program manager
Riyad Bank
Total years of experience :39 years, 2 Months
working as program manager in EPMO FOR Riyadh Bank.
Managing 8 project managers covering several divisions of the bank Finance, Treasury, Corporate, CRO Office and CISD.
Programs includes more than 50 projects every year.
Producing reports for Senior Management of tha bank to cover critical projects.
Handling day to day activities and relationships with projects sponsors .
Participated building up project delivery framework and built policies and procedures for EPMO.
Security testing program managet .
Managed the full vulnerabity managament and penetration testing, technical compliancy and web application testing .
Work as senior consultant for GRC .
Managed full PCI Program.
Main resource for senior management reporting for the STPM .
In charge of building dashboard for information security KPI.
Built KRI dashboard for senior management.
Program manager for PCI_DSS which is a mandate from VISA & SAMA for all banks to certify on yearly bases.
My role included the following :
1- Plan, manage, track and report all project activities.
2-Do scoping exercise for all assets of the bank that included :
- SW applications used by the bank.
- All servers and operating systems ( AIX, MF, Linux,
Windows, Tandem )
- All RDBMS used in the bank ( Oracle , SQLSERVER,
MYSQL, Informix, Nscribe, DB2 ).
- All NW devices ( Switches, Routers, Firewalls.... ).
- ATM Devices ( NCR & Diebold ).
3- Do gap analysis for PCI DSS requirements in all in scope
assets.
4- Coordinate and manage Check health audit exercise between
QSA and 180 individuals in the bank.
5- Manage operational scanning activities for all assets on
quarterly base and coordinate remediation activities between
custodians of effected assets.
6- Lead Bi weekly meetings with steering committee members
to present progress of projects.
7- Do reporting to PMO for program progress.
8- Coordinate to full fill missing requirements as per the Health
Check audit.
9- Coordinate and manage Final Audit by QSA.
10- Led the bank to get the certification for PCI DSS V2.0.
11- Worked on the Budget process of the project and tracked up
budget consumption.
Program had included 26 sub projects, one of the main is doing physical network segmentation for all PCI servers to isolate from rest of the bank and protect through firewalls.
Conducted more than 1200 meetings during the project life cycle .
Total people involved in the project exceeded 230 employees.
Worked as P.M.O head to control and manage projects and resources within the company.
Report to management overall progress of project and help in planning future projects based on resource utilization and distribution .
2006-2009
Project Name : Core Banking Project
Posistion : Project Manager for System Integration and Data Migration .
1 - IT strategy planning for IT departments.
2- Yearly Budgetting for the area under my management.
3- Build busienss cases and ROI for proposed projects to be approved.
4- Build KPI for employees under my management and their yearly plan.
5- Member of Core banking team who built RFP for full core banking system
5- Member of core banking team who evaluated and choose new banking system for the bank out of best 5 banking systems in the world.
6- Managing Teams for Building Interfaces with 31 systems with the new core banking system (FINACLE from Infosys). Including Managing, planning, coordination with 31 system custodians, and Tracking Progress of all activities in addation to given consultancy on solution and architectue.
7-Managing Data Migration Team to migrate the data from existing system (BankMaster) to New core Banking System. Including planning, defining strategy, mapping existing data with new data, and catering for new requirements Information .
8-Decesion maker In Choosing the Core Banking System and choosing the new architecture of the system.
9-Managing Requirements definition from business teams in the bank Retail, Corporate, Commercial , Traesury and consumer lending requirements ( More than 50 resources were involved on this activity).
10-Defining Implementation and development strategy of the new product.
11-Member of the Technical Architecture Committee of the new product.
12- Member of the Management Team of the new product who takes care of planning, managing, and implementing the full core product.
§Managed data management team consisting of 10 Employees.
§Designed (Logical & Physical ) full data module for Operational Data Store which consisted of 250 tables or more to accommodate a consolidated data view of all customers products all across the bank Including the Main Core Banking, Treasury, Credit Card, Trade Finance, ATM, POS, Consumer Lending, Investment products local & Global, Consumer Portal, Cash Management System for Corporate Internet, Limits and Facilities , provisioning Data in addition to Pension System and Telmoney Remittance System
§Managed building All extracts and Loads processes to feed ODS data from more than 15 systems.
§Managed building more than 120 MIS reports for all departments across the bank using the ODS data.
§Built and Managed Marketing data mart and associated MIS processes.
§Built business processes for ATM International charging system on TOP of the ODS.
§Coordinating giving Information about the ODS structure and content to 10 Main systems of the Bank ( i.e. Inter Net Banking, Limit Monitoring, Facility Granting, Consolidated Inquiry System, ATM Card charging, …)
§Built a full consolidated Transaction data base that consist of Transactions done through several Delivery Channels of the Bank ( ATM, Internet, Phone Banking, Remittance System, and Core Banking System ).
§Consultation for Marketing and Branch Retail management group on MIS and data Analyses.
§Part of a team who had created standards for Bank Development Life Cycle processes.
§Consultation for banking analyses processes and procedure for several project in the bank.
§Managed A project of building a full Remittance system., full activities of project management from A to Z, planning, build, managing and planning day to day activities with business and IT team, in addition of doing details study of the full technical architecture of the Telemoney centers through the King-dome.
§Designed ( Logically & Physically ) the Data Module for Telemoney.
§Quality assured processes of the system
§Put UAT plan for the system.
§Managed project resources.
§Implemented successfully the upgraded Telemoney System .
Department : Information System Development ANB
Position : Data Base Administrator for ORACLE RDBMS
§Built Oracle Data Base systems for several applications in the bank, starting from converting logical design to Physical Design by applying Normalization and demoralization rules ( Telmoney & Investment )
§Create the Data Base (ORACLE7.0)
§Fine Tune the Data Base .
§Monitoring processes and usage of Data Base .
§Managing the creation of users and resources.
§Quality assured processes of the system
§Was part of ZDD committee to build standards for the Bank.
§Was part of the IT Release Committee of the Bank.
§Was part of the Data Warehouse Project Committee.
Department : Information System Development
Position : Technical Manager for New Core Banking System (BANKMSATER)
§Build full plan for the project.
§Build project strategy
§Build full implementation strategy for converting 114 branches from old system to new system
§Build Interfaces with ATM, Phone Banking, and other systems in the bank
§Build full automated conversion processes to migrate data from old system to new system, with full reconciliation processes.
§Manage Technical project resources.
§Study Existing and new Banking systems requirements.
§Do Gap analyses between old and new systems.
§Manage day to day activity in the project.
§Follow up on plans and management reporting progress of the project.
§Coordinate with Vendor on customization and Arabization
§Build specification & Design documents for the new requirements.
§Help in Building training strategy and plan for the bank employees .
Networks installment, TCPIP protocols.
§Manage Development resources consisting of 20 programmers and Analysts
§Quality Assurance of all development activities on In-house developed Systems.
§Main Senior business and system Analyst for the existing Banking system for Transfers, Consumer Lending, MIS, customer Information, Account Information and clearing Modules.
§Integration Manager for the Core Banking System with other systems.
§Data Base Administrator for the Regional Data Base of the Bank running on Ultra Data base on VAX machines .
§Fully designed and programmed centralized reconciliation system to cover all inter branch transaction in a distributed system.
§ Fully designed and programmed centralized reconciliation system to cover all ATM inter banks activities through SAMA.
§Developed Core Banking package on PDP Digital system, using ULTRAX, RMS operating system and TOTAL network DB.
§Business requirement gathering from Retail Banking Group of ANB.
§Built Specification Requirements Document for the system
§Built design documents for the system
§Built testing plan for the system.
§Conducted UAT for the system along with the user.
§Built full conversion processes for data from old to new.
§Implemented new releases to branches along with training branch operators on the system
Have done my BA dgree majoring in computer science and minor in mathmatics.