Abdullah Ali Al-Argawy, MANAGER, PRESALES ENGAGEMENT – BANKING & FINANCE

Abdullah Ali Al-Argawy

MANAGER, PRESALES ENGAGEMENT – BANKING & FINANCE

International Turnkey Systems (ITS)

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering and automatic control department
Experience
22 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 4 Months

MANAGER, PRESALES ENGAGEMENT – BANKING & FINANCE at International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2011

• Ability to handle complex solution consulting requirements in areas like Core Banking, Islamic Banking, Branch Automation, Delivery Channels
• Complete end to end Bid Management in collaboration with Sales Team
• Conduct presentations & detailed Product walk through workshops with the Senior Management, Business users of financial institutions for the banking solution.
• RFP Response including compliance matrix response in the related products
• Understand Customer needs and find penetaration points to place the ITS solution in the clients Environment in what copes with the bank business strategy.
• After signing a deal, keep following up with the customer and the implementation team to make sure the implementation runs smoothly as agreed with the client.
• Assist Product Management Team in compiling product roadmaps as per market trends.
• Product Specialit for Core Banking Solution.

MANAGER, PROJECT MANAGER – BANKING & FINANCE at International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • October 2008 to October 2011

• Planning the project in all Project Management Areas.
• Ability to handle complex project from intitation to closure for banking Solutions.
• Manage the scope, cost and time according to what have been planned in the Porject Plan
• Handle tough customers to get the project closed in a satisfying manner.

BUSINESS CONSULTANT – BANKING & FINANCE at International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2007 to October 2008

• Team leader of Banking Solution responsible for delivery, implementation and after live support support
• Analyze and design many requirements in the core banking module in a dynamic way that copes with company standards.
• Working in Implementation team as Business Consultant, Technical consultant and team leader for Banking Solution
• Conversion from old Platforms to our Solution platforms.
• Product Specialit for Core Banking Solution.

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - TEAM LEADER - PROJECT LEADER at Business Systems House (BSH)
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • May 2005 to May 2007

• Designing, developing and implementing a web-based financial application that include most of financial modules (Account Payables (AP), Account Receivable (AR), General Ledger (GL), Purchasing, Custody, Cash Management ………).
• Participating in analysis and optimization of automating solutions for financial business needs as per customer requirements.
• Understanding and using a new middle tier tool called Jbase owned by the company to develop the financial application.
• Participating effectively in supporting HR application as a senior developer in the support team..

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - APPLICATION SUPPORT SPECIALIST - SECOND LINE SUPPORT TEAM LEADER at International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2004 to April 2005

• Developing core banking systems.
• Application support specialist and second line support team leader. The team included developers, designers and QA team. I was deeply involved in application support with all its full cycle. Passing through investigation, design, design review, development, code review, unit test, integrated test and QA. Finally close and send to solution to the customer and wait for customer approval for the issue to be signed off.
• Actually working in ITS Development Center gave me a very good experience in Software standards as it awarded CMM level 5i.

SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER at Ejada
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • January 2002 to April 2004

• Develop a web-enabled document management system using Domino Lotus Notes, Lotus Workflow, IBM Content Manager, and Java Applets. The server was AS400 machine; which gives me some experience in AS400.
• I was a member in Riyadh branch team and there was another team in Egypt branch, I was responsible for integration between developed modules in Riyadh and Egypt.
• Participation in developing a dynamic website for IDB (Islamic Development Bank), using Microsoft .Net as a development tool.
• Working in this software house when I was fresh graduate has opened my mind to discover new business areas as most of its projects were tailored packages that made me in direct exposure with the customer and enforce me to analyze and understand their needs.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer engineering and automatic control department
  • at Engineering Faculty, Alexandria University
  • June 2001

BSc. engineering , alexandria university , Computer engineering and automatic control department .

Specialties & Skills

Lotus Notes
Management
Workflow
Programming Language :: Basic, Pascal, C, C++, Java, C#….
Programming tools :: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, and Centura
RDB Design & implementation :: SQL, PL/SQL as per ORACLE, MS SQL Server & ASE-Sybase (Toad,Embarcad)
Document based databases (IBM) :: Lotus Notes Developer, LWF, Common-Store, Content Manager , AS400
Some Training Courses in Some different fields

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Consultative Sales Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Richardsons
Centura Introduction (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
PMI Certified Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
PowerSites
Phoenix and Sybase Orientation (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
IBM Domino Application Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Configuration Management Process (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Introduction to C# programming with Microsoft .NET. (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Phoenix Class Library (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Sybase Administration Overview (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
CMM Overview and Client Engagement process (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Using JAVA Script in IBM Domino Applications (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Building Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 Solutions. (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Advanced T-SQL Tips and Techniques (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Using JAVA in IBM Domino Applications (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
IBM Domino Designer Fundamentals. (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Validation, Verification and Software Life Cycle (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
IBM Domino Application Security and Workflow (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada
Measurements and Metrics (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Consultative Sales Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Rechiardsons
PMP Certified (Certificate)
PMI Certified Project Management Professional (Training)
Training Institute:
PowerSite
Software Estimation and Sizing (Training)
Training Institute:
ITS
Using Lotus Script for IBM Domino Applications. (Training)
Training Institute:
Ejada