Sami Khalaf

Manage SAP implementation as Project Manager and directly lead the consulting team in implementations for high profile clients.

• Accountable for the successful delivery of the assigned projects following SAP ASAP/Activate methodology standards
• Acts as a liaison between the Executive Steering team, Project Sponsor, and Project Team by building cooperative, constructive, effective relationships
• Oversees and approves all project deliverables
• Responsible for the creation of day-to-day management of the project plan, the project’s budget, and the project’s scope
• Accountable for the communication of variance in scope, budget, and schedule
• Accountable for risks and issues management, and serves as an initial escalation point for project risks and issues
• Accountable for project resources management and recruitment, actively maintaining the model throughout the project lifecycle
• Accountable for status reporting and communication throughout the project
• Coordinate functional project teams, and act as the functional project team leader
• Serves as a subject matter expert throughout project activities and leads the experts from different fields to reach their designated objectives
• Facilitates the sub-contracted services procurement process and manages the sub-contracted resources/organization throughout the project delivery

Manage SAP implementation as Project Manager and directly lead the consulting team in implementations for high profile clients.

• Accountable for the successful delivery of the assigned projects following SAP ASAP/Activate methodology standards
• Acts as a liaison between the Executive Steering team, Project Sponsor, and Project Team by building cooperative, constructive, effective relationships
• Oversees and approves all project deliverables
• Responsible for the creation of day-to-day management of the project plan, the project’s budget, and the project’s scope
• Accountable for the communication of variance in scope, budget, and schedule
• Accountable for risks and issues management, and serves as an initial escalation point for project risks and issues
• Accountable for project resources management and recruitment, actively maintaining the model throughout the project lifecycle
• Accountable for status reporting and communication throughout the project
• Coordinate functional project teams, and act as the functional project team leader
• Serves as a subject matter expert throughout project activities and leads the experts from different fields to reach their designated objectives
• Facilitates the sub-contracted services procurement process and manages the sub-contracted resources/organization throughout the project delivery

Manage SAP Applications practice, projects delivery and consultants in implementations for high profile clients.

o Help organizations realize maximum strategic business value from their software
o Recommend process and system improvements based on best-practices
o Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress
o Supervise the full-cycle of planning, design, execution, training and testing phases
o Supervise project documentation for configuration, reports, interfaces, data, enhancements, etc.
o Interact with key stakeholders from all levels, and manage their expectations
o Manage a team of experts from various technical backgrounds

Provide consulting to high-profile clients as an Oracle EBS Subject Matter Expert.

o Define possible business processes automation through As-Is and To-Be analysis
o Build Request for Proposals (RFP) on technical, functional and financial criteria
o Evaluate received vendor proposals based on technical, functional and financial criteria
o Take a project manager and/or advisory role to support clients with software implementation

Managing part of the Hakeem program, a royal initiative to computerize the public healthcare sector nationwide. Scope of work includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Health Information System (HIS) implementations together with installation of supporting hardware/network.

o Define project plan while focusing on timely delivery of value
o Promote team performance by removing roadblocks to their work
o Drive teams to achieve project objectives
o Manage customer expectations for project deliverables
o Evaluate project risks and issues then find solutions
o Adhere to corporate solution implementation methodologies and tools
o Manage the full-cycle of design, execution, training and testing phases
o Assist in the creation of the Statement of Work and assist proposal activities
o Interact with all levels of stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
o Establish and maintain high level of customer trust
o Prepare and distribute progress status reports
o Escalate any deliverables delays and quality issues
o Manage change requests resulting from project execution

2013 - 2012: POS Product Manager (Telco)
Managing the development of a Telecommunications Point of Sale (POS) product and implementing related Oracle EBS modules. The solution was fully built through Oracle Technologies and fully integrated in real-time with Billing, Activation and Oracle EBS Applications.

2012 - 2006: Senior Functional Consultant
Implement various Oracle EBS modules that are related to the Order-to-Cash cycle in the Financials, Supply-Chain, and CRM tracks. Introducing best practice to clients and taking a project coordinator role when needed.

o Help organizations realize maximum strategic business value from their products
o Develop and manage project plans to guide work efforts
o Manage the full-cycle of design, execution, training and testing phases
o Interact with key stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
o Answer user inquiries at all project stages and support operations
o Collect business requirements then map them into system requirements
o Document processes, system configuration, testing scenarios and user guides
o Recommend process and system improvements
o Provide specifications to reports, interfaces, conversions, and enhancements
o Analyze and solve complex issues regarding both data and processes
o Work as a programmer to build required reports, packages and API
o Update expertise on technologies

Work as an Oracle EBS end-user within the Finance Department. Process payment transactions, bank reconciliations and interact with various other departments for financial audit.