Augustine Dharmaraj

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Procurement & Purchasing
Location: Doha, Qatar


Result-driven Procurement Professional with over 25 years of total experience in Qatar, Sri Lanka & India seeking a challenging senior level position within Procurement / Purchasing / Sourcing Operations and Supply Chain Management with a dynamic organization to contribute towards the success and growth of the organization. Procurement experience in sectors being Aviation, Marine, Medical, Defense, Oil & Gas, Fleet Management, Education & Sports, Hospitality, Infrastructure, etc. etc.

Education

01-08-1992 / 28-02-1993

PDCA - Post Diploma in Computer Applications. at Globe Computers (Affiliated to NCVT), North Soorankudy, Nagercoil - 629501, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.

1. Basic Lang. Programming – 74
1a. Practical-I – 84
2. COBOL Lang. Programming – 78
2a. Practical-II – 88
3. DBase III+ & Lotus 123 – 76
3a. Practical-III – 87
4. Word Star – 68
5. Project Work – 84

01-08-1991 / 31-07-1992

NCVT - Provisional National Trade Certificate – Data Preparation & Computer Software. at National Council for Vocational Training, Government of Tamil Nadu, Nagercoil - 629001, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.

1. Trade Practicals – 341/400
2. Trade Theory – 89/120
3. Social Studies – 30/50

01-04-1990 / 31-03-1991

HSCC - Higher Secondary Course Certificate - Mathematics at Scott Christian Higher Secondary School, Nagercoil - 629001, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.

1. Tamil Language – 115
2. English Language – 143
3. Physics – 89
4. Chemistry – 118
5. Biology – 134
6. Mathematics – 130

Experience

15-03-2007 / 31-05-2020

Procurement In-charge (B2B Purchase / B2C Sales & Marketing) at Qatar Development & Trading Co. LLC – PO Box. 22197, Doha, Qatar

Major Accountabilities:
A. General Trading Division:
Responsible for sourcing general as well as specialized materials & spares for major clients such as Qatar Petroleum, Qatar Armed Forces, Hamad International Air-port, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar Foundation, Milaha (Qatar Navigation), Qatar Amiri Guard, Ministry of Interior, Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya), Mowasalat (Karwa Transport Co.), etc., etc.

B. Sub-Contracting Division:
Led the purchase activities of their Civil Construction & MEP Projects as a sub-contractor and procurements of specialized materials, equipment, services and manpower for projects worth millions of dollars in the state of Qatar.

C. Tenders/Bidding Division:
Responsible for study, detailed review of project requirements as per contract specifications, bill of quantities, etc. and sourcing materials & services, manpower recruitments, etc. for concerned bids.

D. Other Activities:
⦁ Trade Costing and forecasting in terms of commercial purpose.
⦁ Prepare the comparative statements or cost comparisons and finalizing the supplier in co-ordination with Project Director / Director Operations.
⦁ Co-ordinate between company Engineers / Technicians and vendors for Technical requirements / shop drawings for technical evaluations.
⦁ Co-ordinate with Finance Division for payment process such as LC, Pro-forma, etc.
⦁ Co-ordinate with Expedition Division on and material inspections.
⦁ Responsible for evaluating quotes and the dependability of suppliers.
⦁ Advise the Junior Staff for preparation of quotations, Pipeline Reports, etc.
⦁ Attend client meetings and site visits.
⦁ Responsible for arrangement and supervision of delivery, installation and commissioning process (if required),
⦁ Responsible for Repairs & Maintenance (for Warrantied Materials).
⦁ Provide or arrange Training & Technical Instructions (if required) to Client’s Staff.
⦁ Monitoring supplier performance and initiate necessary actions to improve the performance.
⦁ Maintain Purchasing performance data, procurement documentation, and all other pertinent information.
⦁ Responsible for locating or promoting possible new sources of supply.
⦁ Prepare annual departmental budget for Director of Finance to review.
⦁ Maintained professional relationships with government echelons for maintain required advises with regard to safety regulations.
⦁ Responsible for handle clients those who are utilizing online procurement sites such as e-Procurement, e-Sourcing, ERP, SAP Supplier Portal, etc.
⦁ Responsible for renewal of procurement related registrations with Government Institutions.
⦁ Analyzing market trends, prevalent competition and recommended strategies to the marketing team to achieve sales targets.

01-01-1994 / 30-04-2006

Analyst / Programmer (Oracle ERP Development Support) at Neptune Hotel (An Aitken Spence Subsidiary) Beruwala, Sri Lanka

Major Accountabilities:
⦁ Analyst: The main task to homework and implement new techniques to Accounts & Administration divisions of the subsidiary using information technology.

⦁ Programmer: Assists the Aitken Spence Hotels (Head Office) to implement business operation such as Reservations, Accounting, Procurement, etc. utilizing ORACLE® Applications.

⦁ Other Activities:
a. Study activities of operational divisions such as Front Office, Restaurant, Bar, Health Club, Boutique Shop, etc. in order to implement and provide IT solutions.
b. Study non-operation activities of divisions such as Housekeeping, Kitchen, Engineering, Laundry, etc. to implement and develop Stores & Purchasing activities through Central Purchasing Division.
c. Support Finance Division with application solution by assisting Accounts / Administration divisions for their Daily Reports, Monthly (bluebook) Report, Quarterly Accounts and Annual Reports,
d. Assisting and monitoring of User Applications which are developed in Oracle Platform for error free operations and provide solutions by co-ordinating with application developers at the IT Division.
e. Supports the General Manager / Finance Manager with designing presentations for their financial meetings at the Head-office.
f. Provide system support by diagnosing systems for most common OS and Application errors.
g. Responsible for arrange system support during major hardware and software malfunctions
h. and much more activities…

⦁ Non-official Activities:
a. Help the operational division such as Front Office, Restaurant, Bar, Kitchen, etc. for their promotional activities by designing menus, animated promotional videos, banners, etc.
b. Involved in Curriculum Activities of Administration Division.
c. Involved in designing a monthly magazine called ‘Neptune Puwath’ (Neptune News) and publish in the interest of all employees of the subsidiary.

01-08-1992 / 30-06-1993

Asst. Programmer (COBOL Specialist) / DEO at Globe Computer Training Centre, Marthandam – 629 165, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India

Major Accountabilities:
⦁ Assist the Senior System Developer for software development mainly with thence popular computer programming language COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) on DOS platform and Data Entry.
⦁ Major Project: Reservation System for Kerala Travels, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.
⦁ Other Project: First phase of Software development for Out-patient records at Catherine Booth Hospital, Nagercoil, Kanyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India.

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