Khalid Alanazi, Sr. IT Project Manager

Khalid Alanazi

Sr. IT Project Manager

Infath | انفاذ

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence
Experience
8 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :8 years, 7 Months

Sr. IT Project Manager at Infath | انفاذ
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2023

Led and executed strategic initiatives to drive organizational transformation and innovation. My role entailed leveraging cutting-edge technologies, implementing digital solutions, and optimizing processes to augment operational efficiency. Successfully guided teams through digital transitions, cultivating a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement. Through effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, played a pivotal role in aligning technology with business objectives, resulting in enhanced customer experiences and increased competitiveness.

This encompasses, but is not limited to:

- Vendor relationship management
- Budget, invoice, and contract management
- Resource management
- Project management with various methodologies (waterfall, Agile Scrum, or Kanban), tailored to the project's nature
- Diverse project types (infrastructure, business, third-party solutions, in-house development, cybersecurity, AI, manpower, licenses & subscriptions, tools, and machines)
- Developing and composing RFPs
- Project-related documentation
- Reports and presentations to senior management in weekly/monthly meetings

IT Project Manager at STC Solutions
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2020 to September 2023

Throughout my tenure, I have consistently demonstrated my expertise in telecommunications infrastructure, ensuring seamless implementation of network upgrades, software deployments, and system integrations. My meticulous project planning, resource coordination, and effective stakeholder communication have been instrumental in delivering complex technology projects successfully from initiation to completion. Through proactive risk management, I have consistently delivered projects on time and within budget, contributing to the company's technological advancement and operational excellence in the dynamic telecommunications industry.

Sr. Applications Developer at Ministry Of Justice - Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2019 to September 2020

End-to-end responsible of the Attorney and Court Executions Applications and its releated projects
Work as part of tawthiq team to build, enhance, and operate the applications end to end.

Identify the best solutions to meet our audience needs

Ensure the DevOps pipeline supports the implementation of secure coding practices

Working with stakeholders to gather technical requirements, architect solutions, and execute on deliverables.

Design, build, automate and integrate tooling to support our SDLC

Identify opportunities for automation and implement solutions accordingly

Possess strong motivation to build, improve, and maintain a robust suite of offerings for running microservices consumed by other goverments and privates

Excellent communication skills for presenting solutions and sharing knowledge

Continuous Integration systems

Development and suppoet mainly in Microsoft stack technology (webforms, MVC, CORE)

Operating and automating an IT infrastructure using cloud such Azure

Logging, Monitoring, and enhancing

Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time

Applications support in term of tech, operation and business

Report building and DB data extraction

Wear mulltiple hats and work in different roles in the same day.

Sr. Applications Support Officer at Solidarity Saudi Takaful Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2018 to August 2019

Supporting core insurance application (Eskadenia) and its related integration services & applications in term of development, technical, business, and operation.

• Identify opportunities that can improve efficiency of business processes.
• Coordinate application development for multiple project and assist in troubleshooting software application issues.
• Analyze data contained in the corporate database and identify data integrity issues with existing and proposed systems and implement solutions.
• Provides assistance and advice to business users in the effective use of application.
• Write technical procedures and documentation for the applications including operations, user manual, etc.
• Ensure appropriate standards and procedures are adhered to during the development process to support a quality deliverable to team lead.
• Produce ad-hoc queries and develop reports to support business needs.
• Proven ability to be flexible and work hard, both independently and in a team environment, in high pressure on-call environment with changing priorities.
• Interact with internal teams and external 3rd party vendors to trouble shoot and resolve complex problems.
• Design and develop business and strategic reports.
• Business User Satisfaction
• Business value / Innovation Initiatives

Application Support Officer at Arab National Bank Head Office البنك العربي الوطني الادارة العامة
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • October 2015 to June 2018

Main Function:
- Applications support for 24x7 on call. Attends to all Bank applications and ensures these are put for use in the right direction as per the policies and procedure of the bank and SAMA regulations.

Essential Duties and Resoinsibilites:
1. Supporting third party and in-house applications and managing daily operation to support business needs.
2. Acting as the technical liaison between users, vendors and IT.
3. Assisting with vendor managment on assigned applications.
4. Managing and coordinating the day-to-day functioning of the daily processes on assigned applications.
5. Analyzing and documenting complex issues, recommending solutions, and initiating corrective action.
6. Performing production health checks after major infrastructure changes and patches. Planning and executing business continuity/disaster recovery testing on assigned systems.
7. Following up on problem resolution and informing of status.
8. Testing and communicating system updates on assigned applications.
9. Ensuring that appropriate levels of Quality Assurance have been met for all new and existing changes. Set the testing scope and validate the test plan for the release.
10. Serving as information resource for business users. Providing user/technical support for applications. Creating ad-ho c reports and assist in data analysis.
11. Provides business and technical support and carries out SIT for the different CRs.
12. Application support would perform the configuration changes in the system as per the policies and procedures of the bank.
13. Analyzing the business issues for the applications.
14. Closing all the audit & regulatory requirements of the application which are identified during the audit phase.
15. Attends to users calls and enquiries:
a. Solves practical problems tactfully like (updating application during network error and attending to EOD issues).
b. Supports users and technical problem issues are resolved.
c. Answers phone calls for resolving critical issues like EOD issues during on-call timing.
d. Attends to any other related duty as assigned.

Education

Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence
  • at King Faisal University
  • December 2024

Gain advanced technical skills and a deep understanding of AI concepts. Research and development into: - Data Engineering - Data Science - Machine Learning (ML) - Deep Learning - Computer Vision - Natural Language Processing (NLP) - AI Programming Techniques - Robotics - IoT - Large Language Models (LLM) - Distributed Computing (such as Blockchain)

Bachelor's degree, Information & Computer Science: Software Engineering
  • at Park University
  • December 2014

General major in Information & Computer Science, specialized in Software engineering which is a detailed study of engineering to the design, development and maintenance of software. Software engineering was introduced to address the issues of low-quality software projects. Problems arise when a software generally exceeds timelines, budgets, and reduced levels of quality. It ensures that the application is built consistently, correctly, on time and on budget and within requirements. The demand of software engineering also emerged to cater to the immense rate of change in user requirements and environment on which application is supposed to be working.

Specialties & Skills

Technical Support
Business
operations
Deployment
Development
Programming: Master in Python and C#
PowerShell
Cloud Computing: Azure & AWS
SAP: MM, S/4 Hana, ABAP, SD
Fullstack Django
Graphics: Solidworks, Autocad, Adobe Photoshop.
Oracle E-Business Suite
Database: SQL/T-SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, MySQL, Bigdata Hadoop
Jenkins
SAS: EGRC, Credit Scoring, CRM
Networking: CCNA, CCNAS, CyberSecurity Threats
Source Control: GitHub & BitBucket
Microsoft Power BI
Web: HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, Boostrap
IIS, apache
OS: Windows & Unix/Linux
Fullstack ASP.NET CORE
Mobile development: Flutter & dark

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

American Red Cross corporation
  • First Aid volunteer
  • August 2010
IAENG Society of Software Engineering
  • Member
  • February 2016
IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering
  • Member
  • February 2016
Saudi Council of Engineers
  • Engineer member
  • August 2021
IAIDL
  • Member
  • April 2021

Training and Certifications

Agile & Scrum Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2022
Design Thinking (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2022
Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure (Training)
Training Institute:
Google
Date Attended:
November 2022
Duration:
40 hours
DevOps: The Big Picture (Training)
Training Institute:
Pluralsight
Date Attended:
September 2019
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Project Champions Academy
Date Attended:
April 2018
ITIL Foundation (Training)
Training Institute:
JODAYN
Date Attended:
May 2018
International Artificial Intelligence Driving License (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2021
Finance for Non-Finance Managers (Training)
Training Institute:
Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College
Date Attended:
March 2021
IT Business Continuity Plan (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2016
Oracle Database 12c: SQL and PL/SQL Fundamentals Ed 1 PRV (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
March 2016
Duration:
40 hours
Big Data Using Hadoop Program (Training)
Training Institute:
The Institute for Professional Development at Depaul University
Date Attended:
March 2015

Hobbies

  • AI researcher keeping updated with recent tech
    deliverd projects on national level, upgraded core systems, trained employees.