Sami Abdulkareem Al-Assaf, IT Executive Manager

Sami Abdulkareem Al-Assaf

IT Executive Manager

Jordan Kuwait Bank

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Master's degree, Business Administration/Banking
Experience
25 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :25 years, 4 Months

IT Executive Manager at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • July 2008 to September 2011

IT Executive Manager/Acting CIO
1. Lead an IT organization with 62 employees distributed into 4 main departments with 9 sub-departments.
2. Insure the quality of day-to-day IT services.
3. IT strategic planning, alignment to business, and execution.
4. Manage IT resources acquisition.
5. Member of IT steering committee.
6. Manage IT governance and IT related risks.

IT Senior Manager - Head of Development projects at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2004 to June 2008

Main responsibilities are:

1. Manage both new developments and maintenance sections.
2. Sharing the preparation of IT strategic plans which are driven from business strategic plans - IT alignments to business.
3. Sharing the preparation of yearly IT budget.
4. Insure IT projects are initiated according to IT strategic plans and yearly budget.
5. Managing IT Development projects from inception till Closing including In-house, Outsourced, and Joint projects.
6. Allocation of financial and non-financial projects resources.
7. Share with the business departments to faithful the corporate customer’s special requirements with regards to IT.
8. Share in creating, publishing, and assuring IT processes and polices.
9. Acting IT Manager
10. CIO replacement.

Project Manager at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 2000 to February 2004

Main responsibilities are:
1.Managing In-house, outsourced, and joint projects.
2.Acquisition, preparation, assessment, assignment and management of the resources required for the project including financial budget.
3.Taking accountability for the project financials through assuring and authorizing billable deliverables to be processed for payment.
4.Managing deferent parties/teams with regards to deferent project milestones.
5.Developing development road maps, project plans, project estimates, Vision Scope, Functional Specification, Design, Project Structure documents, communication plans, Technical & Financial proposals.
6. Conducting Project Kickoffs, Project Closure Activities, Project Execution Plans, Detailed Development Plans, progress meetings, and progress reports.
7.Insure used technology/architecture matches IT technology directions.

Development Manger at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • June 1996 to December 1999

Main Responsibilities:

1.Manage requirement analysis phase with IT product management.
2.Manage architectural phase of IT development projects.
3.Manage implementation phase of IT development projects.
4.Manage the integration phase for outsourced projects.
5.Manage technical resources recruitments and allocation.
6.Study and select development tools & platforms.
7.Define and manage technical training.
8.Share and approve database, system, and module high level design.
9.Provide deferent levels of technical assistance for development & maintenance supervisors and their team leaders.
10.Manage development lifecycle and required documentation.

From Operator till Development Supervisor at Jordan Kuwait Bank
  • Jordan - Amman
  • January 1986 to December 1995

Main Work scope:
1.Junior and senior levels in data center.
2.Junior and senior developer working on deferent tools and programming languages such as COBOL, LINC, VB, SQL on mainframe and PC platforms.
3.Junior and senior levels of system analyses.
4.Technical team leader sharing the development of small-to-high scale of projects such as Core banking, Branch automation, internet banking, other e-banking, and other deferent banking and accounting applications.
5. Development supervisor taking the full technical and none-technical responsibilities of developing deferent sub-systems and modules.

Education

Master's degree, Business Administration/Banking
  • at The Arab Academy for banking and financial sciences
  • December 2013

MBA Banking

Bachelor's degree, MIS (Excellent)
  • at The Arab Academy for banking and financial sciences
  • June 2008
Diploma, Programming and System Analysis
  • at Al-Baeronii College
  • September 1982

Specialties & Skills

IT Management
IT Projects Management
Software Development
IT Operations
IT Governance
Overall IT resource management, IT strategic planning, IT alignment, and IT budgeting.
IT operations including Data center, Infrastructure upgrade, Application support
Business continuity and IT disaster recovery
Software Design, Development, Maintenance, Testing, and Implementation
IT projects management vary from small, medium, and large scale projects
Applications customization, Integration, and data conversion
Group IT consolidation studies
IT products managment
IT governance including ISO27001, COBIT, and IT operation risk

Languages

English
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Arabic
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