Gigabit January 2019
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EDWARDIAN HOTELS LONDON<br />
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operations at Hyatt Hotels until 1997.<br />
Mrini subsequently joined Edwardian<br />
and became the Director of Customer<br />
Services, before transitioning to the<br />
position of Director of Information Systems<br />
until he moved into his current<br />
role at the beginning of 2012. Such<br />
experience of working in a number<br />
of different departments in a hotel<br />
setting has enabled Mrini to gain<br />
a working understanding of how each<br />
area operates and he can draw on<br />
his experience to achieve success.<br />
“Since 1997, I haven’t stopped developing<br />
technology. When I joined as<br />
a customer services manager, I automated<br />
that particular department,”<br />
explains Mrini. “While still being customer<br />
services manager, and with the help<br />
and encouragement of Iype Abraham<br />
who was at the time the head of IT,<br />
I joined other departments to look at<br />
what they do and how they do it. From<br />
the finance side, month-end reports<br />
used to take someone three days to<br />
compile. However, from working with<br />
JANUARY <strong>2019</strong>