Imran Javed Dar, Manager Planning and Business Intelligence Unit – IT Deanship

Imran Javed Dar

Manager Planning and Business Intelligence Unit – IT Deanship

Taibah University

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA in MIS
Experience
22 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 9 Months

Manager Planning and Business Intelligence Unit – IT Deanship at Taibah University
  • Saudi Arabia - Medina
  • My current job since October 2012

• Implemented IT PMO (Project, Program & Portfolio management office) (Role: PM, Budget: 3.6 Million SAR)
• E Transformation using EA (TOGAF). (Role: PM, Phases: scope, RFP, vendor selection, Budget: 2 Million SAR)
• Oracle ERP Implementation, Modules (HR, Financial and Supply Chain) (Role: Project Quality Control, Budget: 18 Million SAR)
• Upgraded Data Center to achieve tier 3 certification. (Role: Project Quality Control, Budget: 20 Million SAR)
• Conducted Maturity Assessment and prepared Roadmap for all IT Functions using Gartner ITScore framework
• IT Service Management Implementation MOF/ITIL/Service Catalog/Service Map/ Incident Management. (Budget: 2 Million SAR)
• Implemented student learning management system Blackboard LMS. (Role: Project Quality Control, Budget: 1 Million SAR)
• Implemented customer services KPI’s and Dashboard using Microstrategy, System Center, OLAP (Role: PM, Budget: 500k SAR)
• Implemented Mobile BI Admission Analytics using Microstrategy on Student Information System (Role: PM, Budget: 297K SAR)
• Implementation of Student & Teacher Performance Analytics using Power BI, SSSRS and Oracle DB. (Role: PM, Budget: 97K SAR)
• Implemented Academic Analytics System using Microstrategy, SSIS, SQL Server DWH (Role: PM, Budget: 1 Million SAR)

Project Manager at Jeraisy Computers & Comuunication Services
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2007 to October 2012

• Translated business strategy and organization objective into strategic information management system to achieve desired results.
• Participated in Enterprise Analysis to identify opportunities, understanding of business problems and assessment of current and future views of the enterprise to achieve strategic goals.
• Coordination with all business peers to lead variety of projects and activities.
• Monitoring of funds assigned programs and related financial activity.
• Performed personnel functions e.g. interviewing, evaluating, supervising, etc.


• Developed & Implemented Projects and Financial Analytical System on Oracle ERP & Microsoft Project Server using Microstrategy
• Developed, implemented & operated Hajj/Umrah Application Service Portal using JSP, Oracle RAC Clusters. (Budget 3 Million SAR)
• Developed, implemented and operated Immigration & Social Security Program Portal using JSF, Web Logic (Budget 2.5 Million SAR)
• Cloud Computing Strategy planning and execution (Budget 6 Million SAR)
• Prepared and executed Business Plan for Database and Software Service Unit (Budget 3.5 Million SAR).
• Developed and Implemented Travels Analytics System using Oracle DWH and Microstrategy. (Budget 1 Million SAR)
• Planned and executed IT Infrastructure Revamp using Oracle DB and APP Cluster (Budget 1.5 Million SAR)
• Implementation of ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System.

Sr. Project Control Specialist at Al Jaber Energy Services
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • December 2005 to March 2007

Projects

Project: HR, Payroll and Job Costing Software Implementation - Role: Project Manager (Budget USD 285K)
Project scope: Implementation of HR, Timekeeping, Payroll and Job Costing software. Implementation was carried out at 10 sites (Corporate office and 9 Project Sites).

Project: Oracle ERP Feasibility and Implementation Strategy for AJES Role: Project Manager
Project Scope: Feasibility study to implement Oracle ERP (Financials, Procurement, HR & Projects) for AJES. Prepared Functional Requirement Matrix, RFP, vendor selection criteria and evaluated submitted proposals.

Project: Oracle 10g Grid & RAC Implementation - Role: Database Team Lead
Project scope included upgrade of group ERP system form JD Edwards XE to Oracle JDE 8.11. Project also included the infrastructure and technology revamp and migration of SQL server 2000 database to 5 node Oracle 10g RAC and Grid systems

Database Administrator at Waridtel
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • September 2004 to December 2005

Install and manage multiple production and development databases
Managed Oracle Application Server 10g AS middle tiers.
Manage Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle 11i) Databases.
Wrote shell scripts for automation of various database activities.
Optimized and reduced the time for monthly Bill Run process to 40%.
Implement Oracle Data Guard for Reporting database and for failover.
Installed and configured RMAN for Netbackup
Did failover testing for clustered systems.

Oracle Instructor - Part Time at Techno-ED Oracle Education Pertner
  • Pakistan
  • February 2003 to September 2005

Oracle 10g/9i Database Administration, Oracle 9i Data Warehouse Administration, Oracle 11i Architecture and System Administration

Database Administrator at Schazoo Industeries
  • Pakistan
  • August 2001 to August 2004

Management of 8 Oracle 9.0.2/8.1.7 databases.
Providing full technical support to 10 SQL Server 2000 databases at Zaka Pharmacies.
Configured and managed Database Replication environment.
Developed scripts to take offline/online Backups using RMAN and import & export for logical backups.
Migrated Database Infrastructure from Microsoft SQL Server 2000/7 to Oracle 8i using Oracle Migration Workbench.
Build packages, procedures and functions for different applications and implementing business logic.

\[Zaka Pharmacy (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore-Pakistan\] (Project of Schazoo Laboratories)
Zaka Pharmacy (Pvt) Ltd is one of the largest and growing Pharmacy and retail store..

Build and deployed a distributed application on using Microsoft SQL server 2000 and Microsoft .Net. it covers Retail Sale, Inventory, APO (Automatic Purchase Orders).
Implemented Merge Replication between Pharmacies & Head office to transfer data between them using Wireless Network.
Monitored 10 Microsoft SQL server 2000 databases one on each Pharmacy. And One Microsoft SQL Server 2000 database at Head Office. One Oracle 9.0.2 databases at Head office for reporting and purposes.
Implemented complex Business logic by writing T-SQL stored procedures for Automated Purchase Order (APO) and Stock Ledger.
Wrote the data loading scripts and DTS packages to transform data from Legacy applications running on SQL server 6.5, 7 to Distributes Retail System on SQL server 2000.
Implemented automated backup and maintenance jobs by writing different SQL Scripts

Education

Master's degree, MBA in MIS
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • February 2010
Bachelor's degree, Civil Engineering
  • at Unversity Of Engineering & Technology
  • June 2001

Specialties & Skills

IT Governance
Database Administration
IT Strategy
Business Intelligence
Project Management
Oracle 10g/9i/8i/8 DBA
Microsoft DBA
Oracle Data Warehouse
Sun Solaris Unix
oracle 11i Administration
SAS Base Programing
Project Management
MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
Oracle Business Intelligence
IT Strategic Management
Six Sigma Green Belt
Cloud Computing
IT Governance
Enterprise Architecture

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Expert
Arabic
Intermediate

Memberships

Oracle Technology Network
  • Oracle DBA
  • January 2000
Microsoft Technet Club
  • MCP
  • August 2002
The Data Warehousing Institute
  • Memebr
  • March 2004
Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • PMI Member
  • March 2007

Training and Certifications

MicroStrategy Certified Engineering Principal (MCEP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
PMP Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2007
Valid Until:
May 2017
Certified Oracle DBA 8 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2000
Certified SAS Base Programmer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2004
Certified TOGAF Foundation Level (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2012
Six Sigma Green Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Certified Oracle 10g (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2004
Certified Oracle BI Implementation Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2010
MicroStrategy Certified Engineer (MCE) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2015
COBIT 5 Implementation Examination (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2013
Certified Oracle DBA 8i (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2001
Certified Microsoft SQL Server Implementation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2002
Certified Teradata Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2003
COBIT 5 Foundation Examination (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Certified Oracle 9i (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2001
Certification Big Data Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2016
Certified Sun Solaris 8 System Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2002
MicroStrategy Certified Developer (MCD) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Certified Oracle Sales / Pre-Sales Exadata & Exalogic Cloud (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Certified Oracle BI Application (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2009