Yehia Taqsira

⚡ 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝗨𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗧𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪 ⚡ Can CIO Support CEO in achieving his strategic business objectives? If yes, in which domain? and how? Company Industry: Manufacturing, Rent a Car, Project & Maintenance, Security Guards, Real Estate. Job Role: C- Level 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦 𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦: ★Higher revenue growth than competitors, increased market share, and increased profits. ★Use of technology to bring value to the end-customers. ★Fabricating pathway to improvement; businesses can increase their Agility to make efficient speed-to-market, and adopt Continuous Improvement (CI) strategies. ★Empowers decision-making by deepening data analysis (Big Data). ★Empowering team members to work more efficiently by integrating data throughout the organization. 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗗𝗢: ★Develops and drives initiatives that help a company grow. ★Develops Digital Transformation Strategy and its roadmaps by collaborating with the board members and executives. ★Scaling innovation through digital transformation. ★Implementing innovative business solutions and address market shifts to optimize competitive position. ★Managing organizational risks through executing the Governance, Risk, and Compliance model (GRC). ★Leading the organization’s change management processes to ensure that all departments are aligned with the company’s vision and goals. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜 𝗗𝗢 𝗜𝗧: ★Collaborating with leadership, special committees, and consultants to execute strategies. ★Communicating strategy effectively throughout the company. ★Ensuring suitable metrics are in place to measure performance and progress. ★Creating a culture of innovation by encouraging all employees to share new ideas and insights on how to improve processes or procedures. ★Leading new technologies that can improve efficiency in business operations. ★Integrating different systems (Isolated lands) into a consolidated workflow.

Company Industry: Manufacturing, Logistics, and Trading Job Role: Senior Management Key Responsibilities: • Producing strategic plans for the business’ future growth to achieve business goals and objectives in close coordination with other C-level executives. • Leading the design and implementation of transformational strategies, execution roadmaps, governance structures, policies, processes, procedures and controls 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 and management of portfolio, program and project governance frameworks and developing appropriate reporting tools for delivering value. • Providing subject matter expertise and leading edge-thinking on trends, methodologies, tools and 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, development. • Directed the development and implementation of best practices and standards in process, design, architecture and operations of all aspects of service-oriented information technology delivery. • Effective scope change management coupled with appropriate planning measures that would meet stakeholder’s requirements, budget and timelines. • Interacting at all levels of the organization to ensure project success as well as ensuring stakeholders’ needs are met.

Company Industry: Manufacturing Job Role: Management Key Responsibilities: • Serving the Dynamics AX Implementation services, that empowers people to work effectively, manage change, and compete globally. • Gathering functional and business requirements, developing an overall project plan, defining project scope, goals and deliverables in liaison with team members and stakeholders on an on-going basis. • Ensuring optimal usage of all resources as per schedule and within budgeted overheads. Enforcing budgetary guidelines and efficiently organizing project utilities in order to meet agreed on project delivery deadlines. • Collecting metrics data (such as baseline, actual values for costs, schedule, work in progress, and work completed, project risks & deviation and the cash flow) and reporting on project progress and other projects specific information. • Managing ERP implementation project expectations, resolving project dependencies, critical path and resolve issues and risks, as well as tracking project milestones and deliverables. • Keeping IT strategy aligned with the changing business needs, monitoring performance full ERP solutions using Microsoft Axapta as well as prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the deployment of requisite technologies in alignment with business requirements. • Applying technical expertise and utilizing Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step Methodology by generating Functional requirements document (FRD), Enterprise design document (EDD) and GAP analysis document. • Developing, implementing and maintaining policies and standards to improve continuously organizational IT efficiency, conducting a gap analysis and enabling the management to use advanced planning and business intelligence features. • Supporting core business applications and processes, reviewing/ analyzing the effectiveness of existing systems and developing strategies for improving/ further leveraging these systems.

Company Industry: Information Technology Job Role: Technology/IT Key Responsibilities; • Elicited, analyzed, specified and validated the requirements gathering process for ERP applications using Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains for an ERP system design corresponding with the existing business setup of client’s organization. • Evaluated vendor offers for ERP system implementation in the organization as per the defined scope, business requirements, schedule, and budget to select appropriate vendors for smooth and timely implementation. • Supported core business applications and processes, reviewed/ analyzed the effectiveness of existing systems and developed strategies for improving/ further leveraging these systems. • Understood clients’ required solutions, and then managed the implementation of the ERP system through delivery, training, testing and go live. • Worked closely with development, operations, technical support and other IT areas throughout the implementation process for efficient Sales and Pre-Sales activities for different clients. • Measured staff performance through evaluation appraisals and analyzing learning gap of personnel in joint efforts with training professionals.

Company Industry: Information Technology Job Role: Technology/IT Key Responsibilities; • Conducted scoping exercises to analyse, specified customer requirements, defined and tested customization and build relations with new and existing clients, and cross-functional teams for distributed IT environment. • Supported business partners and conducted business activities, business area assessment, the user needs analysis and business systems design for major projects. • Engaged directly with clients, visited client sites and liaised with relevant departments to agree on implementation and project management costs and timescales for all Product and Solutions’ proposals. • Effected development, demonstration, and articulation of solutions based on the organization’s market leading ERP applications, working in tandem with a team of experienced software salespeople. • Ensured that ERP system performance, provided technical support, arranged meetings with project managers, application implementers and conducted performance review periodically to maintain a motivated team. • Managed technical and functional consultancy, tested product including, suspected defects and provided correction and subsequently tested any fixes. • Monitored procurement of modules right from selection to testing for the fulfilment of technical and functional systems. • Performed customized multimedia presentation for rectifying problems and represented company in international seminars.

Company Industry: Information Technology Job Role: Technology/IT Designation Chronology: • Jan 1997 - Dec 2000: System designer & Analyst & Team Leader • Jan 1994 - Dec 1996: Senior System Programmer Joined the organization as Senior System Programmer and crafted an upward growth curve to merit promotion to the position of System Designer & Analyst & Team Leader through exceptional performance. Key Responsibilities; • Envisaged strategic, operational plans and optimized planning variables to achieve business goals by fostering the development of cutting-edge IT initiatives. • Demonstrated sound knowledge of development and maintenance methods aimed at providing solutions for users, adding value and identifying opportunities for improvement for following applications: - Server Data Base Application (SQL Server/ Oracle/ Focus) - Object Oriented & Event Oriented Languages (MS Visual Basic, Delphi) • Enforced standard processes to ensure quality solutions are provided on time and within budget leading to overall customer satisfaction in line with organizational goals. • Led a team of software developers, analysts and quality assurance specialists, allocated work modules to various teams as per expertise in specific domains under purview and consistently following up on progress of modules, to ensure seamless integration upon completion and deliverability • Established systems continuity/disaster recovery management protocols, provided post-implementation application support, performance tuning, troubleshooting and process improvements. • Managed procedures used in the installation, modification maintenance and repair of IT hardware and related software. • Supported training of technical support staff and maintenance of training manuals and documentation according to existing standards.