Shafqat Ali, General Manager/Senior Project Manager

Shafqat Ali

General Manager/Senior Project Manager

Trading Company

Location
Bahrain - Manama
Education
Master's degree, MBA CIS
Experience
29 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :29 years, 2 Months

General Manager/Senior Project Manager at Trading Company
  • Bahrain
  • My current job since July 2012

Playing a role of General Manager/Senior Project manager on profit sharing basis. The responsibilities includes overall company management that involves:

• Planning and administration.
• HR Management
• Project Management
• Marketing and PR
• Financial Management
• Administrative Management
• Purchases and imports
• Deciding and setting up KPIs

General Manager at Emirates Experts Trading W.L.L
  • Bahrain - Manama
  • May 2010 to June 2012

Got associated with the company as General Manager. Responsibilities were including:

• Planning and execution of the MIS requirements for the company.
• Selection and procurement of products.
• Project Management
• Financial Management
• HR Management
• Purchases and Imports
• Looking after distribution network.

General Manager at e-Blue Systems LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2007 to April 2010

Got associated with the company as General Manager. Was responsible for managing the overall company operations. The responsibilities were involving:

• Budgeting and target setting
• Imports and procurement.
• HR Management.
• Financial Management
• Managing the project office
• Liaising with the Project Committees
• Selection of products

Manager Information Technology at Dubai Investments PJSC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • October 2001 to December 2006

Being the first IT Manager of the company had established the complete IT infrastructure from scratch. Was managing a team of 16 members to conduct the
following activities:

• In house software development and support.
• Project management for in-house ERP implementation and support across
the group.
• Selection of hardware, software and vendors
• IT Help Desk management.
• Data Center management.
• Web development and support.
• LAN/WAN support and management
• IT policies management(IT security policy, disaster recovery policies, etc)
• IT recruitments

IT Business Analyst/Assistant IT Manager at Future Pipe Industries(Formerly Gulf Eternit)
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 1995 to October 2001

• To assist the IT Manager.
• Identification of business requirements and performing systems analysis
• Supporting implementation of on-going releases, enhancements and
modifications
• To develop technical and economic justifications for the proposed systems
solutions.





• To develop application and system test plans.
• Responsible to develop and document related business process definitions,
functional interfaces, and procedures
•To meet with functional or cross functional users to determine information
systems solutions necessary to achieve identifiable business benefit.
• To support and implement ERP(BAAN) manufacturing, distribution,
PRP, MRP, shop floor control, inventory management, and order
management.
• To design and supervise the development of the reports required by the users.
• To initiate the implementation plans for the companies in the group.
• To co-ordinate with the BAAN Support Center in Netherlands.
• To supervise the hardware engineers in their daily routine jobs related to
network and hardware support.

Education

Master's degree, MBA CIS
  • at SoutheasternUniversity, Washington D
  • November 2000

- from

High school or equivalent, Commerce

Academic Qualification

Specialties & Skills

BUDGETING
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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