• Seasoned IT professional and digital transformation specialist with over 18 years career track of diversified technical and management skill set and having outstanding record of accomplishment for providing ESB applications, CTI (Computer Telephony Integration), ePayments, eCommerce, CRM, ERP, and Channel Banking applications (IVR, Internet Banking, SMS, Tablet Banking) across GCC, the UK and Africa.
• Expert in laying down the digital transformation strategy for the organization by marrying the business vision with the best fit technologies and at same time keeping the transformation budget intact.
• Expert in Enterprise Architecture (EA), Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Cloud Computing, Cloud-native application, Microservices, APIs, business process digitization and Project Management.
• Expert in harmonizing application development, testing and deployment processes by implementing DevOps, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).
• Expert in managing multi-disciplinary teams of varying sizes and complex programs of work with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and to turn proposals into reality.
Key Achievements
• Successfully able to avoid more than 10 Million AED within the first year of my tenure with Al Futtaim.
• Design and Lead Group wide Headless Commerce architecture.
• Design and Lead Al Futtaim Group Loyalty Architecture.
• Design and Lead Emirates NBD’s first digital bank’s (Liv.) architecture.
• Design and Lead the build architecture for IaaS for Emirates NBD.
• Design and Lead Software Defined Networking for Emirates NBD.
• Lead public and private cloud strategy for Emirates NBD.
• Reduced massive EMM licensing cost by recommending the right EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) solution for Emirates NBD.
• Streamlined application development, testing & deployment processes and embarked on the journey of DevOps, CI, CD and Microservices at Emirates NBD.
• Developed comprehensive channel applications strategy and roadmap which resulted in delivering business changes and projects on-time, faster &cheaper.
• Designed and Lead Payment and Utility Gateway for Commercial Bank of Dubai.
• Designed region’s first Facebook Branch for Commercial Bank of Dubai.
• Successfully rolled out CRM System bank-wide for Commercial Bank of Dubai.
• Successfully contributed to digital transformation journey for big corporates from banking, government and private organizations.
