Bernard Gholmieh, Senior Operations and MIS

Bernard Gholmieh

Senior Operations and MIS

Bank Audi LLC

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Master's degree, MBA - Project Operations & Management
Experience
19 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 4 Months

Senior Operations and MIS at Bank Audi LLC
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since June 2008

Highlights:
- Participating and managing several information systems projects involving the database management systems creation life cycle, from the design phase to the data models testing and implementation phase.
- Coordinating with IT professionals to identify the proper database management tools to be applied and implemented for better and efficient results.
- Accomplishing data mining and manipulation to analyze the results using MS Access, MySql
database management systems and other similar packages and tools.
- Handling and monitoring the daily operational tasks following the QFCRA regulations
- Designing, developing and maintaining local
applications and Dashboards related to the
Accounting and Finance, Operations, Trade Finance, Compliance and HR departments, along the technical and daily support and tasks handling for all of these departments
- Providing analytic reporting and business intelligence services for the entire core banking requirement, budgeting and other managerial reporting figures.
- Ability to identify business needs and opportunities for improvement via detailed analysis and understanding of overall business and systems structure, op models, strategy, flows, processes, and inter-relationships.
- Involvement in the management and implementation of several core banking modules i.e. loan, AML, and accounts reconciliation modules, SWIFT application and many updates on the existing modules.
- Designing, constructing, modifying, integrating, implementing and testing data models and database management systems.
- Conducting research and providing advice to other informatics professionals regarding the selection, application and implementation of database management tools.
- Operating database management systems to analyze data and perform data mining analysis.

Project & Business Intelligence Analyst at Bank Audi SAL
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • June 2006 to June 2008

- Managed the Bank’s reporting process through the different types of Management Information System to drive the Bank’s strategic direction, helping it achieve its financial objectives and to meet relevant financial policies.
- Provided reporting to various departments and branches across the bank, developed and
implemented performance analytics and significantly influenced decision making within several projects for the branches and the departments, as well as various analytical reports for top management review.
- Designed, developed and generated several
managerial dashboards and reports using Cognos
- Defined the overall approach and technical direction for BI tool-set and liaised with the IT department to find better and faster solutions for a better system performance.
- Kept IT strategy aligned with the changing business needs, monitoring performance of workflow analysis and engineering, for the organizational planning of most of the bank's departments to meet better and efficient results in a contemporary management environment.
- Developed, implemented and maintained
procedures, policies, and standards to continuously improve organizational efficiency, following the KPIs for each milestone in a timely manner to meet the project.
- Conducted gap analysis and enabled the
management to use advanced planning, re-
engineering and business intelligence features.

System Analyst and Developer at Path Solutions
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2005 to June 2006

- Designed, planned, developed, tested and
implemented modules and applications following the KPIs in a timely manner to meet the project and the client's needs.
- Evaluated and identified clients’ needs, to establish operating procedural standards, recommended IT infrastructure requirements based on customer needs and deploy robust solutions.
- Developed systems by translating requirements into highly specified project briefs, liaised extensively with programmers & software developers for the same.
- Managed time schedules to meet growth needs on time and within budget with a strong focus on adhering to deadlines for critical systems such as accounting, trade finance and core banking modules.
- Performed handover test for end users, offered fundamental training for effective and optimum use of such application & systems installed.
- Assisted and resolved any troubleshoot problems arising thereof as well as oversaw quality control and bugs fixing for several applications in the system.

Education

Master's degree, MBA - Project Operations & Management
  • at Notre Dame University
  • February 2008
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at American University of Science & Technology
  • February 2004
Diploma, A+ Computer Technician
  • at New Horizons
  • March 2001

Course Content: • Computer Hardware • Installation • Networking

Specialties & Skills

Data Warehousing
Intelligence Analysis
Project Management
Business Systems Implementation
Sophisticated Financial Analysis
IT Project Management, System Development & Implementation, Business Process Analysis
Banking Policies and Procedures, Technical Management, System Analysis and Design, Technical Support
Formulating Strategic Objectives, Business Intelligence, Functional Management, Report Generation
Analytical Thinking, Report Management, Communication, Interpersonal and Leadership Skills
MS Office Applications, Visual Basic.NEt, Power Builder, Oracle DB, Sybase DB, C# , VB, Cognos
Analytical Ability, Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving, Time Management
MS Access and VBA, Microsoft Project, Business Objects Tools, Microsoft Visio

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

SCRUM Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2018
MIT Nanodegree/Professional certificate in FINTECH (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2017
MIT Professional Certificate in Data science (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2016