Iftikhar Alvi

Iftikhar Alvi

Lead Consultant Oracle Applications

Location
Saudi Arabia
Industry
Information Technology and Services

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Iftikhar Alvi's Overview

Current
  • Lead Consultant Oracle Applications at Arowana Consulting
  • ERP Consulting at Business Solutions Consulting
Past
  • Project Manager at Q Mart Corporation Ltd. Lahore (A project of Kohinoor Mills Ltd.)
  • A.M. Information System at AA. Spinning Mills Limited
  • ERP Coordinator at Ibrahim Fibers Limited

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Education
  • PMI-Lahore Chapter PMP Training Course
  • Oracle Corporation
  • University of the Punjab, Lahore
  • Allama Iqbal Open University
  • Divisional Public School Faisalabad

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Recommendations

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Iftikhar Alvi's Summary

• Working as Lead Consultant Oracle Apps at Arowana Consulting.
• 13+ years experience in the field of Information Technology.
• 10+ years experience with Oracle Applications / E-Business Suite - Performing functional and technical work mainly within the Oracle Financials, Purchasing, Inventory, Order Management, Manufacturing, DBI, Oracle Alerts and Self-Service modules of Oracle Applications.
• Functional responsibilities: leading project as team lead, requirements gathering, functional gap analysis, configuration, module setup, test script generation, writing training guides, training end users and post implementation support.
• Technical (technical lead, developer, etc.) activities: interfacing with users, identifying functional and technical gaps, estimating work, architecting system interfaces, developing custom applications, workflows, working with APIs and Interfaces, form personalization, programming, leading developers, scheduling, producing documentation, and providing user support.

Iftikhar Alvi's Experience

Lead Consultant Oracle Applications

Arowana Consulting

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry

March 2013 – Present (4 months)

• Leading Implementation/Configuration.
• Responsible for successful timely delivery for deliverables.
• Requirement gathering
• Support to team members.
• Coordination with onsite and offshore team for development
• Staff Trainings in EBS Functional & Technical areas

ERP Consulting

Business Solutions Consulting

2009 – Present (4 years)

Group Head of Business Systems (Oracle EBS)

Umer Group of Companies

Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry

October 2011 – March 2013 (1 year 6 months) Lahore

• Directing IT, Corporate IT Regulations & Policies, Communication and ERP Implementation for one of the largest Textile Company. Reporting to the CEO and Chairman, managing in-house full time professionals plus outsourced professionals & service providers and an IT infrastructure.
• Leading Implementation of Oracle eBusiness Suite R12 including Business Intelligence covering Finance, Supply Chain, Process Manufacturing, Planning, Inventory and Dispatch activities
• Directing operational process decisions and instituting IT strategy in alignment with corporate business objectives as well as designing / deployment of a sophisticated infrastructure for communications across the Business units.
• Completing and submitting all-inclusive MIS and IT information to realize Industrial Automation Projects, Communication and System Integrations
• Technology Selection, engaging companies for outsourcing of projects & services and project management of in house, outsourced and hybrid technology projects
• Accountable for spearheading reliable operations, security, along with devising, monitoring & implementing IT policies

ERP Sectional Incharge

Interloop Limited

Public Company; Myself Only; Textiles industry

June 2007 – November 2011 (4 years 6 months) Interloop Limited (Faisalabad)

• Configuration and Implementation to incorporate Multiple Legal Entities of Interloop Limited in Single Installation
• Implementation of DBI
• Development of Loan Management System and its integration with Oracle Payables, Oracle Receivables & Oracle Assets.
• Development of Export System and its integration with Order Management, Oracle Receivables & Oracle Payables.
• Development of Customized workflow for Sales Order & Delivery Order Approval.
• Development of Technical Infrastructure (Servers Setup).
• Involvement with consultant in study and re-engineering of Organization Business Process.
• Operating System Installation & Maintenance.
• Oracle Application Installation & Configuration & Maintenance.
• Involvement with consultant in Application Configuration.
• Functional support to users.
• MIS team trainings regarding Oracle Applications Functional & Technical areas.
• Development of Custom Workflows, Forms & Reports.

D.M. IT (Oracle Application DBA)

Kohinoor Mills Limited

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Textiles industry

May 2006 – June 2007 (1 year 2 months)

• Application up gradation from Oracle EBS 11.5.7 to 11.5.10 and R12 on Test Basis at Kohinoor Mills Limited.
• Successful testing of Oracle 10g R2 RAC on Shared SCSII.
• System Administration of Oracle E-Business Suite & Linux 2.1.
• Oracle 8.1.7.3 Database Administration, Backup & Recovery.
• Implementation of Oracle EBS in Home Textile Division (Oracle Financial, Oracle Inventory, Order Management, Oracle Purchasing, Out Side Processing).
• Interfacing of in house applications with Oracle Apps, Custom Forms Development, System Cloning, Patch Application, S.R. Monitoring and Coordination with Oracle Corporation through OWC.

Project Manager

Q Mart Corporation Ltd. Lahore (A project of Kohinoor Mills Ltd.)

May 2006 – June 2007 (1 year 2 months)

• Implementation, Configuration & System Administration of Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle Financial, Oracle Inventory, Oracle Purchasing).
• Linux 4.0 Administration.
• Coordination with Oracle Corporation for Oracle EBS Licensing.
• Oracle 9.0.2, 10g R2 Database Administration, Backup & Recovery.
• Interfacing of in house applications with Oracle Apps, Custom Forms Development, System Cloning, Patch Application, S.R. Monitoring and Coordination with Oracle Corporation through OWC.
• Integration of Oracle EBS 11.5.10.2 with NAVASION.

A.M. Information System

AA. Spinning Mills Limited

February 2004 – May 2006 (2 years 4 months)

• Implementation & System Administration of Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.
• Linux AS 4.0 Administration & Security enforcement.
• Oracle 9.0.2 Database Administration, Backup & Recovery.
• Report Development, Custom Forms Development, System Cloning, Patch Application, S.R. Monitoring, Coordination with Oracle Corporation through OWC., Oracle Application security & Performance tuning.
• Data preparation for upload in to the System. Coordination with users for real time problem solving.
• Development and implementation of Gate Pass System with Oracle EBS.
• Development and implementation of E-Demand and E-Issue in .net.
• Implementation of Oracle Discoverer with consultant.

ERP Coordinator

Ibrahim Fibers Limited

November 2002 – January 2004 (1 year 3 months)

• Implementation & System Administration of Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.9.
• Linux AS 3.0 Administration & Security enforcement.
• Report Development, Custom Forms Development, System Cloning, Patch Application, S.R. Monitoring, Coordination with Oracle Corporation through OWC.
• User Support

Iftikhar Alvi's Languages

  • English

  • Urdu

  • Punjabi

Iftikhar Alvi's Education

PMI-Lahore Chapter PMP Training Course

Project Management

2013 – 2013

From 09-Feb-2013 to 17-Feb-2013

Oracle Corporation

E-Business Suite R12 Financials Certified Expert Consultant, Computers

2000 – 2012

University of the Punjab, Lahore

MIT, Masters in Information Technology

2004 – 2007

Allama Iqbal Open University

BCS Hon’s., Bachelor of Computer Sciences

1999 – 2003

• Organized a number of programs and fare well parties at COMPETE Computer College Faisalabad.
• Won first prize for Final Project of Virtual University at COMPETE computer college.

Divisional Public School Faisalabad

Matric, Sciences

1985 – 1995

Grade: A

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