Majed Asiri, IT Quality Assurance Specialist

Majed Asiri

IT Quality Assurance Specialist

Sadara Chemical Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, MBA
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

IT Quality Assurance Specialist at Sadara Chemical Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since October 2014

• Founded IT Quality Assurance function at Sadara and defined QA framework that is integrated with all IT processes
• Initiated IT Risk Management at Sadara and aligned it with Enterprise Risk Management
• Developed IT Risk Management policy and procedures inspired by ISACA’s Risk IT Framework
• Streamlined and automated IT auditing activities and improved tracking and communications related to IT auditing. This resulted in zero overdue audit actions in 2019
• Developed Sadara IT Governance Framework in collaboration with the Enterprise Architect based on best practices including COBIT and ITIL
• Designed and implemented a streamlined Change Management process for ERP that reduced average processing time of change requests from 2 weeks to 3 working days
• Led ERP Service Improvement Program that resulted in significant improvements in ERP team performance, including an increase in on-time response on incidents from 85% to 100% and an increase in on-time resolution from 80% to 97%
• Significantly improved the governance of IT processes by developing a framework for IT Manual and implementing that framework in Documentum

Senior ERP Specialist at SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Coorporation)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • October 2008 to October 2014

Responsible for SAP Logistics process enablement with more focus on Logistics Execution (LE), Event Management (EM), Warehouse Management (WM) and the integration with SD & MM modules.

Conducting several projects ranging from simple rollouts to full scale implementation projects for multinational global organizations, including SABIC KSA, SABIC Americas, SABIC Europe, SABIC Innovative Plastics, SABIC Asia & Pacific and SABIC China. Also, providing training to hundreds of end users in LE and EM solutions in addition to regular knowledge transfer sessions for other consultants.

System Analyst - Internship at Institute of Banking
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • June 2007 to January 2008

- Analysis and design of a web based Analytical Reporting System of Compensation and Benefits for GCC banks
- Documentation of business process and legacy systems
- Built a full size prototype of the user interface
- Generated test data with a huge number or records for performance testing
- Managed the whole RFQ process for evaluating several vendors and proposals to outsource the implementation phase of the project

Education

Master's degree, MBA
  • at KFUPM
  • December 2020
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • June 2008

Cumulative GPA: 2.64 out of 4 Major GPA: 2.8 out of 4 Cumulative GPA for the last 2 years: 3.64 out of 4

Specialties & Skills

IT Audit
IT Management
IT Risk
IT Governance
IT Strategy
IT Risk Management
IT Governance
IT Strategic Management
SAP ERP

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
Turkish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Influence for Results (Training)
Training Institute:
Chartwell Learning & Development
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
24 hours
SAP SD - Sales Processes (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Training - Belgium
Date Attended:
September 2011
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (Training)
Training Institute:
FranklinCovey
Date Attended:
March 2009
SAP LE - Shipping (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Training - South Africa
Date Attended:
February 2013
SAP ABAP Workbench Fouundations (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Training - Malaysia
Date Attended:
January 2011
APICS CSCP Certificate Training (Training)
Training Institute:
APICS
Date Attended:
May 2011
SAP LE - Warehouse Management (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Training - Belgium
Date Attended:
December 2009
SCOR Supply Chain Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Supply Chain Council
Date Attended:
September 2011
SAP MM - Inventory Management (Training)
Training Institute:
SAP Training - Malaysia
Date Attended:
June 2010

Hobbies

  • Cycling
  • Travel
  • Arabic Poetry