Afif Taha

Experience

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  Tihama Advertising Public Rel'n & marketing

  Mar 1987 - Mar 1999

  Info. Tech. Manager

  Accomplishments:• Planning and managing the implementation of three IT projects and software development for Tihama Press Media, Tihama Outdoors, and TV. Advertising and booking, International Advertising and Marketing, Exhibitions, Distribution and Bookstores …• Maintaining and supporting the following applications:1. Financial System: General Ledger, Budgetting, Fixed Assets, 2. Receivables, Payables, Cash Flow Management.3. Payroll & Personnel4. Inventory Management5. Distributed Warehousing and Sales Management:6. Customer’s Orders Processing & Billing7. Advertising Monitoring and Marketing research • Implementation of I.B.M Point-of-sales in 17 outlets for Tihama Bookstores.• Responsible for improvement of business processes, identifying the new requirements from time to time. ensuring optimum operational readiness,• Part-time assignment: Managing Tihama Training Center.. This center was one of the most active training institute specialized in Technical Training, Management Training and English Language training. Show less

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  Abbar & Zainy

  May 2005 - Aug 2008

  SAP Project Manager

  Role in ERP Decision• Identify business benefits and Key Performance Indicators and Cost Benefit Analysis for ERP implementation, Evaluation and Comparison of various ERP systems.Role in Implementation Partner / Vendor Decision• Created Request for Proposals (RFP) for Consulting Firms to bid for the project.• Participated in preparing the "Final Scope of Work" document, compiled the technical criteria for sizing of hardware, communication and networking infrastructure. • Managed the budgeting, scheduling, planning and tracking the terms and conditions.Role in the Project implementation• Worked on defining the goals and objectives of the SAP ERP project, analyzing what the project will accomplish and what resources are needed. • Worked on the setup and preparation of the AZCS project organization team, Steering Committee, Business Process Owners, Core Team members, super users .. etc• Participated in preparation of : project charter, project plans, project calendar, project schedule, resources calendar and project milestones. • Conducted the Eenterprise Architecture workshop to finalize the Organization structure to be adopted in SAP system.• Worked as team motivator, ensuring client satisfaction, realistic deliverables, sharing best practices on the functional areas of our business and SAP products.• Planning for migration of legacy system data to SAP. Coordinated the integration of non-SAP mobile processing system “Van Sales System” with mySAP.• Worked on the design of BI reporting requirements for the top managementexecutives.• Managed the deployment of SAP Netweaver BI 7.0 using BEx Query and BEx • Planned and facilitated the "Roll-outs" to seven other branches over a two week period. Show less

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  Emaar ME

  Aug 2007 - Aug 2010

  Sr. Planning & ERP Project Manager

  Accomplishments:• Drive the development and innovation / modernization of business strategy and the execution of day-to-day operation in an effective business performance.• Lay out strategic plans for Info. Systems, utilizing state-of-art technology • Conduct a thorough evaluation of the risks, security, backup and recovery procedures, maintaining a continuous service and the availability of in house technical support.• Manage the implementation of all Oracle EBS ERP projects, Modules : Finance, Projects Costing, Property Sale, CRM, Procurement & Tendering• Act as a leader for a team of Functional Consultants, Developers to ensure high-level of application stability and business owners satisfaction.• Coordinate with Business Partners for Implementing and ensuring a continuous and proper support for software solutions, upgrades & IT services• Review, Analyze and enhance business processes for proper alignment with the ERP systems.• Ensure proper maintenance of all systems architecture: Production Servers, Staging and Quality Servers, Oracle & SQL Databases , Mail & ISA Servers.Role in the Project implementation• Developing Project Charter, Project Plans, Project Resources, Project Calendar, Project Budgeting, Project Milestones & Delivarables• Scope of work definition, setup of Emaar ME project team, Business Process Owners, Core Team members, Change management leaders, • Made arrangements for induction and orientation of the consultants.• Managed the BP localization and development., Coordinating with Emaar Dubai IT team to utilize their developments and reporting system• Worked as team motivator, ensuring client satisfaction, realistic deliverables.• Managed the implementation of Oracle EBS 12. Modules: Oracle Financials (GL/AR/AP/CM/FA) , Oracle Projects, Sales , CRM, Procurement, and Tendering. Show less

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  Rafic Kreidie Engineers & Contractors

  Oct 2010 - Oct 2014

  Sr. Planning & Control Manager

  Key Responsibilities:• Managing, developing and executing all phases of the project control with a team of professionals and engineers of planners, QS and document controllers who are qualified to perform their tasks effectively.• Full Utilization of Primavera 6 and PCM for developing Construction Schedules with full allocation and assignment of Project Resources such as Material, Manpower & Equipment .Preparing all the initial reports such as cash flow forecast, , Weekly/ Monthly Planned Progress , Manpower histograms,, critical path activities.• Updating project status with actual % of completion. Projects monitoring & tracking.• Reporting on the project’s plan & performance.• Risks Monitoring and Response Planning. • Managing DCR’s , Claims, Change Orders, Revised BOQ, , Recovery Schedules and processing monthly payment certificates/ Invoices , coordination with the consultant for all related Project’s execution and monitoring documents.• Planning for project resources and machinery requirement and materials. • Managing Projects Procurement and Processing MR, PR, PO and planning the delivery to the site as per project schedule, focusing on the long lead material.• Lead the planning and controlling for 5 large construction projects at KAAU- King Abdulaziz University and other 6 projects, starting from the development of primavera P6 time schedules, the project financials , project summaries, executive summary , Progress Reports , Status Reports .• Prepare all necessary reports to control the project delivery to the client.• Facilitate the integration, consolidation of financial & business info.into ERP system.• Experience in a Project Management such as Primavera P6/P7, Primavera contract management PCM, Geographical Info. System GIS, Oracle PJM, AIM Project Implementation methodology. Show less

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  Freyssinet Saudi Arabia

  Oct 2014 - Jun 2020

  Project Controls Manager

  Key Responsibilities:1- Worked as project controls manager for 4 construction projects, 2- Responsible for the implementation of all project controls functions and ensure processes are effective and aligned with business strategy and quality management.3- Constantly monitor the compliance to the corporate project controls policies & procedures.4- Coordinate with planning team, project operation team, budget control team, QA/QC managers, procurement team, billing & claims manager , resources utilization and creating a real-time full visibility across project life-cycle to all stakeholders to support the project team to meet their targets and complete the planned work within the allocated budget and assigned time. 5- Supervising and reporting project status, progress reports, prompt alerting for any critical issues, non-compliant notices.6- Monitor and reporting the project productivity, costing analysis, project resources, material Supply Chain and subcontractors progress7- Manage and supervise the analysis and comparison between the project execution plan and the monthly budget and the actual cost.8- Constant follow up the process of monthly billing, finalize all needed approvals and ensure a timely issuance of payment certificate.9- Supervise the completion of project risk register, and project KPI’s, , communicating these reports into PMO SharePoint Portal Solution. 10- Full implementation and standardization of Primavera Contract Management PCM .11- Managing the development of PMO SharePoint2013 Project-Portal system. Show less

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  Technology Solutions for Projects Management

  Jan 2019 - now

  Founder and CEO