Loay Safa, Information Architecture Team Lead (Acting Head of Business Solitions & Web Dev)

Loay Safa

Information Architecture Team Lead (Acting Head of Business Solitions & Web Dev)

RasGas Company Limited

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, Mangement & Systems (Strategy & Leadership)
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Information Architecture Team Lead (Acting Head of Business Solitions & Web Dev) at RasGas Company Limited
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since August 2005

• Plan, organize, and manage overall business solutions projects design and development from start to finish. This includes solutions developed in-house and solutions sought from vendors
• Responsibilities include evaluation and recommendation of new systems and software acquisition, development and support to meet the business requirements. Such latest activities included evaluation and adoption of Documentum, SAP-Open Text, Adobe Live Cycle, Microsoft SharePoint, SAP Xcelsius, SAP Org. Publisher and much more
• Manage a team of 20+ designers, developers and systems analysts.
• Design and blueprint review and analysis of projects, preparation of the technical proposals, functions designs and specs, staff and sub contractor selection, scheduling, project budget, building code compliance, project development, and quality control
• Managed, designed, developed and assisted in the development if the following multi-million dollars projects built entirely in-house: RasGas Intranet, RasGas Internet Website, IT Customer Care Center (ITIL conformant), eInvoicing, ELS, Performance Management, eMarket B2B with SAP MM, eMSR, eContracts, and Operations eMOC
• Developed the first in the region eInvoicing system built on the latest web security and data exchange methodologies known by PIDX used by top oil and gas companies such as Chevron, Exxon and others
• Managed and created the RasGas Board of Directors system used by board members to review and access meetings agendas and other important information.
• Completed $2.5 million dollars systems framework working as the primary lead and project manager
• Currently managing IT related system and projects with third party vendors worth of 10+ million $ including tenders technical evaluation adopting solutions that integrates to Proposer/GAP, Hysis and other gas stream management and optimization
• Helped establish one of the leading web system development teams in the middle east

Education

Master's degree, Mangement & Systems (Strategy & Leadership)
  • at New York University
  • September 2012

Specialties & Skills

Information Architecture
Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

Horry Georgetown Technical College
  • Member of Computer Science Program Advisory Committee
  • July 2000
Macromedia User Group , Myrtle Beach
  • Manager
  • July 2001
Macromedia
  • Macromedia Products Beta Team.
  • July 2001
Adobe
  • Member of the Adobe People E-Support Group.
  • May 2001
Adobe
  • Member of the National Association of PhotoShop Professionals.
  • July 2001
Myrtle Beach Museum of Arts
  • Board of Directors Member
  • April 2001