Ayman Akhnoukh
Jakson ,NJ
Summary
Results-driven Program & Delivery Manager with extensive experience in management, design, development, implementation and testing of large-scale IT systems. Proven record in re-engineering legacy systems into cost effective, scalable, extensible and maintainable systems. Passionate about identifying problems, setting vision, strategies, thinking out of the box, designing innovative solutions, leading and managing development teams in bringing software solutions to life.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SVP- Senior Delivery Lead /Enterprise Architect
Barclays Capital
06.2012 - Current
- Accountable for oversight and delivery of all project phases across central compliance (Employee breach management, non-banking conflict clearance, outside business investment, Raising Concerns …etc.)
- Execute Enterprise vision through delivery of business segment strategies enabled by business solutions on the Force.com Platform
- Leading multiple agile teams to design, build and deliver multi-year Compliance programs as well as supporting existing compliance platforms in a complex, high volume and dynamic data environment, spread across multiple regions
- Participates in design, leading global team of developers in implementation of Actimize based technology platform(s) to satisfy internal and external regulatory requirements
- Leveraging Actimize Risk Management products to design, develop and implement custom solution within trade surveillance program and Control Room, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) (including know-your-customer (KYC), customer due diligence (CDD), AML transaction monitoring, AML Risk assessments
- Oversee project schedules and ensure mitigating strategies or contingencies are appropriately applied to anticipated risks and when issues arise
- Ownership of the complete software development lifecycle; designing, and leading implementation and testing of new features within a fast paced, Agile environment
- Define, manage and improve the software and product development processes by working closely with high-performance developers & architects
- Achieved 3x faster delivery by implementing DevOps architectural and cultural change
- Translate and communicate complete business needs and architecture concepts to management and technologists
- Work with the business and data analysts to evaluate data requirements, and propose optimal solutions and delivery approaches that meet those requirements
- Work with the Senior Architects to recommend good design, coding and implementation practices
- Designed a highly maintainable framework of Actimize Basic Ingest Function to integrate SMARTS Trade surveillance alerts with Barclays internal Risk Case Management System
- Actively mentor more junior members of the development team, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems, and their ability to get things done, and their career growth and development
- Proactively identify ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes I operate and how errors could be prevented - focusing on fixing root causes and taking ownership of identified actions
- Technology stack: Actimize Risk Management, Java, Spring, Apache Kafka, Microservices, JavaScript, Spring Boot, jQuery, Angular JS, Node JS, REST API, JSON, MuleSoft, Salesforce platform, Tableau, MongoDB, MS SQL
- Participated in system development life cycle from requirements analysis through system implementation.
Solution Architect & Tech Lead
Morgan Stanley
01.2006 - 05.2012
- Manage, maintain and lead an operation team to support a large number of enterprise class systems {Actimize Intelligence Application Server & Actimize Risk Web Application} in development, staging and production environments (200 + Linux RH servers)
- Working as Actimize technical lead for leading a team and developing trade surveillance models on Equity & Fixed Income
- Responsible for training/mentoring a team in Israel for developing the custom models using Actimize technologies
- Designed and lead the team to develop messaging framework for communication between workflow manager and other Enterprise Applications over XML and MQ-Series using JAXB 1.0
- Designed and developed web application to manage and maintain Compliance Infra system repository DB using java, Spring, Hibernate and GWT framework
- Provide third level support for risk management applications
- Provide technical expertise and perform tasks for all related infrastructure projects including business continuity and disaster recovery
- Managed several projects concurrently relating to Actimize application operations, deployment and call center infrastructure
- Executed tasks with focus on quality and speed to get high customer satisfaction ratings
- Architect, designed and developed Actimize Bulk closer utility using eRCM web service, JAVA, JSP and JavaScript
- Designed, implemented, and maintained web-based internal ticketing system using Sybase DB, Java Script and PERL CGI
- Design/Implementation of policies/procedures for production system/cluster architecture;
- Working with senior management to establish and enforced corporate security policies
- Evaluate new technologies and growing MS (Legal and Compliance) internal web cloud
- Design and implement short and long-term strategic plans to ensure network and server capacity meets existing and future business requirements
- Design, implement and maintain solutions (using Perl) for scaling the required technical infrastructure across company's data centers
- Installing and configuring third party administrative software to ease the administration of Actimize applications (AIS & ACM)
- Enhance and improve existing web architectures and web site performance
- Author and maintain technical design documentation and operational procedures.
Tech Lead
Thomson Financial
07.2000 - 01.2006
- Monitoring systems health using network management tools such as SPECTRUM software installed and configured on Solaris 8 Platform (by APRISMA) to diagnose and help resolving the systems problems (notify admin staff if trouble is detected)
- Responsible for Providing System Administration Support and implementing the automation of administrative activities by developing utility tools in shell / Perl programming
- Using SNMP Tools (SNMP-walk, get-many, etc.) within Shell Script /Perl to collect server /router info
- (Router bandwidth, circuit Utilization, Server’s CPU utilization…
- Etc.)
- Using Big Brother Software to setup and configure Web Server Monitoring
- Use Perl and UNIX scripting to create and maintain utility programs necessary to support system configuration, recovery, capacity, and performance
- Manage several internal networks within the enterprise network
- It consists of servers with different favors of operating systems (Linux, Solaris, SCO and Windows), switches and routers
- Implemented Samba on UNIX servers for file sharing
- Develop numerous scripts to generate reports to fulfill the SLA requirements of some major clients
- Define and implement procedures for reporting, back-up/restore; fail-over and monitoring of databases (Sybase / MySQL)
- Manage and maintain Sybase Database Management (holding company internal inventory data (servers or routers statics and performance metrics), also design and implement the front-end web page for reporting and graphing those statics from the Sybase DB using JavaScript and cold Fusion MX
- Designed and implemented disaster recovery policy plan
- Setup and configure the LAN Analyzer Software (Ether-Peek, Lan-Decoder, Ether-real,.) to Diagnose or trace down different systems / networks issues
UNIX System Administrator
Celestica Inc
08.1998 - 07.2000
- Installation, configuration, patching and tuning of Solaris 2.X, Sun Operating Systems on Sun Enterprise workstations and servers
- Installation of system related and third-party software on Sun servers
- User account creation and maintenance using NIS+ and Korn shell scripts on Solaris 2.X, Creation of various administration tools and menu driven Bourne shell scripts to increase support efficiency
- Developed a method and associated programs to login and/or execute programs on remote servers using secure-shell technology
- Eliminated the need for using the insecure /etc/hosts.equiv or .rhosts files
- Supporting the user community by managing a multi operating system environment including Linux, Windows 2003 server
- Installed and configured Linux, Tomcat web server, EMC storage configuration, Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster Services
Education
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Manhattan College
New York, NY05.2005
Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Assiut University
Assuit , Egypt 05.1994
Skills
- Lead, advise, and mentor diverse teams in technical and functional delivery aspects at the enterprise and compliance segment, using influence and adaptive communication strategies
- Work with senior leaders in the business to understand product roadmaps and define an aligned strategic vision
- Pro-active assessment, determination and mitigation of risks with dedicated management focus on ensuring appropriate governance and oversight of control environment
- Wide range of experience with selecting vendors and managing relationships
- Provide re-usable, scalable and secure solutions that can be leveraged across the Firm
- Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
- Strong Compliance Technology experience in the discipline of Securities monitoring, Market Abuse detection, Suitability, and Control Room operations
- Proven hands-on experience on software development to support regulatory requirements using Actimize Risk Case Manager, Actimize Intelligent Server and Actimize Case Manager Designer
- Strong Salesforce development and design skills including Apex, LWC, SOQL, Process Builder, Flow, and other standard and advanced Salesforce automation tools
- Coordinate and manage several projects and activities, providing transparency of progress against the strategic roadmap
- Exceptional problem solving and analytical skills with proven ability to turn findings into executable plans
- Strong advocate of software engineering best practices and bring a disciplined approach to testing, continuous delivery, and reducing technical debt
- Lead multiple Agile initiatives to build innovative, reusable, evergreen and resilient software
- Experience on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Microservices Architecture
- Strong experience with workflow management systems (Salesforce, Nice~Actimize, JBPM, etc}
- Strong interpersonal communication and relational skills, ability to interact effectively at executive level
- Attract, develop and retain great people supporting them in fulfilling their ambition and potential across strategic location footprint resulting in a reduced and consolidated reliance on external vendors
- Strong negotiation skills and the ability to effectively resolve conflicting priorities from multiple clients
- Good knowledge on various DevOps Tools and Technologies
Certification
- Platform Developer 1 - Salesforce
- Integration Architect - Saleforce
- Development Lifecycle and deployment Architect - Salesforce
Languages
Arabic
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional
German
Limited Working
Timeline
SVP- Senior Delivery Lead /Enterprise Architect
Barclays Capital
06.2012 - Current
Solution Architect & Tech Lead
Morgan Stanley
01.2006 - 05.2012
Tech Lead
Thomson Financial
07.2000 - 01.2006
UNIX System Administrator
Celestica Inc
08.1998 - 07.2000
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
Manhattan College
Bachelor of Computer Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Assiut University
- Platform Developer 1 - Salesforce
- Integration Architect - Saleforce
- Development Lifecycle and deployment Architect - Salesforce
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