Abdalla Elnounou

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Cutover Lead | Workday HCM/Finance & Dynamics 365 Deployment Expert

Vancouver, Canada

About

Abdalla is a senior management advisor and project lead specializing in large ERP cutover planning and execution over the past five years. He has extensive experience in business and digital transformation programs. His technical background, combined with deep business acumen, enables him to effectively communicate business values to a business audience and articulate business issues to an IT audience. Abdalla has significant expertise in cutover concepts, including establishing a cutover approach, educating and aligning stakeholders on cutover milestones, collaborating with all functional and technical teams to develop a comprehensive cutover plan, facilitating data freeze/blackout period decisions, preparing the project for cutover dress rehearsals, establishing cutover/go-live readiness criteria, and executing the actual cutover.

Experience: 15+ years
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Contract preference: Contract
Contract location: Hybrid, Remote
Languages: Arabic, English

Applications

ERP HRIS Finance CRM

Systems

Workday HCM Workday Finance Oracle NetSuite ERP Microsoft Dynamics 365

Industries

Energy Healthcare Information Technology (IT) Construction Higher Education

Skills

Attention to Detail Critical Thinking Data Migration Decision-Making Conflict Resolution Change Management Collaboration Crisis Management Delegation Leadership Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Planning and Scheduling Problem-Solving Project Management Resource Allocation Risk Management Smartsheet Stakeholder Management

Cutover Experience

Program Manager

Viacore

Jan 2024 – Jul 2024
Remote

• Led the project reset planning post multiple failed attempts to go-live.
• Restructured the data migration workstream to focus on better documentation of scoping, transformation logic and apply proper data cleansing
• Established and executed a comprehensive end to end testing process
• Planned and led a cutover that resulted in a successful go-live on June 3rd.

ERP Finance

Cutover Lead

University of Washington

Apr 2022 – Sep 2023
Remote

• Led the cutover planning activities for a large transformation project (USD 350M+ budget) to transition the university’s finance processes replacing a financial accounting system from 1974, and retiring, remediating, and consolidating over 850 other side systems into the existing HCM Workday platform.
• Led my team to plan and execute the cutover activities including data conversion activities for both the academy and medicine (University Hospitals) sides of the university.
• Worked and coordinated between all the different teams and functions in the university to build, review and rehearse a very detailed cutover plan three times in preparation for a July 2023 go-live.
• Significantly helped the adoption of the new ecosystem across all units of the University.
• Successfully led the execution of all planned cutover activities that resulted in a successful Workday Finance go-live for UW on July 6th, 2023

Finance

Data Migration and Cutover Lead

SRK Consulting

Nov 2020 – Mar 2022
Hybrid

• Led the planning and execution of the data migration workstream to migrate client data from legacy system to the new ERP.
• Led the project management team on the overall ERP implementation process across all workstreams.
• Successfully led all workstreams through the cutover process and go-live with the new ERP system.

ERP Finance Construction

Cutover Lead

University of British Columbia

Sep 2019 – Nov 2020
Hybrid

• Led the cutover planning activities for a massive transformation project at UBC (CAD 350M+) as part of the Integrated Renewal Program to deploy a new HCM and Finance platform that is based on Workday in its first release.
• Coordinated between all the technical and functional workstreams to identify and document all the activities, communication, roles, and responsibilities related to the cutover period throughout the different phases of the plan.
• Successfully led the execution of all planned cutover activities that resulted in a successful Workday go live.

ERP HRIS Finance

Data Migration and Cutover Consultant

Ball Metalpack

Mar 2019 – Aug 2019
Onsite

• Led the data migration planning and the cutover activities to rescue a client who is struggling to setup their ERP system in a very aggressive timeline as part of an acquisition transaction

ERP Finance

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