Head of Business Applications and Project Management
Dragon Oil
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :20 years, 11 أشهر
Chief Accountabilities: Providing the vision and leadership for designing, developing and implementing IT initiatives that create customer and/or business value. Translating the company vision into IT systems and procedures, articulating this critical link to the company stakeholders including the Executive Team, IT staff and employees. Continuously evaluating, improving and deploying new strategies for applications, systems software, products, and/or enhancements.
Significant Highlights:
Successfully delivered SAP transformation program on time and within budget, developed strategies, approach, alternatives and advised executive management
Examined existing applications’ effectiveness and efficiency, and developed strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
Coordinated multiple disciplinary teams when required. Provided mentoring, guidance and technical knowledge to team members.
Maintained continuous communication with Business Units to ensure that solutions meet requirements and service levels
Cultivated and disseminated knowledge of application-usage best practices.
Chief Accountabilities: Leading and assisting the team in resolution of complex problems within established guidelines and recommended appropriate solutions and alternatives. Determining root causes of repeat incidents and proactive prevention of application incidents. Evaluating requirements, developing estimates, assigning work activities and measuring individual and team performance.
Significant Highlights:
Holds merit in optimizing business processes and enhanced governance controls in Procure-to-Pay, Supplier Management, Material Management, and Asset Management.
Successfully standardized business data structures including Chart of Accounts, Suppliers, Items, Grades and Positions across group companies.
Actively directed project teams with developing, delivering, and supporting solutions while managing business expectations, providing tactical direction, and offering technical guidance.
Monitored, trained and guided IT Project Management and Business Applications teams. Directed implementation of IT strategy for Business Applications and GRC areas in line with corporate vision and objectives.
Holds merit of creating savings of over $1M company in a low oil price environment through accurate planning of project acquisitions, manpower requirements and 3rd party contracts including services, hardware and licenses.
Chief Accountabilities: Communicated relevant project information in status meetings with clients and project team to ensure client-s needs are met in a timely and effective manner. Managed issue resolution with business clients and technical support team. Shouldered accountability to manage IT programs and projects from conceptualization, budgeting, scoping (SOW/RFP), and tendering.
Significant Highlights:
Instrumental in managing end to end in-house implementation of Oracle EBS Financials, SCM (Purchasing, Sourcing, and Inventory), HCM (Core HR, Payroll, SSHR, OLM, and PMS), and EAM across 20+ group companies.
Achieved all project targets within budget and as per schedule.
Managed the delivery of multiple complex simultaneous system development projects from design through to release. Participated in reviews and meetings and provided updates on project progress.
Worked closely with Development Project Managers and Business Analysts to produce accurate delivery estimates and managed the transition from analysis through to design and delivery.
Set and managed business stakeholder expectations with respect to project priorities and delivery dates.
Developed and maintained positive working relationships with business stakeholders, project sponsors, subject matter experts, technical leads, middle and senior management throughout projects.
Chief Accountabilities: Shouldered accountability to manage IT projects from conceptualization, budgeting, scoping (SOW/RFP), and tendering; till execution and closure. Conducted feasibility studies against technical functionality and provided recommendations on the best cost effective breed of technology.
Significant Highlights:
Acted as a liaison with the in-house and offshore teams, as well as internal and external stakeholders
Supported all IT projects within the department and provided consultancy to other IT project managers. Assigned tasks to subordinates and provided guidance to best manage their time.
Developed plans and procedures to prevent complex projects problems from re-occurring in the future. Resolved independently day to day operational issues related to project tracking and data storage.
Assisted the technical projects team with documentation, both technical and procedural, key components of bringing new infrastructure into a fully supportable environment.
Analysed current practices and determined opportunities for improvement and furthermore introduced solutions to improve customer experience.
Chief Accountabilities: Evaluated project schedule with senior management and all other staff that will be affected by the project activities and revised the schedule as required. Evaluated the quality of the work completed with the project team on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project standards. Supervised and approved all budgeted project expenditures.
Significant Highlights:
Defined the objectives and measures upon which the project will be evaluated at its completion and ensured to deliver the project as per the project plan.
Headed offshore development and roll out of custom HRMS solution across group companies in multiple geographies and legislations Such as:
Targeting all HR processes including Payroll, Learning Management, Performance Management, Recruitment and Travel.
Shouldered responsibility to establish files and ensure that all project information is appropriately recorded, documented and secured.
Administered the project progress of the project and made adjustments as necessary to ensure the successful completion of the project.
Planned communication schedule to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project.
Selected for the VESTEL's newly formed R&D center to lead new product development projects
Liaised between management, marketing and research & development teams; during design and implementation of new multi-media and audio/video processing systems.
Led various portable device and multimedia software development projects with primary focus on smart TVs, set top boxes and hand-held devices.
Promoted as Senior Software Engineer to lead projects in VESTEL's subsidiary CABOT
As a product owner for the core middleware, reviewed and approved all versioning, branching, merging and release activities
Supervised software developers in software implementation projects
Designed and developed features for the core middleware to be supported across 100s of different receiver hardware configurations.
Developed middleware for satellite and terrestrial DVB receivers using Embedded Real Time Operating Systems
Designed and developed software for satellite and terrestrial DVB receivers according to customer specifications
Optimized middleware and driver performance to support various processor, memory, tuner and other peripheral configurations
Focused on Software and Software Project Management concepts including agile methods, SDLC models, CMMI; along with computer networks, hardware, database systems, design and development.
Focused on electronic control systems and algorithms for multidimensional optimization methods.