Hisham Mohamed Ads
Location: Cairo, Egypt; Mobile: +201*********
Email: ******.****@*****.***
Latest Role: Innovation Architect
Job Title: IT Architect
Information Technology Expert with 14+ years of insightful experience…
Innovation & Integration Architect for Banking & Payments Industry
Noteworthy Professional Contributions
~ Part of IBM People Management Team ~
~ Leading Microservices Sub-Practice at IBM ~
~ one of the Early Birds at FAWRY Architecture Board ~
Areas of Expertise
Strong Knowledge of banking and Payment system.
Solid Knowledge of Service Based Architecture
Interacting/Leading cross-functional teams, customers and stakeholders
Team Management /Leadership
Quality assurance of the delivery
Standards Used: (ISO20022, IFX, BIAN, SWIFT)
SOA, Microservice, Spring, J2ee
Integration Tech (AppConnect, IIB, IBM MQ ),Struts,JSF,Angular, Web-Services Techs. Node.js, Netflix OSS, ISTIO.
Executive Synopsis
IBM Innovation Architect for EcoBank AI powered Digital Channels Phase 1 - Nigeria
IBM Senior Integration Architect for SAIB SOA & process Automation Project - Egypt
IBM Senior Integration Architect for CIB's strategic Digital Transformation & SIGMA Programs - Egypt
IBM Senior Integration Consultant for Eithad Airways Account - AUE
IBM Integration Consultant for TeData “Order Management Project - Egypt
Fawry Integration Team Lead & Consultant for EBPP Payment Solution at Fawry Integrated Services - Egypt
Intercom Senior J2ee Developer at Intercom for CIB and financial system – Egypt
Awards
IBM GBS Service Excellence Award (SEA) – May 2018 – for Dare to create original ideas.
IBM Eminence and Excellence Award – 2017 – for Put the Client First
IBM OTAA (Outstanding Technical Achievement Award) - 2013 – for Etihad PSST program solutions.
Fawry Employee of the Year 2010
Intercom Excellence Award – 2008- for Retaining Customer Trust at CIB Retail Internet Banking project
Career Graph
IBM, Cairo, Egypt
April 2012 till Date
Current title: Senior Integration Architect
Accountabilities:
Build and Develop Architecture document.
Build and develop detailed design Document.
Build and design the required services.
Guide System into New Age Tech. & AI Powered Solutions
Consult CIB to build and develop service life cycle.
Consult Tedata for Order Management System.
Participate in building Integration team with banking Industry Knowledge.
Participate in Enhancement the estimation Model for building the services based on the complexity.
Responsible for supporting Project Manager to develop and Submit the plans.
Communicate with all Backend Systems to validate the requirements required.
Communicate with all vendor to validate the requirements required.
Build and review the testing activities to guarantee the required quality and performance for the services provides.
Projects:
EcoBank - Cognitive Digital Channels powered by Watson Conversation Services:
Period: Mar 2018 – August 2018
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Nigeria
Description:
Implementation of Watson Conversation Services for the Payment use case and FAQ (500+) and a 50+ intents that will cater for Customer Contact Center processes. The project provides an AI Powered Chatbot capable of providing interactive customer experience to Ecobank’s customer thereby improving the operational efficiency of the contact center and reduce the cost to serve. I was leading team of 5 to deliver the App Including Integration between Watson services and Different bank systems (CRM, Flux Cube, Digital Channels). beside responsible for HLD, LLD beside all other development activities deliverables.
Role: Innovation Architect
Build and Develop Architecture Document.
Build and develop Detailed design document.
Guide the Client through the capability of AI and how to use it in real scenarios
Lead the development team and put the guideline and the standard that should be followed.
Technology Stack: (Node.Js, MongoDB, React.js, Watson Conversation Services)
Société Arabe Internationale de Banque (SAIB) -- SOA Establishment, Egypt
Period: Jan 2017 – Dec 2017
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: This project Scope is to build a will structured, and standard based ESB framework that works within SOA environment for SAIB integrating systems such as ATM, Cortex, Internet Banking, BPM with the T24 system .
Role: Senior Integration Architect.
Help the bank to build his own development team that can enrich and drive the ESB.
Build and Develop Architecture Document.
Build and develop Detailed design document.
Lead the development team and put the guideline and the standard that should be followed.
Support Project Manager with the estimation Model and planning Activities.
Technology Stack: (IIB v10, MQ v9, Oracle DB, SOA)
CIB (Commercial International Bank) - ESB Phase 3 -- Corporate Processes Automation
Period: June 2016 – June 2018
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: As Phase 3 from the CIB's strategic transformation Program towards the SOA suite I was the Lead Architect and Team Leader of 12 members for the Corporate Processes Automation phase to be migrated to the SOA suite through the ESB this phase involved about - 36 Process & 120 Services and complex corporate banking business including (Corporate & Syndicated loans, Customer origination ..)
CIB (Commercial International Bank) - ESB Phase 2 -- Trade Channels:
Period: Jan 2016 – Oct 2017
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: As Phase 2 from the CIB's strategic transformation Program towards the SOA suite I was the Lead Architect and Team Leader of 10 developers for the Trade Channels FBTI & FBCC(Trade & Cash ) channels to be migrated to the SOA suite through the ESB this phase involved about 60 Services and complex corporate & trade banking business.
CIB (Commercial International Bank) - ESB Phase 1 -- Retail Channels:
Period: Mar 2015 – Jan 2017
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: As CIB moves towards service-oriented architectures, which host various deployed services, CIB would require infrastructure service that provides robust communication, intelligent routing, and sophisticated translation and transformation of services. ESBs become the logical choice to implement SOA as they use industry standards for most of the services they provide and facilitate cross-platform interoperability. The project Scope is to avail services for CIB's Multiple e-Channels such IVR, EBS, SWIFT, CRM and Internet Banking.
Role: Senior Integration Architect.
Build and Develop Architecture Document.
Build and develop Detailed design document.
Design & Build ESB that provides more than 250 services to serve multiple channels using BIAN Standards.
Lead the development team and put the guideline and the standard that should be followed.
Support Project Manager with the estimation Model and planning Activities.
Technology Stack: (IIB v10, MQ v9, Oracle DB, SOA)
Etihad Airways - Etihad Airways SOA Platform
Period: June 2014 – Jun 2015
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: UAE
Description: IBM was responsible for delivering many module and supporting production systems within Etihad AMS Account such As Loyalty system, FIS & Insurance.
Role: Senior Integration Consultant
Responsible for understanding and analyze data, and translate into technical requirements as needed to facilitate development of modules / applications / software.
Validate business requirements versus the implementation capabilities and solution constraints to ensure feasibility Conducting quality assurance audits & project health checks.
Produce the proper application literature that serves functional traceability needs.
Engage in planning and development activities in the software life cycle to understand business requirements and technical capabilities / limitations.
Create applications / relatively more complex codes and scripts / customize larger addon programs in accord with the project plan.
Develop test scenarios/scripts and test the programming to ensure that it meets Quality, security and outcome objectives and standards.
Report and monitor software “ bugs” to the development team and confirm closure.
Write complete documentation recording work to ensure preservation of data /requirements / needs.
Assist in training junior staff and end users to ensure full understanding of applications usage.
TeData Order Management System,
Period: Apr 2015 – Sept 2015
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: Supporting TEData as IBM client to build ESB System that handle all intercommunication for all Application, Coaching the Client‘s Integration Team
Role: Integration consultant
Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding & Delivering Artifacts using technology of Enterprise Service Bus - ESB,, WebSphere Message Broker v7 – WebSphere MQ v7 – Web Services -SoapUI - Linux, Virtualization
Etihad Airways - Alternative Form Of Payment –(AFOP)
Period: Jul 2013 – Apr 2014
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: UAE
Description: AFOP (Alternative Form Of Payment) module was developed to produce extra payment instruments used in different countries around the world, like other types of credit cards (i.e : AMEX, DINERS) and real time Bank transfer (i.e : iDEAL, SOFORT, giro pay,Alipay, Union pay, Carte Bancaire, eNets).The module integrates with payment gateway (Global Collect), fraud check services ( Fraudnet) and Reservation services ( Sabre).
Etihad Airways - Passengers Services System Transfer - PSS-T
Period: Sep 2012 – Jun 2013
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: UAE
Description: Etihad Airways "Big Switch" to its new Sabre Airline Solutions SabreSonic’ Customer Sales and Service (CSS) system has been completed with minimal operational disruption across the airline’s global flight network during the cut-over period.
Role: Senior Integration Specialist.
Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding & Delivering Artifacts using technology of Enterprise Service Bus - ESB,, WebSphere Message Broker v8 – WebSphere MQ v7 – Web Services -SoapUI - Linux, Virtualization
Commercial International Bank -- IVR E- Channel.
Period: Apr 2012 – Sep 2013
Employer: IBM Egypt
Project Based: Egypt
Description: Responsible for building the EAI module of an e-channel "IVR" at the CIB (Major Bank In Egypt).
Role: Senior Integration Specialist.
Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding & Delivering Artifacts using technology of Enterprise Service Bus - ESB,, WebSphere Message Broker v7 – WebSphere MQ v7 – Web Services -SoapUI - Linux, Virtualization
FAWRY INTEGRATED SYSTEM,EGYPT
INTEGRATION CONSUTANT
Accountabilities:
Build and Develop Integration Framework.
Build and develop detailed design Document.
Build and design the required services.
Projects
Auto-Payments Solution
Period: Feb 2011 – Apr 2012
Employer: Fawry Integrated Services
Project Based: Egypt
Description: A e-bill payment and presentment system providing its users with a single focal point for their online Bills Inquiry, Presentment as well as online Bill Payments and service activation. The solution may be accessible through a variety of e-channels The solution represents to its end-users a Quick and Secure Bills Management &
Payment System accessible anytime from anywhere, with a single consolidated view of all due bills and payments. It empowers bank customers with online service activation such as Air-time Top up.
Fawry Core Switch Solution
Period: Feb 2009 – Apr 2012
Employer: Fawry Integrated Services
Project Based: Egypt
Description: An EBPP Solution is strategically one of the main assets for Fawry. It is a payment gateway and consolidator for all billers to be easily exposed to bank through a single point of communication.
Role: Integration Architect/Team Leader
Requirement Analysis, Design, Coding & Delivering Artifacts using technology of Enterprise Service Bus - ESB,, WebSphere Message Broker v6.1 – WebSphere MQ v6– Web Services -SoapUI - Linux, Virtualization
Intercom Enterprises, Egypt
Sr. J2EE Developer
Accountabilities:
Build and Develop Integration Framework.
Build and develop detailed design Document.
Build and design the required services.
Projects:
Commercial International Bank - Core Banking Migration
Period: Aug 2008 – Apr 2009
Employer: Intercom Enterprises Services
Project Based: Egypt
Description: The project scope was migrating the multi-channel banking solution within the migration of the core banking solution the migration was from legacy core banking solution to new core bank system T24 from Temenos, that was a mega project that includes solution designing an implementation throw a steering committee, and a migration plan for every module in the core banking and the integrated systems.
Commercial International Bank - Multi-Channel Banking Roll-Out
Period: Aug 2006 – Apr 2009
Employer: Intercom Enterprises Services
Project Based: Egypt
Description: Project was the deployment and roll out to production environment of the Multi-Channel Banking solution (Internet Banking, IVR, and SMS-Gateway) to one of the major banks in Egypt, the project was tight in time in challenging environment, the project includes.
Role: Sr. J2ee Developer
Preparing new message schema for communication between T24 and delivery channels.
Confirming the schema with all parties (T24, Internet Banking, Phone Banking, Message Broker)
Updating Internet Banking, Phone Banking and Broker to handle the new core banking system characteristics (New customer ID, New schema for Account numbers, loan ID, Time Deposit ID and Saving Certificates ID)
Updating Internet Banking, IVR, SMS Gateways and Reporting systems to comply with the new schema
Broker will have to handle retrieving the portion of customer data from T24 (New Core Banking) and another portion from Midas (Old Core Banking system) where migration will be implemented gradually product by product
Technology Stack: EJB, JSP, Servlet, IBM-MQ, WMQ 5.0, IBM Transformation Extender, DB2-Administration.
Academics
B.Sc. in Computer sciences on May 2004 from Faculty of Computers and Information, Zaqaziq University, Egypt
Professional Development
IBM Certified Solution Developer-- WebSphere Message Broker v6.1
IBM Certified Solution Developer --WebSphere Studio V5.0
IBM Certified Solution Developer – XML and Related Technologies
IBM Certified Database Associate –DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family
IBM Software tools and web -- 9 months Development MCIT Diploma
VOIP and related protocols principles
HP- Openview Network Node -- Management
CCNA – CCNP
Date of Birth: 17 Sep 1983 Languages: English, Arabic