Chief Information Officer
Confidential
Total years of experience :26 years, 5 Months
Development of new department to execute and manage the strategy named as “Strategy execution & Transformation Department”, the new department has three main divisions: Business excellence, project management office, planning & monitoring.
Development of Business Strategy for Next 5 Years (Along with 3rd Party Consultancy Firms: EY & KPMG).
Review and development of new Operating Model, organizational structure to support the new strategic pillars (Along with 3rd Party Consultancy Firm).
Monitoring the Execution of Strategic Pillars / Programs and Sub Projects and reports summary of execution to BOD.
- Member of Management Executive Team, The Team meets every month and discusses all Financial Related Reports, Reviews all Projects Health and Status.
- Development & Implementation of new IT Strategy to drive new ERP Implementation, Business Continuity and Retail Advanced Solutions (Transformation from Legacy Solutions to new SAP ERP).
- Completed the process of technology assessment & selection between (Oracle, Microsoft & SAP).
- Led the Journey of SAP ERP Implementation & Business Transformation starting from technology assessment till go live within 14 months at total cost of ownership of $15Mln USD.
- Implemented IT Service Management, IT Policies & Procedures using ITIL V3.b
- Successful implementation & execution of Retail Demand Forecasting & Replenishment - SAP FnR.
- Implementation of cloud based mobile solution to support procurement, sales operations and HR (Fiori )
- Forecasting & analyzing IT budget in support of business priorities and strategies. Managed & Controlled IT operating cost within the international rate of (1.4 to 1.75).
- Transformed IT staff from technical to service-oriented team with SLA based environment. Established new hybrid model of IT Services & Support using outsourced labor to reduce IT Operating Cost.
- Setup of scalable & secured infrastructure to support business growth and performance taking into consideration business continuity and cloud-based services.
- Member of IPO Project Team, worked with other departments to prepare for the IPO Transformation Project.
- Development of Digital Transformation Strategy to drive the road map of E-Commerce B2C Sales, B2B Integration, Digitization & process Automation and advanced analytics platform.
- Leverage PaaS Solution to Deploy and Manage the E-Commerce Magento Platform (B2C )
Established new organizational structure of IT department to replace old generation of COBOL systems with new Client Server solutions.
Management of legacy computing systems using Sybase, Oracle and PowerBuilder.
Developed and managed the System Landscape to support the expansion plans of the company (Mailing Solutions, Active Directory, Security Platform and Communication).
Deployed complete in-house developed WM System for the chain.
Managed the development and implementation of budget controlling management system.
Completed End-to-End Business Process Revision, Analysis, Re-engineering & optimization with third party consultancy firms.
Design & Implementation of Business Continuity Strategy and DR Solution.
Implementation of new BI reporting Platform within 6 months.” “WEBFOCUS BI”
The Developed Solution Served the Company & Business for 12 years.
Key Projects to Credit:
• POS System development and deployment, Harvey Nicholas Saudi, Bhs
• Transportation & Logistics System, Al Bassami Group.
• Financial Package, Unicorp, SACO
• Inventory Management, SACO
I have started my first career at Tantash information and learned the basics of power builder programming and Sybase Database SQL.
I have Completed 2 Training Courses in TISG.
Student will be graduated end of 2020
