As a Retail and Manufacturing Group CIO, my tasks and responsibilities include but not limited to:Developing and implementing technology strategies to support the business goals of the retail and manufacturing group.Leading the development and implementation of new technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, and customer experience.Managing the IT budget for the retail and manufacturing group, ensuring that resources are allocated effectively.Building and leading a high-performing technology team to support the needs of the retail and manufacturing group.Ensuring that all technology solutions comply with legal and ethical standards.Establishing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including business leaders, vendors, and customers.Managing the IT infrastructure for the retail and manufacturing group, ensuring that it is secure, reliable, and scalable.Collaborating with other departments or teams within the organization to support business initiativesStaying up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in the retail and manufacturing industryContinuously monitoring and evaluating the success of technology initiatives, making adjustments as necessary.Overall, as a Retail and Manufacturing Group CIO, my primary goal is to drive innovation and efficiency through technology solutions that support the business goals of the retail and manufacturing group. I am responsible for managing budgets, building high-performing teams, and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization to ensure that technology solutions are aligned with business needs.

As a General Manager focused on business expansion, my tasks and responsibilities included:Developing and implementing strategies to expand the business into new markets or regions.Conducting market research to identify new opportunities and trends.Creating and managing budgets for expansion initiatives.Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, including customers, suppliers, and partners.Hiring and managing staff to support expansion efforts.Ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards in all expansion activities.Analyzing financial data and making strategic decisions based on that data.Representing the organization to the public and building its reputation as a leader in the industry.Collaborating with other departments or teams within the organization to support expansion effortsContinuously monitoring and evaluating the success of expansion initiatives, making adjustments as necessary.Overall, as a General Manager focused on business expansion, My primary goal was to drive growth and increase revenue for the organization through strategic planning, resource management, and effective leadership

Have any issue with your Dynamics ERP... Need a professional website ... looking for a mobile application ... you approched the right companyMicrosoft Dynamics GP, AX, CRMWeb Development & Design (HTML5, Dot Net, CSS3, SQL Server, ASPX)Mobile Development (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows and J2ME)Microsoft Sharepoint, LINQ, DNS, ADCurrent Duties:1. to lead the development of the Company’s strategy;2. to lead and oversee the implementation of the Company’s long and short term plans in accordance with its strategy; 3. to ensure the Company is appropriately organized and staffed and to have the authority to hire and terminate staff as necessary to enable it to achieve the approved strategy;4. to ensure that expenditures of the Company are within the authorized annual budget of the company;5. to assess the principal risks of the Company and to ensure that these risks are being monitored and managed;6. to ensure effective internal controls and management information systems are in place;7. to ensure that the Company has appropriate systems to enable it to conduct its activities both lawfully and ethically;8. to ensure that the Company maintains high standards of corporate citizenship and social responsibility wherever it does business;9. to act as a liaison between management and the Board;10. to communicate effectively with shareholders, employees, Government authorities, other stakeholders and the public;

Throughout my vast experience in almost all areas of IT, consultancy and Business Management & development I was able to handle the IT and business automation for AlYaqout Group and it's subsidiaries with diverse types of business; retail, General trading, manufacturing, FMCG, hospitality, IT Services, contracting, distribution.I was able to build up a small but experienced IT team, trained them and guided them through moving the group's companies from a non technology driven company to highly state of art automated companies with full fledge IT infrastructure serving more than 4 distributed branches, 30+ stores & point of sales.Managed to make business added value partnerships with the top software and hardware vendors accomplishing by this cutting cost, increasing the ROI and generating leads and income.By the help of the supporting and broad visions of the owners and the executive management and the hardworking loyal IT team I had we managed to implement a full fledged ERP system (dynamics AX) for 6 subsidiaries in just a few months while it takes 1 year for implementing 1 company but we were up to the challenge to support the group expansion plan and be a part of the group success story.

Responsible for the following:• Evaluating the proposed MIS system for the college which includes: ERP, SIS, MIS and planning for the integrating it with the college’s website and share point portal.• Supervise and audit the MIS Project’s ERP implementation and the data migration process; plus training users and administrating the ERP system (GP 2013).• Define and put in place the universities COA structure, cost centers, Account types, departments and campus budgeting.• Define the financial processes and formulas for sales discounts, refund, students drop and withdrawals to be used in the ERP and SIS systems.• Create executive management, CFO, senior management and Board of members related financial, income, expenses, expenditure, capital and loss reports and dashboards. • Define the procurement cycle, budgeting business approval process and ERP processes and procedures.• Developed College internal web portals and custom web application.• Systems Integration and customization.• Lead the Business Systems development department.• Create System Architecture designs and Analysis.

Supervising the Software Development section & responsible for the following: Managing and developing the Official website of the college. Managing the webserver and create an on-premises hosting. Developing a dynamic CMS for the website using c#.net 2010 Planning, designing and implementing the college intranet using share point 2007/ share point 2010 server. Develop customized portals for the share point intranet. Managing, deploying and administrating the SQL server 2008 R2 DB cluster as acentralized DB for the college’s systems. Developing and designing an I-Phone advertising application for the college anddeploying a web services server for it. Deploying and maintaining Moodle E-learning and exam system. Developing and deploying a web forum system to be used by instructors andstudents. Evaluating the proposed MIS system for the college which includes: ERP, SIS,MIS and planning for the integrating it with the college’s website and share pointportal. Supervise and audit the MIS Project’s ERP implementation and the datamigration process; plus training users and administrating the ERP system (GP10.0). Implement a Single Sign On authentication engine for All web systems throwActive Directory and SSL.

Managing and structuring a business systems and applications department.Enrolling a Partner Ship with Microsoft Corporation for providing: Microsoft License Microsoft Dynamics Great plans (Installations, Configurations & Consultations). Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Installations, Configurations & Consultations). Microsoft Dynamics Share point server (Installations, Configurations &Consultations). Microsoft Systems Consultations.Starting a Business Software Systems Business Line and Out Sourcing Projects.Starting a web solution & design’s development business line.System’s Consultations & Tendering.Business Development and Partner ships Engagements.Opening new markets in the region.Budgeting and yearly Business Plan preparing.

Application Development Team Leader and Microsoft System Engineer:1- Microsoft Dynamics GP Server full Implementation and administration.2- Support and supervise the application development team technically.3- Responsible for Microsoft products licensing and planning.4- Developing Applications.5- Digital Signage and IPTV systems Consultations and Developing.6- Security systems, RFID and Building Automation Systems Implementations andIntegrations with LOB systems.7- Preparing BOM sheets for network department projects.8- Preparing Tenders Proposals.9- Preparing Request For Proposals for Customers Systems.10- Project Management, Time and resource planning.11- Projects Network Designing.12- Share Point Server 2007 installations, configuration, Administration.13- Share Point Server Web Parts Programming.14- CRM 4.0 server and client installation + Basic configuration in Active Directory.15- E-Courier System Administration, analysis, installations, trouble shooting andEmployees training.16- Data Base Servers Administration and installations.17- Microsoft Golden Partner Ship Manager.