Brunela Karamani
Tirana
Summary
Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Data management Manager
Union Bank
12.2023 - Current
- Designs, develops, and modifies data infrastructure to accelerate data analysis and reporting processes
- Reviews presentations, reports, charts, and tables to ensure accuracy and quality
- Develops operating standards during data handling and archiving
- Maintains data management plans and guidelines for the operation of complex business systems
- Oversees the integration of new technologies and initiatives for standards and data structures
- Evaluates system performance and makes recommendations for hardware, software, and data storage improvements
- Compares and analyzes statistical information to identify patterns, relationships, and problems in them
- Prepares detailed reports for management and other departments by analyzing and interpreting data
- Trains assistants and other team members on how to properly organize results and read collected data.
Lecturer
Computer Engineering Department, FTI, UPT
01.2000 - Current
- Programming with C/C++, and Applied Mathematics with VBA in Excel.
DWH Project Manager
Union Bank
06.2021 - 11.2022
- Act as technical lead to assess bank’s current environment and prepare and propose recommendations for a full data warehouse implementation
- Work with Business users to gather requirements in different forms including interview sessions, reverse engineering existing reports, JAD (Joint Application Developer Sessions, etc.)
- Prepare the RFP for selecting the most suitable solution for the bank and lead the process of selection focused on the technical criteria’s fulfillment
- Manage the DWH implementation project in the bank from its conception until its full implementation and live operation
- Provide Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence subject matter expertise and leadership
- Transform Business requirements into functional Data Warehouse design requirements, including the data warehouse data model (logical and physical).
Business Analyst
Procredit Bank Albania
08.2012 - 05.2021
- Project management in bank’s crucial change initiatives
- Develop a deep understanding of the new applications and the models/methods/processes that carries the application
- Evaluate (practices/procedures, workflow etc.) to automate bank internal processes (not for core banking systems)
- It will be initiated from different requests of customer (business sectors, management etc.)
- Develop automated solutions/applications related to bank internal processes not core banking systems
- Work closely with core banking system product development team to write down functional requirements
- Ensure that business requirements are clear, accurate and fully documented as per system/new product as well as for changes
- Extract on-demand information from main system for purpose of monitoring within the sector
- Assist in the implementation of applications when necessary
- Thus, gaining a deeper understanding of implementation issues and opportunities for improvement in the system/ product
- Contributes, on request, we 'look' and 'feeling' of the application, including design of visual appearance in the system, graphical user interface (GUI) in accordance with the standards of the institution.
Coordinator MIS & Reporting Sector
Procredit Bank Albania
04.2008 - 07.2012
- Provide timely, accurate, relevant and meaningful financial and operational information to internal users as the Management Board, Senior and middle management and other users inside the Bank
- Prepare accurately the end of month consolidated database which is one of main source of generating the periodical reports for internal and external users
- Implement new reports required from external and internal users
- Process data from multiple sources in order to obtain the required financial and operational reports
- Review of different reports on a continuously and periodical basis Modify the existing reports whenever is required from the changes in definitions or modifications of the IT system
- Provide compliance with external parties’ requirements as BOA, Shareholders and DIA
- Design and implement new ways of effective reporting
- Prepare daily routine reports and other financial information.
Education
PHD - ICT
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Information Technology
Tirana, AlbaniaMaster's - Applied mathematics
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical engineering
Tirana, AlbaniaMathematics Education in Engineering
University of Trieste
Trieste, ItalyBachelor & Master's - Computer Science
University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Science
Tirana, AlbaniaSkills
- Team Leadership
- Time Management
- Verbal and written communication
- Complex Problem-Solving
Certification
I, the undersigned, certify that to the best of my knowledge, these data correctly describe my qualifications, my experience and me. I am available to undertake the assignment in case of an award. I understand that any misstatement or misrepresentation described herein may lead to my disqualification or dismissal and/or sanctions by the Bank.
Other Relevant Skills
Working in teams of 3-6 has improved my ability to build effective working relationships, good communicative skills. I am experienced at sharing my job experience and communicate with my colleagues working in other banks of the group, Business-technical knowledge of Products, Motivating others, Self-motivated, Works well with other departments, Creative, Analytical, Organized, Multi-tasking, Priority-setting, Planning, Problem Solving, Results oriented, Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management, Change Management, Good command of programming in C++, C, Pascal, SQL
Good command of Microsoft Visual Studio 2018
Proficiency with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, incl. ability to analyze, debug and/or enhance existing VBA applications
Good command of SQL server management studio (Microsoft SQL Server 2018); Knowledge of MS SQL Server programming and SQL languages, incl. ability to analyze, debug and/or enhance SQL Server stored procedures
Good command of office suite (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Visio); Experience in Microsoft Excel and Access development
Good command of VBA in Excel; Macros & automation; Excel Tables & Structural References; Drop down validation & form controls; Pivot Tables and Lookup Formulas; PowerPivot, Data Explorer & Data Analysis features
Good command of Microsoft Project - good command of business intelligence tools (Power Query, Power Pivot)
Good command of OLAP Cube based reports
Good command of Statistical Software (SPSS, WEKA, MATLAB, XL Miner)
Good presentation skills
Country Of Citizenship/Residence
Albania
Membership Of Professional Bodies
- Anëtar i komitetit shkencor të konferencës ndërkombëtare “ICITEE21: International Conference on Information Technologies and Educational Engineering” organizuar nga Fakulteti i Teknollogjise se Informacionit, Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes, 19-20 nentor, 2021.
- Anëtar i komitetit shkencor të konferencës ndërkombëtare “ICITEE23: International Conference on Information Technologies and Educational Engineering” organizuar nga Fakulteti i Teknollogjise se Informacionit, Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranes, 15-16 dhjetor, 2023. [Link](https://iciteeconf.al/committee.html)
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 05/09/74
Publications
- EIDWT The 6th International Conference Advances in Internet, Data & Web Technologies, 15-17 March 2018, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania, Improving Data Loss Prevention Using Classification, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-75928-9_16, Ph.D. Brunela Karamani
- ICITEE The 2th International Conference on Information Technologies and Educational Engineering, 15-16 December 2023, Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania, Data Quality Analytics for Customer-Level Dataset, https://www.fti.edu.al/data/news/533/attach/icitee_23_program_guide.pdf, Ph.D. Brunela Karamani
Timeline
Data management Manager
Union Bank
12.2023 - Current
DWH Project Manager
Union Bank
06.2021 - 11.2022
Business Analyst
Procredit Bank Albania
08.2012 - 05.2021
Coordinator MIS & Reporting Sector
Procredit Bank Albania
04.2008 - 07.2012
Lecturer
Computer Engineering Department, FTI, UPT
01.2000 - Current
PHD - ICT
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Information Technology
Master's - Applied mathematics
Polytechnic University of Tirana, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical engineering
Mathematics Education in Engineering
University of Trieste
Bachelor & Master's - Computer Science
University of Tirana, Faculty of Natural Science
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