Please turn on your javascript Shehab Bin Yahya-Wife Is Saudi - IT Manager | IT Applications & BI Manager - Ewaan Global Residential Company - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Summary

- A result driven professional with over 17 years of experience in IT Project Management, Application Management, Oracle ERP, and implementing ERP solutions for various industries in challenging and competitive environments
- Demonstrated capability in translating business processes and end-user requirements into functional system requirements that improves productivity and reduces operating costs
- Spearheading programs to implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), bridging business goals and technology to provide productive solutions to small and midsize organizations
- Adept in all phases of the full Oracle ERP project lifecycle and proven record of experience in project delivery of large enterprise applications in Oracle and Business Stakeholder management
- Deft in formulating robust integrated strategies, process operations management, developing business continuity plans, procedures, application development (AD), SLAs and service standards for driving business service excellence
- Acknowledged for being resourceful, adaptable, and self-directed with the ability to meet even the most challenging goals due to outstanding troubleshooting, analytical, and problem solving skills
- Adaptable to new situations/ environments/ people very quickly possesses proven proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly with excellent decision making, communicating and mentoring skills
- Implemented end-to-end multiple ERP and BI system in the capacity of Project Manager and Solution Architect
- Managed infrastructure projects for Data Center movement, and office 365 cloud migration with Oracle Applications Workflow integration
- Successfully negotiated large projects with exceptional business case presentations, convincing top management about business benefits and ROI

Experience

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IT Manager | IT Applications & BI Manager
Ewaan Global Residential Company
Mar 2003 - Present | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

(*)Key Deliverables:
- Successfully delivering key projects within budgets, with high accuracy, on time & high customer satisfaction and providing technical, application and operational leadership for various projects
- Developing the strategy for IT (short and long-term) aligned with the vision of the company with the accountability of IT KPI’s
- Defining and developing the yearly IT CAPEX, OPEX and Program Improvement budget
- Meticulously Implementing, Managing and Supporting all Organization’s Enterprise Applications for both technical and functional areas including Oracle EBS (HRMS, Payroll, and Financials), Oracle Property Manager, Primavera P6 and Primavera Contract Management
- Successfully Implementing and Managing Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) with GIS Map Integration (Manage and maintain Oracle BI repository, Build Dashboards, Creating and Running Analysis , and GIS Integration
- Well versed with Business processes involved for Supply Chain Management like (Procure to Pay, Order to Cash Cycle, Purchasing, Sourcing and Shipping)
- Possess in depth knowledge in Business processes of the Warehouse Management System (WMS) like (Receiving, Put Away, Storage, Picking, Packing, Shipping, LPNs Management and Task Management)
- Good experience in Oracle Purchasing implementation and supporting users for various Procurement and Inventory tasks like (Defining and Creating Items, Managing Suppliers, Processing Purchase Order Requisitions, Processing Purchase Orders)
- Managing Purchasing Approval Hierarchy with limits as budget and troubleshooting stuck PR and PO
- Expert in Designing, Planning and Implementing Oracle Property Manager (Property Definition, Customer Data Management, Lease Management and Administration, Space Management, Prospects and Tenants Management)
- Facilitate Property Sales (Price List, Payment Schedule, and Control Release/Un-Release of Property for Sale)
- Following daily Application transactions with the users and analyzing all invalid transactions
- Conducting meetings and workshops to capture user's requirements
- Gathering Business requirements, providing recommendations for user challenges, and ensuring the utilization of standard Oracle Application Implementation Method for business flow (ABF) for all projects documentation like (MD050), (BR.030), (BP080), (MD070), (BR.100)
- Analyzing the system and process improvements, allowing users to perform more transactions, in less time with better quality
- Leading the development team, handling new requirements and acting as the face of the business, resolving issues which arise, and motivating the team to achieve high standards and KPI targets
- Responsible for ensuring successful delivery of multiple ERP projects, building business models, strategy, and comparisons on various metrics for converting customer business requirements into functional and system requirements
- Designing and performing data conversion with an effective testing strategy
- Responsible for various Technical Administration roles (Oracle DBA/Apps DBA, Oracle DB Gateways, Attendance System Admin, Symantec NetBackup Admin, SAN Storage and Linux System Admin)
- Facilitated server builds and network configurations, including migration to a virtual environment
- Led infrastructure and helpdesk team to ensure smooth run of business operations and resolution of incidents
- Designed intranet for employees to share and search for information housed in the database, library or archives
- Established asset management practices to track technological assets from purchase to disposal and improved resource optimization
- Developed and implemented network security policies
- Maintain and support of current and new data center infrastructure
- Identifying needs for project staff and consultants, coordinating the partners and working groups engaged in project work and providing effective assistance PM’s in detailed project planning and control
- Instrumental in creating change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change
- Identifying potential people-side risks and anticipating points of resistance and developing specific plans to mitigate or address concerns; facilitating guidance and coaching to business unit management to facilitate successful transformation

(*)Key Achievements:
- Implemented Oracle BI with GIS functionality for Project Progress reporting, with savings of 72000$ on annual basis
- Implemented and supported Oracle EBS Modules, including Oracle HRMS and Payroll, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Project Costing and Oracle Financials
- Efficaciously implemented and supported Oracle Property Manager
- Adroitly managed an in-house rollout of new legal entities providing savings of 30,000$ for each rollout
- Migrated Data Center to new office on time and in budget.
- Implemented and supported both Oracle Primavera Project Management P6 and Primavera Contract Management
- Drove installation and implementation of new Biometric Attendance System across KSA with enhanced functionality of attendance info availability to all employees in Oracle HR Self Service
- Led the internal team to do several ERP enhancements in-house on continuous basis providing savings of 20,000$ annually on recurring basis
- Upgraded Oracle EBS (both Apps & DB nodes) to latest release

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Technical Support Supervisor | Senior Systems Administrator
Baud Telecom Company (BTC Networks)
Apr 2000 - Feb 2009 | Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

(*)Key Deliverables:
- The Prime focal point in coordinating, supporting, reviewing and follow up of all IT operations activities (for all branches) including (Systems Administration, Network Administration, Security Administration, and Help Desk activities)
- Successfully managed activities pertaining to Applications & Database Administration.
- Efficiently managed Oracle Applications and provided user support to ensure smooth run of business operations
- Drove significant control over all the infrastructure systems and services and ensured their safety and security with the accountability of controlling, reviewing and updating the policy of the computing facilities usage by the users
- Creating the roadmap for reporting including the infrastructure requirements & aligning it to overall strategy, overseeing Service line activities (issues, risks, availability, capacity, and reporting, resourcing, financials)
- Developed the IT CAPEX and OPEX
- Build, Maintain and support the Data Center
- Facilitated recommendations and solutions for improving Business Applications, operations process, security and services
- Managed and provided implementation and support on Oracle HRMS, Oracle Purchasing, Oracle Inventory and Oracle Financial
- Worked as an Oracle Applications Administration (Apps DBA) and Sun Solaris System Administrator, provided support in Network Administration (Routers, Switches and Firewalls) as well as in maintaining Technical Documentation

Education

University of Leicester
Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate in Management‎
Management
Completed
2017
Yarmouk University
Bachelor, Bachelors, , Computer Engineering‎
Computer
Percentage 75%
1999

Languages

Expert Arabic
Expert English

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