Candidate of the Week - Systems/Setup Manager - Kingdom of Bahrain

Summary:
Having over 10 years of experience in in-house develop ERP based system including Sales Distribution, Production, Finance and Human Resource.


Technical  Skills &  Abilities:

  • Database  System  Architecture

  • Relational  Databases

  • The  SQL language

  • Application Design

  • Database  Design

  • Data Protection

  • Databases: Oracle  7.x  8. X, Informix 5.0

  • Case Tools: Erwin

  • Development Tools: Oracle  Developer / 2000, SQL* Forms, SQL*Reports,  SQL* Menu, SQL*Plus, SQL*DBA,  PL / SQL Developer, Informix 4GL

  • Languages: C, PL / SQL, Informix 4GL

  • Operating  Systems:   UNIX (SCO ,IBM AIX), Sun-Solaris,  Win -NT, Windows

  • Packages: MS  Office  (MS  Word,  MS Excel , MS PowerPoint)


Professional  Experience:

Employer: Oriental Press Group, Bahrain
Have four production units, three in Bahrain (Manama, Hidd) and one in UAE (Jabel Ali Free Zone) and sales office in UK especially for Book Printing. Have strength of 500 plus employees with around 25 million dollar (US) turnover.

Period:  Spt 2003 - to date
My Role:  ERP Team Leader
Requirement Analysis, System Specification, System Development with 2 programmers, Testing, Implementation & Support

  • Member of BPR/ERP Steering Committee
  • Member of ERP Evaluation Committee
  • Member of Business Process Re-Engineering & Printing ERP (DiMS)
  • Member of Information Security Committee
  • Member of IT System DRP
  • System Administrator UNIX/Covalent/Informix System
  • Managing IT team of nine (9) members (Tow Programmers, Two Network Administrators, Four Operators)


Employer: MIST (former International   Systems  Technology) ,  A D  , UAE
Period: Feb 2003 - Aug'2003
My  Role:  Project  Manager : Managing the following projects

Employer: International   Systems  Technology, Abu -Dhabi , UAE
Client: Al - Meraikhi  Gen .Contracting Co , Abu - Dhabi , UAE
Project Title:  Financial  Application
Period:  Aug  2000 - Jan  2003

This Financial Application was made specifically for Al - Meraikhi Contracting business, through which they can manage their Project  Work  In Progress, Project  Accounts ,  Contract  Information, Fixed Asset, Inventory Management System and   Payroll (staff and labor on site). The key feature of this application is that , this can be implemented for  any Contracting  Business Company  based  in  UAE. Total application cost was around US$ 100,000.00

My  Role: Analyst  Programmer  and  Database  Administrator.
Working as a team leader , with two developers.Providing the best solution  against manual work regarding   general  ledger, payable receivable,payroll,inventory, and contract management systems.


Employer: International  Systems  Technology,  Abu - Dhabi,  UAE
Client: Department Of  Civil  Aviation,  Abu  - Dhabi ,  UAE
Project  Title:    Purachase  Management  System
Period: June  2000  -  Aug  2000

This module of purchase  can  manage all the purchasing made  for the department internally and for their warehouse items purchased from local or foreign markets.

My  Role: Worked  as an analyst programmer.
Study , design database and integrate it to  the inventory system developed by other team members.Developed all data entry forms, reports and implementation.


Employer:  KNK - Soft , Islamabad ,  Pakistan
Client:  Pakistan   Aeronautical  Complex  (Mirage  Rebuild  Factory)
Project  Title:   Y2K Upgrade   /  Automation of   Depot Automated  Inventory  Mangement System
Period:  Aug 1999 - March  2000

The  application was made against a Y2K problem.  Basic task is to redevelop  Inventory Managemant  System integratedwith  Shop floor  Management  System .

My Role: Designed database and developed the application with two programmers. Migrate  all the previous  system  (COBOL)  information to ORACLE ( 8.0.4 ) with the help of the  Oracle migration assistant.


Employer: Uni - Lever  Pakistan, Karachi,   Pakistan
Client: Lever  Brothers  Pakistan  Limited, Market Research Department
Project Title:  Consummer   Panel  System  and  Project  Studies for  Market  Research  Development
Period: Feb  1999  - July  1999

This system manages all the information about the selected consumers all over Pakistan. LBPL conduct tests regarding their products from which they check market values and brand share against their competitors.  Later on this becomes input for company warehouse system (KLIDO) & Demand Forecast System.

My  Role: Re-moeling, re-design and re- development of consumert panel systems which after collecting dat from all over Pakistan produces several types  of  statistical reports for analyzing the market of consumer goods. Product  user  ship , market, brand share for national ,urban,rural, and town or village level. Rreports for all above formats  with different level of detail e,g, company or competitors, local or  imported, brandedor unbranded , brands, sizes, packages, forms, variants, consumption`s , purchases , purpose of use and buying practices etc.  Database administrator ( MRD  Server ), managing database physical and logical object, space managment, privilege oe role definitions ,  database back-up ( OS level and logical ) and recovery, application and database tuning etc.


Employer: MARIT  Consultant,   Karachi,  Pakistan
Client: National  Development  Finance  Corporation  ( NDFC ) Pakistan
Project Title:  Loan  Disbursement &  Recovery  System
Period:  Mar 1997 - Jan 1999

This system was part of a banking system, through which  they can manage their loans disbursement and recovery.

My  Role: Developing data entry forms , reports, loan disbursement and balances. Foreign and local currency loans dibursement and black list companies information. Detail regarding information about  the parent or sister companies. Companies director`s  information.


Employer: Oracle   Education   Center  /  Sun  Educational  Center
Position: Instructor
Period:  Jan 1998 -  Jan 1999

Teaching  the  following  professional  courses:Oracle  Masters  Diploma , SQL*PLUS,SQL*Forms, SQL*Reports ,SQL*Menu ,Case Tools,  Erwin  and  GUI Tools,  Oracle  Developer / 2000 ( Forms, Reports  and  Graphics).


Employer: AT&T / NCR Education   Center
Position:  Instructor
Period:  Aug  1995  -  Aug  1996

Delivering the following diploma courses:Module  1: DOS,  EDP, and  BASIC , dBase III+ ,WordStar Rel.4, Module 2:COBOL , Lotus 123 , and Data  Structures , Module 3: C , UNIX , and FoxPro and Module 4: System analysis and  designing , LAN  and Novel NetWare.


Education:

  • Bachelor of Science , University of  Karachi ,  Pakistan

  • Oracle  Associate  Master  Diploma ,  Oracle  Education  Cente

  • Authorized  distributors  of  Oracle  Corporation ,  USA

  • Diploma in  Computer  Stidies ,  AT & T / NCR Education  Center, Karachi, Pakistan

 
email:  ilyas_a@hotmail.com