Chief Operating Officer - COO
IT Business Lines (IBL)
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :27 years, 11 أشهر
Plans, directs, and oversees a company's operational policies, rules, initiatives, and goals. Helps organisation execute long-term and short-term plans and directives by implementing judgement, vision, management, and leadership
Formulating operational strategies and objectives to ensure the organization meets its goals and operates successfully. Overseeing and directing financial budgets, personnel and operations. Ensuring operations functions to promote growth and meet financial objectives. This includes short- and long-term planning and assessing of the budget to ensure annual profit goals are met.
Establish clear organizational structures for the Operations Team, including responsibilities and accountabilities of individuals
* Manage the budgets for all projects and related development activities
* Direct and coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with pricing, sales, and/or distribution of services
Provided strategic direction and leadership to large teams in a cross-functional, cross-location environment.
* Built cross-departmental relationships to manage project/support objectives, design application deployment solutions, prioritize deliverables, determine implementation strategy and coordinate assignment of resources in supporting ProgressSoft Solutions
Managing the Electronic Cheque Clearing system and all its integration with the banking systems and preparing proposals, solution architectures and responding to RFPs. A member in the Software Change Control Board (SCCB) in the company to discuss new change requests from the customers, analyzing them and giving recommendations. Managing the Software Development life cycle (SDLC) for the product related project and its integrations with the banking systems, and providing recommendations and consultation for the banks on the best approach to be used for integration (e.g.: Message queues, web services, TCP/IP, etc.) based on my 10+ years in this field.
Define the product strategy and roadmap for the Signature Verification system which is now up and running in almost 100 banks in many countries and I was managing a team of 20 developers.
Managing the entire product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities.
Managing a team of 5 programmers and reviewing their code and test plan for validity and efficiency. Involved in the total development cycle of the projects given to me from the design till the implementation stage. Took care of quality aspects in the code developed by me and the supervised team. The projects were using programming language C, C++ that ran on multiple platforms.
Converting and compiling the system using Micro focus COBOL from WANG platform to Sun Solaris platform. I was responsible for converting and compiling operational modules.
courses: Alliance Business Consultants Art of Leadership April 2004 Alliance Business Consultants Advanced Team Work with Internal Customer Service Development October 2005 Introduction to Project Management