PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:
Result-oriented professional having vast experience in the field of IT,
Banking/Financial Institution, Manufacturing Industry, Project Management,
Business Analysis, Business enabled service and deal with the
Implementation, Operational, Supervising, Coordinating & Leading challenges
circumstances of my career.
A highly motivated with results-focused Card Payment Industry, Systems &
Enterprise Application Administrating & Maintenance with over thirteen
years of Information Technology experience. Possess strong leadership and
successful team building capabilities and excellent technical,
communication, presentation, and customer service skills and time
management with priority. A resourceful problem solver with a proven
ability to bring quick resolution to challenging situations as well as
build lasting relationship with vendors and all stake holders.
SPECIALITIES:
. Support and Maintenance Banks Alternative Delivery Channels (ATM, POS,
e-Payment, i-Banking, SMS banking, Mobile Banking).
. Switch system management & operation (Debit, Credit, E-com and others)
and ATM, CDM, POS, Payment Infrastructure, System Administration, Data
Center Operations which covers VISA, MasterCard & JCB regular
operation, includes issuing, acquiring, settlement and entire
transaction operation life cycle.
. Meet Payment Industry regulatory (VISA, MasterCard & JCB Central Bank
and other concern bodies) Mandates/Compliances as well as internal
compliance and risk frameworks.
. Card Systems (including EMV) Issuing & Acquiring, e-Commerce Payment
Gateway, IVR, ATM & POS Implementation.
. ATM Network - OMNIBUS and Remittance Network - Eldorado operation and
maintenance
. A fair knowledge in EMV and 3D Secure transactions especially from a
dispute resolution perspective.
. Through with practical experiences with Business Analysis with several
project delivery, having well conversant with guidelines of IIBA
. Extensive Project Management skill (PMI based) with Business Analysis
experience of large projects and service delivery.
. Managerial and Leading skills set with consent to service
accomplishment.
. ERP Implementation and support & maintenance with various industry
domains.
. Through understanding on system management ( ITIL based) and Follows
ITIL/ITSM/ISO 20000 guideline to support IT Industry and PMI for
project Management
. People & Process Management
. In depth Financial Domain knowledge in various area like personal
banking, Alternative channels, cards, whole sale banking, finance,
back office, credit, risk management, operations and technology.
. Thorough understanding of the Software/Application Development
Lifecycle.
. Visualization and logical prediction of future impact.
. Experienced in modeling business processes using BPMN.
. Excellent written, verbal communication and negotiation skills.
. Good prioritization and time management skill
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS:
. Managed and Delivered Enterprise IT Support & Services with multiple
delivery.
. Implemented enhancement of card management system from SunGard with
VISA and MC
. Implemented enhancement of call center/contact center of GENESYS
. Implemented enhancement of E-Commerce system as iPay from Interblocks,
Srilanka
. Implemented enhancement of shared ATM switch(Phoenix) from TPS,
Pakistan
. Implemented 3rd party ATM & cards processor IRIS from TPS Pakistan.
. Implemented VISA and MasterCard magnetic strip/chip cards with EMV
(with Affina as DataCard USA Application) .
. Implemented national payment/remittance switch (for interbank payment)
from Interblocks, Srilanka.
. Implemented IFS ERP System from IFS.
. Assessment and scope finalization with implementation of JCB (Japan
Credit Burue)
. Meet several VISA/MasterCard Mandate / Compliances over the years.
. Lead scope finalization, architecture design, develop and maintain
test strategies, plans and scripts, delivery of IT solutions to the
business on time, within budget and to agreed quality standards for
different business domain ERP System
. Ensure system/application management and support issue within SLA time
frame.
. Got trained in various banking solutions, technology, and methodology
and management areas.
. Foreign Currency Debit card LIVE implementation
. Connectivity with National Payment System of central bank
. Introduce VISA Future Star product (debit card for student) in debit
system.
. Supreme and Excel Debit card implementation.
. Enable Cheque book request and Statement request from ATM
.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION & ACCOMPLISHMENT
1. Certified in ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management V3
2011 'EXN4594223'
2. Certified in ITIL Intermediate on RCV, SD and in progress ITIL Expert by
End of Dec'13 'EXN 4871591'
3. Certified in CLOUDF (Cloud Computing Foundation) 'EXN4777186
4. Registered and scheduled for certification in PMP, PMI-USA month of
Jan'14
5. Preparation in completion for certification in CBAP (Certification in
Business Analyst Professionals), IIBA month of Mar'14
TRAINING (Training and Workshop)
ERP Application - Sage
1. ACCPAC Advantages series operation with different database (Oracle, MS-
SQL 2000, IBM DB2, Pervasive SQL) system Certification.
Conference and work shop: Attend Sage ACCPAC ERP Conference & Expo. 2004
(at Ho Che Meen City, Vietnam, Nov'2004)
2. Sage ACCPAC ERP CRM Advance training and Certification
Conference and workshop: Attend Sage ACCPAC ERP Conference & Expo. 2006 (at
Bangkok, Thailand, Nov'2006)
3. Sage ACCPAC ERP SDK training and Certification
Conference and workshop: Attend Sage ACCPAC ERP Conference & Expo. 2007 (at
Kualalampur, Malaysia, Dec'2007)
4. Developing Dashboard with the Dashboard SDK training and Certification
Conference and workshop: Attend Sage ACCPAC ERP Conference & Expo. 2008 (at
Kotakinabalu, Sabah, West Malaysia, Nov'2008)
ERP Application - IFS (Industrial and Financial System)
5. Functional and Technical with complete concentration entire ERP
application with IFS ERP (at Colombo, Srilanka, June - July'2009)
Others
6. Training from ICMAB on ACCPAC Advantage Series (in Oct'2004)
7. Completed a certificate course on "Export & Import through LC" & Supply
Chain Management - Organized by BDJOBS.COM Ltd.
8. Biztalk as Middleware tools Training completed at BRAC Bank Ltd.
Arrangement, Trainer, Srilanka
9. Participate 'Training on Upgrading SQL Server 2005', Conduct by
Microsoft Bangladesh Ltd., and March'2009
10. Participate 'Oracle Application Showcase', Conduct by Oracle
Corporation, Jan'2008
11. Participate 'CISCO Knowledge Base' seminar, Conduct by Cisco,
March'2008
12. Participate 'Oracle Applications Day', Conduct by Oracle corporation,
Feb'2009
13. Participate 'EMV Technology with MasterCard ', Conducted by MasterCard
International, Oct'2013
14. Participate 'MasterCard Operation Management ', Conducted by MasterCard
International, Oct'2013
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
TOTAL PERIOD'S OF EXPERIENCE : 13 Years 6 Months
1. Maestro USA communication Inc, NY, USA
Latest Position : Senior Business Analyst
Address : New York, USA
Duration : From June'12 to till now.
Roles:
Telecom ERP Implementation (VOS3000)
The Scope of this system is to implement telecom ERP especially soft switch
system for routing calls.
Inside the system there are couples of modules as: Billing Management
including accounts, routing, marketing and sales.
My Roles Includes (but not limited to):
1. Solution conceptualization:
. Problem definition
. Develop business case
. Define business requirements
. Define solution scope (features)
2. Requirements Development:
. Elicit stakeholder needs
. Preparing BRD based on requirements for implementing whole system.
3. Solution delivery:
. Monitor project delivery
. Assess and validate solution
. Define transition requirements
. Engage stakeholders
. Preparing Business Case and test case for UAT
. Reports requirements
. Process Optimization
. Use tokenization for payment system
. Configure payment gate way with third party solution
. Participated in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Implementation.
. Preparing Unit Test Cases and User Test Cases and performing
Integration/Systems Testing.
4. Benefits realization (post project):
. Measure performance based on KPIs
. Assess performance
. Optimize as needed
Environment: Oracle 11g, Windows, Client application based on JAVA,
Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project
2. BRAC Bank (June'09 to 5th June'12)
i. Latest Position : First Asst. Vice President (FAVP), Head
of Cards and Electronic Payment Services, biTS
Duration : From Feb'12 to till June'12.
ii. Last Position : First Asst. Vice President (FAVP), Sr.
Manager - Cards and Electronic Banking Application
Duration : From Sept'11 to till Feb'12.
iii. Previous Position : Asst. Vice President (AVP), Sr. Manager
- ERP Solutions and Enterprise Applications
Company : BRAC Bank Limited
Address : Head Office Annex 2 House 115, Road 5, Niketon
Housing Society, Gulshan 1, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
Duration : From June'09 to till Aug'11.
Roles:
Currently I am working in with BRAC Bank Limited & BRAC IT Services Ltd
(bits) - the leading private sector commercial bank in Bangladesh as First
Asst. President and Head of Cards and Electronic Payment Services and
reporting directly to Head of ISM Division and indirectly to Chief
Technology Officer.
My Roles Includes:
. Maintain team and 21 applications related to Cards and ADC channel, e.g.
: CardPro (credit card management system), IRIS (Debit Card management
system), iPAY (e-Commerce), OMNIBUS (Share switch for different Bank),
Eldorado (remittance and payment system), Call Center, Card Production
System (Nexus & Affina) and related other systems.
. Business new requirement analysis and implement regarding card management
system and alternative delivery channel
. Daily system Monitoring & Maintenance of Cards and Electronics Payment
applications
. Ensure smooth service of cards and Alternate Delivery Channel
. Ensure settlement and dispute resolution with different banks and
international payment gateway like VISA, Master Card, JCB
. Manage different projects and team with different local and international
vendors.
. Manage relationship and communication with international payment industry
like VISA, Master Card and JCB
. Maintain relationship with different Bank like OMNIBUS member banks,
Eldorado member banks.
. Maintain full card operation of Rupali banks as the owner of 3rd party
processing switch.
. Service delivery to business.
. System Management within agreed SLA.
. Lead defining business requirements and project delivery ensure proper
technology selection, RFP preparation, and scope finalization.
. Delivery of IT solutions/in-house developments to the business on time,
within budget and to agreed quality standards.
. Evaluate systems, system mapping, testing and implementation.
. Provide technical and functional expertise to enterprise software
solutions.
. Manage and improve business analysis methods and processes to deliver
quality outcomes
. Liaising with business and other stakeholders.
. Provide on-going analysis/advice to; further enhance the application
developed.
. Process reengineering.
. Team Management. All aspects of people management including recruitment,
development and performance review.
ERP Application (IFS) Expertise Area:
Implementation & Designing Base: 1. Financials, 2. Distribution, 3.
Procurement, 4. Fixed Assets, 5. Supplier - Customer Association 6.
Inventory Control (IC), 7. Human Resource Management (HRM) - Employee
Admin, Recruitment, Time & Attendance, Leave Management, Performance
Appraisal, Benefit Management, Travel Expense, Pay Processing and 8. ESS
(Employee Self Service). 9. Document Management 10. Business Performance
modules.
Duties & Responsibilities (Roles) with IFS ERP
System:: Implementation and Maintenance:
A- Implementation and Delivery Lead
1. Lead a complete Implementation team compromises with Functional and
Technical professionals with support of Business Analysis, 2. RFP
Preparation and System Study. 3. Product Quality Documentation, 4.
Application Mapping Documents, 5. Integration with Banks existing
application, i.e. Core Banking System (Finacle), Other Application
- EFMS, DSE Commission Tracker, CRO Incentives, E-Attendance, E-
Learning, 6. Data Migration - Accumulation & Re-engineering, 7.
Application database creation & maintenance, 8. Financial solution
& system linking maintenance, 8. HR policy adaptation with ERP
application, 9. Projects Management and follow up with Vendors as
per project plan within Budget and Cost with optimum target, 10.
Report generation and monitoring, 11. User Training, 12.
Documentation, 13. Customization.
B- Support and Maintenance
1. Lead a complete Support team comprises with Functional and
Technical team members, 2. System Support Update & maintenance, 3.
Update & Further Exploration, 4. Adapt and Accommodate New Business
Requirement.
C- Managerial and Administrative
1. Lead a complete Support team compromises with Functional and
Technical members, 2. System Support Update & maintenance,
2. Update & Further Exploration, 4. Adapt and Accommodate New Business
Requirement.
D- Development Base:
Developing system architecture, setting up database parameter as per
system demand, report development in Oracle 9i environment.
Also, system parameter development where different domain required as
per end user expectation.
3. Transcom Limited (A Group of Companies)
i. Last Position : Asst. Manager (Enterprise Resource Planning
- ERP)
Company : TRANSCOM LIMITED / TRANSCOM GROUP
Working sister concerns : Eskayef Bangladesh Limited, Transcom
Distribution Co. Ltd., Transcom Beverages Limited,
Transcom Limited, The Daily Prothom Alo (As Lead
Implementer), Transcom Electronics Ltd. (As Lead
Implementer) ), ABC Radio Ltd. (As Lead Implementer).
Address : Gulshan Tower (6th Floor), Gulshan - 2, Dhaka-
1213.
Duration : From Jan'2007 to till 20th June'2009
ii. Previous Position : System Analyst (Enterprise Resource Planning
- ERP)
Duration : From Jan'2005 to till Dec'2006.
iii. Previous Last Position : Executive (Enterprise Resource Planning
- ERP)
Duration : From Feb'2004 to Dec'04.
ERP Application (Sage) Expertise Area:
Implementation base: 1. System Manager (SM), 2. General Ledger (GL), 3.
Accounts Receivable (AR), 4. Accounts Payable (AP), 5. AP-AR Settlement, 6.
Inventory Control (IC), 7. Order Entry (OE), 8. Purchase Order (PO), 9.
Fixed Asset Management (FAM) - Accounting, Maintenance, Leasing and
Tracking, 10. Human Resource Management (HRM) 11. Payroll Manager (PM)
Knowledge base: 1. Service Manager, 3. Project/Trade Job Costing, 4.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), 5. Royalty Payments, 6. Cashbook,
7. RecExpress (For Bank Reconciliation)
Duties & Responsibilities (Roles) on ERP
System Implementation and Maintenance:
A. Business Analysis, System design, update & maintenance
B. Data accumulation & re-engineering
C. Company database creation & maintenance
D. Financial solution & system linking maintenance
E. Report generation and monitoring, F. User Training, G. Documentation, H.
Customization
Professional achievements from this Group Organizations:
I have implemented Sage ERP with the following organizations followed by
post implementation support & Maintenance too.
Brief on Organizational Business Domains:
i. Eskayef Bangladesh Limited: It's a top listed Pharmaceuticals industry
where learned & practiced with there production, sales & marketing,
commercial & procurement, finance & Accounts while automate the process and
business transaction.
ii. Transcom Distribution Co. Ltd.: It's a wide range trading house where
learned & practiced with there sales with micro & macro distribution,
commercial & procurement, finance & Accounts while automation the process
and business transaction.
iii. Transcom Beverages Limited (Pepsi): It's a largest beverage
infrastructure where gathered their finance & Accounts while automation.
iv. The Daily Prothom Alo: It's a largest & leading Bengali daily news
paper where learned & practiced with there circulation, Advertisement,
finance & Accounts, HR & Admin while automating the whole business process.
Additionally I have gathered from this automation work each & every market
points & segment around Bangladesh in terms various business channels.
v. Transcom Electronics Ltd.
It's a top listed Electronics house (Philips) where learned their sales,
marketing & distribution, commercial & procurement, finance & Accounts
while automation. Additionally I have gathered from this automation work
each & every market points & segment around Bangladesh in terms Electronics
business area, territory and markets with different business channels.
4. Organization Name : America Bangladesh
University (AMBAN), Banani-Dhaka
Designation : Lecturer- Dept. of Computer Science &
Engineering, from July'2003 to Feb'2004
Duties & Responsibilities: Dealing with the
semester theoretical, practical course curriculum & others students related
activities.
5. Organization Name : Agrya Infoway Ltd. - Madras-600041, India, since
January'2001 to till Feb' 2003
Designation : Jr. Software Developer.
Duties & Responsibilities: Working with
debugging of working projects & gradually grown with the coding of given
Project works.
IT SKILL SETS
Languages : COBOL, C, C++, JAVA & C#
DBMS/RDBMS : Oracle 10g, SQL Server Enterprise
Front end Tools : MS Visual Studio and .net
Web Tools : ASP & ASP.net, XML, Java Script.
Operating System : Windows, Linux
Environment : Websphere, Weblogic, IIS, Apache
ERP and Financial Package : IFS, SAGE ACCPAC ERP, Simply Accounting
and Tally.
Reporting Package : Crystal report, SAGE ACCPAC ERP
FRx, Financial Intelligence F9.
System Maintenance : Trouble Shooting, System Installation &
Hardware Setting.
Database Administration : MS SQL 2000 and 2005 database designing &
administration.
Management : Ms Project, MS Visio, Microsoft Office, Open Office,
TEAM 2
Process & Practices : PMI, ITIL V3
Cards /Electronic
Banking Standards : VISA, MasterCard, SWIFT, EMV, SMS
Business Solution : Core banking System (Infosys- Finacle),
Card Management System (SunGuard - CardPro),
Internet Banking System (SunGard - OBS)
ERP (IFS Applications),
ATM Switch (TPS - Phoenix),
Inter-bank payment System (InterBlocks- iSwitch),
ePayment gateway (Interblcoks -iPay),
Call Center Solution (Genesys - Wipro),
Loan Collection Monitoring System (RCS, Malaysia),
Inter Bank ATM Switch (TPS Pakistan),
Card Personalizing System (Datacard, TPS-Access)
OTHER EXPERIENCES:
Have keen knowledge in implementation of cost saving measures, providing
staff emergency communications capabilities in support of staff security,
preparing and reviewing specifications for information and communication
system. Well aware about management tools and techniques, skilled in
emergency situation handling and quick decision-maker regarding Information
Technology.
Also manage the following activities: - Procurements all IT related goods
and to create yearly ICT Budget and future ICT plane.
EDUCATIONAL PROFILE:
Academic Qualification:
1. Masters in Computer Application (MCA), University of Madras, from June
'00 to May'03, Madras, Tamilnadu - India
First Class (74%), [Three (3) Years Program covered the
Graduate & Post Graduate course Curriculum combinedly]
2. Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA), University of Madras, from
June '97 to May'00, Madras, Tamilnadu - India
First Class (69%)
Accreditation: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Computer
Science & Master's Degree in Computer Science from a regionally accredited
education institution in the United Sates.
Professional Qualification:
1. MBA - Double Major in "Finance" June 2010 & "Bank Management" Dec 2010 -
Stamford University, Dhaka
2. Pursued CMA degree from ICMAB till Professional Level - I
Additional Qualification
1. Diploma in Advertising & Public Relation from Indian Council for Labor
Management, First Class, Madras - India
2. Pursuing CISA, ISACA, Dhaka Chapter.
\ EDUCATIONAL PROJECT EXPERIENCES:
Project - 1st (In MCA):
Enterprise Resource Planning with HR & Payroll System for the client of
TAFAL Technologies Ltd - Madras, India scope with Development, Testing and
Maintenance.
Project - 2nd (MCA):
Online Accommodation [House & Land Property] Problem Solving Around Chennai
(Madras) City scope with Development, Testing and Maintenance
Project - 3 (In BBA):
Market Survey on Stainless Steel Pressure Cooker with special References to
Butterfly Co. India Ltd. Scope with Statistical Figure Creation & Analyses
of the Company trend at current Market.
Language Known: -
High proficient in Speaking & writing with English, Bengali and proficient
in Speaking with Tamil, Hindi & Urdu.
Some Singular Features: -
Energetic, dynamic, organizer and hardworking in nature. Has good personal
skill. Eagerness to be aware of new ideas. Specially, unique power with
planning and time management
Visiting Countries: India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore,
Srilanka, USA
Hobbies and Interest: Book's reading, traveling, listen to music & take
challenges for executing with new ideas.
Citizenship Status: Green Card holder
Comments:
I am confident on my domain knowledge on Banking practices, Analytical,
Business Analysis, Project Management, Management skill and usages of
cutting edge information technology in financial sector and other
Enterprise Environment.
ZAHED
35-54, 95th Street, Apt#D3
Jackson Heights, NY-11372
Contact: +1-929-***-**** (Cell) and +1-718-***-**** (Land)
Email: *****.************@*****.***
Skype: mdzahedul.alam
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