Sari Kirm, Channels Development Manager

Sari Kirm

Channels Development Manager

SNB Capital

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

Channels Development Manager at SNB Capital
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2019
Technical Support Team Lead at National Commercial Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2014 to September 2019

• Managing the flow of day-to-day tasks and ensure conform to SLA(service level agreement).
• Rollout main significant projects and phases with Tadawul (Saudi stock market) such as X-Stream, parallel market, T+2, VAT and others.
• Managing solving problems in Production, provide Production Incident report PIR and root cause analysis RCA.
• Providing reports and operations requests.
• GO/NO GO meetings to decide GO live for main phases.
• Providing status reports to PMO (project management office) to be used in steering committee.
• Preparing test cases for new deliveries as per BRD.
• Following testing process in No-Production and coordinate with delivery department for SIT(system integration testing) and UAT(user acceptance testing).
• Weekly meetings with client (NCB) and coordinate with the vendor (Elfi Systems Co.) for new requests CR, inquiries or any issue might be raised.
• Coordinating with client for deployment in Production by attending CAB meeting and getting required approvals. RFC (change for request) should be logged in change control system and filled with required info and approvals.
• Providing status reporting of team activities to my management.

Software Consultant at Alrajhi Bank
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2011 to June 2014

• Onsite technical support at Systems Development Division - Brokerage Section - taking full responsibilities for supporting the trading system “GBS” we installed for the top two banks in KSA (Al Rajhi Bank in Riyadh and Al-Ahli Bank in Jeddah) which has been developed and presented by ELFI Systems (www.elfisystems.it)
• System implementation and data migration from old systems
• System Troubleshooting and monitoring all its components including the DB level
• Deployed new product releases, changes, fixes and enhancements on three testing system environments before applying them into production
• Packaged and released delivery coordination with the vendor in Italy (Elfi Systems Co.)
• Managed and supported the trading back office system and provide the full technical and management assistance to help the operations department and brokers to do their duties easily
• Applied the test case scenarios to assure that the application is working correctly according to the SW change requested by the bank
• Worked closely with the bank testing department to assure that all RFC’s requirements is achieved according to the business requirements
• Prepared and managed backup and recovery strategies
• Wrote full release installation notes documents for each SW change or package which includes the necessity of this release, how to install it, test cases and other related issues
• Wrote Shell scripts to extract daily, weekly and monthly reports from the database and from the log files
• Built and tuned SQL queries for special huge reports.
• Worked on customer complains ticketing system using Oracle CRM and HPSM
• Supported an identical system quarterly for the DRC (Disaster Recovery Center)
• Supported a Mobile Trading application for both iOS and Android

IT support at Ministry of Education
  • Palestine - Jenin
  • May 2010 to April 2011
Java Developer at ASALTechnologies
  • Palestine - West Bank
  • April 2009 to April 2010

• Developed agricultural system (IMO, Switzerland) which is built on Java Struts.
• Tasks and delivery estimate.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Arab American University
  • June 2008

This program seeks to construct the student’s personality, and develop the ability to research and analysis, comparison and connectivity. ِAlso, Improve and impart the necessary skills in the field of informatics. What makes this program unique from all others from other universities is that it stimulates entrepreneurship, competition, and involvement in local and international programming competitions. In Addition, it contribute to the development of the local community, and communicate with relevant local institutions in various social, economic, and scientific sectors so students create graduation projects in the community’s interest. To keep up with this success the program ensure to conduct ongoing reviews of the study plan to cope with the demands of modern technology. Also, Place emphasis on raising the efficiency of teachers through encouragement, support them in follow-up studies, and provide them with the necessary requirements in order to move forward in the process of scientific research, and hold seminars and workshops that motivate them to actively participate. Graduates of this Faculty are well-prepared to contribute to the development of engineering and information technology systems. In collaboration with the most renowned national companies, graduates are trained on the latest findings in industries of hardware and software. These graduates have proved competent whether in the business world or in graduate scholarly work at European and American universities. Graduates are expected to be capable of working at the following job positions: • Software Developers • Database administrators • Computer programmers • Computer and information systems managers • Computers maintenance • Computer systems analysts • Information Security Analysts • Web Developers • Computer network architects and network engineers • Computer information research scientists • Computer technical support specialists • Software Engineers • Systems Engineers • Business Analysts • Systems Administrators • Project Managers • Animation/Special effects developers • Multimedia developers • Computer game designer/programmers • Trainer, software applications

Specialties & Skills

Trading Systems
VB.net programming
Java Programming
Unix scripting

Languages

English
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