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Faisal Ghunaim Principal Consultant

Dubai

Résumé / Curriculum vitae

Faisal AbdelAziz Mohd Ghunaim
June 16th  1976,
+971504542292,
[email protected]

OBJECTIVE –
Seeking a position at IT Company where I can maximize my 20+ years of Consulting, Implementing and quality assurance, program development, and training in the ERP solution Experience.
 

Company – Ellucian                           Website: https://www.ellucian.com/

Location – Dubai, UAE

Designation: Sr. Functional Consultant

Duration – 13th July 2013 to Present

 

Ellucian works with more than 2,500 institutions in nearly 50 countries—enhancing operations and enriching the experience for over 20 million students. As the market leader in higher education technology, the Ellucian portfolio is comprehensive and built off of best practices from our community of schools as well as our 50 years of experience transforming the industry landscape. Ellucian’s technology solutions are designed for the modern student specifically to meet the needs of higher education. Our software and services help students, Ellucian provides student information systems (SIS), finance and `

 

He performed the following duties for above position:

 

1.      Consulting on design, plan and implementation of Ellucian Banner, Advancement and ODS product families

2.      Training on functional aspects of Ellucian Banner Student

3.      Onsite and remote day-to-day management of  Banner Student, Advancement and ODS product families

4.      Specializing in the training, consulting, and implementation of Banner for integration of student records information at higher education institutions.

5.      Work with college and university clients to design and configure ERP Solution and 3rd Party solutions to support their business needs

6.      Work with functional users to review current business processes, redesign business processes, and document best practices

7.      Evaluate customized solutions and develop approaches collaboratively with clients on how to best leverage delivered functionality, eliminating customizations, and maximizing the configuration and integration across the enterprise environment.

8.      Evaluate the current use and opportunities for improvement of the use of existing systems.

9.      Assist organizations in redesigning policy and processes and retraining team members and the community to effectively sustain changes.

10.   Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries

11.   Provide Banner services such as training, functional consulting and technical support at client sites

12.   Be prepared to work with clients where the Banner system has not been well leveraged and may be seen as a negative to many across the environment

13.   Provide Banner® implementation services such as training, functional consulting and technical support at client sites

14.   Analyze current business processes and make suggestions to utilize various technological tools to help improve business processes

 

 

Company – ITS                                  Website: https://www.its.ws

Location – Dubai, UAE

Designation: Sr. Functional Consultant

Duration – 20, Nov, 2005 to 13, July 2013

 

ITS is a leading integrated information technology solutions and services provider that offers world class solutions. ITS portfolio comprises of world-class solutions and services in a wide range of industries including banks, investment companies and other financial institutions. We also serve Education, Enterprise and Government as our lateral strategy. ITS ETHIX financial product is a leading corporate, Islamic and retail, banking solution, enabling institutions to maximize their returns while optimizing cost. ITS services portfolio comprises of strategic outsourcing, managed and professional services. We are able to support or customers’ critical business services through our strong industry-specific competencies. We leverage “Global Delivery Center” to provide development, designing and delivery software and services solutions for our clients across the globe. We are enabled with latest technology in order to serve different markets. We positioned, collaborate and align ourselves with leading IT vendors such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, SAS, HP, EMC, etc. Our distinguished network of clientele consists of large banking institutions, financing companies, telecommunication service providers, oil companies, educational institutions, government entities and retail outlets.

 

He performed the following duties for above position:

 

15.    Consulting on design, plan and implementation of Ellucian Banner, Advancement and ODS product families

16.   Training on functional aspects of Ellucian Banner Student

17.   Onsite and remote day-to-day management of  Banner Student, Advancement and ODS product families

18.   Specializing in the training, consulting, and implementation of Banner for integration of student records information at higher education institutions.

19.   Work with college and university clients to design and configure ERP Solution and 3rd Party solutions to support their business needs

20.   Work with functional users to review current business processes, redesign business processes, and document best practices

21.   Evaluate customized solutions and develop approaches collaboratively with clients on how to best leverage delivered functionality, eliminating customizations, and maximizing the configuration and integration across the enterprise environment.

22.   Evaluate the current use and opportunities for improvement of the use of existing systems.

23.   Assist organizations in redesigning policy and processes and retraining team members and the community to effectively sustain changes.

24.   Provide technical assistance by responding to inquiries

25.   Provide Banner services such as training, functional consulting and technical support at client sites

26.   Be prepared to work with clients where the Banner system has not been well leveraged and may be seen as a negative to many across the environment

27.   Provide Banner® implementation services such as training, functional consulting and technical support at client sites

28.   Analyze current business processes and make suggestions to utilize various technological tools to help improve business processes

 

 

Educational Qualifications
·        Bachelor of Science, B.Sc. Computer Science, Zarka  private  University, Overall degree 78.3%. From 1995 to 1999, Graduation Year – 1999

 

 

 

Professional Development
1.      Banner AR 10-JAN-2018 USA, FL -Mary Lake city in Orlando

2.      Attedning Ellucian Elive in USA and Dubai for more than 3 times

3.      Oracle Developer2000: 1/11/1999-30/11/1999, ZPU, 48 hrs.

4.      Good understanding of Oracle Database.

5.      Good programming skills in SQL and PL/SQL.

6.      Good in writing Oracle backend triggers, packages, procedures…etc.

7.      Worked extensively with Forms and Reports.

8.      Be able to write well-tuned queries (complex, nested, joins…etc).

9.      Good knowledge in developing for real business needs.

10.   Smart and be able to grasp new technologies in short time.

11.   Be able to work and perform under stress and meet deadlines.

12.   Programming skills with the following:
(Visual Basic , Microsoft Access ).

 

 

Referees

Referee 1
Referee 2
Referee 3
The Referee’s Name
Sanjeev Marjeev
Hassan Malli
Crevecoeur, James
Title
Managing Consultant, Principal
PS Implementation Manager
Senior Consultant
Employing Company
IBM,
ACS
Ellucian
Work Phone Number And/Or Mobile
+1(951)833-8220
+966542743733
+971 4 369 3983
E-Mail Address
[email protected]
[email protected]

[email protected]
A Brief Statement Explaining How The Referee Knows You
Working together for than 5 years in Ellucian
Working together in many different companies
Working together in many different companies

Competencies / Key Work skills
 

IT Leadership ▪ Consulting ▪ Project Management ▪ Process Improvement ▪ Digital Transformation ▪ Performance Optimisation ▪ Change Leadership ▪ Restructuring ▪ Sales Support ▪ Technology Integration ▪ Relationship Management ▪ Team Development ▪ Customer Focus ▪ Focus on Quality ▪ Product/development lifecycle

§  Technical Expertise – Applies creativity alongside cutting edge technical expertise to address business issues, tackling both technical and organisational obstacles with equal success. Implemented projects with full automation systems in Higher Education (Banner – Ellucian), Enterprise (ERP and ECM), Governments, and Banks clients with introducing new business processes, Integration, data migration and technology. The success of these projects resulted in new business and deals and the systems are still in use today.

 

§  Higher Education and ERP– Implemented successful higher education projects (Banner – Ellucian and PeopleSoft – Oracle). Also, ERP projects have been implemented with full achievement of the required objectives. This provided me with excellent lesson learned to guarantee the success of the future projects’ engagements.

 

§  Leadership – Through sharing the vision, identifying the benefits for all and demonstrating strong leadership, successfully overcomes objections, gains buy-in and steers major projects to completion. Developed and led project governance central point, the governance to transfer the project management from reactive to proactive actions. This led to expect and provision the risk of the project loss from the time, cost and scope prospective. Achieved budget and time saving rather than losing and closed legacy project with positive notes.

 

 

§  People Management – succeeded in managing a group of consultants/project managers to deliver the required professional services. This group work translated into a positive ROI.

 

§  Consulting – Provides creative consultancy to the organizations which look for enhancing the services that these organization are providing. This can be done by studying the areas that need enhancements which will maximize the benefit of the required outcomes. This is done without interrupting the overall operation and the services provided by these organizations which will lead to maximization of the provided value.

 

§  Strategic Vision – Strategic thinker who brings innovative solutions to business challenges through insightful understanding of the role of technology and its potential to maximise business results. Focuses on long term quality solutions whilst keeping tight control of efficiency and maintaining customer satisfaction. In International Turnkey Systems, introduced and developed a new methodology for project management/ Client-Engagement to support the customers, defining new processes and skill sets which resulted an increase of customer satisfaction, improve services delivery and ensure the profitability of the projects, alongside improved employee engagement.