Over 18 years of progressively responsible experience, I offer a distinguished career earmarked by accomplishments in leading and directing IT operations across broad disciplines, including project management, software development, account management, vendor relationships, staff development, promoting change and improvement, and technology implementation.
Managed projects in various domains amounting to over a million US Dollars, involving coordination between 30+ resources.
Orchestrated multiple project teams in improving process components; managed each project team while initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects.
Provided ongoing project analysis, communicated project status, and identified and resolving project issues and constraints.
Managed accounts of Government and Semi-Government organizations.
Conducted pre-sales activities in close coordination with Business Development team and also at the time of contract development and with Team Leads to come up with scope and effort estimates for proposal development. Also responsible for the preparation of technical statement of work and documentation of functional requirements.
Working closely with the VP R&D to prospect, pitch and close new businesses.
Address client concerns and ensure the resolution of issues in a timely manner.
Became the pioneer in the implementation and usage of Microsoft Project Server 2013 throughout the company.
Currently engaged in the role of Project Manager for Office Automation Projects for the Federal Government of Pakistan, Provincial Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Phase 2 for Pakistan’s main security agency.
Currently engaged in the role of Project Manager for Geographic Information Systems based project for Study / Evaluation of Technical Loss of Distribution System of Gujranwala Electric Power Company (GEPCO).
Managed and successfully completed diversified multiple projects in the role of Project Manager that were
RFID based Personnel Access Control System and Vehicle Access Control System for the Ufone Tower.
Microsoft SharePoint Portal based project for PTCL.
Migration of Lotus Notes Collaboration Databases to SharePoint Portal Project for Descon Engineering Limited.
Microsoft SharePoint Portal based Innovators’ Interactive Map project for DAI Pakistan (Private) Limited.
Managed successfully public sector ERP projects amounting multi-million Rupees, involving coordination between 40+ resources.
Supervised development, managed and successfully completed multiple public sector Office Automation projects in the role of Project Manager for Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT), Universal Service Fund (USF), Capital Development Authority (CDA), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).
Effectively resolved issues in government projects in which other members of project management team were unsuccessful.
Became the pioneer in the implementation and usage of IBM Rational Portfolio Manager throughout the company.
Conducted business planning, project and operational management of LMKR’s ERP product and suggested process improvements and optimizations across the projects’ lifecycle.
Conducted resource planning and management, formal assignment of roles and responsibilities to each resource, recruitment of required and competent resources, team’s evaluations and recommendation for compensation.
Re-engineered existing business processes throughout PTA to be mapped onto the electronic paperless system that led to the increased efficiency of government officers. Identified key business processes and coordinated with the IT Directorate and LMKR in development of paperless environment solution which is successfully in operation till date. Conducted research on the latest trends in the telecom sector and made recommendations on policies with respect to telecom and IT. Successfully developed Comprehensive Numbering Systems database with the IT Directorate that resulted in electronic system based management of issuance of Universal Access Numbers. Conducted Type Approval of telecommunications equipment using testing standards and developed Standard Operating Procedures for the Type Approval of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices. Organized a joint survey for cellular phone jammers with Enforcement Division that resulted in the cancellation of type approval of cellular phone jammers.
Taught various courses for BCS and BBA students in the role of lecturer. Supervised Software Engineering Projects for MCS students. Supervised Research Projects for BCS students.
Taught various courses for BS, BIT and MBA-IT students. Designed, managed and implemented the institution’s infrastructure and migrated operating systems from Windows 98 to Windows XP Professional. Designed courseware and packages customized to suit the level of students.