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bilal bader, Chief Architect

bilal bader

Chief Architect·Arab monetary fund

United Arab Emirates

Master's degree, International Management

Work experience

Total years of experience: 26 years, 3 months

Chief Architect

July 2021 - Present

Arab monetary fund

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

July 2021 - Present

Company industry:
Financial Services
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Project Manager

August 2018 - June 2021

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

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August 2018 - June 2021

● Acquire, plan, analyze data management lifecycle solutions to achieve the targeted organization data strategy.
● Initiate, plan and execute multi millions projects
● Plan the communication, risk responses.
● End-to-End vendor management process from RFP, RFI and
RFQ steps until the completion of engagement and/or building
strategic partnership with the organization’s preferred vendors.
● Plan, execute and controls and close projects using PMI
methodology.

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Information Technology

Project Management Channels

September 2013 - July 2018

Emirates NBD

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

September 2013 - July 2018

● Lead and managed a team of 50 + talented multi-cultural engineers to deliver a + 5M$ program to transform a 17 years old online banking toward a full digital banking platform by introducing a fully automated services and total new user experience. Which include the following projects
○ Online Banking Portal
○ FaceBanking (Video & Chat Banking Facility)
○ Mobile Banking Application backward compatibility with the new online banking portal
○ Implementing SiteCore content management for the online banking
● Implement software development best practices including but not limited, code quality control (SonarQube), CI/CD, automated testing, peer reviews …etc.
● Motivate and manage a team of 50+ resources
● Increased the total number of generated leads by 130% by building a rule based targeting engine.
● Coaching and mentoring the new team members to streamline with the internal processes and procedures
● End-to-End vendor management process from RFP, RFI and RFQ steps until the completion of engagement and/or building strategic partnership with the organization’s preferred vendors.
● Plan, execute and controls and close projects using Prince2/PMI methodology.
● Enhance Processes and procedures
● Coach the team members and train the new joiners
● Communicate with CXO Members about the projects/program status, risk/issues.
● Deliver the following projects
○ xPress Money Transfer Integration through Online/Mobile Banking
○ UAE Central Bank Payment Gateway Integration
○ KSA Branch Mobile application
○ InstaPay Innovation idea (transfer to a mobile number within Emirates NBD customer based)

Company industry:
Banking
Job role:
Management

Project Manager / Development Team Leader

May 2007 - September 2013

EastNets

Amman, Jordan

May 2007 - September 2013

● Plan iterative deliverable, monitor and control the plan activities to stabilize SafeWatch filtering 2.0 product.
● Oversee the delivered documentation from the project phases.
● Deliver online reporting, and status reports to upper management about the health of project(s) execution.
● Develop internal processes for coordination and collaboration between the technical support stakeholders to enhance the technical support services.
● Implement company processes to advance the level of services and ensure high quality deliverables.
● Identifying areas of risks and propose the strategy for dealing with it.
● Manage projects/products scope. And control changes by applying the change management process.
● Managing, coaching, motivating and training the project team.
● Conducting requirements gathering sessions, requirements elicitation, requirements documentation and scope management.
● Conducting pre-tender analysis and scoping.
● Participating in writing the proposals.
● Managing Project by applying PMI standards.
● Participate in the process improvement and building new processes to enhance the work performance.
● forming a team of 8 engineers. coaching, training of the team.
● Manage the daily tasks and project deadline.
● Creating proposals as part of bid responses.
● Conduct technical management meetings to plan the internal technical standards.
● Define coding standards and base framework architecture.
● Manage analyzing the existing product conversion and upgrade to new technologies.
● Prepare analysis and requirements documents for different type of products/projects.
● Implement Agile methodology and managing TFS.
● Design, develop a financial messaging hub that supports RTGS (KASSIP and SARIE) and SWIFT messages.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Management

Technical Team Lead

January 2006 - May 2007

Educational Testing Services

Jordan

January 2006 - May 2007

• Plan project and develop project schedule.
• Monitor and execute the project plan on daily basis with development team.
• Define changes on database schema and update it accordingly.
• Analyze system requirements with BAs.
• Conduct detailed code review for developers.
• Apply company standards in naming convention and using common functionality.
• Keep track for opened bugs.
• Analyze ambiguous defects.

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Information Technology

Senior Developer / Technical Team Lead

May 2003 - January 2006

eSense Software Solutions

Jordan

May 2003 - January 2006

• Conduct gathering requirements and system analysis sessions.
• Preparing project plan and distributing tasks for developers.
• Design databases schema.
• Define development frameworks and basic classes and interfaces for different projects.
• Cooperate with QA team to define defects tracking and solving process.
• Responsible for projects releases.
• Handling end-clients training.
• Involved in documenting projects architectures and user manuals.
• Dealing with critical tasks.
• Doing proof of concept.
• Coordinating project closure efforts.
• On hand development experience.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Internet Solution Developer

June 2001 - May 2003

Eskadenia Software Solutions

Amman, Jordan

June 2001 - May 2003

• Conducting gathering requirements and system analysis sessions with end clients.
• Designing database schema for different projects.
• Coordinating projects hardening phase.
• On hand developments for multiple websites and web portals.
• Designing website structure and new CMS and workflow products.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Web developer

August 2000 - June 2001

TISGroup

Amman, Jordan

August 2000 - June 2001

1-Re-structuring www.esayyarat.com database and web site hierarchy.
2-Conducting data clean-up and existing data merging.
3-Responsible for website deployment.

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Programmer

March 2000 - July 2000

Alturath Computer Center

Amman, Jordan

March 2000 - July 2000

In this job i was involve in analyze, design and implement two applications for outmarket and many small modules programed for the internal research purposes, the main language that I was used VB and access DB

Company industry:
Software Development
Job role:
Information Technology

Education

Sbs Swiss Business School

May 2021

May 2021

Master's degree, International Management

United Arab Emirates

GPA (percentage): 89%

GPA (percentage): 89%

Harvard Business School

May 2016

May 2016

Diploma, Management

United Arab Emirates

Executive Management program - Certified Manager Program

Zarka Private University

February 2000

February 2000

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

Jordan

GPA 80.6% very good, I was active member of computer science club, also I was very active in scientific researches and activities during my academic lifetime in the university.

Skills

SWIFT messaging
Expert
SWIFT messaging
Expert
Banking Software
Expert
Banking Software
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS OutLook
Intermediate
MS Word, MS Excel, MS Project, MS OutLook
Intermediate
Initiative
Expert
Initiative
Expert
Quantitative Analysis
Expert
Quantitative Analysis
Expert
VB 6.0, VB.Net, ASP 3.0, ASP.Net,C#, SQL Server 2000, XML
Expert
VB 6.0, VB.Net, ASP 3.0, ASP.Net,C#, SQL Server 2000, XML
Expert
System Analysis, Software Design, Requirement collection
Expert
System Analysis, Software Design, Requirement collection
Expert
Commerce Server 2000, Sharpoint server 2003
Intermediate
Commerce Server 2000, Sharpoint server 2003
Intermediate
Content Management Server 2002
Expert
Content Management Server 2002
Expert
Good in application processing, data modeling, flowcharting.
Intermediate
Good in application processing, data modeling, flowcharting.
Intermediate
Client’s support capabilities
Expert
Client’s support capabilities
Expert
ability to work under pressure.
Expert
ability to work under pressure.
Expert
Responsible of application releases
Expert
Responsible of application releases
Expert
Build detailed application designs and system flows.
Expert
Build detailed application designs and system flows.
Expert
Having a good experience in test plan preparation, testing validations, program debugging
Expert
Having a good experience in test plan preparation, testing validations, program debugging
Expert
Good experience in UML notation, Visio tool
Intermediate
Good experience in UML notation, Visio tool
Intermediate
team player
Expert
team player
Expert
Experience in MSF
Intermediate
Experience in MSF
Intermediate
In depth knowledge of SDLC
Expert
In depth knowledge of SDLC
Expert
RUP
Beginner
RUP
Beginner
Non Functional Testing
Expert
Non Functional Testing
Expert
Mobile Banking
Expert
Mobile Banking
Expert
Online Banking
Expert
Online Banking
Expert
Remittances
Expert
Remittances
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Vendor Management
Expert
Requirements Analysis
Expert
Requirements Analysis
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Team Management
Expert
Agile and Waterfall methodology
Intermediate
Agile and Waterfall methodology
Intermediate
Strategy
Intermediate
Strategy
Intermediate
Digital Banking
Expert
Digital Banking
Expert
Stackholders Management
Expert
Stackholders Management
Expert
Team Leadership
Expert
Team Leadership
Expert
Business Analysis
Expert
Business Analysis
Expert
CI / CD
Expert
CI / CD
Expert
Scrum
Expert
Scrum
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Agile Project Management
Expert
Vendors Management
Expert
Vendors Management
Expert
Stakeholders Management
Expert
Stakeholders Management
Expert
SWIFT messaging
Expert
SWIFT messaging
Expert
Banking Software
Expert
Banking Software
Expert

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Jordanian Computer Society (JCS)

Active Member

September 2005

Training and Certifications

Certifications
Project Management Professional
Aug 2020 - Aug 2023
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Licensed Scrum Master

Training
Certified Manager Program
Harvard Business School
Feb 2016
PMP preparing Program
Method Corporation
Oct 2009