Jane Akshar

Current

Owner at Flats in Luxor

Past

Chairman at PCG
External Consultant at CLS Services
Managing Director at Amira Alexandra Ltd

External Consultant at CSFB (Credit Suisse First Boston)
External Consultant at BZW (Barclays deZoete Wedd)
External Consultant at NAL (National Australia Life)
Systems Manager at S G Warburg
Senior Consultant at Cap Gemini
Consultant at CMG (Computer Management Group)

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Jane Akshar’s Summary

After 23 years working in the banking and insurance industry, providing consultancy services to the financial sector, due to a change in my personal circumstances I left the UK and emigrated to to Egypt.

I have now set up a tourism business which has expended from a start up of providing flats to tourists to a fully fledged tour company. We also sell holiday property and assist with emigration advice.

Jane Akshar’s Specialties:

Egyptology: Tour Leader: Media TV Radio and Press: Holiday Rentals and Sales Overseas Property Luxor Egypt Holidays Cruises Nile

Jane Akshar’s Experience

Owner

Flats in Luxor

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)

Managing Director
Flats in Luxor provides the full range of tourism services to visitors to Egypt as well as apartment sales to people moving here. Established in 2003 and now recommended by the prestigious guides books Lonely Planet and Rough Guide. I am responsible for sales and marketing, tours, sales in fact everything except the legal and operational aspects which are handled by my husband.

Flats in Luxor was recognised as the first GREEN tourism business in Luxor
Chairman

PCG

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

April 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 1 month)

I was elected unopposed to the post of Chairman in both 2001 and 2002 and only left due to a change in personal circumstances after which I emigrated to Egypt. I saw PCG through its independence and left it set up for the future in charge of its own destiny. I was the public face of PCG and appeared regularly in the media as a consequence. I was responsible for the day to day management decisions and the implementation of them. I had to deal with members of government, senior civil servants, lobbyists, insurance brokers, banks as well as be accountable to a membership of some 12000 highly individualistic and independent consultants.

Prior to my election as chairman I was PR Director
External Consultant

CLS Services

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2001 — September 2001 (5 months)

CLS were to provide a world-wide Foreign Exchange Settlement system, they were projected to go live in the summer 02 and had a number of testing phases before that. I was part of a large team with specific responsibility for the Systems Integration test including Pilot Members, RTGS and the vendor.
Managing Director

Amira Alexandra Ltd

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Management Consulting industry)

January 1995 — September 2001 (6 years 9 months)

I ran my own company supplying services to the banking industry for 7 years. I have listed the various contracts separately
External Consultant

CSFB (Credit Suisse First Boston)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

May 1998 — April 2001 (3 years )

Contracted as a Business Analyst/Tester, initially for 6 months

Part of the team that transferred to CSFB when BZW was sold off. Initially involved in conversion of the Equity Settlements system to CSFB. Then responsible for the specification of further Crest enhancements such as Transaction Reporting, Settlement Discipline Enhancements, the subsequent testing and successful implementation. Co-ordinated phased release of software to live and testing environments.

Specific responsibility for the installation of a new Crest interface, Enterprise Broker/ Crest Adapter formerly known as Gloss Hub and Gloss Crest.
External Consultant

BZW (Barclays deZoete Wedd)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

October 1995 — May 1998 (2 years 8 months)

Contracted as a Business Analyst/Tester, initially for one year

Part of the team enhancing Aries, Equity Settlements System to communicate with Crest. ARIES is the BZW development of the TCAM package, ISIS. This is an Oracle database which BZW run on Hewlett Packard/DEC UNIX hardware.

Initially undertook the set up and testing of BZW’s Crest simulator. Although the entire project was to very tight time scales, the simulator was an essential part of the critical path. This was tested and release successfully ahead of schedule. Part of the testing team responsible for testing all enhancements to the Equity Settlements back office system for Crest. The testing and trialing phase included production of test plans, scripts, test data and expected results, together with providing support and liaison between user departments and Crest. BZW implemented all changes required for Day 1 of Crest successfully and on time.
External Consultant

NAL (National Australia Life)

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 1995 — October 1995 (10 months)

Contracted as a Business Analyst/Tester, initially for one month

NAG was launching a new Life company providing Protection, Pensions, Savings and Investments products and needed analysis the following areas FactFind, Needs Analysis and Proposal Forms
Responsible for producing Business Requirements for the Electronic Point of Sale (EPOS) sub-system using an Oracle database with interfaces to Threads and Capsil.
Undertook acceptance testing of the final system from the vendor, followed by a successful launch.
Systems Manager

S G Warburg

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

June 1994 — December 1994 (7 months)

Worked on the RUFUS Unit Trust package as a team leader and tester. Covered the design amendments, test, install and support of a third party implementation of the product. RUFUS is a Client Server system, which has been developed under the OS/2 operating system; using Application Manager, a GUI development language and Sybase, the SQL database.

The testing phase involved the development of a system test plan to cover all aspects of Unit Trust administration and the RUFUS product. The system successfully ran in a Model Office environment and went live in January 1995.
Senior Consultant

Cap Gemini

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1987 — May 1994 (6 years 9 months)

Both the company and I changed names during my time there. Prior to my marriage I was Jane Bird and the company was Hoskyns Group plc

Project managed a data conversion for a major pharmaceutical company.

Implemented and trained staff for the first CUTAS package, on a PC.

Charged with downsizing CUTAS, a Unit Trust Administration package to PC.

Feasibility study in to Unit Trust Registration options, Definition of Requirements for ARTIS, Hoskyns share registration package to accommodate TAURUS, the Stock Exchange initiative and Design of test plan, systems testing and production of user manual for CIMS, Hoskyns valuation product.

Set up and managed a reverse engineering project of CUTAS. This resulted in a functional system design held on an analysis workbench tool. As a result of this project interviewed by the computer media, asked to speak at conferences and published articles on reverse engineering. The project resulted in promotion to Senior Consultant
Consultant

CMG (Computer Management Group)

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

July 1980 — December 1987 (7 years 6 months)

My name was Jane Bird during this time.

In 1980 undertook a government training course and trained in IT fundamentals, programming and design. Then joined a small software house, as a programmer working on a variety of applications. After 1 year this company was taken over by CMG. Transferred to the Financial Division to work on the design, development, programming and testing of several major insurance and financial systems.

Interest processing suite for a large international bank
Micro based retail-banking package using BASIC
Investment portfolio management package for a major insurance company Life reinsurance system for an international reinsurance company

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Jane Akshar’s Interests:

Back in the 80's I was a member of the cult, International Churches of Christ. After leaving, both myself and my late husband Ayman Akshar vigorously campaigned against them in the papers and on TV. My story is still on the net as a warning to others