OBJECTIVE:

To have an Executive Management, C - level or Advisory-Role position where over 23 years of diverse & collective experience in Planning, Program directing, project management, system integration, system analysis, design and development will add value to the organization. To effectively manage teams, interface with customers and optimally utilize emerging technologies that aid in enhancing and adding value to job efficiency.

PROFILE:

• Ambitious Executive Manager who creates strategic alliances with organization leaders to effectively align with and support key business initiatives.
• Builds and retains high performance teams by hiring, developing and motivating skilled professionals.
• Visionary Operations Executive with solid experience managing all levels of multiple projects including budgeting and administration.
• Effective and accountable in high-profile executive roles by overcoming business challenges and making decisions based on experience-backed judgment, strong work ethics and irreproachable integrity.
• Effective in leveraging human capital by motivating, mentoring and leading talented professionals.
• Directed cross-functional teams with leadership that spurs people to willingly give 110% effort and loyalty.
• Implemented vigorous program management for multiple projects driven by results:
• Gained 20% performance on project implementation time by clearing ambiguities in requirements.
• Acquired 18 visas on government project to fill in the resourcing gap because of skill shortage in the local market and address the headcount to gain 40% overall growth for the local practice.
• Brought effectiveness to the collaboration among consortium members to increase project productivity by 15%.
• Catalyst in influencing the revenue collections of over $500,000 of payments those were overdue.
• Provided advisory services in various industries to top management/departments for strategy formulation to help develop strategies and plans for driving the business towards its business goals.
• Successfully established 2 startup companies resulting in exceeding investor’s expectations by breaking even and 10 folds respectively within first 12 months.
• Generated a pipeline of more than SAR 400 million in net new opportunities in 18 months.
• Spearheaded all company-wide prospecting, marketing and closing endeavors.
• Saved 25% in supply costs by negotiating vendor contracts.
• Launched well-received program, based on the needs of the company, of professional development courses for all staff.
• Mentored and coached employees resulting in a 30% increase in productivity.
• Key influencer to initiate the ERP transformation and the formation of ERP committee.
• Established Strategic PMO processes to monitor all projects.
• Minimized the operational review meetings timeframe by 30%.
• Improved projects information delivery by 50%.

SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS:

Strategic Planning

Business development

Self-motivated

Project management

Diverse Market/Industry Knowledge

Leadership/communication skills

Market research and analysis

Business operations organization

Strong proposal writer

Multi-million dollar P&L Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Principal Consultant/Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and managing multiple projects in diversified industries.
• Providing strategy to management for growth based on the market analysis.
• Assembled project teams from across LOB and functional teams from a wide geographical spread.
• Assisting the management in establishing the consulting practice in Saudi Arabia.
• Fostering Client executive relationships by gaining trust being a reliable advisor.
• Supporting the projects’ teams through leadership and coaching in all project phases.
• Managing relationships with customers at c-level, PMO, project manager, user community…etc.
• Utilizing analytical skills in solving problems.
• Managing internal and external dispute resolutions.
• Managing customer expectations by aligning business requirements with realistic achievable goals.
• Forming efficient diversified teams/consortiums based on project requirements and utilizing internal collaboration tools for efficiency.
• Driving/Participating in pre-sales and repeat-business activities.
• Consulting practice covers all Oracle products.
• Attended Personal Leadership & Influencing and TOGAF 9.1 courses.

Confidential

Management & IT Consulting

Responsibilities:

• Established a startup company with AlMozoon Group (Oracle Partner) specializing in Oracle products for over 2 years.
• Developed the overall company strategy.
• Advised investors for 5 year roadmap to build and sustain a successful business, by building stellar teams, acquisitions and mergers.
• Managed the day to day company operations as Assistant Managing Director/COO role.
• Plan, organize, lead and monitor the activities of the team.
• Managing vendors and partners.
• Catalyst in acquiring business for the company by conducting initiatives that generate appreciation.
• Program leader responsible for strategic roadmaps and program delivery.
• Providing Confidential in response to major RFPs such as MOI ERP Roll Out, PNU UIS and HIS projects offering Oracle products (ERP, CRM, ECM)…etc covering over USD 300 million in value.
• Driving/Participating in pre-sales and repeat-business activities.
• Providing management consulting in the areas of strategic planning and information technology; business plan & overall strategy development.
• Advisory role to organizations in change management, developing IT policies and project management guidelines/procedures.
• Generating leads for business JVs in the areas of automation, smart card and information security.
• Managed the PNU HIS project consortium.
• Managed the process automation project from for Confidential Network division spanning over all business units (home, enterprise, wholesale, Mobile).
• Successfully conducted PMO workshops for a major healthcare provider.
• Devised and implemented RFP response templates for managing bids for large scale projects.
• Formed business agreements (NDA, Teaming, sub-contractor…etc) with partners.
• Evaluated and established partnerships with potential partners/sub-contractors/vendors that best suited the project accomplishments.

Confidential

Executive Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the Chairman of the Board.
• Responsible for developing the corporate strategy and planning.
• Identification of key acquisition and merger opportunities for growth and sustainability.
• Identify key issues with regards to setting growth targets and plans for the company as a group and across the business units in a systematic and effective manner.
• Institutionalize business planning and performance management as to promote growth and superior performance at business units’ level and at consolidated level.
• Lead the yearly strategic planning cycle for the company.
• Developed a committee with members across the group for the performance management via institutionalizing the balanced score card methodology.
• Coached business units/departments to develop their business plans according to set guidelines with defined strategic objectives and goals.
• Supervise the preparation and implementation of regular planning and operational review meetings.
• Consolidated all business plans once they are approved by board of directors.
• Monitor the implementation of the action plans that are the result of the strategic objectives and goals.
• Build the capacities of the planning team via training, deploying best practices and knowledge sharing (internal and external).
• Maintain a well-defined flow of information from all business units/departments to ensure proper input for the planning process and monitoring thereafter—MIS.
• Supervise the monitoring of new and expansion projects for the group to provide regular feedback to management as part of MIS-DSS.
• Developed RFI for Business Intelligence solution to enhance MIS reporting, performance monitoring and decision making.
• Key influencer to initiate the ERP transformation and the formation of ERP committee.
• Established Strategic PMO processes to monitor all projects (exceed SR 600 million).
• Devised project dashboard reporting for all new and expansion projects to provide better monitoring and control.
• Minimized the operational review meetings timeframe by 30%.
• Improved projects information delivery by 50%.

Confidential

Director Corporate Strategy/BI Business Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reporting directly to the CEO.
• Responsible for developing the corporate strategy and planning.
• Driving/Participating in pre-sales activities.
• Program Director for full lifecycle ISO/IEC 17799 & 27001 implementations for clients.
• Provided Confidential to the Internal Audit Dept. of Mobily (Ettihad Etisalat) in IT (based on COBIT), Operations and Finance.
• Program Director for implementation of a large scale (multi-million in value) IT transformation project (Qatar). Involved in all stages; from requirements gathering, RFP development, vendor evaluation & selection, implementation and support. Delivered on-time and on-budget with cost savings passed on to the client.
• Participated in the HCM software (People Arabia) improvements.
• Market research of solutions available for smart card, biometric and authentication solutions.
• R & D and provisioning of various solutions related to the company’s core business (IT & Management Consulting).

Confidential

Professional Services Executive

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the Information Security Manager.
• Participated in responding to RFP, negotiations, contract preparation and execution.
• Managed the ID card GCC integration project.
• Being part of the customer account team, to take business opportunities all the way from opportunity to sales to successful implementation.
• Market research of solutions available for smart card, biometric and authentication solutions.
• R & D of various solutions related to the company’s core business (information security).
• Managed successfully SANS Security Essentials Boot camp Style SEC401 course.
• Develop new opportunities/partnerships in association with MOI for the smart card with companies such as Identix, Entrust, NEC…etc.

Confidential

IT Project Consultant/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided Confidential in full software development life cycle, IT project management, project governance and system integration management.
• Assisting executive management in achieving their business goals.
• R & D and implementation of biometric solutions.
• Driving/Participating in pre-sales activities.
• Participated in preparing RFP and negotiating contracts for client.
• Provided support to the client on technical issues.

Confidential

IT Project Manager/Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide Confidential in full software development life cycle, IT project management, and system integration.
• Managed large scale (SR 45m) project for the implementation of highly secured smart card National ID card (software and hardware).
• Delivered the project before time and within budget.
• Successful in motivating team and client to finish the project before time.
• R & D of biometric and laser card solutions.
• Client Management: Liaison between company and client resulting in repeat-business opportunities.

Confidential

Project Manager / IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide Confidential in full software development life cycle management, IT project management, and system integration.
• Driving/Participating in pre-sales activities in biometric solutions.
• Provide the sales and marketing departments with technical support.
• E-commerce project:
• Managing the IT department.
• Responsible for the full software development life cycle of e-business solution.

Confidential

Lead Business/Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the IT Director.
• Responsible for technical project management and technical assurance.
• Conducted analysis and designed the processes for the transformation of legacy system to web-centric e-business solution.