Rola Halabi, BA & Pre-sales Consultant

Rola Halabi

BA & Pre-sales Consultant

Integrated Business Solutions

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, B.S. Management of Information Systems
Experience
16 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 11 Months

BA & Pre-sales Consultant at Integrated Business Solutions
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since May 2013

• Presales demos and presentations of company’s Microsoft Business Solutions; including MS Dynamics AX, NAV, and CRM.
• Conducted a market survey on the local market’s feedback about enterprise business solutions consulting, and developed a high-level plan for introducing a new Business Consulting Division to the company.
• Creating marketing brochures and data sheets for company’s products and services.
• Cooperating with the sales representatives to introduce them to the company’s new division and identified the related pain points they should address during sales meetings.
• Carrying out research and development to proactively highlight problems and opportunities that arise in the ERP markets, locally and abroad.
• Project support & QA for ERP projects in KSA & Iraq.
• Writing and evaluating RFP replies and proof of concept demos.

Business Solutions Specialist - ERP at Integrated Business Solutions S.A.L.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2012 to April 2013

• Designed and deployed 2 end-to-end implementations of MS Dynamics AX for the Medical and Pharmaceuticals Industries.
• Designed and implemented a work-around solution for a sales commissioning requirement for a Medical Supplies distributor in KSA, saving as much as $30, 000 in customization costs.
• Revised the scope of work for a concerned start-up networking company that was about to implement an ERP, setting them up for an implementation that better fits their requirements.
• Helped plan and implement a disaster recovery plan for an ERP implementation, using the failover clustering feature of the ERP while making use of the high availability cluster of SQL server.
• Wrote comprehensive testing scenarios for ERP end users, and helped improve their system adoption and boost their data entry speed.

Microsoft Business Solutions Consultant at Netways
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • November 2009 to November 2011

Managed and handled all aspects of ERP Project consulting and implementation, including;
• ERP System development following the Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step SDLC methodology
• Developing user manuals, functional design and technical design documents, tailor-made to fit client’s requirements.
• Delivering systematic training for system users, while ensuring maximum interface satisfaction and comprehension
• Coordinated with the Enterprise Project Management internal team on a project to integrate MS Dynamics AX with MS Project Server.

Worked on and implemented a custom-made Payroll module add-on personalized for the MEA & Gulf regions:
• Collaboration with the functional team overseas to assess and gather payroll requirements
• Payroll process automation; designing a fully parameterized Payroll system with minimal user daily input requirements, while still integrated with the familiar human resources master data.
• Participated in pre-deployment testing and quality control
• Implementation of the add-on on Netways’ local servers
• Post-implementation testing and user training
• Migrating data from payroll legacy system into the new module

Secretarial assistance at Lebanese American University
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2007 to July 2009

- Secretarial assistance
- Documenting
- Archiving
- Assisting in the arrangements of festivals, show rooms, and other university activities

Trainee at Arab Bank Plc.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2008 to September 2008

- Front desk banking transactions
- Develop and analyze credit recommendation letters for bank’s client corporations, including Solidere, P&G, Spartan.
- Personal banking operations

Education

Bachelor's degree, B.S. Management of Information Systems
  • at Lebanese American University
  • July 2009

Under-graduate Student Distinction Academic Scholarship

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Dynamics
Project Management
Business Process Design
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS® AX 2012
Visual Studio SSRS 2010
MS Dynamics X++ editor / debugger
MICROSOFT DYNAMICS® AX 2009
Coaching/End-user training

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Microsoft Certified Professionals
  • Microsoft Certified Professional
  • December 2009

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional -PMP training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011