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Yehia Mohamed Kamel Taqsira, Chief Information Officer

Yehia Mohamed Kamel Taqsira

Chief Information Officer·Al Faris Group

Saudi Arabia

Diploma, Agile Project Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 31 years, 9 months

Chief Information Officer

November 2018 - Present

Al Faris Group

Saudi Arabia

November 2018 - Present

Role:
❖ Envisioning and building the future by developing a compelling transformation vision and strategy.
❖ Spearheading the organization excellence through expanding the Digital Innovation Continuous Improvement, and Agile ways of working.
❖ Transforming an organization’s traditional businesses into digital ecosystem, with a special focus on creating new values through the smart
use of digital tools, platforms, technologies, that empower smooth movement from the system of records to a system of engagement.
❖ Lead the implementation of the Digital Strategy to ensure that all relevant digital initiatives are fully integrated into the strategic-
planning process for leadership commitment, resource allocation and execution.
❖ Research for new technologies that may potentially increase organization’s competitive advantage, and lead the decision-making
process with the change control board (CCB).
❖ Lead the intersection between business requirements, newest technology, external consultant, and the service providers.
❖ Measuring ROI on Digital projects as they should create value; increasing market share, improving customer engagement and loyalty,
driving new revenues, or achieving new efficiencies.
❖ Developing competency among the team members; managing appraisal process across the levels, conducting interviews to recruit
the right talent & resources and developing employee competency.
❖ Defining service standards & guidelines, thought leadership, governance structure, best practices that serves as benchmark for
excellent services delivery.
❖ Managing organizational risks and increase success factors through developing, and implementing disaster recovery plans.
❖ Planning programme/project activities including preparing proposals, business presentations, scoping, resource planning, technical
direction, change management, delivery management, risk management and post implementation support (SLA).

Highlights:
❖ Developed and executed a digital transformation vision and roadmap which transformed multiple legacy systems into an international ERP and HCM implementations throughout the organization along with its business standards and best practices.
❖ Scanned the international ERP market to identify the most appropriate ERP system for the group, with a history of reducing over 30% of implementation cost by means of a good preparation for the proof of concept (POC) scenario.

Company industry:
FMCG
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Management – Head of ERP Department

February 2013 - October 2018

OZCO Holding Company

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

February 2013 - October 2018

❖ Leading the design with proper implementation of transformational strategies, execution roadmaps, governance structures, policies, processes, procedures across the IT and business lifecycle.
❖ Responsible for PMO functional and business requirements; project planning; defining project scope, goals and deliverables in liaison
with team members and stakeholders on an on-going basis.
❖ Leading the implementation through management of portfolio, program, project governance frameworks, and developing appropriate
reporting tools for delivering value.
❖ Providing subject matter expertise and leading edge-thinking on trends, methodologies, tools, techniques that will be useful to ERP
program activities and the organization as a whole.
❖ Directed teams in areas of Software Development Lifecycle - requirements gathering, capability analysis, solution design, process
standardization, and development.
❖ Interacting at all levels of the organization to ensure project success as well as ensuring stakeholders’ needs are met.

Highlights:
❖ Implemented Microsoft Dynamics across several business verticals (Manufacturing, trading, logistics, and real estate), besides implementing a Handheld application (SalesBuzz), developed KPIs, metrics, and dashboards to measure business performance and efficiency, which led to an increase in the profit by more than 18%.
❖ Built an integrated automated commission management system to all sales representatives that functionally offers precise tracking sale’s incentives, calculate the desired commission based on a complex and multiple business formulas, in order to improve the effectiveness of the sales operation in terms of sales plan, actual sales and the collection periods.
❖ We were the first company in Saudi Arabia that implemented Oracle Fusion HCM system integrated with Saudi regulations, alongside performing the required customizations that suit each business vertical; digital transformation, performance management, succession planning, training management, and retention management.

Company industry:
Other Business Support Services
Job role:
Management

Management Level - ERP Project Manager

June 2010 - May 2012

Al-Othman Holding

Khobar, Saudi Arabia

June 2010 - May 2012

❖ Spearheaded the Microsoft Dynamics Implementation Services that empowered people to work effectively, managed change, and competed globally.
❖ Applied technical expertise and utilized Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Methodology by generating functional requirements document (FRD), enterprise design document (EDD) and GAP analysis document.
❖ Achieved ERP implementation - project expectations; critical path resolving project dependencies, risks and tracked project milestones and deliverables.
❖ Ensure that key milestones are reached, and compare actual performance against planned/scheduled performance.
❖ Shaping workshops to identify areas of improvement for applications, projects, KPIs and dashboards.

Company industry:
Management Consulting
Job role:
Information Technology

ERP Project Manager / Business Solution Consultant

January 2005 - June 2010

TELL Information Systems Co

Saudi Arabia

January 2005 - June 2010

Company industry:
IT Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Business Solution Consultant

January 2001 - December 2004

United Matbouli Group (UMG), Samsung Agen

Saudi Arabia

January 2001 - December 2004

Job role:
Information Technology

System Analyst

January 1994 - December 2000

Standardata Co

Egypt

January 1994 - December 2000

Job role:
Information Technology

Education

PMI

November 2017

November 2017

Diploma, Agile Project Management

United Arab Emirates

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Leoron

April 2017

April 2017

Diploma, Leadership Skills

United Arab Emirates

GPA (rating): Excellent

GPA (rating): Excellent

ASQ

February 2016

February 2016

Diploma, Quality Control

United Arab Emirates

GPA (rating): Excellent

GPA (rating): Excellent

AIPMO

December 2015

December 2015

Diploma, International Project Management Officer-Expert (IPMO-E)

United Arab Emirates

GPA (rating): Excellent

GPA (rating): Excellent

Leoron

August 2014

August 2014

Diploma, Quality

Saudi Arabia

GPA (rating): Excellent

GPA (rating): Excellent

January 2006

January 2006

Master's degree, Microsoft Business Solutions

Saudi Arabia

Skills

Organizational Excellence
Expert
Organizational Excellence
Expert
Business Intelligence
Expert
Business Intelligence
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Business Strategy and Management
Expert
Business Strategy and Management
Expert
Business Solutions
Expert
Business Solutions
Expert
ERP
Expert
ERP
Expert
FUNCTIONAL
Expert
FUNCTIONAL
Expert
POLICY ANALYSIS
Expert
POLICY ANALYSIS
Expert
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Expert
PROCESS ENGINEERING
Expert
PROJECT PLANNING
Expert
PROJECT PLANNING
Expert
REPORTS
Expert
REPORTS
Expert
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
Expert
REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS
Expert
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Expert
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Expert
AGILE
Expert
AGILE
Expert
Business Intelligence
Expert
Business Intelligence
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Change Management
Expert
Business Strategy and Management
Expert
Business Strategy and Management
Expert
Business Solutions
Expert
Business Solutions
Expert
Microsoft Dynamics
Expert
Microsoft Dynamics
Expert

Languages

Arabic

Native Speaker

English

Expert

Training and Certifications

Training
Microsoft Implementation Methodology
Microsoft
Mar 2009
Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012
Microsoft
May 2013
International Certificate in Advanced Leadership Skills (ICALS)
ICALS
Sep 2015
Senior International Project Manager (SIPM)
PMI
Dec 2016

Hobbies and interests

Family Time
Watching Movies
Walking Sport
Hunting
Reading