
Karim Elharras
Senior ITSM Application System Analyst at IFS
Edinburgh, United KingdomWork Experience
Senior ITSM Application System AnalystFull Time
IFS
Jun 2021 - Present -4 yrs
United Kingdom , Edinburgh
- Job Details:Responsible for incident management of the Middle East region • Act as point of contact for key individuals/departments within the customers and internal organization in relation to the management of the service. Owning any escalations, requests or queries ensuring appropriate action is taken to manage or resolve. • Collaborate between different departments, development, integration, problem management, change management and provide regular update to the customer, until incident is resolved. • Data driven and able to identify KPIs and work closely with analytics and reporting, developing dashboards to monitor progress and provide actionable insights to senior management. • Coordinate and collaborate the response to incident reports, ensuring relevant prioritization according to the agreed (service level agreement SLA) and detail to allow effective investigation. • Provide Primary SQL server support and monitor performance for all database incidents • Analyse Service Delivery Reports on behalf of assigned customers, in order to identify any trends that may threaten the level of service delivered. • Produce Service Delivery Reports for assigned customers, detailing the performance of delivered services in comparison to agreed service levels. • Create metrics and dashboards to monitor client status for both internal and external visibility. • Create periodic & Ad-hoc reports for IT & Business Units using Crystal Report and ITSM tool. • Effective communication skills and excellent people management and administrative skills. • Provide analytical support to SaaS customers, using wide range of software tools (Microsoft Azure, FIDO, ASP, GASP, REST API, Postman, Kerberos, LDAP) • Investigate, diagnose, and resolve issues involving SQL Server and Oracle databases
Application support analystFull Time
Axios systems
Oct 2017 - Jun 2021 -3 yrs, 8 months
United Kingdom , Edinburgh
- Job Details:• Responsible of incident management of the Middle East region (Dubai police, Dubai court, Abu Dhabi Airport, and Saudi post, Aviva UK, British transport police, etc) • Act as point of contact for key individuals/departments within the customers and internal organisation in relation to the management of the service. Owning any escalations, requests or queries ensuring appropriate action is taken to manage or resolve. • Create metrics and dashboards to monitor client status for both internal and external visibility. • Data driven and able to identify KPIs and work closely with analytics and reporting to develop dashboards to monitor progress and provide actionable insights to senior management. • Analyse, diagnose, and resolve complex system issues including system integration issues. • Effective communication skills and excellent people management and administrative skills. • Provide Primary SQL server support and monitor performance for all database incidents. • Provide analytical support to SAAS customers, using wide range of software tools (Microsoft Azure, Active directory, FIDO, ASP, REST API, Postman, Kerberos, LDAP) • Investigate, diagnose, and resolve issues involving SQL Server and Oracle databases • Establish continuous process improvement cycles where the process performance, activities, roles and responsibilities, policies, procedures and supporting technology is reviewed and enhanced where applicable.
Product specialistFull Time
Fujitsu Siemens ( Sykes LTD)
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017 -3 yrs, 11 months
- Job Details:• Provide first line support for clients in EMEA region and head office. Resolution of IT related issues and request assigned tickets to the ques • Keep abreast of technical developments, read current literature, continue education, stay current on the innovations within the industry • Diagnose and resolve scanner software problems, and restore normal operation • Work with the other IT support teams in troubleshooting and remediating outstanding vulnerabilities • Giving basic training to new users or customers in using their PCs • Determine software configurations that achieve a high level of security for systems and applications • Installing and configuring new equipment and upgrading existing systems • Support for periodic key business activities and procurement of required IT equipment. • Ownership and overseeing of the ticket management processes and quality across the whole of IT, suggesting and making pro-active improvements to increase the quality of service provided. • Managed business communications for high priority incidents and change implementations. • Fujitsu certified imaging professional ScanSnap.
Community associateFull Time
Regus
Feb 2013 - Oct 2015 -2 yrs, 8 months
- Job Details:• Responsible for managing customer engagement during the customer lifecycle • Drive customer retention and revenue growth for an established customer base • Manage a group/cluster of locations and ensure sales performance and critical KPI's are exceeding expectations • Manage proactive sales visits to companies (potential clients) for presenting our added value services and products • Develop strong relationships with potential clients • Analyze the territory/market’s potential, track sales and status reports • Tour clients in our locations of responsibility to show the range of options available to suit their needs and closing the sale. • Look for new revenue opportunities to help clients run their business. • listen to customer requirements and present appropriately to make a sale • maintain and develop relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails • cold call to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business • respond to incoming email and phone enquirers • act as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets • negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales
Education
Master's Degree in International business management with finance
Heriot-Watt UniversityJan 2015
Bachelor's Degree in Business adminstration
Mansoura UniversityJan 2003 - Jan 2009 - 6 yr
Languages
Arabic
FluentEnglish
Fluent