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ABDULLAH DABIL

ABDULLAH DABIL

CIO
Riyadh

Summary

Pragmatic professional with solid experience in leadership roles. Adept at implementing strategic business plans, driving growth and improving operations. Skilled in financial management and stakeholder relations. Collaborative and dedicated to building and leading talented and motivated individuals.


Working for more than 15 years in the field of Technology, including, innovations, R&D projects, digital transformations. I have participated in the national initiatives for transfer of a technology.

Being a member with talented and creative people to share ideas and solve problems is a passion. Also, strategies and plans with lots of effort and looking forward to tasting the outcomes with great success is something I always enjoy.


Innovation and R&D is my passion.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications

Work History

Head of Information Technology

Kafalah
Riyadh
10.2018 - Current
  • Build and Implement the digital transformation strategy
  • Build the innovation culture within the organization and to the SME's indirectly
  • Enable the SME's to receive funding support very quickly.
  • build monitoring tools for SME's and financial institutes
  • Develop IT strategy and act as the technology visionary for the organization
  • Formulate IT processes, policies and overall IT operations in coordination with the internal audit department
  • Create and maintain an environment that safeguards the confidentiality of customer information
  • Manage the IT infrastructure and Applications of the organization
  • Implement security standards, regulatory & legal IT compliance
  • Develop management reporting to provide accurate information on system performance, database quality and content, and development projects
  • Automate the organization process and maintain high-level integration with clients
  • Write RFPs and review proposals
  • Implemented and maintained technology and software budget.
  • Conducted feasibility studies for proposed projects using potential ROI and risk management.

Co-Founder & Technology Advisor

Safseer
Royadh
07.2018 - Current
  • Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
  • Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
  • Identified business development challenges and customer concerns for proactive resolution.
  • Created and maintained customer-centric culture to drive customer satisfaction and expand customer base.

Consultant

Taqnia Robotic
01.2017 - 10.2018
  • Supported clients with business analysis, documentation, and data modeling.
  • Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationship for future business opportunities.
  • Liaised with customers, management, and sales team to better understand customer needs and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Created and developed detailed work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.

Command and Control Director

KACST
Riyadh
01.2017 - 01.2018
  • Lead and supervise 2 management units in the field of the Command and Control and wireless sensors with 30+ engineers for R&D project planning, design and development
  • Follow the technology trend and develop prototypes
  • Hire, train, and mentor other engineers and supporting staff
  • Write performance reviews and solve internal issues
  • Discuss and set project specifications
  • Prepare budgets, bids, and contracts
  • Provide technology consultations
  • Review and recommend contracts
  • Develop cost estimates
  • Draft proposals and reports for clients
  • Establish administrative policies, procedures, and standards

Engineering Design and Development Director

KACST
Riyadh
01.2016 - 05.2017

I work with highly talented engineers to deliver high quality technology output "products, services, consultations and training"

The key responsibility are :-
+ Lead and supervise 4 management units in the field of Software, Electronics, Hardware, Communication, and Mechanical with 40+ engineers for project planning, design and development.
+ Follow the technology trend and develop prototypes.
+ Hire, train, and mentor other engineers and supporting staff.
+ Write performance reviews and solve internal issues.
+ Discuss and set project specifications.
+ Prepare budgets, bids, and contracts.
+ Provide technology consultations.
+ Review and recommend contracts.
+ Develop cost estimates.
+ Draft proposals and reports for clients.
+ Establish administrative policies, procedures, and standards.

EDD Software Unit Manager

KACST
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Manage software resources
  • Provide Software applications
  • Provide Software design and documents
  • Provide Software integrations
  • Provide software solutions
  • Working in Web based, Desktop, Operating system solutions and many more
  • Working with programming languages "C++,C,C#,WPF,ASP.NET,JAVA"

Software Engineer

KACST
08.2009 - 01.2016
  • Working as a software designer and implementer to participate in the Nation Transfer of a Technology program


Lecturer

Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University
Alkharj
01.2011 - 06.2011

I give computer lectures to BA students as a part time

Technology Specialist

ISRT
Riyadh
01.2005 - 01.2009

- I started a software company to work in my spare time as a software developer.

Education

Master of Science - Software Engineering

De Montfort University
Leicester
09.2007 - 2008.11

Bachelor of Science - Electronics Engineering

De Montfort University
Leicester, UK
09.2003 - 2007.07

Skills

    Business planning

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Certification

Driving strategic Innovation

Projects and Achievements

- Automate the guarantee issuance to SME's 

Achieved 1 day issuance compared to 47 days before. 

- Business Intelligence

Building the Data warehouse for Kafalah with business intelligent tool.

- Upgrading the IT infrastructure for Kafalah.

This is included upgrading the IT network, Firewalls and servers.

- Migrate the Data center to the government Cloud

The existing Data Center was migrated to the government cloud as IAAS.

- PMO | 2019
This project is for monitoring the digital transformation project within Kafalah.
- Loan Origination System| 2018

implementing a the Kafalah core business system.

- Document management system.

This is system was developed to track all the documents received and generated by the Loan Origination system.

- ERP System

implement the HR, GL, and CRM systems to kafalah.
- IoT based vehicular tracking system | Jan 2018
- Palm Vein Authentication system | Feb 2017 -2018
Design a Palm Vein authentication system. This project will take care of all the electronics, software and hardware aspect of the system.
- IoT based water leakage monitoring system | Jan 2017 -2018
Part of the Vision 2030 and National Transformation 2020, this project is a key project to reduce the National water waste inside the cities.
- Haj and Umrah IoT Smart system| Oct 2016
This project is developing a software platform with a set of subsystems for monitoring, tracking and decision making based on the IoT environment "NB-LTE". This project is part of the Vision 2030.
- Tracking system Jan 2016
I'm working as a system engineer.
- Wireless Monitoring system | Jan 2016
I'm the System Engineer for developing a wireless monitoring system camera based.
- Tablet | Jan 2015
I work as a mobile app designer and implementer for Saudi Tablet.
- Software Defined Radio | Jan 2014
I worked as a software designer and developer for the graphical user interface.
- Developing a Microprocessor | Jan 2013

I was working as a software tester.
- Developing secure Hard Drive | Jan 2013
I worked as software requirement engineer.
- Software Defined Radio | Jan 2013
This project intended for developing a military radio. I worked as a software engineer to design and develop the User interface.
- Vehicle tracking system | Jun 2012
I worked as software requirement engineer.
- Mobile services control system | Sep 2009
I participated in designing the software application and developing the man machine interface for a communication system that controls the mobile services. We granted three patents.
Project description
Building DW and Advance analytics tool.

Additional Information

Three patents in the field of mobile communications :-

- CONTROLLED MOBILECOMMUNICATION IN A SOCIALLYSENSITIVE ENVIRONMENT.

- CONTROLLED MOBILECOMMUNICATION AS A SERVICE.
- SELECTIVE CONTROL OF A WIRELESS SERVICEASSOCIATED WITH A MOBILE DEVICE.

Interests

Technology

Economic Empowerment

Entrepreneurship

Research and development

Sports

Camping

Timeline

Driving strategic Innovation

03-2023

Leading Strategic Growth and Change

11-2022

Become an AI-First Product Leader

05-2022

Finance for non-Finance Executives

09-2021

Saudi Digital Academy Executive Program - Digital Leadership

04-2021

Leading Digital Business Transformation

11-2020

Technology Entrepreneurship: Lab to Market

05-2020

Mini MBA

08-2019

Head of Information Technology

Kafalah
10.2018 - Current

Co-Founder & Technology Advisor

Safseer
07.2018 - Current

Consultant

Taqnia Robotic
01.2017 - 10.2018

Command and Control Director

KACST
01.2017 - 01.2018

Engineering Design and Development Director

KACST
01.2016 - 05.2017

EDD Software Unit Manager

KACST
01.2014 - 01.2016

Lecturer

Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University
01.2011 - 06.2011

Software Engineer

KACST
08.2009 - 01.2016

Master of Science - Software Engineering

De Montfort University
09.2007 - 2008.11

Technology Specialist

ISRT
01.2005 - 01.2009

Bachelor of Science - Electronics Engineering

De Montfort University
09.2003 - 2007.07
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