syed mohammad waqar, research coordinator

syed mohammad waqar

research coordinator

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, Marketing
Experience
20 years, 0 Months

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research coordinator at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • My current job since May 2009

1. Coordinate with IT dept to acquire new hardware to cater the need of using heavy and resource-utilizing software(Oracle developer, .Net Framework, Java Application mainly used for Banner SunGard 7....etc)
2. upgrade the hardware as required
3. Installation of new software or Operating System that supports Banner SunGard
4. PCs deployment and Banner SunGard 7 on all PCs to hold registration activities for almost 10, 000 students, 3 times in an academic calendar
5. Develop central repository database, run parallel with Banner SunGard for those students who acquire DN in each semester in order to generate a periodic report and statistics for higher management
6. Schedule, Re-schedule all classes, events (seminar, presentations, thesis, midterm..etc) in Banner SunGard supported by Oracle.
7. Counsel student’s about their grades, CGPA improvement, overload & underload, courses, credit hours, academic violations, academic warning….etc
8. Degree plan: rechecking students’ information for the graduating students and expected to graduated students.
9. Degree posting on official transcripts
10. Coordinating and arranging the registration activities 3 times in an academic calendar for students
11. Printing & distributing official transcripts for the graduated students at the end of the each semester by using Banner SunGard 8 at the frontend and Oracle at the backend

project coordinator at GLOBAL INVESTMENT HOUSE
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2008 to January 2009

1. Manage and coordinate all the projects in each department using MS Project
2. Coordinating on business plan with other departments
3. Develop organizational chart for each department
4. Created a sample Statement of Account containing all data e.g. (mutual funds, holdings…etc)
5. Develop different investment operations forms being used in organization
6. Maintaining and monitoring the project status/roadmap of all departments
7. Develop project’s critical path, project dependencies and project milestones
8. Manage, control and supervise project development process from beginning to end
9. Preparing presentations for higher level management and board of Directors
10. Preparing different reports and assisting in general research

Customer Sales Executive at THE RESOURCE GROUP (PVT).LTD
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2007 to April 2008

1. Offshore selling of bundle package of TV, Internet and Telephony of Charter Communications Inc (Fortune 500 company and the fourth- largest cable operator in USA) and process the sales online.
2. Making sales and closing the sale, to prospective and existent clients through Predictive Dialer technology
3. Process the sales online and refer the sales to the technical team for on time installation

Deputy Manager IT at COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS PAKISTAN (CPSP), (WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Trainin
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • February 2007 to December 2007

1. Supervises the development, implementation of MIS/ERP project, namely CPSP MIS, worth of Sr. 50, 000 and its using MS SQL Server at the back end and VB on the front end. This project is being implemented with the help of Microsoft Gold Partner, KalSoft (Pvt) Ltd.
2. Coordinates with Ministry of Higher Education to develop video conferencing project worth of Sr, 6, 250, 00, in order to promote e-learning and contact sessions of 62 different subjects among 4 centers (Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar) and in future extending to other regional centers including 2 international centers (Saudi Arabia and Nepal)
3. Supervising Satellite Uplink Project, worth of Sr. 40, 000 in collaboration with Ministry of Higher Education. This project was implemented with the collaboration of M/s Infomax Pvt Ltd
4. Supervising Network Operating Center (NOC) and their alignment, implementation and viability
5. Corresponds and liaisons with Ministry of IT
6. Reviews the software and hardware requirements of different departments of CPSP and make recommendations
7. Supervises matters related to Computer Workshops and training requirements
8. Conducts specialized training of CPSP employees when needed
9. Collaborates with vendors before awarding of major Tenders/Purchase Orders
10. Monitors the Help Desk on daily basis
11. Supervises the Audio/Visual section of the department
12. Interviews applicants at Head Office and Regional office
13. Any other task assigned by the Superior/s

consultant (BMDS) at ALLIED BUSINESS DEVELOPERS(Sister Organization of Ernst & Young – $46.5 Billion US based multination
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2005 to August 2006

1. Designing the complete privatization steps in water sector, of four major cities (Riyadh, Dammam/Khobar, Medina and Jeddah worth SR 21 million) and directly reported to H.E The Deputy Minister of Ministry of Water & Electricity.
2. Preparing Expression of Interests (EOI) letters to invite international consultants (financial, strategic, legal & technical) for privatization of Riyadh
3. Attending the workshops and presentations of international consultants about their approach to privatization
4. Designing complete Project Management Framework (PMO) for Project Management office handling 22 different projects worth of SR 199 Billion
5. Preparing the Request For Proposals (RFPs) for Privatization projects of 4 major cities
6. Evaluating proposals received against issued RFPs based on predefined criteria
7. Working on Primavera
8. Preparing papers and presentations on different topics, like privatization and its financing options…etc for higher management

Business Administrator at Al-Suwaidi Services Company Ltd
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • May 2004 to August 2005

1. Worked on JDEdwards, an ERP in (sales order module & Accommodation Module) providing following services to international clients like Schlumberger, Baker Atlas, BJ Services and etc.
 Creating client master
 Creating inquiry
 Creating quotation
 Creating blanket order (BO)
 Creating subsequent reports

2. Worked with implementation team to deal with post implementation problems like reports alignment, reports layout, reports contents, item code and etc
3. Designed a software of Marketing Intelligence to help the sales team as well as top management to have prehand information about the projects coming in energy sector in Saudi Arabia
4. Developed a central repository database known as Data Media Systems (DMS) marketing intelligence; the silent features are:

 Managing and segregating projects inflow coming in different industrial sectors (oil & gas, petrochemicals, constructions, mining, water & power)
 Allocating the projects to different locations (eastern region, western and central region)
 Managing project dissemination status to major clients

5. Preparing and maintaining company contracts and loading them in ERP
6. Preparing monthly sales report of each division through ERP system

Database Administrator at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • Saudi Arabia - Eastern Province
  • June 2002 to February 2003

Worked as paid Cooperative Trainee (7 months Internship) in Information Technology Center (ITC) one of the cores IT department in KFUPM, as a Database Administrator. My job included PC Support, Helpdesk, Customer Services and solving day-to-day hardware and software problems.

Education

Master's degree, Marketing
  • at Virtual University of Pakistan
  • October 2011
Diploma, XAML C# programming
  • at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
  • September 2007
Diploma, CCNA
  • at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology
  • April 2007
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems(MIS)
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • August 2003

was an honor student having GPA 3.25

Diploma, Develop database with Java Application using JBuilder”
  • at King Fahd Universtiy of Petroleum & Minerals
  • January 2003
Diploma, Introduction to Oracle: SQL, PL/SQL
  • at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
  • August 2002

Specialties & Skills

Oracle SQL
Management
Science
JBuilder
Java programming
Oracle 9i
MS Office
MS Visio
MS Project
MS SQL Server 2000
Expert Choice
JDEDwards

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
Valid Until:
August 2013
Office Administration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2013
Metadata: Organizing and Discovering Information (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013

Hobbies

  • many
    Yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do from THE WORLD Tae KWON DO FEDERATION, (THE KIM’S GYM (Jan1999-June1999) Member of KFUPM Squash Team (Sep 1999-Dec1999) Member of KFUPM Lawn Tennis Team (Jan 2000-June 2000) Member of KFUPM Badminton Team (Sep 2000-June 2001) Cricket, swimming, chess and fitness Music, reading books, traveling