Programming/Development
ANOOP NAIR
Senior Development Specialist
Riyadh,Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Summary
Experienced Senior Development Specialist with over 17 years in retail banking and corporate banking IT services. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Proven senior level experience in Technical Lead and software development life cycle with a track record of delivering against targets & objectives. Extensive knowledge of requirement analysis and IT project management with a service-oriented approach to IT processes and methodologies. Maintains strict adherence to prescribed development milestones and quality assurance levels. Expert at leveraging diverse teams to produce revolutionary and successful solutions.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
10
10
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Development Specialist
THE SAUDI BRITISH BANK (SABB) - HSBC BANK SAUDI ARABIA
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
02.2011 - Current
- Worked as SME for Debit Card, Salary Card and Bill payment module during migration as part of SABB-Alawwal Banks merger.
- Liaised between business and technology units to manage delivery schedules for applications.
- Developed and provided technical solutions for day-to-day operations and long-range strategic planning of scheduling and finance system for users.
- Introduced agile methodologies and effective development best practices to division to enhance GL reconciliation system for operation team.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Trained and managed team of 6 developers and discussed issues in order to provide resolution and apply best practices.
- Documented all software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by developers in future projects.
- Subject Matter Expert (SME) of various systems, Payment systems (SADAD Bill Payment, WPS Salary Payment, VISA Direct, Direct Debit and Dividend Distribution), Inward Cheque Clearing, ApplePay, Debit Card Services, GL Reconciliation, EDesk+ Kiosk, and Merchant Acquiring/Clearing.
Senior Software Engineer
HSBC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
Pune, India
06.2005 - 02.2011
- Worked closely with other business analysts, development teams and infrastructure specialists to deliver high availability solutions for mission-critical applications.
- Evaluated project requirements and specifications and developed software applications that surpassed client expectations.
- Improved system performance by rigorous performance testing and resolving bugs.
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Documented all software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by Software developers in future projects.
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Implemented Online ATM card pin reset system that led 3% of operational cost by eliminating conventional printing method.
Technology Specialist
PM AM IT SERVICES PVT. LTD
Mumbai, India
12.2003 - 06.2005
- Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs and improving functionality.
- Supported Data migration from Microsoft technologies to IBM systems to prepare reports for data analysis.
- Developed software to generate and print Insurance policy documents
- Authored code fixes and enhancements for inclusion in future code releases and patches.
Education
MBA - Human Resources Management
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
New Delhi, India 01.2005 - 12.2009
Master of Science - Computer Science
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
Tamilnadu, India 09.2001 - 08.2003
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY
Kerala, India 07.1998 - 06.2001
Skills
IT Project management
Team Lead
Agile Methodology
Functional Requirements Understanding
Software Development Lifecycle Management
Quality Assurance
Business Analysis
Requirement Analysis
Programmer / Software Development
Production Support
Accomplishments
- Successfully migrated the Debit Card, Salary Payment and Bill payment modules from Alawwal Bank to SABB as part of the Merger of both Banks, acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME).
- Collaborated with team of 6 in the development of Edesk+ implementation
- Supervised team of 6 staff members.
- Successfully implemented the automation of Network settlement (VISA & Master Card) and Credit Card reconciliation.
- Successfully implemented the ApplePay services for the Credit and Debit Card services. With fully functional automation of Token life cycle. SABB is the first bank to implement the fully automated Token life cycle.
- Developed and implemented corporate salary card system that increased the market share by 5% and issued 100K cards in less than one year.
- Successfully implemented the VISA Direct (Payment channel from VISA).
Software
RPG III , RPG IV (RPGLE),SQL RPGLE, SQL/400, CL/400 , CLLE and DB2/400
Certification
Scrum Master
Awards
- “Thank You” award from SABB-Alawwal Merger team for the recognition of the consistent leading performance during migration of Alawwal bank to SABB (Jan 2021).
- “Achievement” award in recognition of the successful implementation of the SABB American Express Commercial Card (Jan 2019).
- “Thank You” award from Retail Banking Business Entity for the recognition of the consistent leading performance (Aug 2016).
- “Achievement” award in recognition of the successfully issuance of 100K Corporate Salary Card in less than 1 year (Dec 2015). From Corporate Banking
- “Achievement” award in recognition of the successful implementation of the VISA Debit Card (Jun 2013).
- “Certificate of Appreciation” award in recognition of the successful implementation of SADAD Bill payment system (Sep 2009).
- “Certificate of Appreciation” award in recognition of the successful implementation of SABB EMV chip card solution (Nov 2009).
Timeline
Scrum Master
02-2018
Prince 2 Practitioner
02-2018
Senior Development Specialist
THE SAUDI BRITISH BANK (SABB) - HSBC BANK SAUDI ARABIA
02.2011 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
HSBC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE
06.2005 - 02.2011
MBA - Human Resources Management
INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
01.2005 - 12.2009
Technology Specialist
PM AM IT SERVICES PVT. LTD
12.2003 - 06.2005
Master of Science - Computer Science
BHARATHIAR UNIVERSITY
09.2001 - 08.2003
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
MAHATMA GANDHI UNIVERSITY
07.1998 - 06.2001