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Jaffar Sadiq Mohamed Shariff

Candidate ID: 855409

Career Summary

An accomplished professional with 20-plus years of management, consulting, and technical leadership experience across multiple industries. Highly adaptable, quick learner with the ability to think strategically to solve complex and difficult projects.

Skill Set

Technology/BI Architecture & Integration, Strategic Planning and IT/BI Effectiveness, Presentation and Mentoring, Business Aligned Roadmap, Operations Management/ERP/CRM, Business Process Automation, Team Management/Building, Performing Gap Analysis, Project Management/SDLC, Vendor Management

Professional Information

Total Experience : 20

Nationality : United States

Qualification Level : Graduate

Job Function : IT - Software

Work Location Preference : Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE

Detailed Profile

An accomplished professional with 20-plus years of management, consulting, and technical leadership experience across multiple industries. Highly adaptable, quick learner with the ability to think strategically to solve complex and difficult projects. Ability to solve business issues through effective leadership style, business process design/improvement and the use of IT.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Technology/BI Architecture & Integration
Strategic Planning and IT/BI Effectiveness
Presentation and Mentoring
Business Aligned Roadmap
Operations Management/ERP/CRM
Business Process Automation
Team Management/Building
Performing Gap Analysis
Project Management/SDLC
Vendor Management

TECH SKILLS

SQL Server 2008 R2/2012/2014, T_SQL,SSIS, SSAS(Multidimensional and Tabular), MDX, DAX, SSRS, Power View / Power Pivot / Power Map, Visual Studio ,Share Point 2013 (Farm/Site Installation and Configuration), Share Point Designer, Dundas, C#, ASP.NET 4.0, VB, JavaScript, HTML,APPX, Oracle 10g, PHP, MYSQL(LAMP), QlikView



Tivity Health, Chandler AZ – 2015 - Current
Sr. Manager BI

Demonstrates a strong ability to control maintenance cost through process automation using technologies
Converged two different data QC processes into one that increased 50% overhead savings
View the big picture that enables it to quickly become SME on complex issues that allows translation of management expectations into product and service solutions
Created a system intelligence for decision management to support vendor contract management system achieved 40% time savings
Assist executives for Data Strategy which leads to Governance, Actionable foundation and Insights to innovation for an evolutionary growth
Provide technical leadership expertise to senior management on new initiatives and future direction of business capabilities in related to BI/Analytics
Create POC of Machine Learning to build Data Science portfolio for future course of action in our consumer geographic utilization

Healthways, Chandler AZ – 2012 – 2015
Sr. Architect BI

Leverage Microsoft technology stack of products to support BI/Analytics
Achieved 47% annual maintenance cost savings from Data Mart migration Oracle to MS technologies
Fully involved in an innovative architecture of strategic plan and implemented it to deliver the Enterprise level Self Service data model that increased retrieval of information in minutes for standard KPIs
Architected solution for automated enterprise level billing process rules engine saves 38% overhead cost
Innovated reporting framework automation which saved 83% in time that leads to faster distribution
Pioneered the self-service architecture in data driven decisions to support Data Science. This tool helped the transformation of some of the human driven decision to data driven decision.

Troxell Communications, Phoenix AZ – 2000 – 2012
Business Applications Manager

Oversight and/or matrix management of project components requiring Application, and/or Reports, processes, resources and deliverables
Implemented EDI transactions X12 and EDIFACT (Liaison formerly known as SoftShare)
Provided Leadership to the IT Business Systems Infrastructure to develop and implement standards for dependency and server applications in support of the overall enterprise development vision.
Driven performance and stability of Business Application Services supported custom applications through a structured support model and adherence to Troxell change management policies and procedures.
Instilled a culture of strong inter-department service to Troxell business customers and IT support teams.
Served as subject matter expert (SME) for Troxell enterprise business system environment, its databases, and supporting management tools.




Provided Leadership and coordination with the key business stakeholders of inter departments, Employees and Vendors related to Business Systems.
Implemented the maximum automation of month end entries such as accruals, prepayments, schedules (sub-ledger) vs GL analysis for Financial Accounting application which helped finance department to close the month in a week of time.
Automated the MIS reporting systems for C-level executives on daily, weekly and monthly basis and partial automation of reports to banks such as Availability certificate, P&L and Balance Sheet.
Sourced the data from MDR (Market Data Research) and integrated with our ERP system for K-12 market analysis project. Designed one-time and recurring reports for C-level executives which provide the statistical information about Retention and Acquisition rate on the existing and prospective customers nationwide. This resulted increase of 10% in sales lead nationwide with our sales force.


Key Projects ROI Role
Migration of Existing applications/data from IBM-AIX server to Linux Enterprises Server Increased transaction processing time from 10% to 90% with a huge cost savings for company. Systems Developer
Financial Reporting system to VP of Finance and banks Reduced the month end closing time from three weeks to one week Architect
Re-engineering/more facilitating the existing CRM Applications
Increased effectiveness in customer service and decreased overhead cost of 20% per annum. TPM
EDI transactions in X12 and EDIFACT 80% reduced time for processing the PO and Invoices. Product Owner
Automation of Customer/Vendor invoicing process and integration with GL 30% overhead reduction for transactions processing Consultant
RAP Analytics for K12 education market (in excel using Pivot Table feature) Increased the sales lead 10% Architect