Faisal Iqbal Sheikh, CIO Chief Information Officer

Faisal Iqbal Sheikh

CIO Chief Information Officer

Atlas Honey LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Diploma, PMP
Experience
20 years, 2 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 2 Months

CIO Chief Information Officer at Atlas Honey LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since December 2022

Following Responsibilities are,

Develop and implement the organization's IT strategy:

Manage IT operations:

Provide leadership and direction:

Manage IT budget:

Ensure compliance with regulations and standards:

Foster innovation and collaboration:

Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies:

Manage relationships with vendors and partners:

Develop and manage IT policies and procedures:

Senior Joint Director IT (ERP Manager) at Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • September 2017 to November 2022

Oracle ERP Head

Senior Project Consultant at Saudi Business Machine
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • October 2015 to September 2017

• Lead and Support a team of Project, Financial and cloud related to our prestigious client Royal Commission of jubail.
• Oracle Applications (PSB, Sourcing, iSupplier, iAsset, AP, AR, CM etc. modules) and custom extensions in the various instances of the release life Cycle.
• Responsible for gathering customer requirements and mapping them onto the Oracle applications.
• Mapping and GAP analysis is done for each module.
• Self-Service Development and Customization.
• Workflow and AME Development and Customization. .
• Preparation of Oracle Standard Documentation.

IT Manager at Parazelsus Pakistan Pvt Ltd.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2015 to October 2015

• Identifying and acting on opportunities to improve and update software and systems
• Developing and implementing IT policy and best practice guides for the organisation
• Overseeing and determining timeframes for major IT projects including system updates, upgrades, migrations and outages
• Re-implementation and design Oracle ERP R12.2.0.4 in pharmaceutical distribution business processes and participating in all implementation and rollout, taking responsibility to manage team and training for one or more module areas (P2P and O2C).
• Application configuration/setup for Oracle Applications (Inventory, Purchasing, GL, AP, AR, OM etc. modules) and custom extensions in the various instances of the release life Cycle.
• Responsible for gathering customer requirements and mapping them onto the Oracle applications.
• Mapping and GAP analysis is done for each module.
• Generate knowledge about the current business process, design current business flows, study current business processes and its complication.
• Provide support with team to the end user in their day to day and especial audit, month-end and year-end activities.
• Conference room pilot testing, unit testing, and integration testing. Test script preparation.
• Raising TARs with oracle for different issues and following up till resolution

Senior Oracle ERP Consultant at Emitac Mobile Solution LLC
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • August 2013 to April 2015

• Active member of the implementation and support team participating in all implementation, rollout, enhancements and upgrade projects taking responsibility for one or more module areas (P2P and O2C), overseeing design, build, test and implementation
• Responsible for gathering customer requirements and mapping them onto the Oracle applications in the most efficient way maintaining best market practices and guaranteeing corporate standards
• Management and supervision of all works being carried by different vendors in the modules of responsibility assuring the solutions proposed and the quality of the work done
• Provide support to the end user in their day to day and especial audit, month-end and year-end activities.
• Gather requirements from key users and guide them on Oracle best practice providing solutions and highlighting drawbacks of the different options and scenarios possible.
• Identify areas of improvement and proactively review with users possible IT enhancements as part of a process and quality program.
• Liaison with Oracle for upgrades, patches and SR

Senior Advisory - Consultant at Systems Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2012 to August 2013

• Serve as a Offshore lead Oracle ERP solution delivery expert in the areas of Financial, Procure to Pay, HRMS and Supply Chain for a large ERP program conforming to established system architecture standards and practices and manage a large team of oracle ERP consultants.
• Actively participate in and drive the design, development and maintenance of modifications/customizations of the Oracle Applications eBusiness suite (Forms, Reports, PL/SQL, Oracle APIs and Standard Interfaces) and deploying such modification/customization in Oracle eBusiness environment.
• A change agent for business processes through developing strong business partnerships and defining technical / functional solutions to business problems
• Lead business process evaluation / improvement activities, requirements gathering, system analysis, system design.
• Responsible for technical architecture design, logical design, technology strategy and will play a key role in engaging multiple stakeholders to ensure a successful rollout of business solutions
• Translate challenging business requirements into solutions leveraging standard Oracle functionality in latest/current releases of Oracle eBusiness Suite
• Work as a business partner with client users to evaluate / improve business processes and arrive at mutual, cost effective solutions
• Manage and lead delivery of technical components and coordinate and communicate status, issues and delivery plan
• Participate in process analysis, process design, mapping, and process/software gap analysis.
• Develop functional and technical design and documentation of Oracle Applications dependent data conversions, interfaces, custom reporting, and custom applications including use of documented revision control.
• Open, manage, and resolve Oracle SR's with Oracle Support.
• Drive the resolution & troubleshooting of issues during development and post production support.
• Create test scripts performing unit testing.

Team Lead - Oracle ERP Consultant at Inbox Business Technologies Pvt Ltd.
  • Pakistan
  • December 2009 to June 2012

Manage a large team of Technical Consultant on supply chain project, provide solution, architecting and designing in following areas of Oracle EBS R12:
I was working as a Team Lead - Supply Chain. Major tasks achieved include:
• AS IS Documentation
• Sign Offs
• Internal Training Session for Oracle Supply Chain and Financials for Inbox
• Leading the solution design team for Oracle Inventory, Purchasing and Enterprise Asset Management
• Different Presentations to Board of Directors and Management of Company about the Project
• TO BE Documentation
• Solution Design
• Gap Analysis
• Business Process Improvements identifications

System Analyst at Gul Ahmed Textile Mills Limited
  • Pakistan
  • May 2006 to December 2009

• Administrating and Managing ORACLE databases and Enterprise Business Suit 11i (EBS).
• Architecting, developing in house applications & integration with EBS 11i.
• Troubleshooting and implementing Oracle Technologies.
• Apps Troubleshooting, Installation, Patching, Maintenance, Migration, and Upgrade.
• Oracle Database experience in Oracle DB tuning, SQL tuning, DB migration.
• Backup and Recovery Planner & Implementer.
• Customize Reporting of EBS 11i.

Lead Business Analyst at Millennium Software Pvt Ltd.
  • Pakistan
  • October 2004 to May 2006

• Maintaining Client Databases.
• Database Design and Development
• Develop new Forms and Reports on Oracle Developer 6i.
• Create and develop test cases.
• Enhancing and upgrading existing Front-End applications.
• Re-Engineering appraisal Module in HRMS.
• Migrating HRMS & TOM application from 6i to 10g.

Software Engineer at Auriga Associates
  • Pakistan
  • March 2004 to October 2004

Involved in the study, analysis, design and development of Purchase modules of an ERP application.
Responsibilities included:
• Implementation of Purchase modules
• Design and Development of respective forms and reports
• Also involved in the regular administration of application DB along with tuning and backup activities.

Education

Diploma, PMP
  • at PMI
  • October 2021

PMP Certification

Diploma, PRINCE 2
  • at Exin
  • August 2017
Diploma, ITIL
  • at EXIN
  • August 2017
Diploma, COBIT 5
  • at ISACA
  • August 2017
Diploma, Oracle Certifications (Developer, DBA, Apps DBA, ERP Functional, Cloud OCI)
  • at Oracle University
  • January 2012

Oracle Certifications (Developer, DBA, Apps DBA, ERP Functional, Cloud OCI)

Master's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Mohammad Ali Jinnah University
  • December 2008

3.0 GPA

Specialties & Skills

Consultation
IT Governance
IT Service Management
Cloud Computing
IT Project Management
Team Lead - Oracle ERP
Oracle EBS Functional Consultant
Oracle ERP Project Manager
ORACLE EBS Techno-functional Consultant
Oracle EBS Technical Consultant
IT Governance
IT Management Services

Languages

English
Expert