Shamsuddin Mundummal

Projects: DIB Digital Wallet, Digital on-boarding, Emirates Digital Wallet (EDW), Emirates Id Real-time Integration, Payment Gateway Integration (Cyber Source) and Blockchain R&D
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Organizing meetings with the business teams and gathering project requirements.
• Identifying vendors, conducting technical & business evaluations and recommending innovative solutions.
• Preparing project plans, aligning activities of internal & external project teams and scheduling deliveries.
• Preparing project status reports and presentations for the steering committee meetings.
• Leading weekly PWG meeting with vendors and internal stakeholders
• Managing Vendors, Stakeholders and Risks. Issue tracking and follow-up with the relevant teams for the issue resolution.
• Tracking project resources, budgets, vendor invoices and payments.
• Change management, coordination of deployment and release management in the UAT, Staging and Production environments.
• Engaging core banking, SOA middleware, reconciliation, remittance, loyalty, CCDM, payment gateway and compliance teams for integration.
• Preparing security and architecture documents and getting them approved from the concerned teams.
• Coordinating and ensuring that DR drill activities of Mission critical applications/solitions are carried out siiccessfully.

Key Achievements and Awards:
• Led implementation of MS Dynamics AX, iSAMS and MyLearning projects involving internal and external teams from different geographical locations, of broad technical, financial and business disciplines. Project teams consisted of 3-5 members.
• Mitigated 95% of the risks associated with ERP implementation by identifying and implementing necessary corrective measures.
• Supervised ETL activities during SAP implementation project and reduced data migration time & cost by 30% by extracting and transforming master data of 180 entities.
• Reduced the cost of Cloud based server hosting by 20% by accurately evaluating and effectively negotiating with vendors.
• Honored with ‘Best effort of the month’ award for completing Technology audit report on Risks and Opportunities assessment and for conducting onsite ERP Implementation Pulse interviews.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Managing ERP support in a highly demanding IT operations environment on Fee Management, Financial Accounting and System Administration modules of the ERP for the Global entities in the UAE, Kenya, Malaysia, Singapore, Switzerland and Uganda. Correcting problems as per priority and timelines agreed.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Database Server (SQL Server) and Application Server (IIS) on VMs hosted in third-party data centers. Performing server to server and instance to instance database migration using database scripting and import & export tools.
• Developing new functionalities, customizing and maintaining existing web applications. Deploying application releases on Application Server.
• Performing various database admin tasks like database backup, restore, performance tuning, database mail and automating database tasks. Writing TSQL code to create stored procedures, functions and queries and executing using SSMS and SQLCMD.
• Coordinating and providing ERP training (onsite and offsite) on financial modules to Global entities.

• Acted as the principal point of contact for the systems related issues and ensured that problems are resolved as per the SLA.
• Effectively conducted requirement study by meeting the key people from prospects and clients. Prepared documentation on the clients’ requirements, technical & functional specifications and process flow charts.
• Responded to queries from clients and explained the functioning of various systems and modules to the clients, prospects, consultants and software developers in detail.
• Understood, identified and mapped functional requirements of clients’ business and recommended software, hardware and networking solutions accordingly. Shortlisted vendors and negotiated for better products, services and prices.
• Effectively ensured safekeeping and version controlling of the application source codes.
• Performed Database administration tasks like database tuning, scheduling of automated database backup, restore, database mail etc.
• Supported the Sales team in their pre-sales activities like demonstrating ERP system to the prospects, preparing effort estimations for customization, enhancement, integration etc.
• Helped the Finance team by effectively following up accounts receivables.
Key Achievements:
• Achieved maximum customer satisfaction by proactively resolving their system issues without impacting their business.

• Successfully led ERP (VisualENTERPRISE) implementation projects for several clients by effectively managing all the project activities and completing the projects within time, budget and scope.
• Prepared project charter and organized kick-off meetings.
• Conducted requirement gathering, gap analysis and solution design.
• Effectively managed scheduling and allocation of resources for ERP implementation and software development activities.
• Planned, supervised and supported activities of the software development team and ensured product quality before the products are released for deployment.
• Conducted regular project meetings and reported the project status to the stakeholders.
• Designed and developed databases and application software.
• Installed and configured SQL Server, migrated data from excel files and other data sources into the ERP.
• Effectively resolved ERP system issues as and when they arise and ensured smooth implementation.
• Provided online and onsite training and application support to the end users.
Key Achievements:
• Promoted to Systems Manager role to actively get involved in managing customers’ systems and providing guidance to the customers, consultants and developers.

• Understood the clients’ business requirements and effectively mapped them to the ERP system.
• Suggested improvements to the existing business process based on the best practices.
• Developed new features and functionalities as required by the clients.
• Performed designing, coding, debugging, unit testing and integration testing.
• Performed database design, development and configurations.
Key Achievements and Awards:
• Promoted to Project Leader role to actively get involved in ERP implementation projects.
• Honored with Award for effectively supporting branch office operations and contributions to the company’s objectives.
• Honored with Award for providing superior support and high level of customer satisfaction which helped the company to meet its AMC targets for the financial year 2005-2006