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Faisal Ghunaim Principal Consultant

Dubai

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 ).