Libu Mathew, Group IT Head

Libu Mathew

Group IT Head

Bateel International

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Computer Applications
Experience
18 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 9 Months

Group IT Head at Bateel International
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since January 2017

Reporting to the Finance Director, managing a team of 11 IT professionals responsible for directing and implementing corporate IT initiatives
Provide leadership and vision for the IT department include strategic planning of information systems
Develop operational policies, procedures, standards, guidelines and best practices

Associate Director - IT at Rivoli Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2013 to January 2017

Reporting to the CFO, managing a team of 10 IT professionals responsible for all corporate, regional office and store office system, including applications, data center, servers, storage and telecom
Accountable to lead the team to plan, implement, manage and support the Information Services, Technology and business applications
Managing multiple responsibilities including operation, CAPEX/OPEX management and project delivery management for improvement in process and performance of IT services
Responsible for technology alignment with business objectives, while directing the effective delivery of networks, development and DR systems and process
Spearheading technology research for selection & adaptation of same while supporting business development and identifying new market opportunities
Supporting relation management with external vendors and technology specialists
Performing people management initiatives including planning staffing needs, recruitment & induction as well as evaluation of staff performance and provide appropriate feedback

Group IT Manager at LALS Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2010 to December 2013

Initiated this engagement as Sr. System Analyst (Dec 2008), progressed to the designation reported above and reporting to the Associate Director - Finance & Operations, leading a team of 16 resources.
Accountable to lead the team to plan, implement, manage and support the Information Services, Technology and business applications.
Managing multiple responsibilities including operation, Capex/Opex management and project delivery management for improvement in process and performance of IT services.
Responsible for technology alignment with business objectives, while directing the effective delivery of networks, development and DR systems and process.
Involved in finalization of Capex & Opex budget for the group and present the same to senior management for approval.
Spearheading technology research for selection & adaptation of same while supporting business development and identifying new market opportunities.
Supporting relation management with external vendors and technology specialists.
Performing people management initiatives including planning staffing needs, recruitment & induction as well as evaluation of staff performance and provide appropriate feedback.

Senior Systems Analyst at LALS Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2008 to August 2010

Responsible for evaluating and implementing all applications within the business. Played primary role in implementing Data Warehousing and BI.

Applications Consultant at LALS Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • December 2006 to December 2008

Reported to the ERP Manager and supervised 3 resources with the responsibilities of project delivery coordination, functional consultation & support for ERP deployment, created functional & technical specifications, customization & change management, testing of solution before deployment and post deployment production support services.

Microsoft GP Consultant at IT Ware LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • August 2005 to December 2006

Reported to the Managing Director as individual contributor in Microsoft Technology and participated projects to study business requirements, analysis of business process, solution design to satisfy functional automation, system configuration, data conversion/migration, end-user training and support in order to keep business critical operations functioning

Education

Master's degree, Computer Applications
  • at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering
  • July 2004

Scored 78%

Bachelor's degree, Accounts, Statistics, Auditing, Business Law, Marketing, Banking
  • at St. Berchman’s College
  • August 2001

Scored 79%

Specialties & Skills

Budget Management
Project Management
Business Intelligence
IT Operations
Cost Savings
Virtualization
Business Intelligence
Project Management
Cloud Computing
Vendor Management
Business Analysis
Budgets
Security
Team Management

Languages

English
Intermediate
Hindi
Intermediate
Malayalam
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate