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Amman - Jordan

LA/California - US

009*********** (Mobile)

ac7kf5@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/shadi-

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Top Skills

IT Management

MIS

Banking

Certifications

Kaspersky fraud prevention

Structured thinking

emotional intelligence

Shadi Ismail

IT RM and Corporate & Institutional Banking Department Head at Arab Bank Amman - Jordan / United States-California LA Summary

Contact information : Jordan mobile 009***********, US mobile 001-951-***-****, email ac7kf5@r.postjobfree.com

Looking for a job in the US, green card holder and does not require sponsorship or H1 visa.

Currently, Arab Bank plc IT CIB Department head managing Trade Finance and Cash Management. Long experience in IT domain and SDLC with proven history of achievements and successful projects that are mostly in the banking domain.

Earlier, (Arab Bank plc) PM for corporate products. Main role is to manage/design/implement new corporate systems in all Arab Bank-North African’s & middle east branches. Provide professional services/consultancy to IT and business in order to come up with high quality E2E banking applications. Conduct training and prepare appropriate planning for projects design & implementation. Earlier, (Al Inma Bank) IT Relationship manager (project based) supporting Trade Finance & Global Business group. Main role is to perform consultancy services and business analysis for the Trade Finance products and any new requested services/solutions. Manage the relation with the business and insure providing high quality services.

Earlier, (Oman Arab Bank) IT Support manager and team leader for the IT support team. Also assigned as project manager for new HR system and Disaster Recovery projects and playing essential role in supporting Trade Finance systems and analyzing any new requirements/change requests.

Independently manage the full project life cycle, from initiation to launch, crafting of requirements and specifications, defining project scope and schedule, managing tasks, leveling resources & contingency plans, and troubleshooting

Lead and support business development activities, including identification, proposal development, and other pursuit activities. In summary, I do project and product management, business analysis, change management, SME for wide range of solutions, Page 1 of 4

vendor management, staff development, and technical lead solution architect.

Experience

Arab Bank

5 years 10 months

IT CIB Department Head

October 2014 - Present

Amman

Managing Trade Finance and Cash Management & Lending teams in Arab Bank IT Dept. Essential member in IT CAB and having wide experience in different domains including middleware and portal based applications. In my domain, I do the following:

1- Managing Cash and Liquidity management projects for all Arab Bank plc regions.

2- In Cash Management; we do account services, payments (international and domestic .. ACH, RTGS, salary, sweeps), Cards, post dated checks, checks clearance, Liquidity management, Content management, Swift..etc of Cash Management services.

3- Trade Finance projects for all Arab Bank plc regions. 4- In Trade Finance; we do letters of credit, letters of guarantees, accepted guaranteed drafts, documentary collections, payment of charges, and amortization for commissions.

5- Managing integration between our systems and other applications universe. We use different kind of integration but IBM IIB is the main middleware we have.

6- Integration analysis, backend touch points, interfaces design, overall architecture design following standard AB integration architecture. 7- Discounted Bills and Risk Analyst.

8- Trade Finance Portal; our online Trade Finance system (iTrade). 9- In Trade Finance Portal; we do all kind of online services covers TF domain for end customers.

10- End-to-end experience managing the product development lifecycle with a proven track record of successfully launching new products and services. 11- Acting as release manager for all Cash & Trade changes and upgrades and fixes and participating with QA & QC is putting all controls in place and enforce best quality deliverables including test automation and release management.

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12- In summary, managing sophisticated list of Trade Finance and Cash and Liquidity Management systems end to end with latest technologies known in the market. Also portfolio management, resources management, budgeting, program delivery management, vendor relationship management. Project Manager - Trade Finance & Lending systems

2013 - October 2014 (1 year 10 months)

Amman

Managing Trade Finance and Lending systems in Arab Bank. Senior consultant and PDM for Eximbills projects (back office Trade Finance system).

Senior consultant and PDM for CE (Customer Enterprise - China Systems) which covers Trade Finance Portal.

Arab Bank

Program Delivery Manager

August 2009 - October 2014 (5 years 3 months)

Responsible for Trade Finance systems in Arab Bank. Senior consultant and PDM for Eximbills projects (back office Trade Finance system).

Senior consultant and PDM for CE (Customer Enterprise - China Systems) which covers Trade Finance Portal.

PM for Arab Bank – Trade Finance GCC centralization. Alinma Bank

Relationship manager

March 2009 - July 2009 (5 months)

1- Business analyst for Corporate section and Trade Finance 2- IT consultant reporting directly to IT Head acting as SME for corporate systems.

Oman Arab Bank

Support Manager

January 2008 - March 2009 (1 year 3 months)

Manage all support issues in order to reach the best continuity for our branches and head office. Also provide professional services to all banking and investment systems.

Arab Bank

Senior System Analyst

January 2001 - December 2007 (7 years)

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Analyze/Design an automated solutions to the following systems : Trade Finance System (Eximbills)

Online Trade Finance System (ePlato)

Management Information System

Lending System

IT Consultant of Middleware Team.

IT Consultant of Data Warehouse and MIS.

IT Consultant for the Global Arab bank IT Centers. Arab Bank

Systems Analyst and development specialist

January 2001 - December 2007 (7 years)

Analysis and Design an automated solutions for the new Business requirements for the following systems :

Trade Finance System (Eximbills)

Online Trade Finance System (ePlato)

Management Information System

Lending System

IT Consultant of Middleware Team.

IT Consultant of Data Warehouse Team.

IT Consultant for the Global Arab bank IT Centers. Education

Jami'at Al-Isra Al Ahliyyah

B.S.c., Computer Science (1996 - 2000)

Amman training college

deploma, Clinical/Medical Laboratory Technician (1993 - 1995) Page 4 of 4

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