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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Awards
Activities
Timeline
BusinessAnalyst

Marina Nicola

Technical Lead
Cairo,Egypt

Summary

  • Subject matter expert in Telecom, Banking and Insurance industries, successful at building robust solutions for changing business needs.
  • Quality-driven Technical Lead well-versed and professional, enthusiastic about meeting market challenges with scalable technologies.
  • Leading IT strategic planning by leveraging my in-depth technical experience and operational knowledge to enhance infrastructure and process.

Overview

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Languages
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Certifications
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17
years of post-secondary education
11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Technical Lead

AXA Egypt
10.2020 - Current
  • Responsible for the IT strategy on one of AXA three main LOBs (Property &Casualty ).
  • Perform Business Process Management& conduct Gap Analysis workshops to identify the potential opportunities for business process improvements& frame the IT needs
  • Solution design for transversal modules across all AXA systems( Reinsurance, Claims, Payment Gateway,...etc)
  • Responsible for gathering business requirements through a variety of techniques (workshops, interviews, document analysis).
  • Responsible for supplier selection& management& during the business analysis, development and testing phases, ensuring the compliance of the supplier with the technical specs, scope and requirements defined by AXA team, ensuring their commitment as well as quality of deliverables.
  • Manage the engagement and delivery commitments of the project stakeholders across the whole project life cycle.

Key Achievements

  • Payment Gateway
  • Property& Casualty full fledged management system

Business Analysis Consultant

Afrexim Bank ( consultant from Cloudzlab-Salesforce partner)
04.2019 - 10.2020
  • Perform Strategic analysis to identify business needs and solutions within the context of the overall direction of a company.
  • Work with business units to identify and frame their IT needs and translate Business requirements into implementable solutions.
  • Lead business requirement gathering & Gap Analysis workshops with business units to design solutions for identified gaps.
  • Responsible for gathering business requirements through a variety of techniques (workshops, interviews, document analysis).
  • Model and document business requirements and functional specifications using different modelling techniques (Use cases, DFD, prototypes,…etc.).
  • Perform Business Process Management, analyze business process issues & identify the potential opportunities and parameters for business process improvements.
  • Exploring the potential solutions, managing vendor selection, implementation & validation of the solution features.

Key Achievements

  • Customer& Credit Digitization: Process redesign for the overall credit process across the bank since the origination till disbursement& automating the whole process to cut the overall timeline & efficiently manage the bank resources
  • Data Warehouse
  • Activity Based Costing and Budget Planning

Business Analysis Practitioner Instructor

RITI Regional Institute
07.2019 - 12.2021

Deliver business analyst practitioner courses.

  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for course development and client customized training.
  • Impart BA knowledge and skills to address trainee needs & mentor trainees.

Sr. Supervisor, Solutions & Business Analysis

Orange Egypt
04.2018 - 04.2019
  • Act as a central advisory point for technical expertise and guide market segments on the feasibility of the required concepts.
  • Lead the feasibility assessment, design optimum business/technical solutions for new products /services with the most efficient commercial approaches from the customer /operator standpoints.
  • Explore and introduce new features, technology enablers that would pave the way for the future marketing propositions.
  • Engage with suppliers, Orange group to explore newly introduced technologies, products/services.

Key Achievements

  • Orange Portfolio Revamp
  • 4G Program

Supervisor

Charging Solutions Architect
12.2012 - 03.2018
  • Feasibility assessment& solution analysis of new telecom products (voice and data)
  • Manage projects for new products and services, conduct workshops& coordinate with the project's stakeholders across all departments (Marketing, Finance and Customer Service), the vendor and the technical operations team.
  • Oversee responsibility of new products and services, starting from designing the solution, development, planning for technical acceptances and launch preparations.
  • Responsible for Voice/Data charging of 35 Million customer.

Key Achievements

  • Mobile Broadband Charging swap to Ericsson
  • Company rebranding ( Mobinil to Orange)

Teaching Assistant

French university
10.2012 - 12.2012
  • Delivered personalized educational, behavioral and emotional support to individual students to enable positive learning outcomes.

Education

B.SC - Communications Engineering

Ain Shams University, Notre Dame Des Apotres English School
10.2007 - 01.2012

Notre Dame Des Apotres
09.1994 - 07.2007

Skills

Agile Methodology

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Certification

Introduction to cloud computing

Awards

Orange Recognition awards for:

  • Data Charging Swap
  • Mobinil - Orange Rebranding
  • Orange Portfolio Revamp.

Activities

  • Sports (CrossFit and Swimming).
  • NGO activities.

Timeline

Introduction to cloud computing

11-2020

Leadership course

10-2020

Technical Lead

AXA Egypt
10.2020 - Current
Business Analysis Practitioner
11-2019

Business Analysis Practitioner Instructor

RITI Regional Institute
07.2019 - 12.2021

Business Analysis Consultant

Afrexim Bank ( consultant from Cloudzlab-Salesforce partner)
04.2019 - 10.2020

Agile Scrum Product Owner

09-2018

Agile Scrum Master

08-2018

Sr. Supervisor, Solutions & Business Analysis

Orange Egypt
04.2018 - 04.2019
Project Management Profession (PMP)
09-2016

Supervisor

Charging Solutions Architect
12.2012 - 03.2018

Teaching Assistant

French university
10.2012 - 12.2012

CCNA

07-2012

B.SC - Communications Engineering

Ain Shams University, Notre Dame Des Apotres English School
10.2007 - 01.2012

Notre Dame Des Apotres
09.1994 - 07.2007
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