Business Intelligence Consultant
Qatar Development Bank
Total years of experience :20 years, 10 Months
The entity is a financial entity fully owned by the government, set up by an Emiri Decree to invest in and develop local industries by supporting small and medium enterprises in Qatar.
• Delivered business insights and actionable intelligence in implementing banking applications, and supported the implementation across different departments including Finance, Treasury, Business Finance, HR, Advisory, Operations etc.
• Successfully lead strategy development and implementation of technology driven transformation of core business and supporting functions and have delivered strong ROI and significant operational improvements.
• Serving as an individual contributor and spearheading the QDB BI Team to fulfill business requirements in delivering large and complex IT projects and Enterprise Change Management Programs.
• Participating in All IT Management & Governance practices such as: IT Project Management, IT Security and Assurance, Budget preparation, Evaluation of outsourced professionals, ITSM, Data & Application Architecture development, Vendor and Software selection, and much more.
• Assisting with the creation and validation of repository artifacts such as standard operating procedures, change requests, and Data & Applications Architectures.
• Taking a holistic view of every enterprise’s data capture, management, and discovery requirements, integrating corporate data into analytical system data structures that render reports and overseeing data loads for troubleshooting all errors
• Working on Business Objects Data Services (BODS) Data Integrator for Transforming QDB Data from Different Sources (Core Banking Solution, ERP, CRM, and Departmental databases and Files) to QDB Data Warehouse (DWH).
• Transforming data into information and analytics to make effective and timely business decisions by utilizing Business Objects 4.x.
Key Projects to Credit:
Automation of QCB and Credit Bureau Reports.
Automation of KPIs.
HR BI Implementation (Workforce and Payroll & Compensation).
EDMS-CRM integration.
Executive management dashboards.
Alfurjan Mobile Application.
Internet & Mobile Banking (Integration).
Highlights:
• Managed some of the largest and most complex SAP BI technology initiatives in Alfanar's Business sectors.
• Helped businesses and organization simplify data manipulation using SAP Business Objects and other SAP business intelligence solutions needed to support reporting requirements.
• Received several recommendations for dedicated and committed efforts in my job accomplishments.
• Bestowed with an award as Best Solution Developer, 2006 Alfanar IT
Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the SAP Design development lifecycle from design through implementation and production support in team environment.
• Documented an accurate understanding of business requirements and mapping of those to SAP business processes.
• Supported design, coding and testing of custom objects based on Functional Design Specifications by utilizing different BI Tools including Data Warehousing Workbench, Bex Page2 Query Designer, Bex Analyzer, Bex Web Analyzer, Business Objects Xcelsius, Web Intelligence, Universe Designer, Information Design Tool.
• Worked with stakeholders to analyze business requirements, and define target SAP BI/BO solution architecture and associated technical specifications & implementation plan.
• Provided support and expertise for all business areas including operations, tactical changes and enhancements to SAP System and ensured consistent use of SAP across all business units through end user training.
Key Projects to Credit
• BI Implementation for HCM (Personnel Administration, E-Recruitment, Compensation Analysis, Time and Payroll)
• Implementing Business Objects 4.0 on top of
SAP BI 7.0 (Business Object Explorer, Universe Designer, Web Intelligence, Xcelsius, Information Design Tool, Live Office, Advanced Analysis)
• Support: BI server monitoring (data loads)
• End user training for different user groups (Information Consumer, Top Management, and Functional Consultant).
Highlights:
• Successfully delivered key functionalities for automating essential tasks for alfanar group workflow processes to deliver HR Department Requirements thereby augmenting productivity and information visibility to all alfanar Employees.
Key Responsibilities:
• Engineered high level design/ solutions targeting precise business problems with suitable blend of modalities, delivery mechanisms, instructional approaches and technologies in compliance to organizational policies and procedures.
• Provided leadership to the Software Development team encompassing 3 Developers and 1 E-Business Consultant for directing, controlling, and monitoring activities in a cost-effective manner and ensuring delivery of projects in time.
• Drove integration and standardization across all departments- organizational development department, audit and system departments, administration department, accounting department and recruitment department to ensure achievement of their goals.
• Defined optimal systems roll out strategy and plan, developed and maintained documentation on business requirements and integrated with ERP system.
• Kept abreast of latest technological advancements and utilized the potentials of the same to respond to the distinctive needs of the organization.
Key Project to Credit:
Employees Attendance Portal Project:
• Managed a huge project to integrate attendance data from 50+ Punching machines for attendance justification based on the organization structure and updating them on ERP (Microsoft Navision)- Payroll Module to affect employees' salary.
Key Team Assignments Handled:
• Business Process Management Developer (Ultimus BPM Suite)- Developing workflow processes and administering workflow system.
• Microsoft SQL 2005 Analysis Services Expert - Creating Data Cubes for advanced reporting.
• Microsoft SharePoint Portal 2003-2007-Served as an administrator, implementer and Web Parts Developer using
Custom User Controls.
• ASP.net 2.0 Web Developer (C# 2.0 Developer).
• Cisco IP Phone XML Services Developer
• Microsoft Business Solutions Navision Developer- Customizing Navision to Achieve Business needs.
The company is a top-notch IT Company offering a wide range of services including website hosting and development solutions beside live communication services to an expanding clientele in MENA countries.
Key Responsibilities:
• Delivered innovative service offerings for Ministry of education Al Qassim Area, Saudi Arabia Family Tree System and other projects.
• Designed creative and professionally successful websites including www.exa.com.sa/www.pfp.org.sa/ www.qcc.org.sa.
• Used Visual C# and asp.net (C#) for Windows applications developer and troubleshot web pages and web based user interfaces issues.
• Tested, debugged, installed, documented and maintained systems/ modifications. Performed analysis of existing business procedures/data management systems, suggesting/designing enhancements.
• Recommended system/ application improvements, coordinated with project team members, followed the project through systems development life cycle to ensure business objectives are met.
Other Relevant Experiences:
• Mar 2004 - Sept 2004: Senior Web Developer, AFM Office - establish a national urban observatory network (NUON) to provide multi-dimensional data and indicators to multi-sector decision makers required for urban and rural development processes, linked to the global, regional and other countries’ urban observatory networks, in addition to the linkage to local networks,
• Aug 2003 - Mar 2004: Web Developer, VetSoft
Senior web developer using asp.net (C#) I was creating a web Application using asp.net with Oracle as a
back-end For Urban Observatory For Al Medina KSA “al marsad al hadry al madina al monawara al kobra” http://marsad.amana-md.gov.sa/ http://amana-md.gov.sa/AboutMunicipality/Prizes/Pages/habitat.aspx
Previous Professional Experiences:
Web Developer, VetSof - Cairo, Egypt (August 2003-March 2004)
C#.Net Web and Windows applications developer.