Mohamed Zahran, Business Analyst

Mohamed Zahran

Business Analyst

e-finance

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Technology
Experience
14 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :14 years, 5 Months

Business Analyst at e-finance
  • Egypt
  • My current job since October 2015
S. Business analyst at e-finance
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2015

Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform
o Public investment management system
* The Suez Canal Economic Zone Authority
o Company Registration automated systems
* General authority of governmental services
o Governmental Central Purchasing system
* National Organization for Social Insurance services automation
o Social Insurance System for Construction and Building Workers
o Services automation
* Ministry of finance- Egyptian tax authority
o Value added tax (VAT) taxation system

Business System Analyst at Ministry of Justice – Public Prosecutor
  • April 2013 to October 2013

Reporting to the Director of Prosecutions, Appointed to work on the development of
Management Information Systems, disaster recovery and IT projects management, improve
productivity through improved uses of technology, including
* Responsible for all matters relating to information systems in Public
Prosecutor personal office (internal information networks - wired and wireless
networks- personal computers - Servers - Surveillance Systems -
Telecommunications Systems(
* Define business problem and primary objectives of new projects.
* Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements
workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, business
analysis and workflow analysis.
* Interface with stakeholders to scope projects and direct the development cycle
from inception to completion.
* Develop a management information system for automating all processes that
take place within all departments of the Public Prosecutor office in accordance
with the requirements documents in collaboration with the Public Prosecution
Information Center.
* Design and implementation of training plans.
* Evaluating user needs and system functionality and ensuring that ICT facilities
meet these needs.
* Manage the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, development, upgrade, and
support of all IT systems, including servers, PCs, operating systems, software
applications, and peripherals, wireless networks within prosecutions
administration.
* Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open source
components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet business
requirements.
* Providing users with appropriate support and advice
Highlights Achievements:
* Terrorism cases database (TCD)
o Interface with stakeholders to define for (Terrorism cases database)
o scope (police report, criminal evidence, prosecution investigation, court
order, Remand extended calculation, Victims information, Defendants
information, Witness statements and information, The provisions of the Court
of First Instance and Appeal and Cassation).
o Planning and managing the requirements activities for (Terrorism cases
database)
o Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements
workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, business
analysis and workflow analysis.
o Organizing, structuring the elicited requirements as a document and
performing necessary verification and validation on them.
o Design data entry pre-system and lead the data entry teams.
o Design and Direct the development cycle from inception to completion.
o Design Terrorism cases database security system
o Design Terrorism cases database test cases
* The Sanctions and disciplinary cases department information System
o Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements
workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, business
analysis and workflow analysis.
o Organizing, structuring the elicited requirements as a document and
performing necessary verification and validation on them.
o Design data entry pre-system and lead the data entry teams.
o Design and Direct the development cycle from inception to completion.
* Disaster recovery system review

Technical project manager at The Arab science and technology foundation
  • March 2010 to October 2011

for lync2010 unified communications plan on all
SABA IP branches.
* Technical advisor for data protection and disasters recovery plan

IT Consultant at Saba & Co IP
  • Morocco
  • November 2011 to March 2011
Information Systems Analyst at Google
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to January 2011

Reporting to the Deputy CEO, recruited to manage Information Systems all over the
foundation, technical support, foundation digital identity, application development and
disaster recovery planning, IT project management, improve productivity and reduce
costs through improved uses of technology, including :
* Formulate and deploy long-term strategic plans for acquiring and enabling
efficient and cost-effective information processing and communication
technologies.
* Manage IT department operational and strategic planning, including
business requirements, project planning, and organizing and negotiating
the allocation of resources
* Review performance of IT systems to determine operating costs,
productivity levels, and upgrade requirements.
* Benchmark, analyze report on, and make recommendations for the
improvement of the IT infrastructure and IT systems.
* Authorize and oversee the deployment, monitoring, maintenance,
development, and support of all hardware and software based on
department needs.
* Develop business case justifications and cost/benefit analyses for IT
spending and initiatives
* Oversee provision of end-user services, including help desk and technical
support services.
* Develop and implement all IT policies and procedures, including those for
architecture, security, disaster recovery, standards, purchasing, and service
provision.
* Oversee negotiation and administration of vendor, outsourcer, and
consultant contracts and service agreements.
* Manage IT staffing, including recruitment, supervision, scheduling,
development, evaluation, and disciplinary actions.
* Establish and maintain regular written and in-person communications with
the organization’s executives, department heads, and end users regarding
pertinent IT activities.
* Define the business problem and primary objectives of new projects.
Identify and validate the key business requirements.
* Work with stakeholders from all business units and related third parties to
define and document business processes and software requirements for
technology initiatives.
* Interface with stakeholders (Internal/External) to scope projects, manage
budgets and direct the development cycle from inception to completion
* Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements
workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, business
analysis and workflow analysis.
* Evaluate potential software solutions, including off-the-shelf and open
source components, and the system architecture to ensure that they meet
business requirements.
* Research and recommend hardware and software development,
Troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, and connectivity problems,
including user access and component configuration.
Highlights Achievements:
* Reduce the costs of information systems equipment to 21% compared to the
previous budget period
* Planning and implementation of a project to transfer email service to (

Business Development at INTEL
  • United Arab Emirates
  • to January 2011

Planning and implementation of a project to develop the Foundation's website to
reflect the current identity of the foundation and its policy
* Planning and implementation of the project to transfer and convert sites of the
Foundation to the new service provider with the conversion to comply
with quality standards and operating standards that achieve the highest possible
efficiency
* Increase the number of members of the databases by the institution (88%) with
the correlation between all the databases used in all foundation websites
* Planning and implementation of E-Learning system for the technology Business
plan competition around 7
* Install, configure, Administrate the E-Learning systems.
* Design the Content and study plan using instructional design ADDIE
Model for Business planning course
* Develop Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) version
2004 for courses lessons and exams
* Configure and manage the Courses certificate rules and letter of excellence
for courses participates
* In cooperation with the

Senior Information Systems at Egyptian Riviera Tours
  • January 2008 to February 2010

Design, architect, build, monitor and performance tune the
infrastructure and supporting application environment.
* Act as a lead customer issue resolution engineer and take ownership of
all assigned tickets.
* Evaluating user needs and system functionality and ensuring that ICT
facilities meet these needs.
* Planning, developing and implementing the ICT budget, obtaining
competitive prices from suppliers, to ensure cost effectiveness.
* Scheduling upgrades and security backups of hardware and software
systems.
* Ensuring the smooth running of all systems, including anti-virus
software, print services and email system.
* Providing secure access to the network for remote users.
* Providing users with appropriate support and advice.
* Managing crises, which may involve complex technical hardware or
software problems.

Project Support
  • August 2006 to December 2007

System Analysis and designer
* Starting the analysis phase for finical department
(Stock operations).
* Responsible for Design the Finical information system.
* Responsible for the maintenance & troubleshooting of finical
information system & train the system user.
* Responsible, for design the network (Group police, Domains…etc).
* Responsible for the maintenance & troubleshooting windows (XP,
Server 2003, vista).
* Member of web application team (EPSF site)
o Determine the data that will be available at the website
o Responsible for the Collecting the needed data from the
departments and reformatting it
o Design the website pages and arrange them
* Responsible for a Stock daily report that reported to the economical
consulter (transactions, last value for each stock, portfolio state,
evaluated the portfolio)

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Technology
  • at Higher InstituteEl Shorouk Academy
  • June 2006
High school or equivalent,
  • at Nasser Higher Military Academy

High school or equivalent,
  • at National Defense College

courses: Strategic Studies and National Security first round.

High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University

Coursera: 1. A Crash Course in Data Science 2. Building a Data Science Team 3. Managing Data Analysis 4. Data Science in Real Life 5. Executive Data Science Capstone (Project)

High school or equivalent,
  • at University of CaliforniaUniversity of Californi

, Davis on Coursera Data Visualization with Tableau, a 5-course specialization by

Specialties & Skills

Web Project Management
IT Management
Server Management
SAP Business One
ACCOUNTANCY
ADMINISTRATION
ANÁLISIS DE SISTEMAS
MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP
NETWORKING
TROUBLESHOOTING
WEB SITE PRODUCTION

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert