Tamer Farouk Raghib

Appnetics

• VP, Director, Systems and Technology DivisionFull Time

  Apr 2012 - Jun 2016 -4 yrs, 2 months

  Egypt , Cairo

  • Job Details:Appnetics was established in 1986 as a software developer and system integrator focusing on vertical markets such as Healthcare and Financial Services. Between 1995-98 it was the prime contractor for a USAID program for the automation of Egyptian Court System. In 1999 it took the lead as Project Manager and Technology Pathfinder in a joint venture between the parent company NTC, and Hewlett Packard in building the first purpose built commercial datacenter (on 60,000 sq. ft) in Egypt and all of Africa and the Middle East. From 2000 till 2017 Appnetics provided outsourced mission-critical Core Banking and related application services for banks and financial institutions. Appnetics also provided application implementation services, business continuity services and SaaS to other major organizations such as Mobile Operators and Universities. As a result of political and economic developments in Egypt since 2011, many customers changed their business models and took back in-house most if not all outsourced services. Appnetics ceased operation in 2017. Mission Objective: Lead the company efforts in the evolution of products and services as well as platforms and tools and smooth the transition to new paradigms. This involved two main tasks. • Develop new national level applications and application services to enhance our portfolio of products in the Financial Services Space • Upgrade and deploy new technologies, platforms, and tools. Working closely with the company’s COO and CTO, my responsibilities included innovating, architecting, and planning new products, and managing their development projects. National Level Application Projects: • Design and development of iPension, a pioneering Corporate Pension Fund Administration System for the Egyptian market to be offered as SaaS, (2013- 2017) • Development of a Credit Bureau (KYC) satellite’ application to conform with Icelandic Credit info “Credit Bureau” specifications, as mandated by the Central Bank of Sudan, initially for the Sudanese Egyptian Bank, but deployed in 17 other banks. • Development of an interface between a few different commercial core banking applications used by local banks in Sudan and the Unified Check Clearing System in the Central Bank of Sudan. • Development of an Interface to automate messaging between core banking applications in Sudanese Banking Space and the unified SWIFT service in Central Bank of Sudan. • Development of ATM interface between the new national switch at the Central Bank of Sudan and all Sudanese commercial banks. Platforms and Tools: I manage Development teams working in SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008 R2 and 2012 using Visual Studio 2010 and 2013. Code repository was kept on Visual SourceSafe 6.0, Team Foundation Server 2012, and Apache Subversion 1.9. I use Apache Cordova and Ionic for Android and iOS development. Oracle 12c.
• Banking Projects ManagerFull Time

  Apr 2008 - Mar 2012 -3 yrs, 11 months

  Egypt , Cairo

  • Job Details:Mission Objective: To respond to the rapidly evolving requirements of central banks regarding Governance, Compliance with international regulations, US sanctions and money laundering. In addition to develop enhancements to support rising demand for Retail Banking products in Egypt and Sudan Product Development and Project Management My responsibilities were to maintain communications with decision makers in banks and develop solutions to their requirements. Projects Managed include: • Development of data extract and reporting tools from the Central Bank of Sudan to the KYC system based on the Egyptian I-Score and guidelines of the Sudanese specific “Suspicious Indicators”). • Automated framework for data transfer between Reuters® stock exchange feeds and Cognity® risk management software for the Egyptian, Saudi, Jordanian and Emirati stock exchanges, for a leading risk management Egyptian company. • Designing and developing the automated production of customer bills for the biggest mobile phone player in Algeria using DOC1™ platform from Pitney Bowes. • Designing and developing a KYC application for Sudanese Egyptian Bank. • Designing a fully automated solution for data gathering, calculations, production and distribution of regulatory reports of the Central Bank of Egypt for a Barclays Bank Egypt based on iCreate™ business intelligence tools. Migration Projects Managed through a small, specialized team several migration projects of core banking applications in two major banks in Egypt and one in Sudan from of core banking services provided by us on TCS-BaNCS to other core banking applications as follows. • Piraeus Bank Egypt Migration from TCS-BaNCS to iCBS. • Sudanese Egyptian Bank From TCS-BaNCS to IMal. • Also developed the application and utilities for data conversion and Data cleansing for the migration of Credit Agricole Egypt Migration from legacy application BankMate to Oracle FlexCube.
• Financial Applications Support ManagerFull Time

  Jul 2004 - Mar 2008 -3 yrs, 8 months

  Egypt , Cairo

  • Job Details:My responsibilities included managing the team that looks after the health of the IT systems supplied to customers based on the Application Service Provider model. This includes all business related issues, new requirements, amendments to the system, design and analysis of reports and inquiries, dealing with system bugs and faults and giving consultancy as an integrated part of the customer's hierarchy seamlessly against third parties. My team was also responsible for dealing with newly acquired opportunities and potential customers starting from responding to Information Requests, writing proposals, committing system studies, doing gap analysis, data gathering, requirement definition and writing specifications. My role was to perform all Project Management related activities according to the PMI criteria for implementation projects till the closure and transfer to be under support. Projects Achieved include: • Implementing the core banking system in a leading Sudanese bank • MIS for a leading Egyptian bank • Development of Commercial Papers Management System for a leading Egyptian bank • Development of Profitability Management System for a leading Egyptian bank • Development of a generic Anti Money Laundry module • Treasury System Implementation in a leading Egyptian bank
• Lead Implementer/ Chief Business AnalystFull Time

  Mar 2002 - Jun 2004 -2 yrs, 3 months

  Egypt , Cairo

  • Job Details:My responsibilities included implementing the Deposits Module in an international standard core banking package for a leading Egyptian bank. I was responsible for: • Business Process Re-engineering • Developing auxiliary modules for localizing the package • Managing customizing and localizing the package • Testing the performance of the module and writing test cases • Supporting User Acceptance Testing • Supporting parallel run and live operations • Reporting system's technical issues to the vendor • Monitoring the health of the system within my module • All jobs, both technical and business, related to deploying the international package after being successfully customized.