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✨60%
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Marketing
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United Arab Emirates
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Work Background
ConfidentialPartner and Advisor
Jan. 2023Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCo-founded and advised a new hospitality group, which launched its first 4 star property in the heart of Dubai. With focus on leveraging technology, the group intends to differentiate from its competition in catering to its clients.
Hubpay Vice President Of Engineering
Jul. 2019 - Jun. 2022Dubai, United Arab EmiratesHubpay- a digital wallet company for the remittance community in the UAE, is at advanced stage of the licensing process to receive Money Services Licence in the UAE market, enabling low cost digital remittances and international bill payment. With focus on driving financial inclusion across the Gulf and Asia, Hubpay is backed by a US venture capital and Startupbootcamp Fintech alumnus.
HylobizHead of Global Sales
Mar. 2019 - Mar. 2023Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCo-founded and heading global sales for "Hylo", SME NeoBank.. -A simple and easy to use tool in the hands of SME Owner! Primarily, it addresses & digitizes the pain area of Receivable (Invoice) Collections. It also brings Integrated banking, with a real time view into receivables/ payables; connecting SMEs core business tools.
Fifth&TechFounder
Dec. 2018Dubai, United Arab EmiratesFounder of an innovative and efficient Tech Firm - Fifth&Tech, a Dubai based startup which is on a mission to help companies become digital masters by moving them towards automation through advanced technological products and services. Providing solutions on a SaaS model, with zero / minimal upfront investments; we believe that SMEs are critical for the growth of GDP of any country and as a company, strive to help SMEs grow by helping them to be lean and digital Through its 5 Business verticals - FinTech, CloudTech, DigitalTech, Hospitality Solutions and Business Development Solutions, Fifth&Tech converges niche technologies, to transform companies to be smarter, better and faster Launched PRO5: One stop product & service aggregation solution for SME’s of various sizes – everything that they would need to be up & running through a single service provider whilst they focus on their core businesses. Launched PROComply: A solution that digitizes, controls and reports standards, compliances and more. It simplifies and reduces your paperwork Launched BizFlow: A Business setup workflow and customer management platform; automates and digitizes operations and processes of business setup consultants.
Commercial Bank InternationalHead of Technology
Aug. 2017 - Oct. 2018Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCost Optimization measures in technology area as Head of Technology, helped the bank in reducing the Cost to Income Ratio by 10% within a period of 14 months. Restructured the IT organization; QA, change mgmt., architecture, infrastructure, security, & service-management; best-practice processes pan-IT; a fully agile model. Produced an architecture of core banking, payments, digitisation, and supporting systems; developing and implementing both immediate delivery plans and strategic future roadmaps. Developed a roadmap of cloud infrastructure and delivered a new operating model to COO for change delivery, including agile processes, shared services, and right-shoring for delivery. Wrote the regulatory submissions to Central Bank and external auditors for IT & Change management - including a COBIT, ITIL, and ISO aligned IT controls framework. Delivered multiple regulatory & revenue generating projects such as VAT, IFRS9, Robotic process automation and a centralized banking data model for BI Plugging gaps in DR for all critical application stacks basis the business impact analysis. Plugged outstanding critical and high security findings around privilege access (PAM), Network access (NAC), Data Centre controls, EOD automations, desktop images & patch management.
Commercial Bank InternationalProgram Director, Core & Digital Transformation Program
Oct. 2015 - Jul. 2017Dubai, United Arab EmiratesLed and managed the delivery of a Digital Core Banking Platform with Omni Channel capabilities (IB, MB, tablet banking & digital branch) – within budget & 20 month timeline Definition of an integration platform from the Core Banking system with product systems like Trade Finance & Treasury and other payment, gateway and reference systems Design of the end-to-end operating model, organisation, security, and controls for branch automation, digital channels (Internet & Mobile Banking) and loan origination system Vendor selection of all core technology components: core platform, customer comms, data analytics, along with delivery partners and the supporting recruitment. Build of the offering, including automated KYC checks, FX transfers, overdue recoveries, biometric customer authentication, paperless customer instructions, real time processing. Vendor selection and negotiations of ~$20m core contracts, additional supplier engagements for all the systems
Commercial Bank InternationalSenior Project Manager, Project Mangement Office
Sep. 2014 - Sep. 2015Dubai, United Arab EmiratesBeing part of the executive project management office, successfully setup the PMO structure and process standardization Successfully lead the development of organizational level strategy and creation of business plans in line with the strategy Planned, monitored & delivered various strategic initiatives which includes business plan implementation for CBI’s subsidiary – International Financial Brokerage
RAKBANKSr. Manager, Quality Assurance
Nov. 2013 - Sep. 2014DubaiAs Sr. Manager, Quality Assurance with direct reporting into COO, developed QA processes and prioritization approach aligning business, operations, and IT, producing RAK’s first cross-business-unit strategy. In collaboration with an independent partner, drove the implementation of a centralized quality assurance function Redesigned the change management and testing processes, to achieve 30% reduction in testing timelines Designed performance boards to measure quality of development from various partners, hence reducing the error rate by 25% Strategized the process for test environment management and test data creation/management, hence reducing licensing costs Implemented Automation testing and a centralized test repository for critical applications & modules, hence reducing manual test efforts
RAKBANKProject Manager, Enterprise Projects
Jan. 2011 - Oct. 2013DubaiCreation of market-leading Agile delivery process and methodology, allowing finance, Projects, business ownership, and IT to work in iterative cycles without fragility or failure. This enabled numerous project deliveries whilst having zero defects in live over an 12-month period. Architecting of numerous first-to-market propositions; delivered innovative system solutions in alignment with business conceptual designs - “Click & Collect” initiative allowing customers to open CASA accounts online on the website with back end integration to core systems and “Value Packaged product” initiative allowing customers to subscribe to a bouquet of financial and non financial services at a fixed monthly fee; first of the kind in UAE. Led all aspects from development management, hosting, performance, resilience,; on-time and on-budget. As part of delivering digital experience to customers, defined and delivered numerous market-first mobile propositions for the bank e.g. mobile wallet, consolidated app for banking & website. 25% digital customer increase. Ownership & governance of regulatory changes & projects across RAKBANK, AED 10m+ annual spend across 15+ architects/designers. 75% non-strategic spend reduction. Restructuring to support Agile approaches to deliver IBAN, Funds Transfer System and Direct Debit system Defined and ensured compliance to project governance & change management processes for all initiatives in line with PMI Standards
RAKBANKProject Manager – Core Banking Program
Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2010DubaiCore Banking Manager reporting into Program Director – Managed 10 project managers for successfully delivering the core transformation program (Equation to Finacle migration) with a unified CIF and integration to 50+ surround application including the implementation of 10 new supporting systems. Total program cost – USD 50m++ As a sole responsible person - led and managed the “Dress Rehearsals” and final “Cut over” of the Finacle implementation for conventional Banking and Flexcube implementation for Islamic banking with integration to Finacle for Bank level GL reporting; This included migration, process controls, support structures, internal & external communication and command center operations Played multiple roles and had different responsibilities through the core banking program – -Retail banking requirements gathering
-Gap analysis study phases for customizations and interfaces
-Designed the E-CIF requirements on a master-slave model including the fields, data flows to sub-systems and process changes
-Formulated the testing strategy and processes for 90 resources split into 6 teams
-Formulated the data Migration approach (including reverse migration from surround systems)
-Managed program risks due to multiple project dynamics like changing delivery dates and progressive delivery of customizations
- Vendor Management – Infosys (Core Banking Vendor) and Maveric (UAT & SIT vendor) on Resource Augmentation model
RAKBANKSr. Project Officer, Personal Banking Business Projects
Jul. 2007 - Dec. 2008DubaiRe-engineered personal loans process (reduced TAT by 40%) and cheque book delivery process (reduced branch load by 50%); successfully delivered 10 key business projects (value ranging between USD 10K to 500K) Managed personal banking projects from business end – project initiation, requirements gathering, implementation, testing & closure Trained project managers on project professional helping improve project execution efficiency
RAKBANKAnalyst, Business Continuity Management
Apr. 2006 - Jun. 2007DubaiImplemented Business continuity management for the Bank from scratch - Reduced system downtime by 50% by establishing a change control board responsible for driving incident management procedures, commissioned BCM for all key business areas - call center, channels, IT operations, core banking systems and branches; Executed disaster recovery tests for all mission critical systems & business areas including branches through a ‘Bank in Bus’ concept
RAKBANKOperations Personnel, Central Operations
Apr. 2005 - Mar. 2006DubaiDeveloped a deep understanding of back office functions of a retail bank – inward and outward clearing, collection cheques, term deposits, account opening, account services, trade finance operations and investment operation
Processed RAK properties IPO and Indian millennium deposits refund cheques (Awarded certificate of recognition)
Auction Media IncSoftware Engineer
Jan. 2003 - Nov. 2004Ontario, CanadaDeveloped & supported ASP.NET based web application for online auctions and an application for anesthesia department for city hospital Concurrent role served as a Database administrator for the underlying DB Documented the software user manual in the form of interactive web pages for which received CEO cash award of CAD $ 1500. Designed a prototype for a software to plot the patient response times to different anesthesia based various factors – project for the city hospital
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