IT Professional
Resume:
Tarek Orabi
*******@*****.***
Information Technology Manager / System Manager / Project Manager
Proven Technical & Management Expertise in a Career Spanning 15+ Years.
Technically sophisticated and business-savvy management professional with pioneering career reflecting strong leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” IT and project management experience with ability to lead diverse teams of professionals to new levels of success in a variety of highly competitive industries, cutting-edge markets, and fast-paced environments. Superior record of developing and implementing large-scale solutions. Proven ability to successfully analyze an organization's critical business requirements, identify deficiencies and potential opportunities, and develop innovative and cost-effective solutions for enhancing competitiveness, increasing revenues, and improving customer service offerings. Over 10 years of SDLC exposure.
IT Strategic Planning / Business Solutions / Team Leadership / Budgeting / Project Management / Information Architect / Vendor Relationship
Professional Experience:
Lead Developer, YourlinkWeb Services, Westmont, IL 7/2003, Present (CONTRACTOR)
Manage the e-commerce development team developing and delivering long-term strategic goals for data architecture vision and standards in conjunction with data users, department managers, network members, and other key stakeholders. Maintain manpower plan for the Web Team. Builds the business logic and data layer for web-based business applications. Lead the design of large and small scale web-based applications. Lead the development of technical design documents. Participate in design, design review, and code review processes to ensure that solutions effectively meet business objectives while using innovative, performance orientated technology. Create short and long terms tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and an overall data management roadmap. Managing websites/web application solutions and e-Commerce development for both front and back end for several clients. Develop database architecture for all web application solutions. Coordinate application development with marketing and sales and other staff. Provide technical mentoring to other team members. Provide technical support and maintenance for third parties products. Hire, train and develop a lead of 10-people technical team. Manage projects budgets and ensure optimal expenditures.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Development and implementation of several e-commerce solutions including constructions bidding site and online membership registration for major park districts in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Database System Manager, Chicago Public Schools 4/2003, Present
Provide technical and business leadership in the design, development, implementation and management all telecommunications database projects and activities. Lead the development of technical design documents. Promote best practices among the team that will improve testing techniques, design methodology and promote code reusability. Participate in design, design review, and code review processes to ensure that solutions effectively meet business objectives while using innovative, performance orientated technology. Manage on-going technical support for all non-PBX telecommunications database systems and telecommunications web sites. Act as primary liaison with diverse levels of associates across ITS teams, CPS departments and outside parties or vendor partners in relation to telecommunications database systems, projects and activities. Mentor team members and other ITS staff in all aspects of database management. Establish processes for governing the identification, collection, and use of corporate metadata; take steps to assure metadata accuracy and validity. Establish methods and procedures for tracking data quality, completeness, redundancy, and improvement. Supported the E-Rate team data requirements. Ensure that data strategies and architectures are in regulatory compliance.
Key Projects and Achievements:
• Development and implementation supporting solutions for the implementation of the VOIP conversion project for the entire school district; providing transparent data exchanged among all involved entities for the project.
• Development and implementation of workload management solution used by the technical staff of the CPS infrastructure group providing standardized methods of data communications between the central office and fields technician which reduced the amount of paper work and expedited invoice processing time by up to 95%.
• Managing the implementation of E911 for the entire district (644 schools+), facilitating data exchange between vendors, ISP and the fire marshal.
Data System Manager, Allegiance Healthcare, McGaw Park IL 6/2001 – 12/2002
Managed the Supply Chain development team responsibilities and workload. Evaluated client’s requests and managed projects priorities and budgets. Developed and automated production tools supporting the Supply Chain department different channels. Provided training to developed solution and ensure technical compliancy for all distribution centers.
Key Projects and Achievements:
Development and implementation of new Business Process Management solution supporting sales, forecast, distribution and transportation. This solution ensured optimal forecast changes driving inventory, storage and distribution cost lower saving an average of $1.1M annually.
Supply Chain Analyst, McCain Foods Oak Brook, IL 11/1997- 6/2001
Built and managed technical and business solutions supphttp://brillstreet.com/assets/images/v2/theprocess.pngorting the Supply Chain workforce including sales, marketing, and distribution and warehousing. Developed automated reporting environment producing sales and forecasting intelligence report. Developed and implemented SLA for orders fill-rate for key accounts which enhanced order fill rate to 99.97% reducing shipping cost by almost $1M annually.
EDUCATION:
• B.S. Information Technology - Capella University
• Undergraduate Certificate in Web Application Security - Capella University
• Certificate in Visual Basic Programming- William Rainy Harper
• Certificate in Project Management – DePaul University
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Microsoft Office, .NET, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, AJAX, JSON, jQuery, Spry, Google API, Web 2.0, CMS, MS Visual Studio, VISIO, Crystal Reports, Business Objects, Congos, TOAD, Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Apache, IIS, UML, SDLC, Data Modeling, SQL Server, Oracle (9-10g), MySQL, MS Access
NON-TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Project Management.
• Business Process Development.
• Process Automation.
Contact this candidate