Mahmoud Arafat, Senior Analyst

Mahmoud Arafat

Senior Analyst

Al Masraf Bank

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, COBIT 5
Experience
18 years, 11 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 11 Months

Senior Analyst at Al Masraf Bank
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since July 2014

 Coordination between project and business teams during the execution of projects and
tasks.
 Support for UAT of projects and tasks including preparation of documents and approvals.
 Support Go-live and post Go-live activities for assigned projects and tasks.
 Support business Users to translate business requirements to Vendors (in technical steps)
and vice-versa.
 Escalate issues and suggest corrective actions. Timely follow up on assigned Projects and
tasks.
 Follow-up and track Services, Co-ordinate Vendor Support Issues, respond to service tickets
in a timely fashion.
 Track, resolve and report incidents and known errors through the approved processes.
 Follow the mandatory and obligatory standards set by the management in delivering the
services.
 Completion of the assigned tasks to satisfy the Users’ needs and within the agreed upon
time parameters.
 Analysis of production issues and proposing resolutions of the issues.
 Raise and follow up required change requests and tickets in service manager.
 Managing New Projects in line with scheme requirements.
 Manage and handle critical processes involving sensitive data. (Key Management activity
for Third Party Banks)
 Provide technical consultancy to customers to choose the right product as per their
requirement.


Lead Duties:
 Allocating jobs/tasks and workloads to individual staff members based on their ability.
 Implementing new initiatives and making sure all staff understand them.
 Giving prompt and accurate information on individual staff member performance.
 Making sure all tasks given to staff are done on time and to the required standard.
 Ensuring a clean, safe and friendly working environment for all team members.
 Managing any staff sickness levels and organizing the necessary cover.
 Making sure that Health & Safety rules are strictly followed by all team members.
 Establishing team and staff targets as a reflection of the company's objectives.
 Providing accurate information to senior managers on key issues.
 Attending and participating in team meetings.


Responsible & handling:
 ICCS (Cheque Clearing system).
 Moodys (Risk Analysis system).
 Ethix-Branch (Branch Automation system).
 Dollar universe (Process automation system).
 Ethix-Finance (Islamic Banking system).
 PCD (Profit calculation and distribution system)
 Ethix-Trade ( Trading system)
 Abu Dhabi Police (Car Mortgage system).
 AppLegal (Legal system).
 Online Reports (Reporting system).


Successful projects:
 Branch Automation system & Core Banking upgrade (2014)
 Islamic Banking Project(2015)
 Moodys Project (2015)
 ICCS Upgrade (2016)
 Car Mortgage System implementation(2016)
 Legal system implementation(2016)
 Part of T24 project data migration(2017-2018)
 Process Automation upgrade project (from Dollar universe to Atomic) 2018.

Customer Application Business Analyst at ITS - International Turnkey Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2008 to June 2014

Worked on 5 project banking systems in Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD):
1- Global Financial System “GFS” (is a Branch automation system)
2- Islamic Banking System (IBS)
3- Loan Origination (LO).
4- IFX is a middle ware.
5- Phoenix: can use it for inquires and checking.

 Point person for integration and implementation of new CR and all technical
tools/resources.
 Design and Develop a new tasks using .net framework & MSSQL.
 In all above systems, Gathering requirements from business users and do the analysis
of the new requirements and write the change request documents and design it then
send it to development center.
 Following the request and deliver it on time to catch the customer satisfaction.
 Handling the implementation of these systems and migration.
 Troubleshooting and support the systems issues.
 Perform the above systems administration.

Senior Developer .Net at Nordix Egypt
  • Egypt
  • June 2005 to December 2007

Jun 2005 - Dec 2007
 Primary responsibilities include design and development of server code.
 Analyzing, Designing, Developing and delivering high quality software solutions.
 Implementing new technologies and researching on internet trends and internet
advanced technologies.
 Mentoring & supporting junior developers, providing sessions with the latest
technology trends.
Projects:
 DAREM: is software to simulate the natural with the graphics in real time.
 DB Army: is software for Egyptian Army. Using ASP.NET, Java-Script - AJAX and MS-SQL
database.
 GIS Army (E-Guard): it is software for controlling the natural disasters and incidents.
(USING: ArcGIS, ASP.NET, Java-Script - AJAX and MS-SQL database)
 E-Chat: it is chat software” winforms application”. (USING: C# and MS-SQL).

Education

Diploma, COBIT 5
  • at COBIT5
  • December 2016

COBIT 5 ® - Course and Certificate (2016).

Diploma, ITIL
  • at ITIL - EXIN
  • November 2016

ITIL ® - Course and Certificate (2016).

Diploma, PMP - Project Management Professional
  • at PMP - PMI Course of Project Management Professional Certificate
  • November 2011

PMP - Course and Prepared to achieve Project Management Professional Certificate (2011).

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science & Information Systems
  • at Faculty of Computers Science - Helwan university - Cairo
  • May 2005

 Graduated with a mark of “Good Degree”.  Graduation Project (Strategy Game Engine) with EXCELLEN

Specialties & Skills

Banking
Development
Data Research
Analysis
Programming

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
Russian
Beginner

Hobbies

  • Gym, Reading, Swimming
    Gym, Reading, Swimming