Riad Kiwan, VICE PRESIDENT

Riad Kiwan

VICE PRESIDENT

National Bank of Abu Dhabi

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Experience
28 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :28 years, 3 Months

VICE PRESIDENT at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since January 2017

Delivered transformation application support towards work point’s concept model, while ensuring high availability ‎and efficiency of IT services.

Head of Business Applications at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2014 to April 2017

Reviewed existing systems and executed standard ‎operating procedures for determining root cause analysis, communication, and client relationship ‎management. Created all short and long range annual support plans, development initiatives, and IT strategies ‎to ensure delivery of services within time, cost, quality and budgetary parameters. Resolved technical issues by ‎delivering online support service and guidance to the team members. Built a cohesive team spirit throughout ‎the Company by designing a program that recognized competing management objectives, created common ‎goals, and provided measurement incentives. Established a mechanism for developing IT plans and policies and ‎resolving technical / key issues with collaboration of team and senior management. Supervised SLA's, policy of ‎the Company, under a regulatory and compliance framework set by the authorities to ensure accountability for ‎adherence to supervision. Establishing set specifications and quality attributes, updated code changes and ‎release management of new version to improve quality processes.‎

Technical Leader at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2009 to December 2014

Looking after all aspects of business applications in the bank

Group Leader Delivery Channels Support at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2004 to December 2008

Handled all aspects of Electronic Channels application services

Analyst Programmer at Beayni Es
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • July 2004 to September 2005

Redesigned the company Invoice and Sales application.

Senior Technical Analyst at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • November 2000 to December 2004

Re certified all Visa / MasterCard services for Y2K Compliance

Senior Analyst Programmer at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • July 1998 to November 2000

Designed and implemented and Debit Cards Management Systems for the bank

Systems Analyst‎ at Al Jaber EST
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • February 1996 to July 1998

Implemented Informix based Systems for Vehicles and Machinery management

Education

Master's degree, COMPUTER ENGINEERING
  • at State Polytechnic University
  • June 1994

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Specialties & Skills

IT Strategy
IT Management
IT Service Management
Banking Domain
ADMINISTRATION
BANKING
BASE 24
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
DELIVERY
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98

Languages

Arabic
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English
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French
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Russian
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