Middle East Broadcasting Center

ERP Head

KPMG

Senior Manager

Engineers Office of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashed

Head of ERP Department

ERP Project Manager

Family Dollar Stores Inc

ERP Solutions Project Manager

Albertsons

Sr. Oracle ERP Consultant

Dubai Municipality

Sr. ERP Consultant

Abbott

IT Consultant

A seasoned ERP professional with an uncanny ability for disruptive innovation by uncovering next-generation technology, unlocking growth, and unleashing the power of RPA and AI. Proven track record of leading digital transformations, overhauling ERP systems, and managing globally distributed teams. Expertise in ERP, process re-engineering, EPM, digital transformation, RPA, and AI.

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞:
•	ERP Head, Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC Group)
•	ERP Head at EO
•	Digital Transformation/ERP Sr. Manager, KPMG
•	Digital Transformation/ERP Manager, CGI
•	ERP and Technology Consultant, Abbott/Albertsons/Family Dollar

𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:
•	Successfully overhauled the ERP, business applications strategy, and digital architecture at MBC Group, transforming the organization into a global media technology solutions company.
•	Migrated 38 legal entities to a new ERP system across different countries in 2 years.
•	Integrated more than 25 enterprise applications.
•	Moved all enterprise applications infrastructure to the cloud.
•	Saved nearly $20M in cost and delivered efficiency without any compromise on the project timeline or scope.
•	Led globally distributed teams and a multi-cultural workforce over the years to deliver high-availability software solutions for a global customer base.
•	Built and sustained high-performance teams with a special emphasis on excellence, process 
compliance, continuous improvement, innovation, and value creation.

𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐞:
•	ERP Implementation
•	EPM Implementation
•	Cloud Infrastructure Implementation
•	Digital Transformation
• Business Intelligence
•	Process Re-engineering
•	RPA Implementation
•	AI Enablement on top of ERP
•	Team Leadership
•	Change Management
•	Innovation
•	Value Creation

𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩:
•	Speaker at industry conferences
•	Writer on LinkedIn
•	Serves on customer advisory boards and vendor executive councils

Always open to new learning and collaboration. I welcome hearing best practices from other leading digital leaders and ideas from anyone with one (ask me about joining a hackathon).

Aissam Drai

MGS Technology Pvt Ltd.

Senior Project Manager

Amiri Flight

Managing the system administration, enhancement and support related tasks of Oracle E-Business Suite(General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Cash Management, Core HR, Payroll, Self Service HR, Inventory and Purchasing modules). Coordinating with Oracle Support and offshore DBA to resolve product related bugs, apply security and rollup patches as and when released by Oracle.
Managing the system administration and support of the aircraft MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul) application (Trax 15). Coordinating with Trax Support to resolve various web-logs raised. Currently managing the upgrade from Trax 15 to eMRO.
System administration and support of the airline operations management system (ARMS - Airline Resource Management System). Coordinating with the vendor to resolve issues reported and track various change-requests to closure.
System administration and support of the flight-tracking application (AIRCOM) and the secure messaging system (SITATEX) implemented by SITA. Managed the phase-out of the flight-planning software from SITA to NavBlue Flight Planning.
Managed the phase-out of the EFB (Electronic Flight Bag) application from SITA Aviobook to Aviator, including the integration between NavBlue Flight Planning and Aviator via SFTP.
Implemented the seamless integration between most of the above mentioned applications.
I handle vendor management of the above mentioned applications, ensuring adherance to the contract scope, cost, support SLA's (Service Level Agreements) and facilitate in timely contract renewals.

Lead Application Engineer

Mannai Corporation

Managed various enhancement and support related projects around Financials, Supply Chain, Human Resources & Payroll modules since March 2009, for Amiri Flight.
Managed the Oracle ERP R12 Upgrade Project from December 2011 to April 2012, for Amiri Flight.
Managed the implementation project of Oracle ERP 11i HRMS and Payroll modules from October 2010 to April 2011, for Amiri Flight.
Worked as Project Manager for Oracle ERP 11i Financials implementation from June 2010 to February 2011, for Transfield Mannai.
Worked as Supply Chain Consultant for Oracle ERP 11i implementation for Tadmur, from December 2009 to February 2009. Handled the Inventory implementation for two of the divisions within Tadmur.
Actively involved in various Oracle ERP related sales presentations, proposals and pre-sales related activities.
Helped integrating Oracle Unified Methodology within the Oracle E-BIZ implementation projects.
Received ‘Award for Creative Excellence’ for the year 2010 and ‘Best Team Player’ award for the year 2009.
Completed Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Supply Chain Certified Implementation Specialist: Oracle Inventory exam.

Senior Oracle ERP Consultant

Oracle

Provide Code, Data, Performance and Functional setup fixes in core Inventory and Receiving modules, to ERP customers from release 11.5.9, for issues which were found to be genuine by support team handling the service requests. Handled scenarios where customers were facing total loss of service.
Played an active role in the coding phase of ‘Landed Cost Management Receiving Integrations’ project from the Receiving team, which was demonstrated at Oracle Open World and scheduled as a R12.1.1 release.
Played an active role in the technical design and coding phase of the ‘On-hand Material Status’ project released as a R12.1 enhancement.
Mentoring new joiners with internal techno-functional trainings in Inventory and Receiving module.

Applications Engineer

Infosys

Involved in data validation and system testing.
Instrumental in automating more than 50% of the functional areas using Winrunner as part of data validation.
Defect analysis/maintenance and status reporting.
Played the role of a DP and Module Lead, for the duration of the project.

Test Engineer

As a Lead Application Engineer at Qatar Amiri Flight, I manage the system administration, enhancement, and support of critical applications the VIP airline of the royal family and government officials. I have 18 years of IT experience, including 8 years in airline IT operations and 10 years in Oracle E-Business Suite consulting.

My core competencies include Oracle E-Business Suite, Trax, ARMS, SITA AIRCOM, SITATEX, NavBlue Flight Planning, and Aviator Electronic Flight Folder. I am proficient in SQL, PL/SQL, Java, Forms, Reports, and Oracle Applications Framework. I also handle vendor management, contract negotiations, support SLAs, and project management. My mission is to ensure the smooth and secure functioning of the applications that support the operations and services of Qatar Amiri Flight.

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