Project Manager
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Total years of experience :18 years, 5 Months
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Emirates National Bank of Dubai ENBD (Senior Project Manager) Head Office - Al-Barsha, P.O. Box 777 - Group IT, Channels Domain
All projects are from IT perspective serving the entire group of ENBD (Dubai, KSA, Egypt and Singapore) Including Emirates Islamic Bank EI
• Utilized the full Project management (Integration, Cost, Time, Scope, Vendor Mgmt, RFP Creation & Scoring, Recourses, Risk …)
• Managed Video Banking Project to be integrated with Retail and mobile online banking.
• Managed Smart Authentication Project (Changing all systems using SMS as second factor authentication “OTP” to soft tokens and Out Of Bound “OOB” authentication)
• Managed SMS engine revamp Project.
• Participated on the Online Banking revamp Delta Project for retail.
Group IT, Channels Domain
All projects are from IT perspective serving the entire group of
Head Office - Jdeideh - IT/ Delivery & E-Delivery Channel Units
• Worked on supervising the team on the enhancements of the online & mobile banking on both sides (Application & Bank).
• Mobile Banking: Integrating it to BOB system by using IIS web services and follow up by testing from start to end passing from DEV, UAT to PROD environments.
• Clearing System: Created a full solution for the new clearing system requested from BDL to ease the use of the clearing officers in order to send their session online using BDL application (Perago).
• Clearing System: Followed up on the solution provided by the company (Turnkey) applying changes as requested from BDL and integrated it in BOB system (machine & database) until it went live.
• Online Banking (Corporate, Consumer & Business Central) :
• Created a full flow chart of the work done from the Bank side for the online & mobile banking
• Documenting the full solution bank side in two categories business & technical
• Engaged in creating and fixing .net & java web services which is needed for both online and mobile.
• Suggest different solutions for special (bank) problems on all fields of the application (Security, business, not existing needed features…).
• Advising business people on the best solution to be applied for their need online.
• Proposing/demonstrating solutions on business done in other banks if needed (consolidated from 9 huge banks in gulf countries)
• Hitting the right objective from the start (per module/request) avoiding major changes in the future and minimizing RFC’s to the max.
• Taking measures to avoid business overlap which increases the risk of errors and compromise different requests simultaneously.
• Technical Online Banking :
• Code review Sybase (checking mainly performance issues per delivery and coding convention)
• Filling gaps not recognized by bank (mainly entitlements and other hidden configuration issues)
• Exact task estimations especially RFC’s
• Enabling features provided by the solution (Sybase) not recognized by company if needed (ex: beneficiary lookup…).
• Solved special requests outside the application done internally (physical delete…
Similar to Inma Bank procedures and responsibilities.
for the implementation team of the Sybase Corporate Internet Banking application based on the Financial Fusion J2EE Framework. Participated in the bank’s business analysis offering adequate solutions. In Charge of the application quality and task allocation (setting and meeting deadlines to reach various
onsite team leader for the implementation team of the Sybase Corporate Internet Banking application based on the Financial Fusion J2EE Framework. Participated in customizing, modifying & fixing all sections of the corporate application as well as implemented the independent Trade Finance section.
QMS Project (Quality Maintenance & Support)
Created an internet application from scratch for live clients and internal quality support (more than 1000 live users).
Trained and managed 7 resources to handle the support for this application and several other projects (Space Management, Business Model…).
• TMS Project (Task Management System)
Managing a team of 3 persons.
Internal Project to manage company projects and human resources (Tasks, Time estimation…
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• Member of the Professional Services Group
• Provided technical consulting on the design and implementation of multi-tier Internet Banking applications.
• Provided technical services to building a client FIX hub based on the Financial Fusion Server’s Global FIX
• Installed & customized E-Corporate application @ CBD, Commercial Bank of Dubai (Dubai)
• Created two new modules Applications & Trade Finance to be sold separately with the E-Corporate application.
• Installed & customized E-Corporate application @ Inma Bank (KSA)
• Installed & customized E-Corporate application @ QIB Qatar Islamic Bank (Qatar)
• Participated in customizing advanced modules in the E-Consumer application @ BLC (Lebanon)
• Presented a full Demo for Bank of Beirut on E-Corporate and monitored/supervised on its implementation.
• Assisted the sales force at Sybase Middle East with pre-sales technical discussions and proof of concepts.
• Worked on Real Time Direct Debit connecting to utilities (Vodafone Kahramaa & Qtel) and middleware (bank side) of all functionalities on the ATM machine @ QIB Qatar Islamic Bank
Referential application (independent version for the Deals and v5 upgraded to v5.03)
• Hotline Application (1st Draft to quality support the company internally
Military Service
courses: Elementary, Intermediate & Secondary Awarded the Lebanese Certificate Upon the completion of