Marwan Ashary, IT Applications Manager

Marwan Ashary

IT Applications Manager

Prince Mohammed bin Salman College (MBSC)

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration
Experience
19 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 1 Months

IT Applications Manager at Prince Mohammed bin Salman College (MBSC)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • My current job since November 2017

Build and structure the IT applications department.
▪ Evaluate technology\software alternatives.
▪ Plan and lead the implementation of the company ERP solution.
▪ Control and allocate budgets, time and resources for application projects.
▪ Integration of IT applications.
▪ Control hosted\managed hosted application and SaaS services.
▪ Develop and deploy custom application.
▪ Track and report progress.
▪ Project scope, quotation, SLA, and agreement with 3rd party vendors.
▪ Application security assessment and user access control.
▪ Implement and maintain backup and restoration plan.
▪ Risk management and DR site.
▪ Set Policy and Procedure for the application department.
▪ End user training and conduct workshop sessions.
▪ Interview prospective candidates.
▪ Build and manage the company intranet site.
▪ Automate process flow.

Assistant, General Manager at Bank AlJazira
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2013 to October 2017

- Plan and lead projects for automation.
- Build annual budgetary plan.
- Monitor department's functions and manpower.
- Set Policy and Procedure for the department functions.
- Negotiate contractual agreement with vendors and service providers.
- Prepare Dashboard reports for top Management.
- Build an internal website for the division.

IT, Manager of Application Development at University of Business and Technology
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2012 to October 2013

Nature of Duties:
 Adopt contents management system (CMS) for the organization website and monitor the success of the project.
 Allocate human and financial resources to different development projects.
 Manage and control out-sourced development contracts.
 Set and execute plans for migrating desktop based applications to web based applications.
 Plan, execute, and control integration of the organization’s isolated applications.
 Establish and document the department duties, work process, responsibilities and standards.
 Enforce composing code documentation and user manual for existing applications.
 Monitor internal application development projects.
 Conduct Interviews with prospective employees.
 Propose annual Budget for the department.
Internal Member of:
 New applications approval committee.
 Service Automation committee.
Other Duties as Assigned:
 Assigned as Deputy General Manager for the department of Communication and Information Technology. (When needed)

Section Manager for Developing Academic Applications at College of Business Administration (CBA)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2010 to December 2011

Nature of Duties:
 Analyze different departments need for creating new system or modifying an existing one.
 Translate department requirements into a specific project brief.
 Identify and assess alternative technical solutions to best serve business process\es.
 Gather system requirements for selected solution.
 Produce project feasibility report and submit it to approval’s committee.
 Work with developers and end-users to ensure technical compatibility and end-user approval.
 Lead technical team into designing, coding, testing and debugging new solution software.
 Ensures project deliverables meet time constraint.
 Document new solution code and create simple user manual.
 Create proposal for system/s replacement.
 Extract different statistical reports from the university database as required, to support management discussion.
Other Duties a Assigned:
 Assigned as a Project Manager for building the college new website.
(www.cba.edu.sa)
 Led the committee of Research and Development for determining new website requirements.

System Analyst and Software Programmer at College of Business Administration (CBA)
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • May 2008 to December 2009

Nature of Duties:
 Evaluate existing custom made - Oracle database - application; which serves the college daily operations and enhance its functionalities to rise up performance.
 Plan, design and program applications using oracle form builder 6i and 10g for the collage daily operation.
 Build or modify reports according to the college need, using oracle report builder 6i.
 Optimization and normalization of the college Database.
 Formatting and installing servers operating software. (windows server 2008)
 Administrator of a web-base application called moodle specialized in assisting learning experience.
 Administrator of Symphony application a Library resource system.
 Built a web-base application called “Opera Online” serves students routine operations such as (issuing identification letter, balance inquires, printing schedules, course registration, and etc…).
 Integrate out-sourced applications with the college existing systems.
Other Duties as Assigned:
 Supervising a three months co-op student throughout the training session.
 Training new employees to the usage of college systems.
 Designing database entity relationship diagram for new applications.
 Supervising data migration from server secondary storage to Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) storage device.

Academic Affair Specialist at College of Business Administration (CBA)
  • Saudi Arabia - Khobar
  • January 2004 to January 2006

Nature of Duties:
 Prepare and arrange accepting students from and to other Universities.
 Supervise student graduation process.
 Academic Advisor.
 Consult financial department through refund settlements.
 Prepare final exams schedule.
 Coordinate with other universities for academic collaboration.
Other Duties as assigned:
 Design college bulletin for summer 2004.
 Compare college academic plans to KFUPM academic plans.

Graphic Designer at Saudi German Aluminum Production Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2002 to December 2002

 Develops, design, and produce a digital catalog for the company products with the help of “Adobe Flash Maker”.
 Helped in designing the company website.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at University of Business & Technology
  • July 2012

Graduated as 1st honor student in Master degree of Business Administration (MBA)

Bachelor's degree, Management Information System
  • at University Of Business And Technology
  • August 2005

Excellent

Diploma, Management Information System
  • at Institute of Business Administration
  • June 2003

Very Good

Specialties & Skills

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Internal Member of
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Training and Certifications

Certificate of attending a workshop session for HP information technology products and solutions. (Training)
Training Institute:
HP corporation
Date Attended:
June 2009
Passed 2 Courses of Academic Intensive English. (5 hours Per Day) (Training)
Training Institute:
University of California in Los Angeles
Date Attended:
January 2006
Passed a (15 hours) course in time management. (Training)
Training Institute:
College of Business Administration
Date Attended:
April 2006
Passed a (36 hours) course in Business Strategies. (Training)
Training Institute:
College of Business Administration
Date Attended:
December 2005