PROFILE:

• Dedicated IT Development Manager. I achieve results through effective management and leadership of others.
• I am well - versed in analysing and mitigating risk and finding cost-effective solutions.
• I excel at boosting performance and productivity by establishing realistic goals and managing deadlines and customer expectations.
• I have experience in executing project implementation to successful completion.
• Determined to deliver high-quality and user-friendly products to the market as quickly as possible.
• Adept at managing long and short term releases using various SDLC methods including waterfall and agile.
• Expert in product development, release planning, change management and product strategy.
• I have 19 years of IT experience, 17 of which have been in Banking IT, out of which, 14 years as a manager of others.
• Successful replacement of legacy core banking systems
• Successful reduction of production incidents
• Successful retention of key staff

SKILLS:

• People Management
• Cross-functional team management
• Business / IT interpersonal skills
• Excellent work ethic
• Excellent communication skills
• Banking Knowledge
• Technical expertise
• Management Skills
• People-oriented
• Vendor Management

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Responsibilities:

• Development Manager in charge of Flexcube Model Bank roll out to replace current legacy systems in our Rest of Africa subsidiaries. Monitor and Manage delivery on agreed quality standards and turnaround times according to Group Policies and Regulatory requirements.
• Manage operational team
• Setting performance standards for direct reports
• Manage Under-performance effectively
• Advise on decisions and solutions related to Solution recommendations Monitor compliance targets and implement mitigation plans Monitor and identify operational risks and raise corrective action
• Enable team to build an enabling and productive culture
• Mentor to team and first level problem resolution
• Maintain personal professional skills and accreditation
• Monitor Project budgets and deviations
• Ensure Business requirements accurately translated into project schedules Ensure Satisfactory post implementation review
• Advise management on the technical readiness, risk and impact of the proposed implementation to production
• Comply with effective change management practices
• Ensure stakeholders (business and technical) are aware of impact and risk analysis results
• Complete required change management document's timeously
• Ensure stake holder approval of the change
• Participate in implementation forums
• Ensure change migration through all relevant environments before implementation into production
• Interpret the business requirements in order to create technical specifications across projects
• Create or advise technical designs relevant to product areas
• Review technical designs of other programmers within their product areas
• Manage delivery and coordinate coding work tasks according to technical specifications
• Supervise the delivery of work tasks assigned as per project requirements
• Monitor task delivery against project plan and escalate non delivery
• Accountability to ensure end to end testing through to sign off to ensure fault free production implementation
• Review and sign off all test packs (including test cases) plans and all testing related artefacts and integrated test

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Customization of T24 application as per Bank Requirements
• Collecting TAABs for implementation
• Business requirement Documentation
• Technical Specifications
• Change requests
• Unit testing
• User Acceptances Testing
• Testing developments from TAM
• User training
• Local development to cover gaps in design
• Interface, Enquiries and Reports development
• Quality Assurance to Confidential standards for local development
• Documentation of any local development.

Confidential

Senior Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for correcting errors in Confidential loans that resulted from wrong initial setup of the Confidential loan module and insufficient user training.
• Investigated errors on Confidential Loans
• Corrected setup issues
• Testing corrections
• Passed entries to relevant accounts to correct Loan positions and schedules.

Confidential

Technical and Business consultant

Environment: T24 R9, Oracle, jbase.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing SWIFT and ATM solution from TAM and development of required validation routines.
• Credit consultant responsible for the testing and implementation of Confidential loans.
• Responsible for providing support to other consultants on site for retail issues.
• Reviewed model bank setup for Confidential loans with clients
• Wrote Business requirement Definitions for Gaps in Credit Functionality
• Implementation and data migration for Confidential
• Developed No-file Enquiries and Reports for Confidential reporting
• Training Credit Officers To setup new products in Confidential
• Developed Module For Collateral Perfection
• Developed Module for Confidential subscription
• System testing for Credit modules
• Uat Support for Credit Team
• Packaged all changes on the system for TAM (DL and BCON)
• Tested gap solutions from TAM
• Developed validation routines as per bank requirements
• Documented local solutions
• Documented change requests

Confidential

Senior Business Consultant

Environment: T24 Emerge R6.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Implementing the Credit system for UYF LD Loans -
• Configured the system as per clients requirements as specified in the BRD documents
• Limits - Configured the system and assisted Users with UAT.
• Collateral - Configuration of Collateral module as per client's requirements specified in BRD documents
• Configuration of General system tables set up as per client requirements
• Reports - Refined and developed T24 enquiries as per clients requirements
• Provided user support during User Acceptance Testing

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Environment: T24 R8, Oracle, Jbase

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Implementation of Retail Deposits and Funds Transfer applications
• Implemented Payments modules
• Developed Bankers Cheque processing system using the Funds transfer application framework
• Implemented Retail Deposits using the Money Market Module
• Developed Islamic Banking application for retail deposits to enable profit sharing rather than interest application as required by the bank
• Developed the Presto Local Money transfer Application
• Documented all developments and changes to system
• Provided UAT and post live support

Confidential

Senior Business/Technical Consultant

Environment: T24 R8, Oracle, Jbase

Responsibilities:

• Business development meetings
• I.T Strategy software selection
• Performance appraisals and development reviews
• Interface development (Globus to peripheral systems e.g. Funds Reservation, Staff salaries Interface)
• Development of subroutines, reports and enquiries to enhance the core banking system
• Trouble shooting system and EOD errors
• Retail Products customisation System maintenance (file resizing).

Confidential

SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Implemented New core Banking System - Globus (green fields bank)
• Retail Products customisation
• Interface development
• Paynet Interface using OFS
• Development of subroutines and reports to enhance the core banking system
• Enquiry development Trouble shooting EOD errors
• System maintenance (file resizing)
• Training users.

Confidential

SYSTEMS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Implemented New core Banking System
• Development of subroutines and reports to enhance the core banking system
• Enquiry development
• Trouble shooting EOD errors
• System maintenance (file resizing)
• Training users

Confidential

ANALYST PROGRAMMER

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and development of Road management systems (MMS).
• Report production
• Trouble shooting and System maintenance.