Senior Account Manager
Dubai World
Total years of experience :25 years, 4 Months
The entity is an investment company that manages and supervises a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai government across a wide range of industry segments.
Achievements:
• Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Performance and Lasting Contribution in Account Management
• Certificate of Appreciation - Unknown Soldier for the hard work and positive attitude.
• Certificate of Appreciation for supporting the Oracle Migration Project
Responsibilities:
• Playing a key role in the yearly budgeting exercise and business plan and road map.
• Developing and nurturing relationships with key senior staff in the customer organization in order to increase business opportunities and avenues for revenue.
• Advising customers on the selection of systems, technology and related services to meet their business objectives and infrastructure requirements.
• Managing and rendering advise to colleagues in their dealings with customer organizations, initiating procedures to improve service and relationships with customers.
• Overseeing the planning and management of business opportunities as per envisaged targets and segments of the market.
• Handling pre and after sales service areas, ensuring that appropriate action is taken to investigate and resolve all reported incidents and problems in systems and services.
• Ensuring that all reported incidents and problems are fully
documented within the relevant reporting systems and that their resolution is done.
• Communicating the organization's strategy for managing information, ensuring that uniformly recognized and accepted data definitions are developed and applied throughout the organization.
• Briefing business users on a regular basis as regards the status of the business unit's requests, achieved milestones and target date of delivery.
• Playing a key role in SLA discussions and ensuring that the yearly SLA is signed and maintained.
Responsibilities:
• Visualized, designed and implemented systems conceived after in depth user requirement definition sessions with management and stakeholders.
• Formulated end to end business processes encompassing all modules of business and ensured timely delivery of solutions.
• Devised a data flow diagram for business process, contacted external vendors, prepared and analyzed business requirements specification documents.
• Prepared proposals and costing details for providing the business with new solutions.
• Utilized a variety of tools such as business modeling, storyboards, questionnaires and brainstorming sessions to arrive at the best possible formats for modules in addition to providing for future improvements.
Responsibilities:
• Defined and implemented procedures and processes devised to ensure the running of the IT department and its auxiliary functions in the most professional manner possible.
• Analyzed existing capabilities and system infrastructure, performed gap analysis and identified areas of improvement in addition to mobilizing the resources required for the same.
• Handled the dissemination of knowledge that was required to effect procedural and functional change within the organization, gained key stakeholder approval and ensured commitment.
• Performed periodical quality checks, prepared compliance reports and ensured that all operations and processes as outlined in the policies manual are duly followed.
Responsibilities:
• Planned, designed and oversaw the implementation of several database design and user interface development projects.
• Developed the system using SQL server and Visual Basic platforms.
• Gathered user requirements for the proposed system and designed project and end product capabilities in a way to enable functioning as stand alone multi-user systems.
• Initiated trial runs and testing phases to ensure glitch free operation prior to implementation.
• Devised and implemented a series of data controls and tools that enabled the design of a multitude of database projects for displaying and protecting user data.
• Researched industry trends and compiled vast reservoirs of scientific data that was to serve as a point of reference for future project developments.
• Stored data on all developed projects including concepts for upcoming ones in an integrated database engine that facilitated greater retrieval and archival possibilities.
Overall Responsibilities:
• Worked with the quality team for implementing ISO standards in the information technology department.
• Documented all the processes and procedures adopted in the information technology department and served as the department representative on Environment Management Systems.
• Assisted the quality department on the business process re-engineering project, defined business processes and endeavoured to improve them.
• Provided suggested methods and process for the new business model and devised project plan for applying the new changes.
• Interacted with business users to get customer satisfaction survey requirements, communicated with the development team for submitting requirements, analyzed survey results and created analytical reports.
Seminar: • 2001: Attended IT Conference in Jordan Key Training Attended: • Understanding Financial Statements • Key Account Management • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Fundamentals • Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Advanced • Web Development • Web development using Visual Interdive • Microsoft Framework • Oracle • C++ • Business Process Re-engineer • Internal Quality Auditor Training Course • Introduction to Environment Management System & ISO 14001 • Introduction to Quality Management and ISO 9000 - Awareness • ISO 9000: 2000 Transition Auditor Training Course • UML & Object Oriented • Environment Management System (EMS) ISO-14001 • Function Point Analysis • ITIL Foundation