Saima Ali’s career is distinguished by a series of significant achievements that underscore her contributions to the technology industry and her advocacy for women’s empowerment. Her efforts in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion have earned her recognition and respect within the professional community.
In 2023, she was appointed President of the Alumni Network of Harvard Women (ANHW) in North Carolina, a role that reflects her unwavering commitment to education and the empowerment of women. Through this position, Saima aims to foster community engagement and support initiatives that enhance opportunities for women across various fields.
In 2021, she served as a member of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Employee Inclusion Council at Wells Fargo, where she played a crucial role in advocating for inclusive workplace practices and shaping policies that promote employee inclusion. This experience further demonstrates her dedication to creating equitable environments within corporate settings.
Throughout her tenure at Wells Fargo, Saima received multiple Outstanding Performance Awards in recognition of her pivotal contributions to digital transformation initiatives, highlighting her ability to drive innovation and improve operational efficiencies. Additionally, in 2010, she was honored with the “You’re a Star” award from Fidelity Investments for her exceptional work on the Architectural Integration with Albridge project, showcasing her technical expertise and leadership in managing complex projects that significantly enhance business operations.
Saima Ali’s accomplishments serve as a testament to her influence in the technology sector and her unwavering commitment to empowering women and promoting diversity within the industry.
Created strategy and roadmap as the Program Manager for Cisco's Public sector and secure space business unit. Developed and implemented organization's first Business Intelligence and data warehouse Infrastructure as well as Architecture. The project enabled creation and delivery of the most robust set of reporting, ad-hoc query and analysis, OLAP, dashboard, and scorecard functionality with a rich end-user experience that includes visualization, collaboration, alerts, for clients.
NetApp Program Manager for Open source software for creating private and public cloud. OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
Oversee and manage Program Management and Business Systems Analysis organization for Annuity Customer Experience (ACE) Platform and Program currently being designed and developed to enable booking of New Business of US Pension Closeouts and Structured Settlements as well as convert existing data from a variety of legacy systems onto the ACE platform; Program budget is approximately 140M. Projected earned value 10 Billions in first two years of project launch.
User Interface and Single Sign On Development Project Manager. The integration with Streetscape enabled Albridge to seamlessly back-end integration with Streetscape platform improving advisor experience. Launch of project increased advisor experiencing resulting in better customer experience.
User Interface Development Project Manager. Fidelity Clearing and Custody provides a comprehensive clearing and custody platform, brokerage services, trading capabilities and practice management and consulting to registered investment advisors (RIAs), including strategic acquirers and professional asset managers, as well as retirement recordkeepers, broker-dealer firms, banks and insurance companies. In addition to providing services to third-party institutions, the National Financial Services LLC (NFS) brokerage platform supports all the clearing and custody businesses at Fidelity, including Fidelity’s retail, and capital markets businesses, bringing NFS assets under administration to $3.0 trillion.
User Interface Development Project Manager. Client Householding. Helps investment professionals save time and have more meaningful conversations while strengthening their customer relationships. Users are able to access client- level portfolios as well as create user-defined relationships to include an entire family of accounts. Program budget approximately $27M.
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