Abdullah Karabilo

Director of Strategy and Digital Transformation @ Arabian Shield Cooperative Insurance Company

About

Experienced IT Leader with top-notch implementation and project management abilities. Highly organized, methodical and skilled at overseeing daily milestones across high-performance teams. My objective is to ensure that business networks, systems, and processes are running smoothly and effectively so as to enable the fulfillment of the company's target goals. I aim to do this by applying my IT expertise and management skills in the planning, supervising, production, testing, and deployment of products and services ensuring that all meet high quality standards and order specifications. Having been a head of Integration Department for 4 years and then Head of Business Development department in the past year, I have shown efficiency and competence for the duties and responsibilities assigned to my department. Given the chance, I am willing to impart my expertise for the success of the company.

Country

Saudi Arabia

City

Riyadh

Industry

Insurance

Skill

Auto Insurance, UML, Systems Analysis, Microsoft SQL Server, Software Project Management, Business Analysis, Team Leadership, .NET, Web Development, Software Engineering, Requirements Analysis, PMP, Web Applications, Software Development, Google Apps, Project Management, Business Intelligence, SharePoint, Databases, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Experience

Director of Strategy and Digital Transformation

Arabian Shield Cooperative Insurance Company

2023-12 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Chief Business Development Officer

Rasan

2021-7 - 2023-11 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Senior Integration Director

Rasan

2018-1 - 2021-6 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Senior Technical Project Manager

Rasan

2016-12 - 2018-1 · 1 yr 2 mos

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

IT Operations Manager

Clear Vision SA

2012-8 - 2016-11 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

- Direct daily operations of department, analyzing workflow, establishing priorities, developing standards and setting deadlines. - Provide deployment planning and implementation as well as technical consulting for Google Apps for Work, Google Apps for Education and Office 365 projects. - Supervising the outsourced/sub-contracted projects. - Consult with users, management, vendors, and technicians to assess computing needs and system requirements. - Review and approve all systems charts and programs prior to their implementation. - Recruit, hire, train and supervise staff, and participate in staffing decisions. - Identify and qualify new business opportunities. - Contribute in the process of opening new business channels, and partnerships inside and outside the country. - Prepare sales quotations and formal proposals. Prepare supply contracts and responses to tenders. - Develop and articulate a compelling value proposition to clients.

Project Manager | System Analyst

Clear Vision SA

2009-6 - 2012-8 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

- Managing the open projects (Google Enterprise Solutions, Web portals, Mobile/SMS Applications, Custom Solutions, and Workflow Solutions). - Evaluate client needs and assist in drafting proposals for new business / projects. - Provide discipline, technical expertise and recommendations in assessing and implementing new software projects. - Provide routine reports to clients and management on status of project tasks and associated deliverables. - Gather and document client requirements to establish project scope and approach. - Create system design and functional specifications for all new application projects. - Configure and deploy Google Apps for Business for enterprise customers. - Migrate users, groups and data from legacy systems to Google Apps for Business. - Provide end-user training and/or support as required per project scope. - Maintain, analyse, and troubleshoot performance of deployed solutions. - Write technical procedures and documentation for deployed solutions including end-user guides and process manuals. - Assist client technical resources with application configuration and management.

System Analyst | Senior Developer

Al-Mohtaseb

2007-9 - 2009-5 · 1 yr 9 mos

Syria, Aleppo

- Define and structure system requirements and components. - Managing systems life cycle including requirement gathering, prototyping, development, testing, deployment, patching. - Implementing best practices in software development including Version Control, Packaging, Release Control, Issue Tracking, Automation of Build and Testing Procedures. - Searching issues, solving problems, finding tools to facilitate the coding process. - Developing software in a variety of languages & environments such as Delphi, PHP, HTML & JavaScript.. - MySql, SQL Server Database administration

IT Engineer

Directorate of Economic & Trade

2006-5 - 2009-4 · 3 yrs

Syria, Aleppo

- Help to meet the directorate needs for computer hardware, software and networking tools. - Work to develop, test, install, configure and troubleshoot computer hardware and software. - Work to create proper documentation, diagrams and other detailed instructions to help other employees make the best use of new technologies.

Software Developer

ArabEra

2005-8 - 2007-8 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Syria, Aleppo

- Responsible for the development & design of client Websites & Apps right from conceptualization stage to its implementation as per client’s requirement - Perform the validation and testing of the finished Websites & Apps. - Developing Time & Attendance Software integrated with Footprint Device. - Technologies used: Delphi, PHP, MySQL, SQL Database, HTML & JavaScript.