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Port Louis — Mauritius

• Manages a 5,000 mandays programme of Core Banking System (CBS) implementation in Western Africa region, providing groundbreaking access to finance, increasing the rate of “bancarisation” by 10 points; 1.4M clients on-boarded through e-KYC and scoring tool having disbursed 300 billion FCFA of credit• Delivered a greenfield Micro Finance implementation project for a strategic client in Guinea (2024)• Delivered a greenfield CBS implementation project for a strategic client in Senegal (2024)• Spearheads a multi-million implementation of Temenos T24 parallelly in Ivory Coast, Mali and Burkina Faso [4 additional countries lined up in coming years: Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Niger and Togo]• Led the transformation initiative of the biggest Islamic Bank in Western Africa, including CBS, IB, MB (2023)• Supervises the CBS transformation programme of an investment bank in Malawi, transitioning to Transact with Data Hub, IB, MB, FCM (2024)• Implements various Robotic Process Automation (RPA) using Python & UiPath to alleviate operational bottleneck at PMO• Prepares and presents portfolio dashboards to C-level, using Power BI and Power Automate• Conducts recruitment interviews and screening of potential candidates for PMO staffing• Coordinates and participates in Audit review for the yearly ISO9001:2015 certification• Trains PMO team members on project management methodology and framework• Optimizes the resource allocation and usage across the delivery chain• Participates in onsite workshops, sales pitch, presales presentation with C-level of clients• Coordinates distributed teams including those of clients and partners across multiple time zones (WestAfrica, France, India, Romania, and Luxembourg)• Animates C-level meetings and steering committees with clients and partners• Coordinates with top management of Temenos (Operational Readiness Board) for Go-Live

Port Louis — Mauritius

• Delivered successfully a CBS Upgrade project in Seychelles (2022) with a 60% gain via test automation• Delivered successfully a CBS Upgrade project in Maldives (2023) for a strategic client• Spearheaded a new CBS Upgrade project in Madagascar (delivery in May 2024)• Developed financial proposals, implementation plans within a defined timeline, including project scope,specifications, schedules, budgeting, resource allocation and high-level risks• Prepared and communicated the project status, risk mitigation plan and issues on a weekly/monthlybasis to management and clients, and maintaining project documentation for Audit• Deployment of various banking system modules (on Cloud) covering Customer, Transactional Accounts, Deposits, Loans, ATM Framework, Prepaid Cards, Credit Scoring/Risk, KYC, Anti Money Laundering(AML), Fund Chaser, Reconciliation process with Mobile Finance system, usage of APIs, and so on• Enforced project lifecycle involving Requirements Analysis, GAP Analysis, Functional Analysis,Technical Design, Build, SIT, UAT, FUT (F&F), Go-Live and post Go-Live support• Coordinated project execution to ensure adherence to scope, schedule and budget• Task breakdown, assignment to team members and daily follow-up• Tracked defects and coordinated fixes development and deployment, with Temenos teams

Grand Bay — Mauritius

• Setup an IT Project Management Office, deploying new procedures (pharmaceutical industry standard)• Delivered a one-week PMP® training to 12 project managers and coaching• Critical metrics improved in less than 3 months• Manages highly regulated projects, observing US FDA regulatory/compliance exigency• Spearheaded a multi-million digital transformation project• Devised awareness strategies throughout disruptive changes• Cut in OPEX through infrastructure restructuring project• Deployment of a PPM tool, including all PM templates and reports• Chartered a project to improve the facility security and performed risk mitigation• Development of a detailed implementation plan to roll out a GxP DMS throughout AGI• Distributed human resources on these projects (Mauritius, Dubai, India, South Africa)• Documents effective issue resolution through root cause analysis• Consultancy contract extended several times following performance reviews• Business operational process review, stream risks tracking, supplier management

Ebène — Mauritius

• Responsible for leading multi-discipline IT projects from initiation through delivery• Projects for European markets within the Telecom, Energy (oil & gas) and Transport sectors• Employed V-Model, Agile and Kaizen practices• Executed multi-million upgrade projects• Managed stakeholder expectations and resolved conflicts• Led a Scrum team on B2B projects• Coordinated distributed teams in Mauritius, France and Madagascar• Adoption of Scrum boosted productivity• Facilitator for sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews• Weekly status report presentation to project sponsor• Setup project steering committees and briefed Executives about progress• Negotiation on project scope, story point estimates and sprint backlog• Project staffing, baselining, regularly removing impediments, tracking of story point burn down• Held productive cross-team retrospective meetings, with a geographically dispersed team• Decreased new comer on-boarding time• Performed team members' yearly appraisal and made recommendations to the C-level managers• Leveraged Jira, Trello and MS Project to deliver sprint goals and in-scope deliverables• Proof of concept elaboration, business case and comprehensive project plans development• Insourcing: managed and delivered a timelog project

Paris, Lyon, Grenoble — France

• Conducted several overseas consultancy assignments, 2 to 3 months each• Project onboarding, training, collaboration with Product Owners• Technical proposals, business ideas transformation, won contracts• Define and refine user requirements, rapid prototyping

Rose Hill — Mauritius

• Managed the end-to-end implementation of the first GPS vehicle tracking GIS platform, in Mauritius• Proof of concept, architectural design, planning, hardware API for the iFleet/iTrack projects (Fleet Management System)• Applications deployed at the data center in Mer Rouge and on-premises, at clients• Conducted client meetings and training for the fleet management application• Worked extensively with GSM, GPS, GPRS and RFID.

Vacoas — Mauritius

• Web-based CMS applications development and technical design• Part of the core team behind several digital advertising web• SharePoint 2003 configuration and management.

Paris — France

• Trained in .NET 2005/AJAX technologies• Technical specialist and developer on Annonces Jaunes website• Worked on an online payment module for Carte Bleue, AmEx• Implemented a Geo-coding algorithm for rapid vicinity lookup of Point of Interests, by region and/or department located in France

Ebène — Mauritius

• Smart Client Applications development, for HP Tablet PC• Detection of asbestos cement, lead exposure, “Loi Carrez” calculation for buildings in France• Worked profusely with Visual C# 1.1 and SQL 2000• Implemented Microsoft Design Patterns for Smart Client Applications development• Interfacing with Crystal Report® (Business Objects).

Vacoas — Mauritius

• Network configuration and administration, managed LDAP• Worked extensively with Debian, Mandrake, Solaris, Windows NT OS and shell scripting• Experienced with ASP and Cold Fusion and Sybase development• Installed and configured Awstats 6.1 software for web usage statistics and reporting.

Port Louis — Mauritius

• 6-month internship in Retail Banking, ATM control and foreign currency freight• Part of the Main Vault team, cash limit for branches and updated the bank CASA system• Responsible for checking the bank’s vault cash status and availability of that money to the different branches across the island• The job required speedy familiarization with large databases and the ability to work on short notice and tight schedules.• Learnt to plan and organize my work efficiently and adhere to work ethics.

A Level - Higher School Certificate, Science, A'S

Activities and Societies: Member of School Football Team https://bit.ly/abo-hsc

B.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science & Engineering, 1St Class

Activities and Societies: Treasurer of UOM Computer Society, 2004 https://bit.ly/abo-cse

M.Sc., Financial Technology

Scholarship: Merit-based