Managing Director
StratCon FZ-LLC
Total years of experience :34 years, 3 Months
StratCon as a strategic management consulting services provider, assisting executives of global organizations in the gulf region achieving high efficiency and value in the delivering strategies and road maps to increase performance and profits.
Client: Invensys (www.invensys.com)
Location: Dubai, UAE
Role: SAP Project Manager for the Middle East roll out (13 countries)
•Invensys Process Systems in Foxboro, Massachusetts USA, is a major global supplier of systems, software, instruments, solutions and instruments for process automation and asset performance management. Primary customer industries include Refining and Petrochemicals, Upstream Oil and Gas, Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals, and Power and Utilities. Invensys IPS is in the process of implementing SAP global template rollout in their regional headquarters for the Middle East at JAFZA (Jebel Ali Free Zone) in Dubai.
• As an SAP Project Manager for Invensys GIBS Middle East rollout I’m responsible for the implementation deliverables for the functional and technical consultant’s team. Provide weekly status reports to the VP and managing Director locally and globally. Provide a cut-over plan and a strategy for data migration. Assist in validation and configuration on the SD/PS side. Provide a change management strategy company wide. Created a training plan and schedule for super users and end users.
• Created user training for PS module and conducted integration testing on project system scenarios.
•Running and executing the operation of ERP distributorship.
•Involved in assisting large organization scope, plan and define for large SAP implementations. Providing dashboards and recommendations to executives to monitor all the area of the organization. Implementation of Balanced Scorecards and help in assessing KPI. Provide management coaching, risk assessment and strategic planning workshops.
Accountable for driving revenue through the sales and marketing of company services. Develop sales and marketing strategies. Survey market needs and sell business consulting and technology solutions and large-scale integration projects to Fortune 500 companies. Call directly on CFO’s and senior executives and provide expertise in planning and structuring their technology needs. Lead a team of sales and consulting professionals
Accomplishments:
Built a customer base from the ground up growing annual sales by up to 35%, with current sales in the 8-figure range.
Hired and led a high performance marketing team in the creation of pecific marketing materials, including introducing our line of business and the benefits of utilizing our products and services.
Realized 40% sales increases annually by developing new products and services. Introduced strategic consulting services (architecture, vision strategies, as well as roadmaps on how to move an organization into SOA services oriented architecture).
Hired and trained expert business consultants who designed and implemented client ERP solutions, along with selling added services generating additional sales revenue.
Secured the following clients:
oDaimlerChrysler (automotive manufacturer) - Served as strategist for SAP PLM implementation. Collaborated with the Director of IT to provide strategy and resources, increasing our sales by $2 million.
oGeneral Motors / GMAC (the financial arm of General Motors) - Served as Strategy and Operation Domain Business Development Manager. Worked with the CAO and reported to the CIO of GMAC business transformation program. Drove account by providing vision and strategy, achieving a sales increase of consulting services within two months of $3 million. Saved client $10 million in operational costs
Other clients:
oPerrigo
oWolverine World Wide,
oSteelcase, Inc
oCAT Logistics
oBayer Healthcare/Bayer Diagnostics
Managed multiple technical implementations and projects for ARAMCO and SABIC.
Promoted the Windows based product, enabling networking capability. Helped in marketing and sales to gain major customers, such as: Lycos, German ADAC, and Siemens. Efforts generated $4 million in annual sales.
Developed an in the loop simulation system that displayed the airplane behavior on the screen simulating multiple types of aircrafts.
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification in Service Management
High Performance Leadership for Executives Certification
Two certification for Application development as well as Sales and distribution