Rashed Bahlool

Senior Manager - Information Technology

• Provisioned the delivery of newly developed applications throughout the entire development life cycle.
• Performed and participated in general product technical assessments, security assessments and audit sessions.
• Initiated projects, elicited, and analyzed business requirements to generate requests for proposals, business requirement documents, and business cases.
• Extensively participated in building SharePoint document libraries, library metadata, web parts, and OData APIs to integrate with third-party applications.
• Extensively utilized Microsoft Azure Infrastructure to simulate proposed setups to envision the outcomes of new projects.
• Initiated and developed a public portal, known as “Apply at Home”, incorporating dynamic features to support ad-hoc changes given by the business to generate potential leads showing interest in any of bank’s products using .NET MVC 5 with Entity Framework.
• Developed the integration between the bank’s core banking system and the Anti-Money Laundering system, as well as Refinitiv World Check to provide the list of sanctioned entities.
• Initiated, proposed, and built the overall data warehouse architecture to store core banking data, electronic fund transfers, Skiplino, retail branches activities, Kiosk terminals, corporate KYC updates, and application portfolio role-based access controls (RBAC).
• Initiated and led the implementation of the Electronic Fund Transfer Service (EFTS) reports to comply with CBB’s (Central Bank of Bahrain) reporting mandates.
• Utilized Microsoft Power Apps and SharePoint Online to build a document management system serving Credit Admin & Trade Finance departments featuring bulk-upload capabilities, auto-routing of documents across different SharePoint sites, standardized naming conventions of documents, and efficient search capabilities across all business units.
• Collaborated with the Innovation department to introduce AWS data lake setup utilizing S3 bucket, as well as Athena and Glue to serve a variety of reporting and archiving requirements.
• Contributed to building the reconciliation report for migrated core static data (Customers & Accounts), in response to the successful transaction of acquiring Ithmar retail operations.
• Responsible for the success of migrating Ithmar bank’s retail BCRB (Bahrain Credit Reference Bureau) data, including consumer loans, housing loans, as well as credit card overdues to Al Salam’s Benefit subscription.
• Responsible for integrating Al Salam’s Risk Assessment System with the core banking system to provide actual corporate risk rates in a live manner.
• Rolled out cost-effective Corporate KYC update solution utilizing Microsoft Power Platform and SharePoint Online to seamlessly reflect recent data from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Tourism (Sijilat) on corporate records, making Al Salam the second bank in Bahrain to auto-update their corporate KYCs regularly.
• Initiated and led the migration of retail customer documents from Ithmar’s legacy system built over .NET forms to Dynamics 365 to ultimately serve all retail branches.
• Initiated and led the development of the human resources application using Power Platform & SharePoint Online to integrate with active directory and third-party cloud applications.

Senior Web Developer

• Worked on scrum methodology to meet timelines and fostered the adoption of it. Azure boards were used to define epics and user stories, whereas GIT repositories were used to manage changes in sources codes.
• Utilized ASP.NET forms and Bootstrap 4.0 to design and develop the VIP Lane system to integrate with Oracle 10g legacy system and capture records for membership cards, smart cards and diplomatic passports as three distinct travelling documents.
• Worked closely with the Department of Studies to accurately calculate the crossing time estimates on King Fahd’s bridge using Google Directions API and set up well-defined KPI’s to ensure the smoothness of the travelling process.
• Worked closely with Revival (outsourced company) to develop integration points between King Fahd Causeway Authority’s public website and the VIP Lane records, Toll Gate records, and Google crossing time estimates using Web API 2.0.
• Appointed as a team leader to design and develop the Help Desk system for the IT department, ensuring the availability of insightful reports to measure the performance of IT staff on the Bahraini and Saudi sides of the bridge.
• Worked closely with KPMG (Saudi Arabia) to audit and report in-house applications, assessing their vulnerabilities, optimizing their performance and security through stress/penetration tests.
• Used ASP.NET MVC, ADO.NET, SQL Server procedures, functions and Linked server objects to develop a KPI Dashboard that measures the performance of all departments, including Finance, Projects and HR departments.
• Developed a consolidated web service to integration King Fahd Causeway Authority’s mobile app with their internal legacy systems, including customer service and toll gate management system (TGMS).
• Applying best security practices; importing and using SSL on IIS websites, SQL-injection prevention using SQL parameters, mobile MAC address filtering, logging local/global IP addresses for statistical purposes, and enforcing JWT tokenization.
• Worked with ASP.Net MVC 4.0, partial views, and master pages and developed Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for consistent look and feel of internal websites.
• Developed and modified pre-existing responsive presentation layer views using ASP.Net MVC 4, C#.Net, HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery.
• Extensively involved in designing and developing SQL Server Reporting Services Reports (SSRS) and Microsoft Power BI to provide insightful reports and dashboards for the Toll Gate Management System (TGMS), Crossing Time Estimates, VIP Lane, and IT Help Desk.
• Used ASP.NET MVC, ADO.NET, SQL Server procedures and triggers to develop the Safety & Security System (Mahaam) to maintain records for the Safety & Security department.

System Developer

• Worked closely with the IT team members and Grants department to insurance proper alignment of their business needs and the customized version of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 (Outsourced project).
• Worked closely with the eGovernment (previously known as Central Informatics Organization, ‘CIO’) to ensure proper integration between in-house applications and information relevant to Bahraini citizens.
• Utilized the eGovernment’s JavaScript and DLL integration files to design and develop a website to store and maintain records of citizens and non-citizens visiting the Court.
• Utilized Windows 8 XAML, Expression Blend, Silverlight and WCF to create a Metro-style court members profiling application.
• Used Windows Forms with C# to create an assets management system for the IT department.
• Extensively involved in writing t-SQL queries, procedures, scalar and table-valued functions, importing/exporting data, and creating backup schedules on SQL server.
• Extensively involved in designing and developing SSRS reports using SQL Data Tools for IT, Finance, and Grants departments.
• Worked as a first-line application support for Microsoft Great Plains (GP), Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Grants and Finance departments), time attendance, and HR payroll.
• Integrated in-house applications with Active Directory and Exchange servers.
• Incorporated software, system architecture, and databases into conceptual designs and diagrams.
• Worked on automating the health check process of systems, servers, and network components by creating console applications and Windows Services.
• Maintained and spread awareness of current technology assets, and the applicability of each through publishing a monthly magazine to all employees in the court.

University of Bahrain

• 3.87 / 4.0 GPA

University of Bahrain

• 3.91 / 4.0 GPA

Professional Scrum Master (PSM-I)

Microsoft Certified Data Analyst Associate

Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): Web Applications (Charter Member)

Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer (MCSD): App Builder

ITIL Foundation

Microsoft Specialist: MS Dynamics CRM Customization

Microsoft Specialist: MS Dynamics CRM Installation

Microsoft Specialist: MS Dynamics CRM Application

Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA): SQL Server

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM) & Power Platform

Machine Learning No-code Approach: Using Azure ML Studio

Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services

Microsoft Power BI - A Complete Introduction

Mr. Sarankumar VB | s.babu@alsalambank.com

Mr. Rashed, a highly skilled professional in the field of application development and project management. Having had the pleasure of working closely with Mr. Rashed on various projects, I can confidently attest to his exceptional abilities and dedication.

Mr. Rashed possesses a comprehensive understanding of application development principles, frameworks, and technologies. His expertise in designing and implementing robust, scalable solutions is truly impressive. Mr. Rashed consistently demonstrates a strong aptitude for problem-solving and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality results.

Mr. Ashwani Gupta | ashwani.gupta@kpmg.in

Rashed is innovative, passionate about technology and has an eye for perfection. He is great at problem solving by effective solutions. In addition, he is technically equipped to design and implement those solutions. He is a team player and a valuable addition to a team.

Mr. Jamal Al-Doseri | jaldoseri@kfca.sa

(This letter is translated from Arabic)
With the completion of the first phase of implementing our KPI dashboard project which covers all departments in King Fahd Causeway Authority, I am pleased to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Mr. Rashed Bahlool for the efforts that he made in completing the first phase of the project as per our work needs with accuracy and high quality outputs.

Mr. Bassam Al-Turki | balturki@kfca.sa

With the completion of the VIP Lane project, I am pleased to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Mr. Rashed Bahlool for his outstanding efforts in finalizing the VIP Lane system, with accordance to our needs and expected outcomes. We are now able to generate reports of all passengers travelling with all kinds of documents, including diplomatic passports, membership and smart cards. It is something which we lacked in previous years, and seeing all that being integrated in one whole system was a dream come true.

Nonetheless, I am sending this letter, as an appreciation of his work and support throughout the journey of transforming our legacy system to an astonishing one.

I Wishing him the best in his future projects and career.

Eng. Abdulrahman Al-Zayed | aalzayid@kfca.sa

I would happily recommend Mr. Rashed Bahlool as I personally consider him to be a valuable asset to any organization. He has constantly shown strict commitments towards achieving our strategic goals. This was demonstrated by the high-quality of his work, as well as taking initiatives to fulfill our business needs and meet our targets. He is an Excellent team leader with effective communication and analysis skills, and would require minimum supervision. I would be delighted to re-employ Rashed again, as I consider him to a valuable member of the team, and I wish him the best of luck in his tenure.

Mr. Salah Al-Binjassim | salah.al-binjassim@ccp.bh

I am pleased to provide a reference for Mr. Rashed Abdulrahman Bahlool. Rashed was part of Information Technology team at Court of the Crown Prince (CCP)- Bahrain in the period from 2013 to 2018. He was appointed as system developer. I had the pleasure to work with him during which he was CCP's main software developer for several projects and systems. While working with Rashed, I found him very approachable, energetic and efficient. In addition, he has always presented himself in a direct, honest, considerate and thoughtful manner.

During the course of his work, Rashed has proved to be an invaluable resource for CCP and he successfully performed his roles at a very professional level. He also demonstrated his analytical skills on numerous occasions through business analysis and was able to make solid decisions and provide actionable plans. Rashed delivered several successful projects, including the CCP visitor log system, Telecom billing system, and CCPCRM system.

I have been consistently impressed by both his personal attitude and his focus on the job and would definitely recommend him for any business opportunities he is seeking. I wish him all the best in his future endeavors

Dr. Youssef Harrath | yharrath@uob.edu.bh

Mr. Rashed Bahlool was my student in the master of IT at the University of Bahrain. Rashed has got the top performance among his class mates due to his ability of deep analysis and solving complex tasks.

After his master degree certification, I initiated a research project with him to solve an extension case of his master research topic. We succeeded to publish a paper in an ISI American journal:

Youssef Harrath, Rashed Bahlool, Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm for Tasks Allocation in Cloud Computing, International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 37-57, 2019.

Rashed is a hard worker having all the required skills and knowledge to pursue a Ph.D. degree in the field of IT. He has excellent abilities of reading, analyzing, time management, leadership as well as writing and communication skills. As he has the enthusiasm and motivation to continue post-graduate studies, I strongly recommend him to be accepted in such kind of high level programs.