PROFILE SUMMARY

Martin has over ** years proven experience in information technology, with expertise in Application Delivery especially in Oracle technologies. This includes Oracle core Banking Applications, Oracle ERP INSIS core insurance application and related technologies. He has a very sound understanding of application Testing cycle/Types ( ie UAT, SIT, Performance testing and automated testing), Agile Project and Program Mangement, IT Transformation and Quality Assurance, ePayments, Data Migration,Master Data Governance and system intigration.

His technology experience (technical and functional) has seen him work in different industries such as Banking, Insurance and Capital Market

He has managed, supported and delivered several successful customer satisfactory enterprise projects in the financial and insurance indutry in various countries including Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cote D’voire (Ivory Coast), Zambia, Sierra-Leon, Gambia, Namibia, Kenya, South Sudan, Tanzania, Rwanda

He told a Bachelors of Engineering degree from University of Benin, a post graduate cert. in Business Administration from University of Wales and relevant Industry IT certifications and a member of MIITPSA

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name:

Martin Ardey

Address:

1A Social Science Street, Unilag Estate, Magodo GRA Phase, Isheri Lagos, Nigeria

Contacts Phone:

+234**********

Marital Status:

Married

Contact Email

adfqce@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Post Graduate Certificate

in Business Administration

Institution Attended: University of Wales, UK

Date: 2012

Bachelor of Engineering (2nd Class Upper) in Production Engineering

Institution Attended: University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Date: 2005

Flexcube Certified Implementation Specialist(OCS)

Institution: Oracle Inc. United State

Date: 2014

Certified IT Service Management

ITILLV3 foundation (version 2011)

Institution: Axelos Global Best Practice, United Kingdom

Date: 2015

Oracle E-Business Suite 12 Financial Management Certification Implementation Specialist(OCS)

Institution: Oracle Inc. United State

Date: 2016

Accenture Generalist Banking Certification

Institution: Accenture Banking Certification Programme

Date: 2016

Scrum Certified Master

Institution: Scrumstudy

Date: 2019

CAREER SUMMARY

COMPANY

DESIGNATION

PERIOD

Openfactor Technology

Head, Consulting Services

December 2018 - To Date

Fasyl South Africa (pty) ltd

Head, Product Delivery

June 2018 - December 2018

Accenture, Technology

Business and System Integration Team Lead

September 2017 - May 2018

Accenture, Financial Services

Senior Consultant

October 2013 – August 2017

Fasyl Technology Group, Lagos Nigeria

Head, Oracle Flexcube Implementation, Support and Training

April 2012 – September 2013

Fasyl, Lagos Nigeria

Senior Consultant

September 2009 - March 2012

Fasyl, Lagos Nigeria

Consultant

September 2007 – August 2009

*Fasyl: Finance System Application System limited

HIGH LEVEL CAREER SUMMARY

1. Head, Consulting Services, OpenFactor Techology (December 2018 - Date)

Over see the daily activities of delivery team( Support and implementation) provide direction and guidance as needed

Deliver quality application designs/ process and ensure technology business changes represent business requirements

Help client within the financial services and Insurance industry to implement innovative technologies.

Ensure customer satisfaction and value realization from implemented technologies and Business automation to drive profitability

Provide Functinoal & technical lead and input during implementation of insurance and financial core applications,system configuration, requirement gathering,testing, and data migration.

Make Critical business decision to meet clients expectations

Develop scope and budget for project delivery

Support the development of sales proposals

2.Head, Product Delivery, Fasyl South Africa (June 2018 - December 2018)

Over see the daily activities of delivery team, provide direction and guidance as needed

Provide technical and functiomla lead and input in INSIS application conficuration

Lead and manage application requirement and implementation

Make Critical business decision to meet clients expectations

Develop scope and budget for project delivery

Serve as primary contact for customer inquries and concerns

3.Business and System Integration Team Lead, Accenture Technology (September 2017 - May 2018)

Provide and implement strategy to understand and translate business requirements into technology solutions

Incorporate Industry, Function, technical and business expertise into recommended solutions

lead the role of a data and solution architect for the implementation/upgrade of core banking application and ERP

Manage all testing during the implementation/upgrade of all enterprise applications.

Lead programs/projects focused on delivering agreed business outcomes

Partner with clients to understand the dynamic of value creation for the business solution

Analyze as-is and to-be processes to define system/technology requirements and bridge the gap between technology and the business

Deliver quality application designs and ensure technology business changes represent business requirements

Lead Quality assurance for enterprise solution implementation

4. Senior Consultant, Accenture Financial Service (October 2013 – August 2017)

Help client within the financial service to implement innovative technologies, ensure customer satisfaction and value realization from implemented technologies, Business automation and quality assurance to drive profitability.

Lead Oracle ERP and core banking solution design, implementation and support (Core banking, Performance/automation testing)

Development of data conversion and migration strategy using extract, transform and load (ETL), Master data management and frame work. manage user acceptance test, development of UAT strategy, Traceability matrix, requirement gathering and business analysis.

5. Head, Core Banking Implementation, Support and Training, FASYL (April 2012 – September 2013)

Lead flexcube implementation and upgrade across Africa.

Management of client satisfaction through proactive post live support system across the various flexcube client sites in west and East Africa.

Manage, Track and resolve issues escalated from the various site to me within the agreed SLA with client.

Development of Weekly and monthly flexcube support status report

Manage, developed and execute training plan for internal stakeholders (Staffs and new intake) and external stakeholders(Clients) Across Africa.

facilitate core flexcube UBS training for client to skill up IT and operations staffs, bridge knowledge gap during Oracle flexcube implementation and upgrade

Develop and execute End of Day (EOD), End of Month (EOM), End of Year (EOY) strategy and ensure successful execution for all site.

Manage implementation of customization and code change

6. Senior Consultant, FASYL (September 2009 - March 2012)

Serviced as technical lead for flexcube implementation (Installation and parametrisation of Flexcube App server, Flexbranch, Business Object, oracle container for java(OC4J) etc.

Implementation of Electronic messaging system (EMS) to facilitate STP between flexcube and SWIFT Alliance.)

Flexcube implementation and parameterization (parameter setup)

Data conversion and data migration

Development of custom reports using SQL and business objects

Debugging of flexcube and flexbranch issues.

7. Consultant, FASYL (September 2007 – August 2009)

Flexcube parameter setup (Core entity, General ledger, Loans and deposit, limit and collateral, retail teller, MM, interest and charges ( IC), FX, standing instruction etc)

Compilation of forms, Development of PLSQL custom functions

Resolution of online flexcube issue and related Database issue

Support flexcube core banking application for End of Day, End of Month, End of year

Some Project Experience

Employer: OpenFactor South Africa

Client: Standarded Chartered Bank Singapore

Project Title: Nexus Paylater

Role: Project Manager

Project Location: Singapore

Role:

Lead the PMO for the project( Development of project deliverbales, manage project Cadence call, Project reporting including performance etc)

Over see the daily activities of project delivery team, provide direction and guidance as needed

Lead and manage application requirement and implementation

Make Critical business decision to meet clients expectations

Facilitated sessions to demonstrate requirements that has been configured in the system

Resolution of project issues

Coordination of UAT and Prepration for Go live

Employer: OpenFactor South Africa

Client: Britam( British American Insurance company)

Project Title: INSIS Core Insurance Application Implementation

Role: Project Team lead and Technofunctional consultant

Location: Kenya

Role:

Over see the daily activities of delivery team, provide direction and guidance as needed

Provide technical& Functioal lead and input in INSIS application configuration,data requirement and data migration

Lead and manage application requirement and implementation

Make Critical business decision to meet clients expectations

Non-Life Insurance (Motor) product setup covering Insurance policy, claims processing, Taxes & Premium calculations, requirement, report and policy certificate review and testing and customizations for Kenya

Facilitated sessions to demonstrate requirements that has been configured in the system

Life Insurance ( Health ) product setup covering Insurance policy, claims processing and customizations across Kenya,

South Sudan, Mozambique, Tanzania and Rwanda.

Review of client functional requirement

Product configuration for health

oImplementation of Standard Taxes(RW)

oTheoretical fund amount calculations per Family

oConfiguration of of Product rules (cover limits and Particularly rules)

oConfiguration of Stadard Taxes

oConfiguration of tax exemption

oConfiguration of people level documents

oConfiguration of clauses

oConfiguration of Premium calculations per

oConfiguration of Theoretical fund amount calculations

oConfiguration of Underwriting questions

Facilitated Demo Session to demonstrate configuration setups that has been completed

Development of detailed protocol for each demo session

Review of test cases for quotations, underwriting, and claims

Testing of quotations, policies and claims configuration setup

Resolution of issue encountered and escalating as required.

Employer: Accenmture Nigeria

Client: Central Security Clearing System pls

Project Title: Project Meridian

Role: Project Manager

Project Location: Nigeria

Role:

Facilitate requirement gathering session and obtained sign off on same

Development of UAT strategy and requirement treceability Matrix

Managed and support end users during UAT and manage resolution process

Develped data migration strategy and validation process

Development of weekly project status report.

Employer: Accenture Nigeria

Client: First Bank

Project Title: Oracle E-business Suit (EBS) Implementation

Role: Project Data Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Nigeria

Role:

Worked as the data subject matter experts and helped with the development of data migration strategy. Ensured data quality and consistency checks were enforced during data extraction, translation and load across the different data requirements of the project as well as the data reconsiliation process.

Carried out quality assurance on data requirement analysis, data migration strategy and execution, to meet Oracle EBS data need and also performed the following tasks:

oData governance framework review

oData mapping

oExtraction and reconciliation of migrated data

oData data transfer specifications, data quality review and data validation specifications, vendor data management and validation

Coordinated and provided support to the test managed during user acceptance test(UAT)

Developed reguar detailed quality assurance report and summaried version for management/ stakeholder

Employer: Accenture Nigeria

Client: Access Bank

Project Title: Oracle FLEXCUBE VS 12.1 upgrade

Role: Project Manager and Technical Lead for Performance and Automated testing

Location: Nigeria

Role:

Developed the Performance testing strategy

Review of client requirement

Development of requirement traceability metix

Analsysis, identification and extraction and upload od data required for the performance testing

Develop test scenarios that was used for the performance testing

Carried out quality assurance review of the core banking parameter set up to ensure it aligned to the project objectives.

Development of quality assurance report on the product setup, data migration

Uploaded 10 Thousand users that were used for the Performance testing into Oracle Flexcube database

Assigned different roles to the 10 thousand users across different module using SQL

Carried out configuration of the LoadRunner and executed the scripted scenarios

Posted sufficient balances into the tellers till using SQL script to ensure transaction dies not fail due to insufficient balance

Resolved Oracle Flexcube issues encountered during the performance test execution.

Developed a detailed performance test report in line with project objectives

Employer: Accenture Nigeria

Client: Union Bank

Project Title: Oracle FLEXCUBE VS 12.1 Re-implementation

Role: Technical Quality Assurance Lead

Location: Nigeria

Role:

Reviewed functional and technical requirements defined by the business to verify alignment to expected business benefits

Quality assurance review of parameterization setup in FCUBS

Identified improvement areas that helped increase prospect of system design to meet requirements (i.e. functional, technical, regulatory, security, etc.)

Review completeness of deliverables prepared by the SI vendor (OFSS/FASYL)

Reviewed the Data Migration Strategy and verified the data migration processes were followed and that the ETL process was aligned with the bank’s objectives

Reviewed the documentation around design, build and test phases

Uploaded 1500 user required to carry out the Performance test

Monitored and executed the Performance test and developed a performance test report.

Reviewed test cases, scenarios, strategy and execution to achieve business requirements and planned benefits

Coordinated the User Acceptance Testing exercise and guided the team to develop additional test cases and scripts, as required

Employer: FASYL Group

Client: NED Bank South Africa

Project Title: Rest of Africa (5 countries) Oracle FLEXCUBE VS 12.1 implementation

Role: Project Functional and Training lead

Team Size: 20

Location: South Africa, Namibia

Role:

Carried out Requirement gathering and product design

Participated in Flexcube Product Setup and Parametrization, major responsibilities included configuring of System Core Entity, Chart of account, Current and Saving accounts, Term Deposits and Standing Instruction Modules, Fixed Asset, interest and charges setup

Developed Custom reports to meet operational and statuary requirements using SQL

Provided Training for Nedbank Namibia Core Project Team and staffs

Coordinated and assisted in the documentation of test scripts with the banks UAT team

Worked with the project team to set up and configure, General Ledger and Chart of Account

Coordinated and managed the UAT team

Provided first level support and issues resolution during the UAT.

Facilitated training in the following modules (FX, FT, MM, Retail Teller, Collection, Consumer leading (Retail Loan) Corporate loan, limit and collateral etc

Employer: FASYL Group

Client: Indo Zambia Bank.

Project Title: STP - RTGS and Cross border payment and reconciliation implementation

Location: Zambia

Role:

Played the role of a Project manager and a Techno -functional resource

Developed Custom Report using Business Intelligent with free hand SQL

Carried out RTGS Setup in Flexcube core banking application

Carried out Electronic messaging system EMS Setup to interface core banking application and SWIFT Alliance server.

Established connectivity between EMS and SWIFT.

Facilitated User Training and user acceptance test (UAT)

Carried out Configuration of MT 103 and MT202 message to meet the Bank of Zambia requirement.

Carried out Installation and Configuration of JEMS server.

Employer: FASYL Group

Client: Access Bank - Ghana

Project Title: Access Bank Ghana and Intercontinental Bank Ghana Business and Oracle Flexcube core banking Integration

Location: Ghana

Role:

Requirement gathering and product design

Data migration into source system

Flexcube Product Setup and Parametrization

Major responsibilities include configuring of System Core Entity

Installation and configuration of Oracle flexcube 7.1 app server

Installation of Oracle flexbranch 6.2 web servers

Coordinated loan migration strategy and extraction of all customer loan details from legacy system for migration

Facilitate UAT and stress test and issue resolution

6 months post-merger flexcube support. End of day, End of Month, second level escalation and live issues Resolution of issue raised by banks help desk

Employer: FASYL Group

Client: Access Bank -Congo

Project Title: Oracle Flexcube Core Banking Implementation

Location: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Role:

Carried out Oracle Flexcube Installation, configuration and setup

Carried out Flexbranch webserver configuration setup

Facilitated end user training

Supported UAT execution and resolution of issues

Migrated data from legacy system to oracle flexcube

Developed BO Report using Free Hand SQL.

Provided 3 Months on site Post Go live support

Employer: FASYL Group

Client: Sierra Leone Commercial Bank

Oracle Flexcube Core Banking Support: Sierra Leone Commercial Bank

Location: Sierra Leone

Carried out Oracle Flexcube Installation, configuration and setup

Carried out Flexbranch webserver configuration setup

Facilitated end user training

Oracle flexcube support and resolution of production issues

Provided support for end of day (EOD), End of Month (EOM) and End of Year (EOY)activities

Provided first level Data base support

Developed of business object (BO) reports

Skills

Technical Skills:

Operating system : Windows and UNIX

Database : Oracle 9i/10g/11g

Programming Languages: SQL, PL/SQL

Master data management, data frame work, data analysis, data migration.

Web logic

Testing

Functional Skills:

Core banking/ ERP application configuration

Good insurance knowledge

Sound banking Knowledge

Requirement gathering

End user Training

Project management

System Integration and Quality Assurance

Enterprise application Testing strategy

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