET
Oracle Developer 10g
Oracle Database Server, SQL and PL/SQL
SQL Server 2000 and 2005
Web Programmer with ASP .Net 2, HTML, DHTML, JavaScript & CSS
Application Developer with VB and VC# 2005
Deployment with Setup Factory 7 and HTML Help Workshop
Microsoft Silverlight 2
Dynamics AX 2012 Technical/Development
Dynamics AX 2012 Functional Analyst

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist (Developement) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2014
Microsoft Certified Dynamics Specialist (Trande & Logistics) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
Certificate of Excellence (Maisons) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2013
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD), ASP .Net 3.5 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2010
OCP (Oracle Certified Professional), Forms Developer 9i (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010

Hobbies

  • Playing Cricket, Book Reading