Sami AbuQurs, Systems Analyst & Architect

Sami AbuQurs

Systems Analyst & Architect

Kuwait Finance House

Location
Kuwait - Al Kuwait
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Systems Analyst & Architect at Kuwait Finance House
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since June 2023
Senior Business Analyst at Boubyan Bank
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • August 2022 to June 2023

• Bridging the gap between technical teams and the business units using different analytics methods to assess processes and determine
requirements.
• Creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for a business in coordination with the technical teams.
• Responsible to develop end-to-end requirements documents including business case, BRD, SDD.
• Identifying and then prioritizing technical and functional requirements.
• Planning the initiatives scope, understanding and implementing
requirements of initiatives and identifying stakeholders required for the initiative.
• Responsible for delivering change requests and initiatives involving
business processes, business changes and solutions / technical changes. Ensure deadline, budget and requirements are met.
• Process modelling, illustrate current and proposed business processes using different modelling techniques i.e. BPMN, UML, Flowcharts, etc.

Senior Business Analyst at Diyar United Company
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • September 2021 to August 2022

• Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level.

• Provide project level analysis - producing required project analysis documentation.

• Collaborate closely with developers to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process.

• Identify improvement opportunities.

• Elicit and clearly document business and systems requirements.

• Assess business process and system inefficiencies.

• Identify ways to increase adoption and customer satisfaction.

Systems Analyst at Kuwait Finance House - KFH
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • October 2013 to August 2021

• Understanding business requirements and drivers, map business problems and provide complete and detailed solutions and road-map using best technologies.

• Developing and maintaining a holistic picture of the solution, and providing technical oversight of the detailed design activities, and implementation and testing of the design.

• Translating requirements into viable technical solution alternatives and defining and assessing the impact of nonfunctional requirements on running projects.

• Ensuring that the delivered solution meets the functional, performance, cost constraint and technical operations requirements that have been agreed to for the project.

• Providing input to the Project Manager regarding effort and resource estimates.

• Researching and providing solutions to existing complex business problems.

IT Dept. Director at Aljoman Center for Economic Consultancy
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • June 2012 to October 2013

• Supervising the development team while working closely with the management and external vendors

• Preparing financial budgets and presented proposals for major projects to the management

• Researching and recommending new products and lead efforts to improve IT processes

Senior Software Engineer at SMA Computers
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • July 2010 to June 2012

• Analyzing and developing various systems and applications (E-payment solutions, POS systems, Hospitality systems, web applications.

• Working as site engineer, as a system administrator on a custom-developed ERP System using


-- Featured Project --
Analyzing and developing a Self-Help - cases checking and payment system, to be placed at KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. (Ahli Bank - MOJ - SMA Computers joint project).

Software Engineer at Aljoman Center for Economic Consultancy
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • February 2007 to July 2010

• Leading the team to upgrade the company business website (www.aljoman.net) by re-engineering and upgrading the used technologies/development frameworks.

• Planning and designing new web-based financial products.

Software Engineer at CMBC Constructions Company
  • Kuwait - Al Farawaniyah
  • July 2005 to February 2007

• Designing and implementing the company document’s e-archiving system

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Philadelphia University
  • February 2005

Program Benchmarks: A- Knowledge and Understanding of A1) the principles of system development lifecycle and different software process models. A2) a wide range of principles available to the software developer, such as concepts, algorithms, models, languages, data structures, software libraries and user interface techniques. A3) the principles of software construction. A4) methods and techniques for requirements analysis, design, programming, testing and maintenance. A5) the range of situations in which computer systems are used, the ways in which people interact with them; A6) professional issues to cover: social, ethical and legal aspects; A7) different architectural approaches to deal with large and complex software projects. A8) the principles and techniques of new trends in application types and domains. B- Intellectual (thinking) skills - able to B1) specify and model software systems. B2) analyze, investigate and improve the specification of a software system. B3) design and plan software solutions to problems. B4) identify a range of solutions and critically evaluate and justify proposed design solutions. B5) apply methods and techniques for different phases of software development lifecycle. B6) evaluate systems in terms of general quality attributes and possible trade-offs presented within the given problem; B7) reflect and reason concerning a given information handling problem or opportunity. B8) identify some of the main risks of software development and use.

Specialties & Skills

Technology
Business Analysis
Solution Design
IT Solutions
Problem-solving
Time Management
Communication and interpersonal skills
Critical Thinking
Presentation
Systems Analysis
Business Requirements Analysis

Languages

English
Intermediate

Memberships

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)
  • Member
  • December 2021

Training and Certifications

Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2022
Business Management Program / MINI-MBA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2021
Certificate of Innovation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2019
Mini MBA in Project Management (Training)
Training Institute:
Pitman Training Centre
Date Attended:
December 2016
Duration:
140 hours

Hobbies

  • Watching movies
  • Solving mathematical and logic puzzles
  • Reading