Muhammad Ali Akbani, Senior DWH & BI Consultant

Muhammad Ali Akbani

Senior DWH & BI Consultant

NCR Corporation

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Master's degree, Finance
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Senior DWH & BI Consultant at NCR Corporation
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since June 2012

Senior member of team implementing EDW project at a major UAE bank involving Teradata and SAS products.

Senior Technical Consultant at SAS Institute Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2010 to May 2012

- Successful implementation of SAS Anti-Money Laundering solution at two Pakistani banks as a technical lead. This was the first implementation of SAS AML solution in Pakistan.
- Solution upgrade of SAS Money Laudering Detection solution for a bank in Nigeria as a technical lead.
- Implementation of Market Risk standardized approach at one of the largest banks in Pakistan.
- Implementation of regulatory reports for two of the leading banks in Pakistan
-demo, training and workshops for various solutions in pre-sales and handover situations

Products Used:
- Data Integration Studio (ETL Studio)
- Enterprise Guide
- OLAP Cube Studio
- SAS Base, macro programming
- Dataflux dfPower Studio
- Risk Dimensions

Product Manager at PixSense Inc.
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • August 2008 to January 2010

- Successful launch and provision of the extremely popular ‘XL funbook’ service in collaboration with XL Telecom, the second largest Indonesian mobile services provider

- Lead the prototyping team to get a demo up and running to Vodafone, the leading European carrier

Senior Software Engineer at Avanza Solutions
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2005 to August 2008

- Successful and on-time delivery of e-payment project for an Abu Dhabi based client developed in Struts, Hibernate and Oracle as a team lead and developer
- Successful deployment of B2B e-services project for an Abu Dhabi based client developed in Oracle 10G suite. Worked as a developer and later promoted to team lead
- Successful presentation and CMMI audit of e-payment project for CMMI level 2.
- Successful and on-time delivery of FLAG (form generator) project for a Dubai based bank developed in JSF, Hibernate and SQL 2005. Worked as a team lead and developer

Education

Master's degree, Finance
  • at Institute of Business Management
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
  • June 2005

Specialties & Skills

Data Integration
Business Intelligence
Data Management
Risk Dimensions
SAS Base, Macro programming
SAS Enterprise Guide
SAS OLAP Cube Studio
SAS Data Integration Studio (ETL Tool)
MS Excel
Teradata

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2012
Valid Until:
January 2012
SAS Certified Data Integration Developer for SAS 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Valid Until:
December 2012
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2011
Valid Until:
November 2011
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2012
Valid Until:
March 2012
SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011