S. Omar Sahib Mobile: (***) ***-

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** ****** **** *****, ***** 901 Home: (416) 259-

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Etobicoke, Ontario, M8V 4C2 Email:

abmmi1@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Director level technology professional with over ten years experience at

leading organizations that operate in Financial Services, Mobile Commerce,

Open-loop and close-loop card systems, SMS, MNO, MVNO, Telecommunications

and Consulting Groups. Extensive experience developing new products for the

Financial and Telecommunication industry related to mobile devices, SMS (MO

and MT), alternative payment instruments, consumer payment facing programs,

acquiring, card programs and content aggregation. Extensive PMO experience

in consolidation, new business and enhancements projects. Budgets varied

from 12-65 million, and teams up to 35 internal and external resources.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Paycasso Corporation, Toronto, Ontario

07/07 - 04/10

Director of Business Development and Mobile Commerce

Reported to the CEO and COO. Program Manager for company initiatives in

mobile commerce, card issuance, money remittance and card-not-present

processing programs. Principal interface with financial institutions (FIs)

in North America, Europe and the Middle East, acquiring banks, MVNOs, MNOs,

SMS aggregators, content providers, BIN sponsors, processors, KYC and AML

institutions.

. Responsible for developing new business relationships and the

necessary strategies with FIs, Acquirers and other stakeholders to

deliver our client requirements.

. Marketed key company products to potential clients in EMENA, Caribbean

and Latin America. Attended Trade shows and conferences to network on

business opportunities within the space.

. Refined the roll-out of mobile commerce programs (ticketing, prepaid

services, mobile money remittance, bill payments) and Prepaid

issued/association branded cards.

. Built closed and open-loop card programs within the USA, KSA and

Caribbean. Implemented the USA open-looped visa program in Feb 2010

for 50,000 cardholders. Program forecasted to grow to 100,000 by end

of 2010. KSA and Caribbean programs scheduled to be released in second

half 2010.

. Implemented funding methods which are extensions to ACH, electronic

wallets, loyalty programs, etc.

. SME for a full service payroll program with remittances, bill payment

and card issuance ties in the Middle East and Asia.

. Rolled-out a Trusted Service Manager solution in Trinidad and Tobago

which involves; MNOs, FIs, SMS aggregator, BIN Sponsors, Government

agencies (postal service, port authority and online agencies).

. Designed and participated in designing prototypes for mobile marketing

for content providers.

. Involved in all aspects of business acquisitions and capital fund

raising.

Wireless Payment Services, Toronto, Ontario (owned by Rogers, Bell and

Telus) 03/06 - 07/07

Director of Technology and Operations; a member of the Senior Management

team for Mobile Commerce Projects

Reported to the President of WPS; participated in all Steering Committee

and WPS Board meetings. The Steering Committee meetings were attended by

select VP and SVPs from the carriers. The Presidents of each Wireless

Carrier were Directors on the WPS Board and attended all WPS Board

meetings.

. Developed the strategies for WPS to become Trusted Service Manager for

all three MNOs, content providers, Acquirers, FIs and other players

within the payments eco-system.

. Developed strategies for Prepaid Top-Up, P2P (using money, minutes or

other units of economic value), E2E (commercial implementations), Card

Issuance (prepaid, debit and credit/affinity type), money remittance

inter-carrier, national and international.

. Developed strategies for a robust Stored Value Offer to serve as the

carrier's primary payment instrument. Offer can be extended to the

mobile device. In later phases, payment cards designed so that they

can be tied to a debit or prepaid physical card. Worked towards an

extension to physical credit card with Near Field Communication

technologies

. Provided strategies for closed loop transactions designed to reduce or

eliminate selected fees. Worked with key merchants, such as mass

transit, mass entertainment events, big box stores and government

institutions.

. Investigation and work on the evolution of traditional instrument into

an NFC environment.

. Oversaw the risk control plans associated with each payment instrument

and the roadmap.

. Assist in the evolution of the WPS Phase 1 solution acquisition plan

on a Java/Oracle environment using WAP/SMS as the mobile interfaces.

. Developed and finalized solution architecture for QA and production

. Lead for negotiations with select vendors

Moneris Solutions Corporation (Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank partnership)

02/03 - 03/06

Senior Manager of Infrastructure, Network, Telecom and Operations Services

Investigated and executed ways to reduce cost, yet created a robust, fault

tolerant environment. Built the technical teams that managed the entire POS

(ACQUIRING) back-office for Royal Bank of Canada and Bank of Montreal.

. Developed a strategy for the integration of Moneris' Chicago and

Vancouver offices' network, infrastructure and desktop. This allowed

Moneris to reduce duplication in business units. Responsible for the

budget, 5 PMs, other assigned resources. Head the PMO group.

. Program Director for a new data centre and seven floors, which housed

Moneris corporate users, ACD, SERVERS, LAN, and WAN. Redesigned the WAN

and LAN and reduced cost per month from the service provider. Environment

capable of doing VOIP for non-critical and customer facing calls. Removed

private T1 circuits and route voice traffic over the WAN, this further

reduced the monthly network cost. Co-chair the PMO group, responsible for

the budget, requirements, 12 PMs, other external and internal resources.

. Responsible for Monet (Intranet) and Moneris.com. Set the direction for

Monet and Moneris from an application and infrastructure perspective,

given the business objective.

. Directed the build out Moneris' system and network architecture for their

mission critical systems at Q9 (hosting facilities). Built mission

critical back-up/restore environment, along with DRP infrastructure and

methods and procedures for the BCP strategy. Created network diversity,

redundancies, failover, and almost zero down-time environment all under

budget.

. Developed long-term strategy for Infrastructure and Telecom, for example,

virtualization using VMware, reduced data cost by implementing MPLS for

core networks. Reviewed technology and hardware that could reduce TCO and

increase ROI.

. Participated in the review and execution of external audits such as

Digital Risk Assessment (DRA), SAS 70 and Payment Card Industry (PCI)

specifically for financial organizations. This ensured all data and

transactions traversed and were stored in a hardened and robust

environment compliant with DRA and PCI. Senior member of Infosec

Emergency Team.

. Assisted Moneris EMV (Card Not Present and chip & PIN) requirements and

attended all technical EMV sessions hosted by Visa International.

. Initiated the development of a Moneris strategy for a new IP Call Centre

that spans three locations (one location may be collapsed) within Canada

and the US. Enabling VOIP handset/soft-phones to the desktop. Continued

with a primary/primary concept to meet our BCP objective (zero down

time). Assessed VOIP to replace analog ACD with SIP over the corporate

MPLS.

. Negotiated with CLEC/LECs to reduce long distance/toll-free/IVR traffic

cost by half across Canada and the US.

. Developed and maintained relationships with VARS, service providers,

Telcos and manufacturers for all environments including Cisco, Juniper,

IBM, HP, all Canadian Telcos, wireless service providers, RBC and BMO.

Developed SLAs, SLOs and reviewed contracts, MSA and schedules for

services rendered to Moneris.

. Created and managed yearly budgets; program managed and sponsor of

projects relevant to overall objectives.

Bell Mobility, Network Architect, Wireless Technology Development

12/00- 12/02 (contract)

Bell Mobility, Application Architect, IT Architecture

12/97 - 6/99

Part of the PMO team responsible for the procurement and implementation of

the new billing and customer care environment. Represented the Network

Group at the PMO: creating active/active NOCs in Western and Eastern

regions.

Other Contracting Positions:

Sigma Systems Group, Technical Project Manager

5/00 - 11/00

ADC Software Systems, Technical Project Manager

6/99 - 5/00

Information Management Resource (Consulting Firm)

9/96 - 12/97

AIS Consulting (Consulting Firm)

9/93 - 9/96

Hibar Systems (Engineering Firm) 5/89 -

9/89 to 5/92-9/92

EDUCATION

Ryerson University

. Bachelor of Applied Computer Science & Software Engineering I&II

. ITIL Certificate - 2004

. Technical Project Management Certificate, Bell Mobility Internal -

1999

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