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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.
• 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)

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.

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

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

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