Tamar Achkarian, Product Manager

Tamar Achkarian

Product Manager

BML Istisharat

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Informatique de Gestion
Experience
10 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 10 Months

Product Manager at BML Istisharat
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2005 to June 2011

I. Responsible of the Implementation of BML Istisharat’s partners banking specialized softwares such as:
a. Risk Management FERMAT-CAD BASEL II of Moody’s Analytics - USA.
b. Loan Recovery Solution of Exodus - Greece
c. Document Management Solution of IMTF - Switzerland
My responsibilities are to:
• Integrate the products in the Lebanese banking sector
• Responsible of the data migration process from the core banking database -ICBS- to the target solution’s database.
• Cooperate actively with our partners’ products’ experts.
• Prepare the customization of the products to be adapted to the Lebanese regulations
• Prepare the necessary documents for each phase of the project: Project plan, Framing Note, Open Items List….
• Define the task to be done by BML Istisharat’s team
• Prepare presentations of the products
• Diagnosis any discrepancies in the implementation process

In addition,
• To evaluate any new solution that might be interesting to BML Istisharat’s customer base
• To manage the partnership activities with the solutions’ providers
• To prepare seminars to promote the products
• To organize commercial presentations
• To answer to RFPs
• To follow up the prospects

II. Responsible of BML Istisharat’s activities with Oracle corporation since the company is a specialized GOLD Oracle partner:
• To provide Oracle Licenses to customers
• To follow up Support Renewal’s contracts
• To follow up the partnership activities with Oracle corporation : Provide the Business plan, Partnership contracts renewal process

Analyst Programmer at Soft Management
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • September 2000 to April 2005

Participated in Analysis, Development and Maintenance of ACMS (Advanced Card Management System) for banking and retail sectors using Oracle on Unix platform

My responsibilities consisted in:
 Management of full project lifecycle: starting from customer specification, planning of resources, development, progress control, implementation, testing, validation, installation, documentation, training, and maintenance
 Performance tuning
 Requirement gathering and prioritizing
 Client support
 Staff/Client training

Achievements:
Development, restructuring and overseeing of the application with all its modules:
 Credit Cards Issuing, Interest calculation, Generation of statements, Payments procedure
 Loyalty Management By points gathering
 Merchants/Outlets (POS) Management
 Off line / Online transaction processing
 Risk and Fraud Management
 Uses security Management
 Member banks Credit Cards Management
 Settlement with other international institutions (Visa, Mastercard trough Incoming and outgoing files)
 SMS campaigns
 Accounting ledger entries

Education

Bachelor's degree, Informatique de Gestion
  • at St Joseph University
  • July 2000

Specialties & Skills

Data Migration
Banking
Management