Management Software Engineer

Yasser El-Zein +971-**-***-****

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PROFILE

An information technology professional with extensive hands-on and managerial experience at IBM, UBS, MLB, NYMEX and Abu Dhabi National Energy. With an eye on operational excellence and managed costs, Yasser El-Zein has led IT organizations covering: Strategy, Infrastructure, Applications, PMO, Audit and Security.

An expert in bundling/unbundling of business units, Mr. El-Zein serves as technology ventures advisor to investment committees and advisory and valuation boards for several capital management and venture capital funds. As CIO at the sovereign fund of Abu Dhabi National Energy, he centralized the global infrastructure and IT operations achieving 57% opex reduction. Contributing to business improvement in a risk cautious framework, he built Finance and Procurement business process optimization models for BPO.

As Director, Mr. El-Zein established the applications and infrastructure teams at MLB.com and led the re-architecture of the suite of sites to serve 120 million users, up from 20 million, with limited infrastructure investment. At a $10bn hedge fund in NYC, he optimized performance of the infrastructure, application and database layers by implementing evolving technologies. At the Abu Dhabi global energy fund, Masdar, he re-engineered the organization's five-year IT plan to reduce technology staff by 40% and operational IT budget by 33%.

Mr. El-Zein has vast technical experience and possess fundamental understanding of the Financials and Oil & Gas industries; both notorious for their dependency on structured and unstructured data. He promotes Enterprise 2.0 concepts and advocates social media technologies.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

OS Solutions

01/2010 – present

Technology Advisor

UAE / USA

Serving as emerging technology ventures advisor to investment committees and advisory and valuation boards of capital management and venture capital funds.

Abu Dhabi Future Energy (Masdar)

A $22bn energy research and industrial development fund with investments in renewable power generation, sustainable cities construction, carbon management, and academic research.

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Advised the CFO on restructuring the Information and Communication Technology department. Developed a full and detailed five-year IT strategy plan covering: budget, Green IT, Virtualization, DR & BC, department KPIs & inter-department SLAs, compliance & risk management, infrastructure & applications, and manpower & organization chart.

Implemented MS's Hyper-V virtualization for production and VMWare for development.

Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA) 09/2006 – 12/2009

Group Vice President of Technology (CIO) Abu Dhabi, UAE

A $25bn sovereign fund with interests in power generation, upstream oil & gas, pipelines and structured finance.

Joined the senior management team at company inception and over saw its growth across 11 countries. Directly managed the acquired assets with a team of 155 technology professional and $50mil annual budget. Achievements:

Built the primary datacenter in the Netherlands and a disaster recovery site in Canada. Global offices interconnected via MPLS/IP-VPN and site-to-site VPN. Certificate based authentication was used for offsite end-user VPN connectivity.

Migrated away from HP and EMC to NepApp as a common SAN/NAS storage backbone.

Based on studied ROI calculations, implemented a VMWare Infrastructure 3.5 environment rollout.

Rolled out a series of data protection, backup and recovery systems, including Veritas NetBackup.

Implemented multiple site migrations and full environment upgrades.

Maintained and monitored capacity planning and bandwidth management processes.

Ensured adherence to the operational aspects of Incident Management procedures.

Implemented public and private cloud solutions.

Deployed high performance Windows server clusters to manage increased volume of exploration data.

Deployed an integrated Cisco and Microsoft based VOIP solution to connect all global locations via WAN.

Built business process optimization models for IT, finance and procurement, and a risk cautious framework for outsourcing to reduce legal exposure and operational budget.

Formulated IT five-year strategy, Information Security plan, Project Management manual, and ITIL/ISO based Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity policies and procedures.

Managed inter-department SLAs and team performance based on top quartile industry KPIs.

Integrated production and business process management tools with Health, Security, Safety and Environment (HSSE).

Implemented an enterprise application suite consisting of:

Oracle for Financial, HRMS and Procurement

Hyperion for budget planning, forecasting and reporting & Cognos for production reporting

Maximo asset management

Bravo spend management

Remedy service management

Seismic tools from Landmark and Schlumberger

SunGard for Treasury.

The Millburn Corporation 10/2004 – 08/2006

Director of Engineering New York, USA

A capital management firm with investment portfolios in commodities, global futures and currency markets, hedge funds and diversified fund-of-funds.

Led the development team in implementing infrastructural and analytical applications. Achievements:

Created an algorithmic trading platform using R market simulation models and experimented with high-frequency trading systems.

Utilized QuickFIX as a FIX engine for market systems interaction.

Multiple source price collection using Reuters and Bloomberg.

Message communication between ticketing system and other system components using Spread.

Migrated Database from Informix to PostgreSQL for improved performance and reduced cost.

Virtualized the server infrastructure using Xen.

Major League Baseball (MLB.com) 09/2000 – 06/2004

Director of Engineering and Advanced Development New York, USA

As the first IT employee at MLB.com, I established the Engineering and Advanced Development team and helped shape the IT group. Within my responsibilities, I hired and managed technical resources, designed and built infrastructure and processes, established technical guidelines for the company's software infrastructure, and led the architecture of the suite of MLB sites. MLB.com went from serving 20 million users in 2001 to 120 million on opening-day 2004.

Re-architected the infrastructure from 3-tier to 2-tier eliminating the application server layer and its associated session management complexities. Created a Java library for credit card processing using Cybersource API and Paymentech for credit card fulfillment. Built an e-Commerce system that allowed MLB.com to sell on-line subscription based multimedia products. Struts was used for workflow management. The system encapsulates the LDAP, database and payment systems.

New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) 05/2004 - 11/2004

Applications Developer New York, USA

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Implemented a unified messaging interface for the electronic trading system. The messaging infrastructure was built using Java Messaging System and SmartSockets. Worked on a wireless trading system for floor traders to execute crude oil and natural gas trades from their handheld PDAs. The system insured secure and procedural exchanges.

Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) 05/1999 - 09/2000

Senior Systems Developer New Jersey, USA

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Developed a web based performance monitor tool for NT servers. A C++ socket application collects data from the NT registry. Data is then pulled to a Perl CGI graphic web server.

Developed, in C, a tool to synchronize password between Mainframe and various LDAP implementations.

International Business Machinery (IBM) 09/1996 – 05/1999

Software Engineer New York, USA

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Designed, developed, and maintained software for hardware design simulation using software simulation and synthesis tools. Implemented a VHDL compiler (in C/C++ and ASSEMBLY). Worked on the development of a multi-value cycle simulator used in complex chip design. Support for Parallel Instance Simulation in hardware accelerators.

EDUCATION

M.S.E. Electrical Engineering, emphasis in Computer Architecture.

1997 University Of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

B.S.E. Electrical Engineering with honors, emphasis in VLSI Design.

1995 University Of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

IT Strategy Budgeting, SLAs & KPIs Acquisitions / Mergers

ERP & e-Commerce Java, Perl &Tibco Security, DR and BCP

XML/XSL & SOAP Virtualization Cloud Computing

PUBLICATIONS

Expansion of a negative ion plasma into a vacuum El-Zein et al., Physics of Plasmas Journal, April 1995.

Reflection of modified Korteweg-de-Vries solitons in negative ion plasma Yi et al., Physics of Plasmas Journal, February 1996.

Two dimensional sheath evolution in a negative ion plasma El-Zein et al., Journal of Applied Physics, April 1996.

Expansion of a dusty plasma into a vacuum : effects of charge nonneutrality El-Zein et al., Planetary Space Science Journal, 1997, Vol. 45.

Plasma Sheath evolution from perturbed electrodes in a negative-ion plasma El-Zein et al., Journal of Plasma Physics, 1997, Vol. 57.

Plasma Sheath evolution from perturbed electrodes in a negative-ion plasma. Part 2. Experiment and PIC simulation Yi et al., Journal of Plasma Physics, 1997, Vol. 58.

Excitation of ion acoustic solitons from grids El-Zein et al., Journal of Applied Physics, 1999, Vol. 61.

PERSONAL

Citizen of the United States

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