Ahmed Jarrar, IT Operations and Development Manager

Ahmed Jarrar

IT Operations and Development Manager

Capital Bank of Jordan - CBoJ Bank

Location
Jordan - Amman
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Engineering
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

IT Operations and Development Manager at Capital Bank of Jordan - CBoJ Bank
  • Jordan
  • My current job since October 2017

•Manage IT Development team and lead SDLC process for various IT system’s implementation process.
•Lead CXP/UX journey across various banking channels.
•Responsible for the technology department and Agile product development for digital channels such as Mobile Wallet, Mobile Banking, Retail/Corp Internet banking, ATM and Kiosk .
•Work closely with the e-channel business team to continue to develop and evolve the digital channel product enabling business capability and objectives.
•Work closely with different IT teams to drive secure architecture design both high level and low level (HLD/LLD) and technology decisions.
•Lead the research into next generation of digital transformation and Fintech technologies.
•Identifies, assesses and monitors strategies aimed to improve processes, services, and systems, and ensures that all initiatives are adequately resourced by proper planning, monitoring and forecasting.
•Vendors’ assessment, selection and management.
•Manage annual budget (CAPEX and OPEX) under Development and Operations department.
•Outsourcing management.

Specialist –IT Digital Channels at First Abu Dhabi Bank
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2017 to October 2017

Responsibilities:
•Provide technical and functional support for escalated cases in enterprise and digital channel applications such as Mobile Banking, Mobile Wallet, Online Banking, adobe AEM CMS, SharePoint, RET trading, Murex MX/MLC, ICCS, AML system…etc.
•Manage Apps upload and update in Apple and Google Playstore.
•Design and fine tune solutions over application servers.
•Create UML data flow, sequence diagrams, business processes and support documents.
•Design and implement required solutions and architectures in pre-production, production, DR environments.
•Perform gap analysis and create case studies for complicated incidents and problems.
•Troubleshoot and analyze production issues/bugs and follow up with vendor to provide fixes/enhanced release.
•Finalize rules and setups of FW, LB, DNS, Network, HIPS, DB and VM with infrastructure.

Key Achievements:
•Providing technical and clustered along with high availability solutions for tier 1 and 2 enterprise applications.
•Rolling out multiple critical projects at the same time within the planned timelines.
•Led health check operations on different applications within my area.
•Provided quick workaround solutions for complicated incidents and problems.
•Introduced multiple processes and automation to production support team which reduced the turnaround time of operational activities.
•Provided technical advisory and solutions for other teams which helped in stabilizing their platforms.
•Selected as a star of ITD in 2016.
•Select as one of SME’s in ITD.

Senior Technical Analyst-Technical Solutions & Digital Channel Support at National Bank of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2010 to April 2017
Senior IT Operations Analyst at National Bank of Umm Al Quiween, UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2006 to March 2010

Responsibilities:
•Responsible for supporting UAT and production application environments.
•Responsible of deploying changes and releases.
•Vendor Management.

Key Achievements:
•Upgraded Operating System for all Unix/Linux and Windows Servers.
•Automated operational tasks and report generations.

Computer Engineer at Modern Information System Design Company
  • Jordan - Amman
  • March 2005 to September 2005

Responsibilities:
•Was responsible to provide onsite support for client applications.

Key Achievements:
•Succeeded in supporting both hardware and software’s clients.

Education

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

Bachelor of Software Engineering -IT, Philadelphia University 2001-2005 Main Modules: Software Engineering, Engineering Reverse, programming language, oracle and SQL database, Project lifecycle (Jacobson Methodology), system documentation. Other Education and Professional Courses: •MCSE at WebMasterTc Institute Amman –2005 •IELTS at British Council Dhabi - 2010 •Oracle SUN Solaris System Administration at Oracle Dubai – 2010 •Financial Accounting at Targetsim Institute Abu Dhabi - 2011 •Communication and Personal Skills at NBAD Academy Abu Dhabi - 2011 •Creative Problem Solving at NBAD Academy Abu Dhabi - 2012 •MS SharePoint Administration at New Horizons Abu Dhabi - 2012 •ISO 9001 QMS at LRQA Business Assurance Abu Dhabi - 2013 •ITIL Foundation V.3 at PEOPLECERT Institute Dhabi - 2013 •Quality Management System Awareness at NBAD Academy Abu Dhabi - 2013 •Project Management Fundamentals at IIL Institute Abu Dhabi - 2014 •Adobe AEM CQ5 Application Server at Tribe Abu Dhabi - 2015 •MS SharePoint Business Intelligence at Microsoft Abu Dhabi - 2016 •Six Sigma at Emirates Institute Abu Dhabi - 2016

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Incident Management
Documentation
Presentation Coaching
Technical solutions
Presentation
Enterprise and Mobility Application Administration
Project Planning
Technical Solutions
Business workflow and processes
Documentation
Development
Management and Leadership
Technologies

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

Communication and Personal Skills at NBAD Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
NBAD Academy
Date Attended:
April 2011
Quality Management System Awareness at NBAD Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
NBAD Academy
Date Attended:
September 2013
Financial Accounting (Training)
Training Institute:
Targetsim Institute
Date Attended:
October 2011
ISO 9001 QMS at LRQA Business Assurance Institute (Training)
Training Institute:
LRQA Business Assurance Institute
Date Attended:
October 2013
ITIL Foundation V.3 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013
Creative Problem Solving at NBAD Academy (Training)
Training Institute:
NBAD Academy
Date Attended:
October 2012
MCSE at WebMasterTc Institute (Training)
Training Institute:
WebMasterTc Institute
Date Attended:
December 2005
Oracle SUN Solaris System Administration at Oracle University (Training)
Training Institute:
Oracle University
Date Attended:
October 2010
IELTS at British Council (Training)
Training Institute:
British Council
Date Attended:
June 2010
Project Management Fundamentals at IIL Institute (Training)
Training Institute:
IIL Institute
Date Attended:
June 2014
MS SharePoint Business Intelligence at Microsoft (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
March 2016
Adobe AEM CQ5 Application Server Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
Infusion
Date Attended:
November 2015
IBM WebSphere Application Server Administration at IBM (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
November 2012