Abdul Basith, Project manager

Abdul Basith

Project manager

Commercial Bank of Dubai

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
20 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 1 Months

Project manager at Commercial Bank of Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2014

 Managing Tier 1 strategic and Digital transformation projects of the bank as part of Enterprise Change Management Office.
 Closely worked with IT Risk governance on the risk assessment of application before it is deployed
 Managing project governance, developing business case for Digital projects, rollout plans and reporting the project status and outcome via Business reports and Steering committees.
 Manage Team and vendor in right balance and utilize the right resource based on the individual person capability.
 Prepare functional and technical specifications for external suppliers or for in-house implementation
 Managing project with respect to cost, scope and schedule baselines. Overseeing the quality of the deliverables and ensuring proper communication to the relevant teams involved in the project.
 Ensured functioning of the development team in an agile manner as it relates to software deployment, including domain-driven design, test driven development, automated unit testing and test fixtures, and pair programming
 Defining the scope of development of new features and ongoing enhancements including management of backlogs and roadmaps for new functionalities for upcoming sprints.

Sr. System Analyst at Commercial Bank of Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2012 to September 2014

 Lead in the development and documentation of technical specifications including database and application architecture and design.
 Implemented the entire website (www.cbdonline.ae) a PCI Compliance as per Central Bank Policy.
 Document and maintain the SDLC document of the application that I manage to meet the Audit specification.
 Interact, under guidance from project manager with internal customers to study their requirements, providing guidance and advice where necessary
 Lead team in clarifying requirements and overcoming obstacles to meet the team goals
 Lead team in troubleshooting and performing root cause analysis for production issues that are escalated to the team

IT System Analyst and Team Lead at Commercial Bank of Dubai
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • February 2010 to September 2014

 Handling Business Requirements and leading team in development and enhancements of various projects across different modules in Online Banking and Mobile Banking Channels.
 High level scoping, planning, scheduling and documenting the tasks within the team & creating implementation plan of sprints. Ensuring proper operations of the application systems.
 Managing the complete agile methodology (Scrum & Kanban) for development. Coordinating change cycle in team which includes the schedule planning, test scope planning, handling SIT & UAT, deployment in the associated environments, communication with relevant teams, coordinating sign off and ultimately getting the release live successfully
 Liaising with various stakeholders including the associated vendors and the external service providers for the enhancements and releases. Coordinating and communicating with the teams at all stages of the project lifecycle to ensure consistency, continuous improvements and adherence to the timelines.

Sr. Software Engineer at Dicetek LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2008 to January 2010

 Systems Design, Development, Testing, Integration and Implementation of web based n-tier architecture systems with strong knowledge of Microsoft Dot Net Technologies
 Analyze business requirements; create application mockups using Microsoft Visio to demonstrate expected application workflow
 Lead in the development and documentation of technical specifications including database and application architecture and design.
 Build, test and trouble shoot interfaces to core banking system
 Develop specifications for databases, communication systems, and hardware, network, Security, storage and software configurations.
 Develop operational and installation procedures for communication systems, hardware, network, security, storage and software.
 Use MS Visual Studio/ Team Foundation/Microsoft Visual Source Safe and other collaboration tools to ensure proper software lifecycle integrity
 Serve as a liaison with users concerning requests, usage, standards, security, and other developmental and production matters.
 Develop structured diagrams for the specifications of databases, communication systems, computer or storage area networks, and security or network programs.
 Stakeholder management, proven ability to communicate business and technical information to different stakeholders with different background confidently and clearly.
 Ensure development team is working in an agile manner as it relates to software deployment, including domain-driven design, test driven development, automated unit testing and test fixtures, and pair programming
 Provide technical oversight and mentorship to developers, including design consultations and ongoing code reviews
 Strong in technical documentation skills, including writing SDS (Software Detailed Specifications) and SSD (System Specification Document) documents
 Assist IT Security team in conducting Static/Dynamic Code analysis and testing on quarterly basis
 Align technology decisions with other solution architects and enterprise architects
 Participate in solution design, concept visualization and functional and technical requirements definition and documentation.
 Develop the gateways, filters and interfaces related to state-wide messaging and Communication systems.
 Develop detailed systems operation designs
 Tested programs and systems and integrated system modules.
 Converted and implemented new systems or upgrades of existing systems
 Closely worked with IT Risk governance on the Risk assessment of application before it is deployed.

Software Engineer at Dicetek LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • November 2006 to December 2007

 Played the role in application support and development.
 Design and develop well documented source code
 System troubleshooting along with problem identification and resolution.
 Document and maintain the SDLC document of the application that I manage to meet the Audit specification.
 Supported application as a first level support and provide solution for quick resolution.
 Played a key role during project implementation, change management for the project that I worked.
 Provided an innovative ideas during the early stage of project design for the better quality project development.

IT Executive at Scheibye Trading – Dubai Airport Free Zone
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2005 to October 2006

 Developed a software which reads a barcode of mobile through handheld scanner and integrating the information of mobile into .net Application
 Responsible in specialized programming and debugging of all corporate ITD requirements. Responsible for monitoring of new system and maintaining the application software/hardware which is being utilized by users
 Support of Network access in Dubai, Sharjah and Denmark.
 Developing web based projects for the company.
 Backup and recovery management with Disaster and risk management.
 Application Trouble shooting and maintenance of registry database.

Program Analyst at white house business solution
  • India - Chennai
  • April 2004 to May 2005

 Responsible in programming and debugging of the project using ASP.Net which I was assigned
 Test programs by running it to ensure the instructions are correct and that it produces the desired information. If errors do occur, the programmer must make the appropriate change and recheck the program until it produces the correct results
 Implements and trains users (technical and non-technical) for their specific queries on the developed package software.
 Designing websites and web portals.
 Configuring the systems so as to meet the security standards.
 Maintaining the Application supporting the ERP Packages.
 Gone to Sudan for Implementation of Project handled by our team

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at M.A.M college of Engineering
  • June 2003

Specialties & Skills

Web Development
Team Management
IT Project Management
Retail Banking
Banking
Sql Server
Project management
Scrum Master
Digital Banking
Phoenix Core banking
Utility payments

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Certified SAFe 4 Agilist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2019
Valid Until:
June 2019
Professional Scrum Master 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Scrum.org
Date Attended:
June 2018
ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2012
Valid Until:
October 2015
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizon
Date Attended:
October 2015
Duration:
35 hours