Director
Emirates NBD
Total years of experience :25 years, 4 Months
Key member of the Executive Management team, translating
business-wide requirements into innovative change
management and business process re-engineering programs.
• Responsible for the development and execution of the
Information technology and digitalization strategies; with a
focus on optimizing skills, stability, security, scalability, speed
and customer satisfaction.
• Spearheading programs that focus on closing the divide
between outdated technology, systems and operational
frameworks. Ensuring all systems are ‘fit for purpose’ with a
strong emphasis on robust controls and agile methodologies.
• Cultivating a diverse and high performing local and remote
team.
• Channeling change across business intelligence, digital
experience, enterprise application, architecture & cyber
security, enterprise operations, infrastructure and IT Service
Management.
Key Projects:
• Successfully delivering the migration of On Premise and
Legacy solution to a Cloud Native based solution. Drove the
setup of an architecture strategy that integrates and offers
the flexibility to migrate from Private Cloud to Public Cloud
offering (AWS, AZURE, GCP, etc). Financial returns were
estimated between $25-45 Million USD yearly.
• Defining the IaC (Infrastructure as a Code) and Immutable
Infrastructure Framework for IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service),
PaaS (platform as a service), CaaS (container as a service).
Financial benefits due to reducing the manpower efforts
were between $30-50 Million USD a year.
• Lead the Software Define Data Center Solution (SDDC),
which consisted in virtualized all the infrastructure
components (network, storage, compute, security).
• Lead the Strategy for increasing Observability in Multiple
Platforms ( IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, Cloud ) and Thread Detection
by Integrating a SIEM ( Security Information and Event
Management ) solution, enhancing the real-time thread
detection using AI capabilities
Financial benefits due to reducing the manpower and
licenses between $7-15 Million USD a year.
Degree; Accountancy; Finance
& Economics.
Universidad Tecnologica
Nacional, Argentina
Containers:
Docker
Kubernetes
Openshift
LXC ( Linux Containers )
Docker Swarm
Vagrant
CoreOS
ContainerD
Cri-o
Cloud
AWS
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Configurations &
Automation Mgmt.
Ansible
Ansible Tower
Puppet
Chef
Jenkins
Hudson
Terraform
Packer
Vault
Consul
Helm
Nexus
Foreman
Scripting
OS & Tooling
Red Hat Linux - *Nix
RedHat Satellite
Oracle VM Server
GIT
BitBucket
Splunk
Cluster-High Available Solutions
Cobbler
BMC BladeLogic
Logging, Monitoring and
, New Zealand.
• Integral member of the Senior Management team.
Underpinned the technology Turnaround Strategy with a
robust IT modernization & Digital Strategy.
• Business partnered with stakeholder, analyzed the
organization’s critical business requirements, identified
deficiencies, and developed innovative and cost-effective
solutions that enhanced competitiveness, increase in
revenues, and improved the customer experience.
• Provided strategic input and was a member of the digital
transformational team that implemented an Omni-channel
banking platform that enabled the bank to launch
transactional services.
• Assessed staff capabilities, identified talent gaps, executed
talent management and performance management tools
that aligned with the human capital strategy.
Key Projects:
• Drove the On-Prem Monolithic Solutions migration to Cloud
Based Solution which included Kubernetes, Openshift, and
Cloud Providers. Managed with no Infrastructure backend
ties and mostly based on 2 main Driving Models solution
(Infrastructure as a Code and Immutable Infrastructure ).
• Provided senior level consultation and expertise on Cloud,
Kubernetes OpenShift; that focused on the delivery of and
Next Internet Banking Platform Generation.
• Set up and drove projects focused on digital transformation
across mobile and website based app deployment.
Synchronized major transformational & technology
modernization program. Estimated savings after this project
was successfully implemented were calculated between $30
and $45 Million dollars a year.
• Automated ANZ fraud detection systems and automated
public key infrastructure. As a result of a successful
implementation of the Fraud Detection System, the bank is
saving over $80 Million dollars a year because of an early
identification of a fraudulent action.
• Lead the Strategy Solution for Observability for Multiple
Platforms ( IaaS, PaaS, CaaS, Cloud ) and Thread Detection
by Integrating a SIEM ( Security Information and Event
Management ) solution, enhancing the real-time thread
detection using AI capabilities
Datacom, New Zealand.
• Provided consultative solutions for independent clients;
assessments, outlined improvement remedies and project
roadmaps that incorporated initiatives across Automation
and Cloud transformation.
• Provided technological inputs to business strategy in order to
assess how technology would drive business objectives and
efficiencies.
Tracing Solution (ELK/EFK)
Data Streaming (Kafka)
KuberVirt
• Spearheaded change management program and
synchronized major transformational & technology
modernization program.
Key projects:
• Sap upgrades for Medicare Australia, which incorporated
new automated and resilient Platform for an early adopter of
SAP HANA.
• Designed, Defined and automated the New Zealand Custom
Border system based mostly on RedHat Linux.
• Automated multiple Internal improving processes; design and
implemented solutions that automatically configured
information from client’s platforms, stored it in a database
and produced an automated documentation.
Part of the Global Design and Engineering Team, in charge
of governance of infrastructure Solutions. Led the design
Teams of 25 Senior Engineers which supported Switzerland,
USA, EU and Singapore regions.
• Responsible for design among others, storage, backups,
operating system, networks, datacenter replication, DR
strategies and solutions that covered the total infrastructure
fleet of more than 2000 Servers, 400 storage devices, 50
backups robots, +500 network devices.
Key Projects:
• Designed the DR strategy for the main datacenters in Basel
and USA, which consisted of automation, monitored and
auto-recovery including high availability solutions like storage
replication across 30Kms with fiber connection.
• Designed and implemented a central monitoring solution
that helped IBM to monitor more than 3000 server/devices
and avoided missing of SLAs.
• Designed and project managed the capacity management
infrastructure and tooling to be used for the storage farm,
server farms, backups farms, and network Infrastructure.
Lead a team of University Researchers
• Exploring the advantages of using Linux in an Academic
Environment
• Research the use and application of Symmetric
Multiprocessing ( SMP ), which Involves a multiprocessor
computer hardware and software architecture where two or
more identical processors are connected to a single, shared
main memory
Key Projects:
• Use Linux servers for high-performance language for
technical computing ( MATLAB ) to be used by the
Researchers at the University
• Design and Migrate Vendor Network appliances to
Opensource Network based Solutions ( Routers, Proxies,
Firewall and more )
• Design and Migrate Microsoft Based Solutions to Linux
Opensource Based Solution, such as University Institutional
Website, Alumni Database Solutions and more.
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