Ali Mohammed, PMP

Experience

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  Newmont Corporation

  Aug 2006 - now

  Achievements Lead a diverse collocated and virtual project technology team, to deliver world-class IT / OT solutions for Newmont Goldcorp first underground mine in Africa, to achieve commercial production. Lead a diverse collocated and virtual project technology team, to deliver technology solutions required to for the scalable mill expansion project which increased the milling capacity of the ore processing plant functions.Worked with project teams during the planning stages to meet key deliverable project reporting timelines on scope, schedule, cost, proposed system alignment to organizations roadmaps and operations business readiness to support the new mine post projectCore Responsibilities Liaise with the operational business unit to understand the business process and develop recommendations and action plans. This includes data standards, process flows, application architecture road-maps, technical considerations, program recommendations, and costs associated with various options.Provide technical leadership of a regional team comprised of project teams and internal customers to define data requirements through the prioritization process, develop data architectures, and profile source system data in support of data standardization on a regional basis.Develop, implements, and monitors a standard approach for data error processing, audits, and controls and development of communication and resolution procedures.Lead reporting administration efforts for regional operations systems application reporting tools including the creation of database queries to provide users with ad hoc report needs and new report design specifications to the technical support team as needed relating to regional information.Escalate issues and manage the timely resolution of issues.. Show less • Liaise with IT business analysts to understand business process and develop recommendations and action plans. This includes data standards, process flows, applications architecture roadmaps, technical considerations, program recommendations and cost associated with various options.• Adhere to a standard approach for data error processing, audits and controls and developments of communication and resolution process.• Work closely with the global developed solutions team to ensure solutions addresses global requirements where possible.• Follow the development life-cycle and / or systems administration policies and procedures and provide adequate documentation of all technical development as required by the global team.• Work closely with the global enterprise data warehouse team to ensure global data reporting requirement solutions are provided through systems such as EDW service offerings.• Assist in designing and implementation of test plans for data on projects.• When required, oversee / direct consulting resources who provide development expertise in support of projects requirements related to information.• Escalate issues and manage the timely resolution of issues. Show less • Act as Project manager on projects in areas such as Security Systems, Health & Safety and Application Development.• Gather and document User requirements for application system development deployment.• Analyze and classify requirements. Control changes to the requirements baseline.• Analyze and determine problem/opportunity/solution resolution.• Perform Impact analysis on requested changes to User requirements.• Communicate with internal and external customers on the agreed solution.• Work with developers and/or Administrators throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle. This includes security layers and integration with other systems.• Manage intranet infrastructure (sharepoint)• Maintain SharePoint’s SQL server database integrity. • Promoting the use of SharePoint as a useful business tool.• Ensure compliance with policies, standards and controls to maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems.• Act as a Change Agent in business systems implementation. Show less • Act as Project manager on projects in areas such as LAN / WAN / Fiber, Security Systems and System Development.• Gather and document User requirements.• Analyze and classify requirements. Control changes to the requirements baseline.• Analyze and determine problem/opportunity/solution resolution.• Perform Impact analysis on requested changes to User requirements.• Communicate with internal and external customers on the agreed solution.• Work with developers and/or Administrators throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle. This includes security layers and integration with other systems.• Promoting the use of SharePoint as a useful business tool.• Ensure compliance with policies, standards and controls to maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems.• Act as a Change Agent in business systems implementation. Show less • Manage the intranet and schedule periodic maintenance plan.• Develop ASP.Net web parts to plug into SharePoint. • Manage SQL server backups.• Manage system state backups.• Managed to a successful completion the project on implementing SharePoint as an intranet in the organization.• Installed and configured Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007.• Installed and configured Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003.• Customized Microsoft SharePoint portal server to Newmont Standards.• Developed custom web parts to show production statistics.• Development of web solutions to the company.• Configured a weather station to plug into SharePoint. Show less

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