Advisor Planning and development
Competition Protection Agency
Total years of experience :21 years, 11 Months
Technical and Advisory Office | Diwan of H.H The Prime Minister of Kuwait (Jul 2010 - Current)
Special Projects Manager - Information Unite
We are team of 26 multinational consultants hired by the Amiriy Diwan, came from different international organizations (some from the UN and World Bank) to work with coordination with World Bank and Monitor Company to serve H.H the Prime Minister of Kuwait. Responsibilities
• Reports to Information Unite Director
• Develop Projects that proactive in expanding the potential prospects and also reactive and responsive to The TAO information infrastructure; By oversee the Information and research areas, working with concerned Unit (s) Staff to set priorities against TAO goals,
including planning for the Project.
• Provide research & information on demand and through regular updates by leveraging
credible sources internal and external to government.
• Maintain the Information Centre, a central electronic depository for data & analysis, final and working documents of the TAO, and external data & research; ensuring the PM and
TAO maintain access to accurate and timely information.
Major Tasks: • Respond to ad-hoc research & information requests from the PM, the TAO and other
ministers who have to speak on behalf of the whole government
• Provide research & information for input into other TAO units' regular deliverables
• Maintain up-to-date briefings (data, information and analysis) in an electronic format
covering key policy areas, key groups of people and the five geographic constituencies
• Build and maintain the Information Centre (electronic depository)
• Identify gaps in the national information infrastructure and propose improvements
• Initiate and develop projects to expand and develop the information infrastructure
available to TAO.
United Aviation Kuwait (April 2008 - Jun 2010)
Assistant Vice President - IT
Responsibilities
• Reports to the Chairman
• Responsible for the overall technological direction of the organization and Work involves a wide range of IT management activities that typically extend and apply to an entire
organization or major components of the organization, including strategic planning,
capital planning and investment control, workforce planning, policy and standards
development, resource management, knowledge management, architecture and infrastructure planning and management, auditing, and information security
management.
Major Tasks: • Defining current and future business environments.
• Developing and maintaining strategic plans.
• Hiring and assigning computer specialists, information technology workers, and support
personnel to carry out specific parts of the projects.
• Supervising the work of IT employees, review their output, and establish administrative
procedures and policies.
• Assessing policy needs and developing policies to govern IT activities
• Providing policy guidance to staff, and customers/Users.
• Preparing IT budgets
• Managing IT investment portfolios
• Establishing metrics to measure and evaluate systems performance and total cost of ownership
• Identifying and addressing IT workforce planning and management issues, such as recruitment, retention, and training.
• Conducting audits of IT programs and projects.
• Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/information assurance policies,
principles, and practices in the delivery of planning and management services.
• Providing organization with the vision to master information technology as a competitive
tool.
Information Innovation Consulting Co. Kuwait (September 1999 - April 2008)
Senior IT Consultant (Part time)
Responsibilities
• Meeting with clients to determine requirements.
• Working with clients to define the scope of a project.
• Planning timescales and the resources needed.
• Clarifying a client's system specifications, understanding their work practices and the nature of their business.
• Defining software, hardware and network requirements.
• Analyzing IT requirements within companies and giving independent and objective
advice on the use of IT.
• Developing agreed solutions and implementing new systems.
• Presenting solutions in written or oral reports.
• Helping clients with change-management activities.
• Project managing the design and implementation of preferred solutions.
• Designing, testing, installing and monitoring new systems.
• Preparing documentation and presenting progress reports to customers.
• Organizing training for users and other consultants.
• Successfully Integrated SDLC with Project Management
United Cable Co.
(July 2005 - January 2008)
Systems Enhancement Manager -
IT and Enhancement Department
Responsibilities
• Planning and analyzing IT strategy for the organization and business projects.
• Investigate, Interview and recruit resources within the IT department.
• Investigate Hardware and systems that supports company needs.
• Investigate and Provide best and latest IT solutions to enhance overall productivity of the company.
• Prepare IT budget.
• Develop IT policies and procedures.
• Manage the implementation of security and disaster recovery plans of IT activities.
• Administer and establish career and training schedule for IT staff.
• Co-Ordinate with other managers and teams leaders in the organization to evaluate their
IT needs and propose new solutions to answer these needs.
• Managing systems integration Projects in Database and application level.
• Project manager for CRM application
• Project manager for HR and Payroll application.
• Migrating Data as we replaced some old systems and manual work to new systems
• Provide training for company and the subsidiaries staff (For IT team in areas related to programming, analysis and databases and for users to which is related using systems and applications)
• Responsible of some systems backup
• Install and repair servers of Linux operating system
Ministry of Health, Kuwait (June 2004 - July 2005)
Project Manager (One year Contract via Public Services Co. - PSC)
Responsibilities
• Project of implementing Healthcare and health insurance systems in all Kuwait
healthcare issuing cards centers, hospitals and clinics.
• Responsible of managing the project and working as a representative for PSC in the
Ministry Of Health-MOH.
• In call 24 hours in case of any work problems.
• Taking ministry requirements regarding any software additions, maintenance or problems, and assign the tasks to IT.
• Having 65 employees under my management working in different locations in for the
MOH. With responsibility of making work plans and schedules for trainings and problems
solving, new system updates deployments and locations weekly checking.
• Responsible of the HR maters for these employees (following-up attendance, approving
leave, overtime, proposal .) Who are working in four groups as follows: • 51 data entries in the healthcare centers located in 6 areas in different regions within the country
• 4 operators and database administrator in the operations room located in the ministry
(MOH) (working 24 hours - 3 shifts)
• 6 field engineers (full timer + in-call to solve users problems)
• 3 application trainers.
Saving and Credit Bank, Kuwait (March 2003 - June 2003)
Consulting Programmer
(Limited contract period via Khaldia Electronics Co)
Responsibilities
• Working with team of around 10 people in Saving and Credit Bank
• Fixing bugs of an existing application done in Power Builder.
• Working with Sybase Database
• Train and Support the programmers in How to: o Study the new/existing applications and systems
o Make study plan for systems
o Make (Technical, user manual) documentation
o Deal with /solve problems reported/sent by users.
Al-Sayer Group Co Kuwait (September 1999 - March 2003)
Analyst Programmer
Responsibilities
• Working with team of around 30 people from different nationalities (Arabian - non-
Arabian)
• Programming using AS/400 synon.
• Developing applications and systems in Power Builder.
• Fixing and developing MS Access applications.
• Giving Training for users in how to use the company applications and systems (Arabic
/English)
• Working with SQL (97, 2000) server and using MS SQL Tools (Packages, scheduling
Jobs, Stored Procedures .)
• Making facts finding and analyzing systems.
• Making universes in business objects and setting security for it
• Arabizing applications developed in the company.
• Migrating and converting data from database to another.
• Documentation: User manuals - Technical Documentations.
• Making Presentations for applications and systems to the management and users
(Arabic and English)
• Promoted to Project Leader in the last three months in duty.
• Responsible of HR and Marketing Depts. systems with well know in Kuwait firm Low -
Private Sector 1964, Supporting national manpower Low for 2000 and the changes done in 2002-Kuwait
Northumbria University - UK (2003-2004) MSc. Business Information Technology
B.S. Political Science with minor Computer Systems